[Red Dog #1]

This is a very accurate assesment. I always wondered how many of the aircraft enthusist taking photos just outside of the base fence were really spies. Or for that matter how many of the GI's girl friends were interested in seeing anything more than the NCO Club and barracks.

[AmericanInTokyo]

As a colleague was fond of saying in the mid 1980s when i was also in Japan, 'sheesh, you could have Secretary General Gorbachev in the back seat of your car, and the local guards (rent a cops) at the Yokota AB Main get would flag you right through!"

Amazing, porous situation based on naivety if you ask me.

[AmericanInTokyo]

They trained pretty, smart yet deadly female agents who could speak fluent Japanese or English, to ply their terrorist trade. Such as young Kim Hyong Hi, pretty, smart, who wormed her way on to a KAL jet, and planted the explosives/timer, got off, and 180 souls perished. Or the pretty young girl purportedly who posed as a sexy South Korean bar miss who enticed a young American Pfc to come north across the border to North Korea and defect (he was later executed). I am sure she went on to her next mission.

Yes, you are right, young "Japanese" girls staying overnight on these US bases in Japan from trysts on Saturday nite at the NCO could be casing the joint, or planting materials to be activated and used later.