> However, when the "roundups" started for
> the internment camps, there was a government raid on
their store ... and
> in their upstairs apartment, agents discovered
military documents of the
> Japanese government, a rather sophisticated shortwave
transmitter/receiver
> and detailed reports on shipping activity in and out
of Portland.
Just a thought, but is the 'evidence' of spying merely
'gossip' or is
there some verifiable evidence that spying actually took
place?
What I'm wondering is, did the local community *need* to tell
itself
such a story (or was the story planted to ensure that it was
told?); in
other words, is it a post-facto validation of the 'round-up'
policy?
ED
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