The Western Front
The story of A Cobra under the Pillow (1962) is based on the Operation Husky in which the Allied forces took Sicily from the Axis Powers and tried to land the Italian mainland, and on the Operation Mincemeat which contributed to the Husky and, and on the Operation Brimstone. The Operation Mincemeat was a successful disinformation plan to mislead the Germans by Archibald Nye’s (Vice Chief of the General Staff of the U.K.) and another one’s letters that were forgery. In these letters which were attached to a corpse disguised as a Britain officer and were handed to Germany later, Husky (a fictitious plan) was referred as the landing operation on two Greece places and Mincemeat, though insinuatingly, as the one to invade Sardinia.…show more content… He told that he was Japanese and an illegitimate child “MOTONO Kingo” of MOTONO Ichiro who was an eldest son of the founder of Japanese newspaper Yomiuri and would become a Foreign Minister later, and acknowledged that he was a Japanese spy. However, the part related to the birth of his testimony seems to be untrue. No reliable evidence that connects Kim and MOTONO Ichiro exists. During this time, he became a reference of Tukhachevsky’s case. The Soviet intelligence agency acquired a photocopy of Japanese diplomatic documents, which might prove this Red Army Marshal’s anti-Soviet activities. However, it was not clear enough to read easily and they ordered Kim to interpret it. He concluded that it was a diversion intended to disturb them. “In 1932, he translated a coded telegram of a Japanese attaché warning the General Staff about the possible censorship of the classified diplomatic bag.” However, they didn’t accept his opinion. In brief, Kim was aware of deceptiveness of the police power in the Purge period. Keeping that in mind, he “confessed” and somehow escaped the execution by firing squad.
It was recent that these matters were clarified. Kim “firmly kept silent […] until his later years” about the days of NKVD even to KIMURA Hiroshi with whom he had friendly relation, and fudged this Russian literature scholar’s question about the arrest by such explanation: “I was imprisoned in a camp in north Africa for a long time.” In other words, he kept evading the truth of his own past, as he had done during the