Bonner Fellers

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Bonner Frank Fellers (1896 - 1973), during World War II, was a Colonel who served as the USA military attaché to Cairo, Egypt. He was later promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to the Pacific where he served as the Chief of Psychological Operations under General Douglas MacArthur. He played a major role in during the occupation of Japan by meeting the major criminal suspects of the Tokyo tribunal and, according to historian Herbert Bix, allowing them to coordinate their stories to exonerate Emperor Showa (H. Bix, Hirohito and the making of modern Japan, 2000, p.583.) In October 1946, Fellers was demobilized by George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower and demoted to colonel for his actions. He then began to work for the Republican National Committe in Washington. (P and S Seagrave, The Yamato dynasty, 1999, p.216)