execution, during the Battle of Singapore. It is alleged that the British Commonwealth military censors suppressed these events. William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill, a British peer and record-breaking air pioneer who passed secret information to the Japanese military before World War II. Makihara Satoru, a Mitsubishi manager in London, was arrested on 2 August 1940 on suspicion of espionage, and taken to Brixton prison. Thanks to intervention by William Forbes-Sempill (see above), he was released a few days later due to "insufficient evidence". Velvalee Dickinson - German American known as "The Doll Woman" who related Naval information using her New York City doll shop as a front. John Semer Farnsworth References Further reading Tony Matthews, Shadows Dancing: Japanese Espionage Against the West, 1939-1945, St. Martin's Press, New York (1993) Politics of the Empire of Japan 1930-1945 Lists of Japanese people Japan history-related lists