SCAPIN-1640: APPREHENSION OF SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINAL

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
30 April 1947

AG 000.5 (30 Apr 47) LS-R
(SCAPIN - 1640)

MEMORANDUM FOR

IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

THROUGH

Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.

SUBJECT

Apprehension of Suspected War Criminal.

1. Memorandum to the Imperial Japanese Government dated 11 Feb 47, file AG 000.5 (11 Feb 47) LS-R, (SCAPIN 1517), wherein the Imperial Japanese Government was directed to deliver one SHIMIZU, Shigeo, Civilian, to the Commanding General, EIGHTH Army at Sugamo Prison (Tokyo Detention Camp), at the earliest possible date, is amended to delete said SHIMIZU's name for the reason that SHIMIZU is the same suspect whose name appeared on L. S. Apprehension Memorandum dated 5 February 1947, (SCAPIN 1506). This name appears as the sixth name on Page No. 4 of the Memorandum dated 11 Feb 47.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

R.M. LEVY,
Colonel, AGD,
Adjutant General.