Meigo Intelligence - Japanese Operation Meigo
Meigo in intelligence:
On 9 March 1945, the Japanese initiated Operation Meigo, their contingency plan to take over Vietnam.
The Japanese Coup 9 March 1945However, by 10 March, the Japanese completed total occu-pation of Indochina. The result was the inevitable disintegra-tion of GBT.62When it entered Indochina in 1941, the Japanese Army allowed the Vichy French government to contin-ue its administration of the colony, but after the liberation of France, as the US sweep across the Pacific closed on the Asian mainland, the Japanese, concerned by the French threat against their back, moved to take full control. On 9 March 1945, the Japanese initiated Operation Meigo, their contingency plan to take over Vietnam. “Japanese troops took possession of [French] administrative offices, radio stations, the central telephone and telegraph offices, banks, and the main industrial enter-prises. They also attacked the police forces and arrested French civilian and military authorities.”63 Units of the French Army that survived the initial assaults fought their way north toward the Chinese border.The Japanese takeover created serious problems for the Allies. The intelligence flow from Indochina they had come to depend on was gone. “Even our air attacks had to cease, because we had neither weather reports nor any check on Japanese movements. Both Wedemeyer and the U.S. Navy sent us urgent pleas to get a new intelligence net operat-ing.
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