PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE EARTHQUAKE PLANAGAINST JAPANESE HOMELAND

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Secret OSS (Forerunner of the CIA) Plans to Trigger Earthquakes & Tsunamis in Japan
Back in 1945 the OSS (forerunner of the present-day CIA) planned to bring the “unbridled brutality of Japanese troops” under control by use of artificially triggered earthquakes. “If we could could get (an atom) bomb within a mile of a point on a fault line (trench) destined to break within 90 years we might set it off ...”

Since this secret paper was written, the modern-day CIA has had sixty years to get its nuclear numbers right - just in time for the shattering war crime against South and South-East Asia which murdered more than 300,000 people on December 26, 2004.
Joe Vialls

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PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE EARTHQUAKE PLAN
AGAINST JAPANESE HOMELAND

PREFACE

“Japan is a country of social tensions.......
“The emotional instability (of Japan) in times of stress
or crisis, the unbridled brutality of Japanese troops
let loose upon the peaceful populations of Asiatic
countries, bear evidence of a diseased society where
healthy outlets for self-expression, a rational ambition,
or a critical intellect are effectively damned.......
“The social history of Japan illustrates how the Japanese
violently reacted against crushing social restrictions
and inhibitions by abandoning themselves to a frenzy
which periodically swept throughout the centers of popu-
lation in the Tokunaga era (1605) and more recently in
1923, during the frenzy riots which followed the deva-
stating fire and earthquake in the Tokyo district......”
The above quotations were taken from an article, titled
“Mass Hysteria in Japan,” recently published in the
“Far Eastern Survey, American Council of the Institute
of Pacific Relations.” It was written by E. Herbert
Norman, noted authority on Japan, and author of “Japan's
Emergence as a Modern State.”

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In another part of this article he points out that “one
need not be a Freudian to imagine what neurosis, what
febrile passions are concealed behind the glacial calm
of many Japanese......
He then turns to debunking the myth of a “stolid emo-
tionally restrained and stoic Japan as the prime charac-
teristic of Japanese social behavior.” He stresses
that “these outward manifestations of a social behavior
do not explain the social reasons for these restraints,
and might not be so much temperament habit as a deliberately
cultivated behavior pattern assumed like camouflage for
self-protection.”......
In still another part of his article he gives us a tip-
off for a Psychological Warfare potential that might be
used not only to activate this panic complex among the
mob but might be capable of bringing about a hysterical
social condition which would turn Japan from a well
regimented state into a mob more interested in individual
survival than state survival.
Norman states further: “Today with contemporary Japan
subject to the will of the political police, the tight
social regimentation of the neighborhood groups, the
grinding economic exploitation, the student propaganda
of chauvinism, and the shinto superstition, are placing
heavier burdens on the Japanese people than they ex-

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perienced even under the stern rule of the feudal
Bakufu. As the military and political machine of
Japanese imperialism begins to crack under the hammer
blows of its enemies, it is not improbable that violent
outbursts of mass hysteria will flare up here and there.”
Given these facts, it now is apparent that it is timely
that we step up our Psychological Warfare against the
Japanese homeland. This should feature material that
would tighten the frustration ring around the Japanese
people.
Already there is enough evidence leaking out from the
Japanese radio broadcasts, indicating that the major
morale government operation is the channelling of this
frustration complex. This was evident with the collapse
of two cabinets within the period of the war, which came
as an appeasement of the mass, when Saipan fell and
Okinawa was invaded. The real purpose behind these moves
was to supply new hope for growing frustration. The
method was to discard a once believed infallible leader
for another who could be propagandized as a true infal-
lible one. But it goes without saying that not even
the Japanese people can continue to be fooled by the
replacement of an infallible who turns out to be fal-
lible, world without end.
There is already increasing evidence of a drop in the
Japanese morale barometer. This was reflected in the
first public address of Premier Suzuki, after the fall

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of the Koiso cabinet, following the invasion of Okinawa.
He stressed the graveness of the crisis now facing
Japan, as the result of the invasion of Okinawa. How
serious Japanese officialdom takes this U. S. move into
the inner defense zone of Japan is revealed in a recent
editorial in the Tokyo-Yomuri-Hochi, voice of the mili-
tarist group. In this editorial it is admitted that the
loss of Okinawa would leave Japan with “no hope of turning
the course of the war. The loss of Okinawa would mean
the collapse of the vanguards of Japan.”
Such editorial comments from an official newspaper like
the Yomuri-Hochi appears to indicate that the seeds of
hysterical fear are already sprouting even if official
sources.
This brings us to the point as to just how we might put
enough pressure on this panic potential to turn it into
an actuality, a mad hysteria among the mass of Japan.
This might be accomplished by a long-range strategic
campaign in which we tie up the destruction of physical
war with that of the forces of nature.
Such a Psychological Warfare campaign would be designed
to show that by scientific bombings of Japan, we intend
to use even the forces of nature to step up their an-
nihilation.

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CAN IT BE DONE?

This poses the question: Scientifically can heavy
bombing, pinpointed on known earthquake areas, bring
about an underground condition within fault sections
which would step up the expectancy and possibly bring
about a calamitous earthquake in a selected area? The
tactical purpose being to put out of production war
industries in this area, or to neutralize a strong de-
fense sector.
This question is partly answered by N. H. Heck, Assistant
Director of the U.S. Coast Geodetic Survey, in his pamphlet
“Japanese Earthquakes from the Military Viewpoint.” He
states in part: “Can an Earthquake be set off by an
explosion?”
“This question has been asked several times, so it should
receive a serious answer. All that could be applied is
trigger force, and this can only advance and set the
time for an earthquakes which is about to occur. It is
conceivable, however, that an explosion at exactly the
right time and place might have the correct effect. It
(the explosive) would have to be very large and it would
be necessary to know where to place it, and the latter
cannot be determined at all from outside Japan”.......
When and where to drop this explosive message, (at the
most timely hour) is the crux of the problem, he stresses.

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This problem, he adds, has been complicated by the loss
of seismological listening stations at Manila, Shanghai,
and Batavia. These stations, he points out, are needed
to supply the data to forecast a possible “Trigger stress.”
Some of the data needed would be geological changes
within Japan itself and those covering concurrent minor
earthquakes, which often anticipate a major earthquake.
These statements, it is timely to report, were made be-
fore the recapture of Manila and the occupation by our
forces of the Okinawa Islands, well within the zone of
Japan proper.
It now appears as though they no longer hold valid, and
that this job of collecting the needed data is now within
the realm of possibility.
With the possibility of getting this data, now arises
the question of where to place this large explosive
charge. Professor P. Byerly of the Seismological
Laboratory of the University of California, in an answer
to this question, reduces the range of speculation as
to time and location. In a letter to Dr. L. H. Adams of
the Geophysical Laboratory, he states: .....“we would
have to get (bomb) within less than 5 miles of that place
on the fault which is destined to break within a year,
no help being offered it....” and “....if we could get
(bomb) within a mile of a point on a fault destined to
break within 90 years we might set it off...”.

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Here again, the determination of the vulnerable faults
is dependent upon the more specific data to be obtained
from seismic listening posts.
The statements of these men, prominent scientists in
their field, testify to the plausibility of “triggering”
a potential earthquake condition by intensified and
accurate bombings. This plausibility is further sub-
stantiated by actual tests conducted at the Palmer
Physical Laboratory. Here, high explosive charges were
studied with a view to their effect on these earthquake
conditions.
It was the results of this study that brought the pos-
sibility of triggering a potential earthquake condition
from the realm of fantasy to that of scientific plausi-
bility.
With the knowledge of the possible effects of explosives,
and the seismological data to be obtained from listening
posts there appears a good possibility that we may be
able to create a Psychological Warfare panic campaign
well within this realm of scientific plausibility.
And if it became known in Japan that we had placed
scientists in strategic areas within the zone of Japan
proper for working out a hypothetical plan to further
harass Japan by creating earthquakes, another diabolical
feature would be added to stir up the imagination and
increase the panic hysteria of the Japanese people.

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Also, the knowledge of the presence of these scientists
at Manila and Okinawa, slipped into Japan proper by our
agents in China, would not only give credence to such a
diabolical plan among the mass of Japan but would act
as a challenge to Japan's scientists.
This diabolical plan would also add another dilemma for
Japanese officials to meet. Such a plan, it becomes ob-
vious, would neutralize the effectiveness of underground
industries, put there to protect machinery and workers
from ordinary surface bombings. It would not take much
imagination on the part of the lowliest coolie to visualize
himself trapped in the bowels of the earth and doomed to
being buried alive, by such a man-made earthquake. Add
to this localized hysteria the fears of the mass of
workers in above-ground industries, workers in shipyards,
the fear of the mass of the great hydro-electrical dams
turning their floods loose on the countrysides, and the
general tension of their homes tumbling about their heads
at any hour, and you have a PW formula for panic hysteria
that cannot be duplicated by any type of physical warfare.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE PANIC CAMPAIGN
AGAINST JAPANESE HOMELAND

PURPOSE:
To create a negative flux; that is a condition where
the people of Japan are turned into a hysterical mob,
no longer believing in any leadership from above, but
more interested in individual survival than even state
survival, which has lost its power of mystic leadership.
Our purpose being mainly to break the regimented state
pattern and smash it into an individual survival flux.
This Psychological Warfare campaign, of course, should
be timed to run concurrently with the intensification
of the physical warfare against Japan. As this physical
warfare increases in intensity it will create for us
automatic Psychological Warfare wedges. We should be
ready to take advantage of this to increase the psycho-
logical pressure on growing panic temperament created by
the intense physical destruction of Japan.

METHOD:
This may be accomplished by increasing the pressure on
the natural panic complex of the Japanese people. Al-
ready are evident many signs that the frustration ring
drawn around the people of Japan, is being tightened to
the point where something is about to crack. Available

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historical data reveals Japan as a “country of social
tensions,” and one which has several times in its his-
tory violently socially exploded because of these social
tensions.

MEDIUMS:
Two outstanding factors have played a major historical
role in creating social hysteria and panic among the
Japanese; they are fire and earthquake. When these have
occurred during times of great economic pressure, there
has often followed social chaos. We know now that the
economic factor is present; the fire factor is being
supplied by our extensive bombing with incendiaries.
There now remains but one other factor for us to utilize.
This is the earthquake factor.

SITUATION:
Seismologists reveal Japan to be a geological mine. The
evidence of geological maps and the record of seismic
disturbances bear witness to the unstable condition of
the earth's interior immediately beneath Japan. Harbored
within this interior is a latent force of tremendous
destructiveness. When triggered, this latent energy
which has been accumulating over a period of years, is
released in a recurrent earth-shaking wave. At spaced
intervals throughout the history of Japan this mine has
exploded with fierce intensity and shaken surface struc-
tures to the ground and cost the lives of millions.

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Scientists further reveal the plausibility of triggering
this earthquake potential by intensified bombings. Through
tests conducted in the physical laboratories of leading
universities and institutions, a similarity between the
normal triggering forces of nature and those which man
can exert is established. These scientists, seismologists
and physicists, have compiled tables to show the effects
of various sized bombs on this geological mine, and have
determined the distances from the mine within which the
explosives would have to be detonated in order to be
effective.
Impetus is greatly added to the already established
scientific plausibility of triggering this earthquake
potential by the recent revelation of the atomic bomb.
With a manifoldly greater amount of destructive force in
a single atomic bomb the plausibility of triggering the
earthquake potential is brought further toward the realm
of practicality.
This also poses the possibility that the explosive force
of an atomic bomb may set up, deep within the earthquake
blocks, a seismic wave, the result of radio-activity set
loose. This may expedite the trigger hour, or by itself
increase the external pressure forcing the blocks to
make a sudden adjustment in an attempt to recover their
equilibrium.

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On the basis of the scientific plausibility of triggering
this earthquake potential by atomic and large scale
intensified bombing lies the foundation for our psycho-
logical plan to combine, within the minds of the Japanese,
the additional fear of earthquake being caused by the
radio-active destructiveness of the atomic bomb.

INSTRUMENTS TO BE USED:

1) Magazine: The ground-work for all the media to be
used would be a pseudo-scientific article inserted in a
counterfeit Japanese magazine. This article would pur-
port to have originated with Japanese scientists and
would contend that the prime purpose of the Allies, in
further intensifying their bombings, is to bring about
a calamitous earthquake. The article would then go on
to raise arguments relative to the feasibility of trig-
gering the home earthquake potential by heavy explosives,
and, especially, the new atomic bomb. Further counter-
feit articles, signed by individual Japanese seismolo-
gists, in crediting or denying the possibility of realizing
this end, would keep the fear of earthquakes paramount
in the minds of the Japanese people.

2) Leaflets would follow the appearance of the counter-
feit articles and would give detailed instructions as to
the precautionary measures to be taken in the event that
the earthquake does occur. In these leaflets, the current

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air-raid regulations would be revised to incorporate new
measures necessitated by the expected earthquake. These
leaflets could be distributed in occupied territory by
our agents in China, or dropped from B-29s.

3) Radio could be used if some method could be found
to establish a station on Okinawa, which could broadcast
by medium wave, directly into Japan, a series of broad-
casts on a band counterfeiting an official Japanese
radio broadcast. These programs by indirect subversion,
would call to the attention of the people of Japan the
need for preparing themselves to meet any earthquake
which might result from intensive bombing by Americans.
It could also, by indirect subversion, call attention
to the danger of underground industries, by detailing
how Japanese officials are working out plans to safeguard
all workers who are detailed to work in these underground
plants.

4) Rumors could be circulated to the effect that the
Americans are using islands off Iwo Jima and Okinawa as
proving grounds for this theory; also, that the recently
felt tremors, which occur constantly, were the direct
effect of the last bombing by B-29s.
5) Counterfeit copies of letters alleged to have passed
between members of the Imperial Earthquake Committee,
commenting on the possible effects of heavy bombings on

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the potential earthquake conditions, could be left in
strategic places, by agents, for the ready consumption
and distribution by the Japanese people.

STRATEGIC GOAL:
If we were once able to create this negative flux we
would then be in the position to channel it into a
positive flux. Such a negative flux by a natural reflex,
always attempts to find a positive hope. This positive
hope could be supplied by the appearance of an alleged
“Free Japan” movement. The activities of this group
beamed into Japan by medium wave from Okinawa might be
the medium for activating the liberal group in Japan,
who could then offer a positive force for release from
war's frustrations.

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