[78-L] from PBS newsletter...Tokyo Rose

[Jeff Sultanof]

Thank you, Dr. Biel, for clearing this up. I've just learned something
today.

Jeff Sultanof

One day in the late 70s I walked into Les Waffen's outer office at the
> National Archives and there was a multi-shelf cart with a hundred or so
> tapes on it, all dubs of the WW II radio monitoring of enemy broadcasts
> including many of Radio Tokyo's "Zero Hour".  Les had noticed that there
> were only a very few recordings presented at Iva Toquari's trial--which
> were the only ones available on playable formats--but there were many
> more recordings they could have used, but that most of those would have
> proved her to be innocent of treason.  He had them all transferred so
> they could now be played.  Iva was only one of several women at Radio
> Tokyo and perhaps the most pro-American in the station, but Walter
> Winchell had repeatedly embarrassed the government prosecutors and they
> had to reinstate their charges.  The trial was fixed.  When you hear all
> of her recordings and those of the others at the station it would have
> become obvious that she was not only playing the records that U.S.
> soldiers and sailors would want to hear, any "subversive" news she was
> including was so exaggerated as to be purposefully laughable.  I would
> say that this is one of the more shameful abuses of our government, but
> it now is joined by so much else from the past eight years that nothing
> that we find that was done "in our name" is surprising any more.
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> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
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