“Where can you provide a link to this claim of collusion between “Japanese agents’’ and ‘’prominent members of Australia’s government’’?”
The information came from several sources one and more decades ago. They appeared to be very solid and included images of some documents, so they could not be dismissed as mere rumors. I did not keep notes at the time, and I no longer recall. Every time this topic comes up I make a stab at locating one of my old sources or a new source online, but with no success so far. Readers may be able to help me relocate one of the sources.
The information about the treated rice came from the story about a U.S. Army intelligence officer responsible for the end of war OSS parachute team responsible for securing the safe transfer of the POWs from Japanese to Allied custody. This is the same U.S. Army officer who was allegedly given the assignment of taking an Army patrol to intercept a Japanese Army reconnaissance patrol operating out of Magdalena Bay in Baja California into Arizona in about 1916. According to the story he successfully intercepted the Japanese reconnaissance patrol in the desert, but the Japanese chose to fight to the death and were buried where they fell in the Arizona desert. If anyone should happen to remember which book had that story, I should be able to find that book somewhere in my personal library. It’s been a real annoyance for some years now that I can’t remember which book has that information.