[War] Japan: "Spy vs. Counter-Spy"

[Ian Martell]

"Spy vs. Counter-Spy"
Prime Minister Shunichi Sato
Japan
October 17th 2006

As Minister Ishikawa and his party left, Director Haruma entered the room 
accompanied by former Section Chief Yoshida.

Sato nodded to Akira and Mura and both men left the room and closed the door 
behind them.

“Good afternoon,” Sato said as the men sat down.

“Good afternoon,” Haruma greeted formally then opened his briefcase and 
handed Sato a new file.

“We’ve gone over the British intelligence on North Korea and compared it 
with our own. We’ve come up with a list of people we believe are agents of 
North Korea living in Japan.”

Sato looked at the list. Most of the names were unfamiliar to him, one or 
two were which was surprising. He closed the list and handed it back.

“What do you propose; arrest?”

Haruma shook his head. “No sir. Surveillance. We can learn a great deal 
about what they’ve been able to tell the North Koreans by watching them and 
we stand to reveal a much larger network by watching who they meet with.”

Sato nodded. It made good sense.

“Also arresting them will let the North know we know who their spies are. 
This would jeopardize any future attempts at counter-espionage or spreading 
false intelligence.”

Again Sato nodded. “You have my permission to proceed. I assume the 
anti-subversive activities law provides you all the authority you need?”

“It does,” Haruma said. “We will make weekly reports to yourself and the 
Minister on what we find.”

Sato nodded.

“Now on the matter of discovering more of the North Korean’s secrets, we’d 
like to secure the KRF’s intelligence on the North Korean nuclear test of 
course, and we have an operation that will need your approval to discover 
more on our own.”

Sato nodded and Yoshida handed him a second folder.

“It is a risk to our Yongbyon operation but I suggest we make contact with 
the official who the KRF overheard.”

“Contact? How?”

“We would have the KRF bring in one of our agents. He would contact the 
official at Yongbyon and essentially blackmail the man with what we know and 
promise if he does not cooperate with us we will make certain the Kim Regime 
discovers that he’s been in contact with Japanese agents and revealed this 
information to them.”

“Which would be a death sentence,” Sato said.

“Exactly. What would you be asking for?”

“Copies of the plans for the devices in service and the location of the 
devices themselves, to start,” Haruma said.

“To start?”

“We will push the blackmail angle for awhile then when the stress wears him 
down we’ll suggest defection as a way to get out from under the pressure of 
discovery.”

Sato nodded.

“Who’s the agent?” he asked.

Haruma frowned. “You have a right to know,” he pulled a personnel file from 
his briefcase. “But you may find it easier to not to Prime Minister. I will 
not lie to you, this is a difficult mission and even as good as our man is, 
he may not survive.”

“Let me see it.”

Sato paged through the file, Ryu Godo, ethnic Korean, 35, parents decended 
from labourers taken from the Korean peninsula in WWII, a wife, a child…

He closed the folder and pushed it back towards Haruma.

“Codenames?”

“The operation will be called KUSA 2 our agent will be referred to as MIDORI 
(the Japanese word for green).”

“Why Midori?” asked Sato.

“The colour of my tie at the time we were thinking up codenames,” said 
Yoshida.

Sato nodded smiling grimly.

“When do we proceed?”
“As soon as we get the permission of the KRF to bring our man to Yongbyon.”

1>	Observe possible North Korean agents in Japan and try to discover more 
information on any intelligence networks at work in the country and what 
these networks have told the North Koreans.
2>	Blackmail the North Korean official who revealed the extent of the North 
Korean nuclear program by accident with being revealed to North Korea as a 
Japanese informant. Offer him Japanese silence on the subject for details on 
all existing nuclear devices and the location of those devices. Make 
communications after the first through a dead letter box in Yongbyon.
3>	Contact KRF about bringing our spy into Yongbyon.

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