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Richard Sakakida
Richard Motoso Sakakida (November 19, 1920 – January 23, 1996) was a United States Army intelligence agent stationed in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II. He was captured and tortured for months after the fall of the country to Imperial Japan, but managed to convince the Japanese that he was a civilian and was released. Employed by the Japanese Fourteenth Army (though still under suspicion), he gathered and passed along valuable information to the Philippine resistance. He also planned and participated in the mass escape of about 500 Filipino prisoners.
==Early life==
Sakakida was born and raised in Hawaii. He was a Nisei, the youngest of four children of Japanese immigrant parents.〔
He was recruited into the U.S. Army in March 1941, while America was still a neutral in World War II. Fluent in Japanese, he was sworn in as a sergeant and was one of the first two Japanese Americans to be assigned to the Corps of Intelligence Police〔 (the other being fellow Nisei Arthur Komori), which became the Counterintelligence Corps shortly after America's entry in the war.
After intensive training,〔 on April 7, 1941, he and Komori set sail for the Philippines, then an American possession, aboard the . Upon their arrival in Manila, they were assigned to spy on the Japanese community in the city, posing as merchant sailors who had jumped ship.〔〔
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