SCAPIN-1698: APPREHENSION OF SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINAL

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
22 May 1947

AG 000.5 (22 May 47) LS-R
(SCAPIN - 1698)

MEMORANDUM FOR

JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

THROUGH

Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.

SUBJECT

Apprehension of Suspected War Criminal.

Memorandum to the Imperial Japanese Government dated 8 Nov 46, file AG 000.5 (8 Nov 46) LS-R, (SCAPIN - 1326), wherein the Imperial Japanese Government was directed to deliver one CHUMA, (FNU), Ensign, to the Commanding General, EIGHTH Army at Sugamo Prison (Tokyo Detention Camp), at the earliest possible date, is amended to delete said CHUMA's name for the reason that he is the same CHUMA, Sazao who is being transferred to South East Asia. This name appears as the first name on Page No.1 of the above mentioned Memorandum.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

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