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of talented physicists who understood bomb physics. In any case
the reports caused enough concern tor the American occupying
forces to send several intelligence teams throughout Japan to
destroy its cyclotrons, of which there were no less than five, and
presumably more! 11 This curious fact raises a question. What were
the Japanese doing with that many cyclotrons Could they have
perhaps been given the secrets of Baron Manfred Von Ardenne's
method of mass spectrograph separation and enrichment of uranium
235 Or did the Japanese physicists, like their German and
American counterparts, come to the realization that the cyclotron
afforded a method for isotope enrichment Both are possible, and
the latter is probable.
B. Strange Industrial Complexes: Kammler Revisited, Noguchi
Style
Further confirmation of a Japanese atom bomb test led Wilcox
to connect Nishina to a Japanese industrialist named Noguchi.
Searching through American declassified records, Wilcox quickly
concluded that "subsequent directives in the same boxes ordered
reinvestigations in 1947 and 1948 of Japanese wartime atomic
research, indicating that (American intelligence) still did not know
exactly what had happened. In fact, (it) was continually ordering
reinvestigations of Japanese wartime atomic research and
discovering new facts at least up until 1949, according to additional
documents that I found." 12 Then Wilcox struck a very rich vein:
Box 3 of Entry 224 yielded a high mark of my two days at
Suitland: 13 an interrogation of a former engineer at the Noguchi
Konan complex, Otogoro Natsume, conducted on October 31, 1946.
"Subject" of the interrogation was listed as "Further questioning the
newspaper story about atomic bomb explosion in Korea."
In attendance were head(sic) of the Science and Technology
Division, Dr. Harry Kelly; an interpreter, "T/4 Matsuda," and a "Mr.
Donnelly," identified only as "5259 TIC." He apparently was some
11
Wilcox, op. cit., pp. 17, 192.
12
Ibid., p. 222.
13
"Suitland" is Wilcox's nickname for the US National Archives.
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