CIA records show U.S.-linked militarists plotted coup in Japan

Thursday, March 1, 2007

TOKYO -- Declassified documents reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952.

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