| | During [[World War II]] an IPR resource packet was adopted by 1300 [[public school]] systems, and the [[War Department]] purchased over three quarters of a million IPR pamphlets for instructing military personnel. <ref>Anthony Kubek, ''How the Far East Was Lost'', Chicago 1963, pgs. 350-351.</ref> | | During [[World War II]] an IPR resource packet was adopted by 1300 [[public school]] systems, and the [[War Department]] purchased over three quarters of a million IPR pamphlets for instructing military personnel. <ref>Anthony Kubek, ''How the Far East Was Lost'', Chicago 1963, pgs. 350-351.</ref> |
| − | There appeared in ''Amerasia'' a long account which was recognized in General [[William Donovan]]'s [[Office of Strategic Services]] (the OSS) as verbatim reproduction of a government top secret document. The '''Amerasia Papers''' consist of documents seized by [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) agents on June 6, 1945, in connection with the arrests of six persons, including three U.S. government officials, [[Andrew Roth]], [[Emmanuel Larsen]], [[John S. Service]], on conspiracy and espionage charges related to the possession of roughly 1,000 stolen classified Government documents. Among them were documents from Military Intelligence, [[Naval Intelligence]], [[Bureau of Censorship]], [[British Intelligence]], Office of Strategic Services and the [[U.S. State Department]]. | + | There appeared in ''Amerasia'' a long account which was recognized in General [[William Donovan]]'s [[Office of Strategic Services]] (the OSS) as verbatim reproduction of a government top secret document. On June 6, 1945 the [[FBI]] raided the offices of ''Amerasia''. Six persons, [[Philip Jaffe]], [[Mark Gayn]], [[Kate Mitchell]] and three others who were U.S. government officials, [[Andrew Roth]], [[Emmanuel Larsen]], [[John S. Service]], were arrested on conspiracy and espionage charges related to the possession of over 1,000 stolen classified Government documents. Documents from Military Intelligence, [[Naval Intelligence]], [[Bureau of Censorship]], [[British Intelligence]], Office of Strategic Services and the [[U.S. State Department]] were confiscated. Among these documents were military reports giving secret information on the position and disposition of [[Chinese Nationalist]] armies of Gen. [[Chiang Kai-shek]]. |