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Sidney Forrester Mashbir (12 September 1891 – 13 June 1973)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. Point Loma, San Diego County, CA – Records )〕 was a senior officer in the United States Army who was primarily involved in military intelligence. Born in New York, he served in the Arizona Army National Guard during the Mexican-American Border War. Mashbir then held several posts in intelligence positions, taking credit for catching the first German spy in the United States, before departing for on a four-year assignment as a language officer to Japan in 1920. He resigned from the army in 1923 in an attempt to execute his own master plan devised to extract intelligence from Japan in event of a war. His plan failed as a result of the Great Kantō earthquake in September 1923 and he was left bankrupt; he consequently returned to the US as an engineering businessman. In 1937, Mashbir returned to Japan in a second attempt to activate his plan on behalf of the Office of Naval Intelligence; it again failed, and Mashbir was dis-enrolled from the reserves in 1939. However, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mashbir was re-enrolled in January 1940 to lead the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section of Southwest Pacific Area, where he quickly rose to the rank of Colonel. He later served as the Executive Officer for the Army Adjutant General's Office before retiring in 1951. == Early life == Sidney Mashbir was born in Manhattan, New York, on 12 September 1891, but moved to Safford, Arizona in 1899. Sidney's father was Professor Eliazar S. Mashbir, a Russian immigrant who was well-educated and became the first Russian-speaking attorney to practice Law in New York City. Sidney's mother, Frida Freudenthal was also well-educated, and in 1906 became the postmistress of Safford, which included the area of Solomonville. Mashbir attended public schools in Safford and Tucson, later studying engineering at the University of Arizona for six months each year until 1911, whilst simultaneously maintaining a career as an engineering draughtsman, primarily for the engineering department of Tucson, and railroad companies.〔 He married his first wife Blanche Beckwith on 12 September 1913, with whom he had his first son, Forrester Mashbir; the couple separated during the mid/late-1920s.〔〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 California Courts of Appeal Reports: MASHBIR v. MASHBIR, 29 Cal.App.2d 733 (1938) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sidney Mashbir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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