SHIZUO YAMADA
He was born during nineteen hundred and eleven in the Washington city of Seattle and he traveled to Japan in his youth. Yamada by nineteen forty was married, held various jobs, and subsequently registered for the WWII military draft. He was among the Japanese Americans relocated during part of the war but despite that experience Shizuo eventually supported US government operations in Japan. By nineteen fifty, Shizuo was living in Maryland and employed by the Central Intelligence Agency in the position of research analyst.
As the nineteen fifties passed Yamada contributed to the Agency’s Tokyo Station’s projects in the roles of translator and operations officer. Following other assignments he would return to the Japanese capital the next decade and serve under the direction of station chief William Broe. The U-2 surveillance program was ongoing during his service in Japan and he was employed during a period relevant to eventual congressional investigations. Yamada was among several Agency personnel mentioned during the late nineteen seventies by former CIA employee James Wilcott to House Select Committee investigators.
