in December 1984. Dismissal Wako refused to promote Kumagai, who resigned in 1985. He told Wako about the illegal exports after working with communist countries for 22 years and living in Moscow for ten. Soviet officials contacted him several times, inviting him to become a business partner. Although Wako and Toshiba Machine proposed that Kumagai disclose his knowledge of the illegal exports, he refused. The CIA knew about the illegal exports, but did not grasp the scope of the violation. KGB major Stanislav Levchenko defected to the United States in October 1979, and provided the names of about 200 Japanese agents who had been used by the KGB. Whistleblowing Kumagai unsuccessfully attempted to report what he knew to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, but officials sided with the corporations. He then wrote a December 1985 letter in English to CoCom headquarters in Paris, outlining which products had violated the regulations and details of what had been exported (or were likely to be exported) to the Soviet Union. Kumagai attached documentation of the nine-axis machine tools, and included his contact information. Concerned about a possible assassination attempt, he recorded in detail what he knew about the Soviet Union in the spring of 1986 and gave his friend a copy for safekeeping. Kumagai told his friend that if anything happened to him, he should pass the information on to the address on the letter. CoCom and Japan The CoCom agreement corresponded to the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law in Japan. CoCom showed the government of Japan Kumagai's whistleblowing, and demanded correspondence at the end of December 1985. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Ministry of the Treasury, the National Police Agency, and the Ministry of Defense met in January 1986. The government of Japan, Itochu, Toshiba and their associated companies denied Kumagai's whistleblowing until 1987. He went to the Embassy of the United States in Tokyo by summer 1986. Although the United States discussed the affair with the government of Japan 40 times by 1987, the Japanese government of Japan did not tell the United States the truth. Disclosure On January 26–27, 1987, the United States asked Norway and Japan about the nine-axis machine tool. Norway investigated the incident, revealing Japan's crime. Kumagai contacted the government of Japan in December 1985, and received a reply on April 27, 1987. News of the nine-axis violation