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This FBI espionage case file concerns Iva Ikuko Toguri, the American-born Radio Tokyo broadcaster widely associated with the wartime name 'Tokyo Rose.' The Bureau compiled biographical and citizenship material, State Department and voting records, and accounts of her 1941 travel to Japan and later efforts to return to the United States. The released report also examines Radio Tokyo's English-language 'Zero Hour' program, including Japanese military and broadcasting personnel, Allied prisoners of war who worked on the program, script handling, censorship, and destruction of station records near the end of the war. Witness statements describe broadcasts heard by U.S. servicemen in the Pacific and attribute morale-focused propaganda and false battlefield claims to the female announcer.

Documents span: 1941-1946 | Released in 3 parts
Names in this file: Iva Ikuko Toguri, Gilbert V. Velasquez, Jack King Wisney, Charles H. Cousens, Wallace E. Ince, Korean Reyes, George Mitsushio, Shigetsugu Tsuneishi, Isamu Yamazaki
Subjects: Tokyo Rose, Radio Tokyo, wartime propaganda, espionage investigation, Zero Hour, Japanese American citizenship