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nukelear bones
by Major Variola (ret) 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

At 09:00 AM 8/10/04 -0400, Pete Capelli wrote: >So now I can vote for Jack Johnson (Yale grad, skull & bones member, >rich due to inheritance) or John Jackson (ditto). Vote Osama, and clean up the Potomic! -the ministry of mental health

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Bamford: full text download for free
by Craig McKie 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

http://livinglib.khsv.tk/Body.rar

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SF Bay Area Cypherpunks August 2004 Physical Meeting Announcement
by R. A. Hettinga 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

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When good tags go bad... (fwd from gkm@petting-zoo.net)
by Eugen Leitl 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from glen mccready <gkm(a)petting-zoo.net> -----

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The Turncoats on Niihau Island
by R. A. Hettinga 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

<http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/printmm20040810.shtml> Townhall.com The Turncoats on Niihau Island Michelle Malkin (back to web version) | Send August 10, 2004 The following is an exclusive excerpt from Michelle Malkin's new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror (Regnery). The Turncoats on Niihau Island "Are you a Japanese?" Those were the first English words spoken by downed Japanese fighter pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi on tiny Niihau Island, located about one hundred miles northwest of Honolulu. It was December 7, 1941. Nishikaichi had had a busy, bloody morning at Pearl Harbor. Now, with the aid and comfort of a Japanese-American couple, Nishikaichi was about to make the lives of the Niihau residents a living hell. Around 7:00 a.m., Nishikaichi boarded his Zero single-seat fighter plane and took off from the carrier Hiryu in the Pacific. An hour and a half later, the young Japanese pilot strafed planes, trucks, and personnel on Oahu. Headed back to his carrier, Nishikaichi and some fellow pilots encountered a group of American P36 fighter planes. During the air battle, Nishikaichi's plane took several hits. One punctured the Zero's gas tank. Nishikaichi steered the crippled plane toward the westernmost Hawaiian island: Niihau. Fewer than 200 Hawaiians plus three laborers of Japanese descent called Niihau home. Japan planned to use the island as a submarine pickup point for stranded pilots. Nishikaichi crash-landed the plane in a field near one of the ranch homes. The first to reach him was Hawila "Howard" Kaleohano, a burly Hawaiian. The island had no telephones. On that tranquil, late Sunday morning, none of the inhabitants was yet aware of the death and destruction that had just rained down on Pearl Harbor. Nonetheless, Kaleohano wisely confiscated the dazed Nishikaichi's gun and papers. Kaleohano, perhaps the most educated Hawaiian on Niihau, had been keeping tabs on world affairs through newspapers supplied by ranch owner Aylmer Robinson (who paid weekly visits to the island and lived twenty miles away on Kauai). Wary but warm, Kaleohano brought the enemy pilot to his home. Along the way, Nishikaichi asked Kaleohano if he was "a Japanese." The answer was an emphatic "No." After sharing a meal and cigarettes, Nishikaichi demanded that Kaleohano return his papers, which included maps, radio codes, and Pearl Harbor attack plans. Kaleohano refused. To make their communication easier, Kaleohano asked his neighbors to summon one of the island's three residents of Japanese descent to translate for Nishikaichi. They first brought a Japanese-born immigrant, Ishimatsu Shintani, to the house. He reluctantly exchanged a few words with the pilot in Japanese, but left in a hurry-apparently sensing trouble. The islanders then turned to Yoshio Harada and his wife Irene, both U.S. citizens, born in Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. Harada had moved from Kauai to California as a young man and lived there for seven years before relocating to Niihau with his wife in 1939. Instantly at ease with the Japanese-American couple, Nishikaichi dropped the bombshell news about the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Haradas did not inform their neighbors. That night, the hospitable Niihau residents learned about the Pearl Harbor attack on the radio. They decided to confine the pilot in the Haradas' home until help arrived. Exploiting their common ethnic ties and urging loyalty to the emperor, Nishikaichi won over the Haradas. They enlisted the other resident of Japanese descent-the skittish Shintani-in a conspiracy to retrieve Nishikaichi's papers from Kaleohano. On the afternoon of December 12, a reluctant Shintani visited Kaleohano and asked for the enemy pilot's papers. He offered his neighbor a wad of cash. Kaleohano refused. Shintani desperately told him to burn the papers. It was a matter of life and death, Shintani pleaded with Kaleohano. Kaleohano again refused. An hour later, Nishikaichi and the Haradas launched a campaign of terror against the islanders. They overtook the guard on duty and locked him in a warehouse. Mrs. Harada cranked up a phonograph to drown out the commotion. Yoshio Harada and Nishikaichi retrieved a shotgun from the warehouse and headed to Kaleohano's home. Kaleohano, who was in the outhouse, saw them coming and hid while Nishikaichi and his collaborators unsuccessfully searched for the pilot's papers. They recovered Nishikaichi's pistol and headed toward his grounded plane. Harada watched as the enemy pilot tried in vain to call for help on his radio. Meanwhile, Kaleohano fled from the outhouse and ran to the main village to warn his neighbors of Nishikaichi's escape. He returned to his house to retrieve the papers, hid them in a relative's home, and set out with a strong team of islanders in a lifeboat toward Kauai to get help. That night, Harada and Nishikaichi set both the plane and Kaleohano's home on fire. They fired off their guns in a lunatic rage and threatened to kill every man, woman, and child in the village. After gathering for a prayer meeting, many residents escaped to a mountaintop with kerosene lamps and reflectors in an attempt to signal Kauai. On the morning of December 13, Harada and Nishikaichi captured islander Ben Kanahele and his wife. Kanahele was ordered to find Kaleohano. In their own "Let's Roll" moment of heroism, the gutsy Kanaheles refused to cooperate. When Nishikaichi threatened to shoot Kanahele's wife, fifty-one-year-old Ben lunged for the enemy's shotgun. The young Japanese fighter pilot pulled his pistol from his boot and shot Kanahele three times in the chest, hip, and groin. Mrs. Kanahele pounced at Nishikaichi; her once-peaceful neighbor Harada tore her away. Angered, the wounded Kanahele summoned the strength to pick up Nishikaichi and hurl him against a stone wall, knocking him unconscious. Quick-thinking Mrs. Kanahele grabbed a rock and pummeled the pilot's head. For good measure, Ben Kanahele took out a hunting knife and slit Nishikaichi's throat. A desperate Harada turned the shotgun on himself and committed suicide. The Kanaheles' harrowing battle against a Japanese invader and his surprising collaborator was over. The significance of the Haradas' stunning act of disloyalty and Shintani's meek complicity in collaboration with Nishikaichi was not lost on the Roosevelt administration. The facts of the case "indicate a strong possibility that other Japanese residents of the Territory of Hawaii, and Americans of Japanese descent . . . may give valuable aid to Japanese invaders in cases where the tide of battle is in favor of Japan and where it appears to residents that control of the district may shift from the United States to Japan," wrote Lieutenant C. B. Baldwin after a naval intelligence investigation. The Haradas were neither radical nationalists nor professional spies. They were ordinary Japanese-Americans who betrayed America by putting their ethnic roots first. How many other Japanese-Americans-especially on the vulnerable West Coast-might be swayed by enemy appeals such as Nishikaichi's? How many more might be torn between allegiance for their country of birth and kinship with Imperial invaders? These were the daunting questions that faced the nation's top military and political leaders as enemy forces loomed on our shores. Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and maintains her weblog at michellemalkin.com -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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NSA Overcomes Fiber-Optic and Encryption
by John Young 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Excerpt below from a Baltimore Sun article of August 8, 2004. Some of it could be true, but. http://cryptome.org/dirnsa-shift.htm ----- Director of NSA shifts to new path By Scott Shane Sun National Staff August 8, 2004 ... Technology revolution Given the dire assessments a few years ago, it is notable that Hayden says the communications revolution has on the whole been a plus, not a minus, for the NSA. The NSA director declines to elaborate. But interviews with outside experts suggest that the agency has managed to overcome the challenges posed by fiber-optic cable and encryption. "My opinion is that at this point, those are little more than a speed bump to NSA," says Steve Uhrig, president of SWS Security, a Harford County firm that builds eavesdropping and counter-eavesdropping systems for U.S. and foreign police agencies. "They have a virtually unlimited budget, and they can put amazing resources to work on a problem." Several sources who regularly speak with NSA officials say they believe Uhrig is right. Although they do not know the details, they say the agency has almost certainly managed to tap fiber cables on a large-scale basis, making access to the information inside less of a problem than its overwhelming volume. The NSA has also found a silver lining to the use of encrypted e-mail: Even if a particular message cannot be read, the very use of encryption can flag it for NSA's attention. By tracking the relatively few Internet users in a certain country or region who take such security measures, NSA analysts might be able to sketch a picture of a terrorist network. Information 'in motion' And by focusing their electronic tricks on messages as they are first typed on a computer or when they are read on the other end - what security experts call "information at rest" - NSA technical experts might be able to bypass otherwise-unbreakable encryption used when the information is "in motion." Meanwhile, the popularity of e-mail and particularly of cell phones has worked to the NSA's advantage in the battle against terrorism. The NSA's computers can track and sort huge volumes of e-mail far more easily than they can manage telephone intercepts, because text is consistently represented in digital code. And cell phones - as handy for terrorist plotters as for everyone else - provide not just an eavesdropping target but also a way to physically track the user. Uhrig, who has installed cellular intercept systems in several countries, says that as cell phones have proliferated, the "cells" served by a tower or other antenna have correspondingly grown smaller. "A big hotel may have a cell for every other floor. Every big office building is its own cell," he says. Easier tracking By following a switched-on cell phone as it shifts from cell to cell, "you can watch the person move," Uhrig says. "You can tell the direction he's moving. If he's moving slow, he's walking. If he's moving fast, he's in a car. The tracking is sometimes of much more interest than the contents of a call." -----

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Continued monitoring unfortunate
by R. A. Hettinga 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

<http://www.thenassauguardian.com/business/282264186760512.php#%23%23%20temp…> The Nassau Guardian Online Guide Contact Us Tuesday, August 10, 2004 Continued monitoring unfortunate Sears argues against decision by the FATF to continue monitoring The Bahamas By MARTELLA MATTHEWS,Guardian Business Reportermartella(a)nasguard.com The snub The Bahamas' financial services industry received from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in the form of continued formal monitoring, highlights the urgent need for a more level playing field and the convening of a global forum on money laundering, Attorney General Alfred Sears said. After close to a month of silence following the release of this decision by the FATF outlined in the Annual Review of Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories (NCCT) in early July, Mr Sears, who recently ended his term as chairman of the regional arm of the organization, the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) told The Guardian that this development emphasised the need for "a level playing field and uniform application of the law." The Attorney General continued that if these two realities existed, countries like The Bahamas that have made enormous progress in the areas of money laundering and anti terrorism financing regimes would be recognised. "That is why we have been calling for a global forum on money laundering where all countries of the United Nations would have a right to sit down and help to make the rules and ensure that they are applied across the board in a uniform fashion," he said. Noting some of the changes made by the Bahamas immediately after being blacklisted by the FATF in 2000 as a NCCT, Mr Sears said that included in the bundle of financial legislation passed just a year later were the abolishment of practices still in force in some FAFT member countries. "We for example have abolished bearer shares," he said. "They still have bearer shares in the United States and other jurisdictions and FATF member countries." Regulation of gatekeepers like lawyers and accountants was another change made by The Bahamas that is still ongoing in other FATF member countries. In its annual review, the FATF stated that although it had ended the formal monitoring of other CFATF member countries blacklisted with The Bahamas in 2000 or immediately afterwards, concerns regarding adequacy in the areas of international cooperation required that the jurisdiction undergo continued monitoring. In the report, three CFATF member countries were granted an end to their formal monitoring process. Dominica was granted an end to its formal monitoring in October 2003, while the end of monitoring for Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines was formally announced in the annual review. Responding to the slight, Attorney General Sears described the reason given by the international body for continued monitoring as unfortunate adding that The Bahamas had made enormous progress in the area of international judicial cooperation. "That has been acknowledged by the Americas group of the FATF, it's been acknowledged by the United States, it's been acknowledged by Canada and it's also been acknowledged by the United Kingdom and I have the written indications of such," he declared. He admitted however that there were aspects of international cooperation that still needed work. "We still have an outstanding issue in terms of regulators to regulate the cooperation and that relates to the Central Bank and the Securities Commission." Giving a present day example of the issues that were being addressed, Mr Sears said that in instances where information was given to the United States Securities Exchange, this body wanted to be able to share this information with the Justice Department. This presented a problem, as under Bahamian law, similar entities in The Bahamas cannot share information with their counter parts in an unrestricted manner. "The law requires that if the regulator receiving the information wishes to pass it on to another entity they get the approval of the Bahamian regulator," he said. The former CFATF chair told The Guardian that this particular problem was currently being worked out between the Bahamian government and the U.S. regulators. "I headed a delegation comprising of the Governor of the Central Bank, the Minister of Social Services, the Minister of Investments Allyson (Maynard) Gibson, Hillary Deveaux from the Securities Commission, (and) Michelle Martinborough," Mr Sears said. "We have had a very good negotiation with the (U.S.) Securities Commission and Exchange and we're working out a protocol now. Its my expectation that that issue will be satisfactorily resolved in short order." Expressing his disappointment at the move by the FATF, which others in the financial services community describe as a deliberate assault on the country's financial services sector, Mr Sears said: "What I would wish is that when we make progress that it is reflected in the statements out of the FATF... The Bahamas has certainly done more than most; we have gone in some instances further than most. I think we ought to be recognised and it ought to be acknowledged the enormous progress that we have made." -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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stealth tempest wallpaper
by Sunder 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996240 or http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996240&lpos=home3 Stealth wallpaper keeps company secrets safe 10:00 08 August 04 Special Report from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. A type of wallpaper that prevents Wi-Fi signals escaping from a building without blocking mobile phone signals has been developed by a British defence contractor. The technology is designed to stop outsiders gaining access to a secure network by using Wi-Fi networks casually set up by workers at the office. <SNIP> ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our people, and neither do we." -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + : War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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DAA and Credentials
by hal＠finney.org 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

A few weeks ago Adam Back sent me a pointer to a paper with what was basically a new anonymous credential system, by Brickell, Camenisch and Chen, http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-93.pdf. I've followed Jan Camenisch's work pretty closely over the years and although he is only the 2nd author here, the paper is very much based on his ideas. Actually the paper is about a very controversial topic, trusted computing: TCPA, TCG, TPM, the Fritz chip, etc. Despite the questions about that technology, the paper has some interesting ideas which could be applied more widely. One of the concepts in trusted computing is that the computer would have a chip in it with an embedded key. This chip is called the TPM officially but is widely known as the Fritz chip after the senator who was pushing some legislation that might mandate technology controls. Fritz Hollings is gone and so is his CBDTPA but now the FCC seems to be taking up the gauntlet. But that's another story. Anyway, the TPM generates a key internally and it gets certified by some kind of CA established by the TCG (the TCG is the new name for the TCPA). When someone wants to, say, download some DRM-protected data, they could prove they have a real TPM by providing this certificate from the TCG CA on their TPM key. This would let the data supplier know he was talking to a system with a genuine TPM that would protect the data and keep the user from defeating the DRM. That would be the simple way to work, but the TCG didn't do it that way, because having the user show his TPM certificate everywhere would violate his privacy. It may seem strange that a proposal which is built on the idea that the user is the enemy will care about his privacy, especially since most TCG uses will require the user to pay for things, meaning showing a credit card number, so he has no privacy anyway. But that's the political decision the TCG made. Instead, they came up with a "Privacy CA", where the user would in effect show his TPM certificate to the PCA, and the PCA would then certify a temporary "pseudonym key" that the user would then use in place of his TPM key and certificate. The problem here is that this doesn't protect privacy all that well, plus the PCA needs to have both high availability and high security, two requirements that don't work well together. So TCG has approved this new proposal, cryptographically based, called Direct Anonymous Attestation or DAA. There is no more Privacy CA. Instead, the user directly proves that he has a valid certificate on his TPM key, but he does it in zero knowledge. He doesn't reveal the TPM key or the certificate, nevertheless the verifier (which would typically be a seller of DRM'd content) gets convinced that he is talking to a real TPM. The way it works is a modification of a group signature. Camenisch has done a lot of work on these over the years, with various co-authors. But the general idea is the same, that group members each generate a key, which gets certified by a "group ownership manager" and that means they're officially part of the group. Then they can create signatures of which it can only be determined that they came from someone in the group, but you can't tell which one. This is done by the method described above, a zero knowledge proof that you know a key and you have a certificate (signature) on it by the group manager key. That establishes that you are a group member. One of the new ideas in the DAA paper relates to revocation. The TPM private keys are supposed to remain locked in the chip. But suppose someone uses some fancy lab equipment or perhaps a side channel attack and extracts one. They could spread it around to their friends, who could use it to pretend to have TPMs, download DRM-protected data and easily remove the protections. The TCG wanted to deal with this. The assumption is that a secret this good can't be kept quiet for long, so soon there will be lists of TPM-cracked keys floating out there. TCG-based vendors are assumed to have access to such a list, so when someone shows up with their ZK proof about having a good TPM, they want to know if the TPM key is on the list. The problem is that the TPM key is not revealed in the ZK proof. So the authors propose that, if the key is k, another value of the form u^k mod p gets revealed, where u is perhaps chosen by the vendor, or is perhaps random. This doesn't reveal k but there is a proof that the k used in u^k is the same k that got certified as a TPM key. Now the vendor can compare the reported u^k value with computed u^k based on all known "bad" keys. If it matches for any of them, he knows that he is being offered a bogus TPM key proof. That's the basic idea of the DAA, but there are two additional points of interest. The first is that DAA is really complicated, more so than most group signatures of this type I have seen. The main reason seems to be a desire to not make the TPM work too hard. The authors have cleverly and diligently split up the protocol so that as much work as possible is done by the host computer and not the TPM, even though the host is not trusted. The concept is similar to the old "wallet with observer" protocols of Chaum and Brands. But the effect is to add many extra phases and passes, which could probably be eliminated if we didn't care about that. The second point relates to the system as a credential system. This idea of proving in zero knowledge that you have a cert on your key is the basis of an earlier credential system from Camenisch and Lysyanskaya. The concept is that credentials are represented by particular signatures from particular signers. Say, AAA could give me a credential as a member for the year 2004 by a certain signature. Then I could show possession when I made a hotel reservation and get a discount, by proving that I had that signature by AAA on a key I owned. Doing it in ZK protects my privacy. I actually looked at implementing the C&L credential system a few years ago, but there was a big stumbling block right at the beginning. It would only work with an RSA key of a special form, one composed of the product of two strong primes (primes p and q where (p-1)/2 and (q-1)/2 were themselves prime). And worse, it was necessary to prove that the modulus was of that form, without of course revealing p and q. Well, Camenisch had a protocol for this, but it was very complicated. I implemented it and it was intolerably slow, it took many minutes or even hours. It just didn't appear feasible as the foundation for a practical credential system. One of the improvements in the new DAA system is that it escapes from the need to prove that the RSA key is built of strong primes. This means that it could conceivably be the foundation for a credential system that would actually be efficient enough to use. That's very exciting! Unfortunately, as I said the DAA system in its present form is not quite right; it is too complicated due to the need to split up the work between TPM and untrusted host. That complication is not necessary for a plain credentialling system. So some work would have to be done to clean it up and get it into a form that would work for credentials. Crypto is next week and I hope to see Jan there and ask him about this. If he thinks it would work then this is another project I might try in the near future. I would really like to see some kind of anonymous credential system available for people to experiment with. I had looked into doing one with ring signatures but it would not be very efficient. Camenisch's technology is far superior. Hal Finney

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RE: The Turncoats on Niihau Island
by Tyler Durden 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Wow. What a dumb fuck this columnist is. No wait...this guy's got a gig and fuck the truth. I wonder how many of the Japanese in internment camps owned a Zero? And, if a Saudi citizen on our shores gets rowdy, should we round up Morrocans? (ie, Japan is a country and a nationality...Islam is neither.) -TD >From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> >To: cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net >Subject: The Turncoats on Niihau Island >Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:09:02 -0400 > ><http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/printmm20040810.shtml> > >Townhall.com > >The Turncoats on Niihau Island >Michelle Malkin (back to web version) | Send > >August 10, 2004 > >The following is an exclusive excerpt from Michelle Malkin's new book, In >Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and >the War on Terror (Regnery). > >The Turncoats on Niihau Island > >"Are you a Japanese?" > >Those were the first English words spoken by downed Japanese fighter pilot >Shigenori Nishikaichi on tiny Niihau Island, located about one hundred >miles northwest of Honolulu. It was December 7, 1941. Nishikaichi had had a >busy, bloody morning at Pearl Harbor. Now, with the aid and comfort of a >Japanese-American couple, Nishikaichi was about to make the lives of the >Niihau residents a living hell. > >Around 7:00 a.m., Nishikaichi boarded his Zero single-seat fighter plane >and took off from the carrier Hiryu in the Pacific. An hour and a half >later, the young Japanese pilot strafed planes, trucks, and personnel on >Oahu. Headed back to his carrier, Nishikaichi and some fellow pilots >encountered a group of American P36 fighter planes. During the air battle, >Nishikaichi's plane took several hits. One punctured the Zero's gas tank. >Nishikaichi steered the crippled plane toward the westernmost Hawaiian >island: Niihau. Fewer than 200 Hawaiians plus three laborers of Japanese >descent called Niihau home. Japan planned to use the island as a submarine >pickup point for stranded pilots. > >Nishikaichi crash-landed the plane in a field near one of the ranch homes. >The first to reach him was Hawila "Howard" Kaleohano, a burly Hawaiian. The >island had no telephones. On that tranquil, late Sunday morning, none of >the inhabitants was yet aware of the death and destruction that had just >rained down on Pearl Harbor. > >Nonetheless, Kaleohano wisely confiscated the dazed Nishikaichi's gun and >papers. Kaleohano, perhaps the most educated Hawaiian on Niihau, had been >keeping tabs on world affairs through newspapers supplied by ranch owner >Aylmer Robinson (who paid weekly visits to the island and lived twenty >miles away on Kauai). Wary but warm, Kaleohano brought the enemy pilot to >his home. Along the way, Nishikaichi asked Kaleohano if he was "a >Japanese." The answer was an emphatic "No." > >After sharing a meal and cigarettes, Nishikaichi demanded that Kaleohano >return his papers, which included maps, radio codes, and Pearl Harbor >attack plans. Kaleohano refused. To make their communication easier, >Kaleohano asked his neighbors to summon one of the island's three residents >of Japanese descent to translate for Nishikaichi. They first brought a >Japanese-born immigrant, Ishimatsu Shintani, to the house. He reluctantly >exchanged a few words with the pilot in Japanese, but left in a >hurry-apparently sensing trouble. > >The islanders then turned to Yoshio Harada and his wife Irene, both U.S. >citizens, born in Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. Harada had moved from >Kauai to California as a young man and lived there for seven years before >relocating to Niihau with his wife in 1939. Instantly at ease with the >Japanese-American couple, Nishikaichi dropped the bombshell news about the >attack on Pearl Harbor. The Haradas did not inform their neighbors. > >That night, the hospitable Niihau residents learned about the Pearl Harbor >attack on the radio. They decided to confine the pilot in the Haradas' home >until help arrived. > >Exploiting their common ethnic ties and urging loyalty to the emperor, >Nishikaichi won over the Haradas. They enlisted the other resident of >Japanese descent-the skittish Shintani-in a conspiracy to retrieve >Nishikaichi's papers from Kaleohano. On the afternoon of December 12, a >reluctant Shintani visited Kaleohano and asked for the enemy pilot's >papers. He offered his neighbor a wad of cash. Kaleohano refused. Shintani >desperately told him to burn the papers. It was a matter of life and death, >Shintani pleaded with Kaleohano. Kaleohano again refused. > >An hour later, Nishikaichi and the Haradas launched a campaign of terror >against the islanders. They overtook the guard on duty and locked him in a >warehouse. Mrs. Harada cranked up a phonograph to drown out the commotion. >Yoshio Harada and Nishikaichi retrieved a shotgun from the warehouse and >headed to Kaleohano's home. Kaleohano, who was in the outhouse, saw them >coming and hid while Nishikaichi and his collaborators unsuccessfully >searched for the pilot's papers. They recovered Nishikaichi's pistol and >headed toward his grounded plane. Harada watched as the enemy pilot tried >in vain to call for help on his radio. > >Meanwhile, Kaleohano fled from the outhouse and ran to the main village to >warn his neighbors of Nishikaichi's escape. He returned to his house to >retrieve the papers, hid them in a relative's home, and set out with a >strong team of islanders in a lifeboat toward Kauai to get help. That >night, Harada and Nishikaichi set both the plane and Kaleohano's home on >fire. They fired off their guns in a lunatic rage and threatened to kill >every man, woman, and child in the village. After gathering for a prayer >meeting, many residents escaped to a mountaintop with kerosene lamps and >reflectors in an attempt to signal Kauai. > >On the morning of December 13, Harada and Nishikaichi captured islander Ben >Kanahele and his wife. Kanahele was ordered to find Kaleohano. In their own >"Let's Roll" moment of heroism, the gutsy Kanaheles refused to cooperate. >When Nishikaichi threatened to shoot Kanahele's wife, fifty-one-year-old >Ben lunged for the enemy's shotgun. The young Japanese fighter pilot pulled >his pistol from his boot and shot Kanahele three times in the chest, hip, >and groin. Mrs. Kanahele pounced at Nishikaichi; her once-peaceful neighbor >Harada tore her away. > >Angered, the wounded Kanahele summoned the strength to pick up Nishikaichi >and hurl him against a stone wall, knocking him unconscious. Quick-thinking >Mrs. Kanahele grabbed a rock and pummeled the pilot's head. For good >measure, Ben Kanahele took out a hunting knife and slit Nishikaichi's >throat. A desperate Harada turned the shotgun on himself and committed >suicide. > >The Kanaheles' harrowing battle against a Japanese invader and his >surprising collaborator was over. > >The significance of the Haradas' stunning act of disloyalty and Shintani's >meek complicity in collaboration with Nishikaichi was not lost on the >Roosevelt administration. The facts of the case "indicate a strong >possibility that other Japanese residents of the Territory of Hawaii, and >Americans of Japanese descent . . . may give valuable aid to Japanese >invaders in cases where the tide of battle is in favor of Japan and where >it appears to residents that control of the district may shift from the >United States to Japan," wrote Lieutenant C. B. Baldwin after a naval >intelligence investigation. > >The Haradas were neither radical nationalists nor professional spies. They >were ordinary Japanese-Americans who betrayed America by putting their >ethnic roots first. How many other Japanese-Americans-especially on the >vulnerable West Coast-might be swayed by enemy appeals such as >Nishikaichi's? How many more might be torn between allegiance for their >country of birth and kinship with Imperial invaders? These were the >daunting questions that faced the nation's top military and political >leaders as enemy forces loomed on our shores. > >Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and maintains her weblog at >michellemalkin.com > >-- >----------------- >R. A. 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