Chinen
Chinin, Northern Ryukyuan: ちゑねん Chiwenen was a village located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The total area was 9.87 km 2. On January 1, 2006, Chinen, along with the town of Sashiki, and the villages of Ōzato and Tamagusuku (all from Shimajiri District), was merged to create the city of Nanjō.
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According to the Chūzan Seikan (1650), the creation goddess, Amamikyu, built Chinen Castle soon after forming the Ryukyu Islands. Chinen was important for later lords and kings because of its many holy sites, most notably Sefa-utaki. The village of Chinen (pronounced shi-nen) was appropriated by the United States in 1948 for the purpose of building a secret Central Intelligence Agency operated logistics base, under US Army cover, known as Camp Chinen. Camp Chinen was closed after it was exposed in The Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers revealed a 1961 memo from General Edward Lansdale to General Maxwell Taylor which states that a CIA support base in Okinawa at Camp Chinen housed a covert prison, in addition to a paramilitary training, research and logistics facility. The memorandum read: Upon its closure as a CIA station in July 1972, Camp Chinen served as a US Army Special Forces training center, and as a language school for U.S. soldiers studying Japanese and Korean, and for Japanese forces studying English. Camp Chinen closed in 1975.
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- 1.Vinh Truong. Vietnam War: The New Legion. Trafford Publishing. 209–. 17 March 2010. 978-1-4269-2666-2.
- 2.Thomas K. Adams. US Special Operations Forces in Action: The Challenge of Unconventional Warfare. Routledge. 68–. September 10, 2012. 978-1-136-74445-7.
- 3.Marvin E Gettleman. Vietnam and America: A Documented History. Grove Press. 96–. 1995. 978-0-8021-3362-5.
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