As Japanese forces approached Nanking in late November 1937, the Chinese foreign Ministry notified American diplomats that they would need to evacuate. ... In 1947, the squadron leader of the Japanese dive-bombers, Commander Okumiya, spoke during Naval Institute proceedings that the strike was based on Japanese army intelligence that enemy troops were escaping up river in Chinese merchant ships. ...
According to Thomas Robinson, author of The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute: Background, Development, and the March 1969 Clashes, CIA Director Richard Helms told the Associated Press in late summer of 1969 that "Moscow had been approaching foreign governments to inquire about their reactions to a potential Soviet preemptive strike (p. 1187). ... In 1971, an interesting piece of intelligence surfaced. ... Numerous military, political, and intelligence leaders in the west expressed their suspicions on the validity of the tense relations between Moscow and Beijing. ... The evidence for Reisel...
