Census identified Japanese Americans to US agencies in WWII: study

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CHICAGO (AFP) — The US Census Bureau provided the US Secret Service with information identifying individual Japanese Americans during World War II, according to a study released which claims to undercut decades of denials by Bureau officials.

The agency supplied the names and addresses of 79 Japanese Americans living in the Washington area to Secret Service agents investigating reports of threats on the life of then president Franklin Roosevelt in August 1943, the paper said.

The probe had been prompted by a report in the Los Angeles Times in June, 1943, that a Japanese American man who was being evacuated to an internment camp in California said "we ought to have enough guts to kill Roosevelt."

The agent rapidly concluded that there was no threat to the...