KGB Planned Nuclear Accident in Tokyo Bay

[Mulboyne]

Vasili Mitrokhin...the plot thickens
Japan Times: KGB eyed Tokyo nuke 'accident': late archivist
LONDON (Kyodo) The KGB considered releasing radioactive material in Tokyo Bay in the late 1960s, which it hoped would be blamed on American submarines and thereby damage Japanese-U.S. relations, according to a book published Monday by a former KGB archivist. "The Mitrokhin Archive II," written by Vasili Mitrokhin, reveals several sabotage plans by KGB officers to sour Tokyo-Washington relations...Mitrokhin was a senior KGB archivist from 1948 to 1984...He died in 2004. In the new book, cowritten by historian Christopher Andrew, Mitrokhin reveals that in 1969, KGB officers in Tokyo considered a plan to scatter radioactive material in Tokyo Bay in the expectation it would be blamed by the public on nuclear submarines based at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.

[Greji]

Vasili Mitrokhin...the plot thickens
Japan Times: KGB eyed Tokyo nuke 'accident': late archivist

This is not a new story. It has circulated around the US military and the Boeicho in various forms over many years. I never doubted that the KGB was not capable of doing it, but did question the accuracy of the many different forms the story took with each subsequent telling.

However, now seeing the two photographs of the planning bureau in and out of work clothes, I no longer have any questions. I will checking any mizuari I order in Roppongi from here on to see if it glows in the dark!

[homesweethome]

Vasili Mitrokhin...the plot thickens
Japan Times: KGB eyed Tokyo nuke 'accident': late archivist

This is not a new story. It has circulated around the US military and the Boeicho in various forms over many years. I never doubted that the KGB was not capable of doing it, but did question the accuracy of the many different forms the story took with each subsequent telling.

However, now seeing the two photographs of the planning bureau in and out of work clothes, I no longer have any questions. I will checking any mizuari I order in Roppongi from here on to see if it glows in the dark!

Ano Nei GB, you better update your sources.
[quote]U.S.-Japan Cooperative Development: Progress on FS-X Program Enhances
Japanese Aerospace Capabilities (Chapter Report, 08/11/95,
GAO/NSIAD-95-145).

GAO examined the U.S.-Japan FS-X program, focusing on: (1) the program's
status]

The leak is common knowledge and has been operating to the benefit of both parties for quite some time.
Countermeasures will be taken if the need arises, which I doubt it will.