CIA Secretly Financed Political Career of “Monster of Showa” Who Was Responsible For Deaths of Over 1.5 Million Chinese Slave Workers in WWII - CovertAction Magazine

CIA Secretly Financed Political Career of “Monster of Showa” Who Was Responsible For Deaths of Over 1.5 Million Chinese Slave Workers in WWII - CovertAction Magazine

[This article follows from CovertAction Magazine’s series exposing the sordid history of the CIA.—Editors] In early 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to provide secret campaign funds to Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and other select members of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which favored close integration with the U.S during the Cold War. […] The post CIA Secretly Financed Political Career of “Monster of Show…