WORLD WAR II IN EAST ASIA.

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Seven reports from the Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Study (JANIS) series, all concerning health and sanitation in East Asia. Classified material from the first significant US joint-intelligence programme, each with the lead researcher's ownership signature ("Capt. H. Kuhlenbeck") at the head of the front wrapper and all but the first identified as a "contributor's advance copy" in his hand.Established in 1943, the JANIS programme produced comprehensive reports on different strategic theatres and involved personnel from military, naval, and air intelligence, as well as the Office of Strategic Services and the Office Chief of Engineers. For each area, either a country or a subregion, JANIS operatives compiled briefings on geography, climate, demographics, communications, military facilities, and health and sanitation. By the end of the war, the reports had become the model for all strategic intelligence work and long-term planning. In 1947, the programme was absorbed into the CIA.A naturalized American citizen, Hartwig Kuhlenbeck (1897-1984) was recruited into the US Army Medical Corps in 1944 at the rank of captain. Having travelled in Asia and been a visiting professor in Tokyo in the 1920s, he was assigned to the Office of the Surgeon General as an expert in health and sanitation in East Asia. His reports, here on Manchuria, China, and parts of Japan, provide assessments and recommendations concerning environmental conditions, public health facilities, and the spread of majo

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