The Mouse at Pearl Harbor | WW2

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A single spy can change the course of history - for better, or for worse. Takeo Yoshikawa was one such spy. Stationed in Honolulu, Yoshikawa's intelligence was used by the Japanese to launch a devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The massacre brought the USA in to WW2, and ultimately led to Japan's crushing defeat. He shares his unsettling story with Vanessa Kirby. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Takeo Yoshikawa is voiced by Eiji Mihara. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Morgan Childs. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.4	I reached out and shook his hand.
0:37.6	Tears were streaming from my eyes, and they were even to work.
0:42.0	Shredding the coursebooks, and they're throwing them into a bonfire.
0:46.4	What we didn't realise was the smoke from the fire was attracting the attention of our neighbors.
0:52.8	This is True Spies.
0:54.8	Episode 62. The Mouse at Pearl Harbor.
1:05.6	This week's True Spies worked on a paradise island in the Pacific Ocean
1:10.0	as a Japanese undercover agent in 1941.
1:14.8	But for the moment, let's drift away from those shores
1:18.0	and turn our attention to a ranch in the middle of the Arizona desert.
1:22.4	Specifically, the Triangle T-Ranch in Dragoon, Arizona.
1:28.4	Rattlesnakes, tumbleweeds, the whole in Chalada.
1:34.4	Picture an office turned interrogation room, windows drawn, the air hazy with smoke.
1:41.6	The interrogator, a tall, white-skinned burn, sits at a table in the room,
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