Spies & More Spies

In spy-infested Brazil last week the Japs were beginning to take the play away from the Nazis. While busy cops hopped frantically up & down the coast, Japs & more Japs kept turning up, equipped with everything from illegal radio transmitters to detailed maps of Brazil's shoreline. One raid unearthed an arsenal of 400,000 rifle cartridges, a lot of automatic riot rifles. Another raid at Sao Paulo deprived the Japs of 42 high-powered speedboats. The most sinister Jap enterprise discovered was the outfitting of a small port near Jaquia, about 90 miles southwest of Santos, with gasoline stores and a special dock suitable for submarines. Although no Axis subs have yet appeared in Brazilian waters, the Government was sure the Jaquia doings meant that they were planning visits.

On Ilha das Flores, Brazil's Ellis Island in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, the Government has some 200 enemy agents interned. Most difficult of the lot are the Japs, who make a point of posing brazenly in bemedaled uniforms. Before they are captured, however, they mask themselves in ingenious disguises. Dusting a bit of sod off a Jap farmer, Brazilian police discovered what was purportedly General Yusci Tonogawa. Another Jap turned up in the uniform of the Brazilian Officers' Reserve Corps.

But it was in the kitchen of a Brazilian industrialist that the strangest agent of them all was bagged. Brushing back the coarse black hair of the family cook, Brazilian cops were confronted by a captain of the Japanese Army. For five years he had been posing as a woman, and was rated a fine hand with a saucepan.

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