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Verfasst von:	Hayashi, Brian Masaru [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Asian American spies
Titelzusatz:	how Asian Americans helped win the Allied victory
Verf.angabe:	Brian Masaru Hayashi
Verlagsort:	New York, NY
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
Jahr:	2021
Umfang:	1 online resource (304 pages)
Illustrationen:	illustrations (black and white).
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Oxford scholarship online
Fussnoten:	Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2021)
ISBN:	978-0-19-009285-6
Abstract:	'Asian American Spies' is a study of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services. The text challenges the Asian American Minority stereotype that they are all loyal citizens by showing Asian Americans on both sides of World War II and shows that Euroamerican leaders of the intelligence agency understood race as not a fixed concept.
	"Asian Americans were brought into the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA, during World War II under the assumption of a secure loyalty. They served as Research Analysts, Special Operations members, Morale Operations propagandists, secret agents gathering covert intelligence and, after the war, as war crimes investigators in East Asia where their cultural and linguistic skills, coupled with the correct "racial uniforms" made them invaluable to America's first centralized intelligence agency. These agents were drawn from New York City to Honolulu where Asian immigrants and their American-born offspring had developed loyalties that were multiple and flexible, not singular and fixed. Despite this, European American OSS recruiters admitted them even as they believed their own loyalty was more certain and fixed since they hailed from families with roots reaching far back into America's past. In their joint struggle against the Imperial Japanese forces, these Asian Americans and their European American OSS colleagues generated propaganda to demoralize the enemy and encourage surrender, gathered overt intelligence from a wide variety of media sources, obtained covert intelligence inside enemy-occupied territory, and trained and executed guerrilla operations scores of miles behind the battlelines where, if captured, they faced torture and execution. Immediately after the war, they conducted war crimes investigations which included some Asian American collaborators, raising questions about the meaning of loyalty. The end result of their activities was not only the satisfaction of seeing Imperial Japan defeated, but a new understanding of loyalty, race, and Asian Americans"--
DOI:	doi:10.1093/oso/9780195338850.001.0001
URL:	Resolving-System: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195338850.001.0001
	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780195338850.pdf
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195338850.001.0001
Schlagwörter:	(g)USA    / (s)Asiaten    / (k)USA / Office of Strategic Services    / (s)Spionage    / (s)Zweiter Weltkrieg    / (z)Geschichte
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
Sach-SW:	United States ; Office of Strategic Services ; History
	World War, 1939-1945 ; Secret service ; United States
	World War, 1939-1945 ; Participation, Asian American
	Asian American spies ; United States ; History ; 20th century
	World War, 1939-1945 ; Propaganda
	Propaganda, American ; Asia ; History ; 20th century
K10plus-PPN:	1759191876
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