[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)