HATOYAMA OFF TO SEEK SOVIET PACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300490013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 8, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

RICHMOND (Va.) TIMES. 155
DISPATCH
Circ.: mSai,z0d - Approved For Release : CIA-R
S. 174,705
Front .Edit, 0th.,
Pays Papa Payr
Dpte:
TOKYO, Oct. 7--m--Prime \,
iSunday night for Moscow, where
Thousands of Japanese were
at the airport to watch his de
d parture.. Some ahouted "Ban-
r
sal," some distributed leaflets
which said his journey OW
Lead Japan to ruin" and still
others, relatives .of * Japanese
still prisoners h Russia. car
CPYR3HT ?
banners urging the prime min R' i ,1
yama's last chance to mak
good on ?a 1955 campaign prom
,Ise for, restoration of diploma
USSR. Crippled and failing, th 1.
73-year-ofd prime minister' he
come under heavy newspa
and enemy political fire In
cent weeke and the general. `?fl
? . tatoyama
;Off to Seek
Soviet Pact, .
F ? F
the year. Main point of the cri
iclsm is that he is too weak a
nick to lock horns'with the t
slans. 1 .4. 1.
Hatoyema's announced
mula for a settlement with J `
pan, after 11 years, would nos -.
FOIAb3b
disputed islands north of Japat
now hel$.V * Russia,. This
has blocked two previous eff
to gain a treaty.
In return, Hatoyama. wan
(1) an end to the technical 'eta
of wpr, (2) exchange of am
sadors, (3) repatriation of Ja
nese prisoners still held by R
lsja, '(4). Soviet support for a\ .
!teIligence Agency, confe .
with the prune minister for .
minutes a few ,wtus before e-
partut+e Informed sources d
Dulles )We d Ha ?y a a
message RIZ10,10 15 proved For Release : CIA-RDP15-00149R000300490013-5
United States Secretary of ?
State Du11es. 'Chore was ro nt.
I feel certain I will rot
successful," he said In a of .
statement fiat before depart g.:
? '
Allen W-Dulles, touring ch at
Japanese seat In the United N . '
tions and (5) activation of a,
fishing treaty permitting J
' nese operations In north Pact C' ?
I M e s a .controlled b y the Soy t ? .
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