GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS
LEGAL SECTION
___PROSECUTION___ (Requesting Agency)
DATE: [illegible number] November 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: Sasaki, Yukio (Yakio)
b. Rank or Title: 2nd Lt. and Probationary Officer
c. Units to which attached: Kaikosha Hospital, Western Army Headquarters
d. Dates and places of service: 1945 - Fukuoka City
e. Home address (if known): [illegible places]
f. Synopsis of Charges presently prepared, subject to amendment, against subject Suspected War Criminal: Knowingly ate liver of American Prisoner who had been killed by vivisection
g. Synopsis of Evidence to support charges: Oda and Ito state that Sasaki was present and knowingly ate the liver; Ogawa and Shinno state that he was present but that no liver was served.
h. Anticipated place of trial: Yokohama.
i. Other information that might assist in apprehension of desired person: Now being held in protective custody by Fukuoka Branch Office, Investigative Division, Legal Section.
j. This Division presently has charges /being prepared, subject to amendment, and sufficient supporting evidence to constitute a prima facie case against this man.
Paul von Bergen _________________ Chief of Division