Action Likely in Pacific av John Koster

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A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history and saved thousands of American and British lives ? and millions of Asian lives.¿On the night of 3 December 1941, I could not fall asleep,¿ Kilsoo Haan remembered. ¿I went to the Chop Suey House, the Chinese Lantern, and ordered a bowl of Chinese soup. Next to my table, a Japanese was trying to sell a Chinese a second-hand automobile. After the Japanese left, the Chinese said to me, ¿You like to buy cheap automobile?¿ After a pause he said, ¿This Japanese is selling four automobiles owned by the Japanese Embassy workers because they are going to Japan pretty soon¿ Oh so cheap.¿¿ Four days later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.Before the Second World War, Korean-American Kilsoo Haan repeatedly warned the United States about the Japanese attack and accurately supplied every conceivable detail as relayed to him by Korean agents: midget submarines as well as aircraft at Pearl Harbor, then giant submarine aircraft carriers