Ogata Taketora to Nippon No Intelligence Joho Naki Kokka Ha Haiboku Suru (PHP Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] In the early 1950s, immediately after the Allied occupation of Japan, there was a politician who seriously tried to create a "Japanese version of the CIA. His name was Taketora Ogata. From the standpoint of conservative liberalism, he struggled with the issues of intelligence and national policy as an executive of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and president of the Intelligence Bureau before and during the war, and after the war, under the cabinet of Shigeru Yoshida, he worked hard to establish a Japanese intelligence organization in cooperation with the United States. Currently, a movement is emerging in Japan to establish a foreign intelligence agency. Through the struggles of Takehito Ogata, this report examines the essentials of intelligence activities that should be managed based on the national character and will of the people of Japan.

連合国軍による占領を脱した直後の1950年代前半の日本で、真剣に“日本版CIA”をつくろうとした政治家がいた。その名は緒方竹虎。保守自由主義の立場から、戦前・戦時中に朝日新聞社の幹部、そして情報局総裁として情報と国策の問題に苦しみ、戦後は吉田茂内閣のもとで、アメリカと連携しつつ日本のインテリジェンス機関を確立しようと奮闘した人物である。現在、日本でも対外インテリジェンス機関を創設しようという動きが生まれている。わが国の国民性や民意に基づいて運営されるべきインテリジェンス活動の要諦を、緒方竹虎の苦闘を通じて考究する。