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[Marginal Note: Sugamo 17 Dec 47 ] GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS LEGAL SECTION ___PROSECUTION___ (Requesting Agency) DATE: 4 December 1947 SUBJECT: Apprehension of Suspected War Criminals. TO: Criminal Registry Division Legal Section. 1. Request that the following named person be apprehended and interned in prison for trial as a Suspected War Criminal: a. Name: IKEDA, Kenyoshi b. Rank or Title: N.C.O. c. Units to which attached: Western Army Headquarters. Fukuoka City. Kyushu, Japan d. Dates and places of service: June 1945 e. Home address (if known): Kagoshima-Ken, Aira-gun, Yokokawa-Machi, Nakanoshin Machi f. Synopsis of Charges presently prepared, being subject to amendment, against subject Suspected War Criminal: Unlawfully decapitated one or more American Flyers at Western Army Headquarters on 20 June 1945. g. Synopsis of Evidence to support charges: Confession and supporting statements. h. Anticipated place of trial: Yokohama, Japan i. Other information that might assist in apprehension of desired person: (As pf this date, the Fukuoka Investigation Branch has found the accused and obtained his confession, his part having been known, but not his identity.) j. This Division presently has charges /being prepared, subject to amendment, and sufficient supporting evidence to constitute a prima facie case against this man. _________________ Chief of Division. (Paul K. von Bergen) |