Editing Iva Toguri D'Aquino (section)

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[[Image:Correspondents interview "Tokyo Rose." Iva Toguri, American-born Japanese. - NARA - 520994.tif|thumb|Toguri being interviewed by the press in September 1945]]

After [[Victory over Japan Day|Japan's surrender]] (August 15, 1945), reporters Harry T. Brundidge of ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' Magazine and Clark Lee of Hearst's [[International News Service]] (INS) offered $2,000 (the equivalent of a year's wages in [[Occupied Japan]]) for an exclusive interview with "Tokyo Rose".<ref>Clark Lee, ''One last look around'', Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947, p. 84 ff.</ref>

Toguri was in need of money and was still trying to get home, so she accepted the offer, but instead found herself arrested on September 5, 1945, in [[Yokohama]].<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|32}} Brundidge reneged on the interview payment and tried to sell his transcript of the interview as Toguri's "confession".<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|27}} She was released after a year in prison when neither the [[FBI]] nor General [[Douglas MacArthur]]'s staff found any evidence that she had aided the Japanese [[Axis powers of World War II|Axis]] forces.<ref name="corky" /> The American and Australian prisoners of war who wrote her scripts told her and the Allied headquarters that she had committed no wrongdoing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6154827 |title=Iva Toguri D'Aquino Dies at 90 |publisher=NPR |date=September 27, 2006 |access-date=November 2, 2015}}</ref>

The case history at the FBI's [[website]] states, "The FBI's investigation of [D'Aquino's] activities had covered a period of some five years. During the course of that investigation, the FBI had interviewed hundreds of former members of the [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. Armed Forces]] who had served [[Pacific War|in the South Pacific]] during [[World War II]], unearthed forgotten Japanese documents, and turned up recordings of [D'Aquino's] broadcasts."<ref name="fbi">{{cite web |title=FBI Famous Cases & Criminals: Iva Toguri d'Aquino and 'Tokyo Rose' |url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/tokyo-rose |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222080707/https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/tokyo-rose |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |access-date=December 21, 2015}}</ref> Investigating with the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]]'s [[Counterintelligence Corps (United States Army)|Counterintelligence Corps]], they "conducted an extensive investigation to determine whether [D'Aquino] had committed crimes against the U.S. By the following October, authorities decided that the evidence then known did not merit prosecution, and she was released".<ref name=gunn>{{cite book|title=They Called Her Tokyo Rose|author=Rex B. Gunn|year=1977|publisher=Self-published|isbn=978-0979698705|pages= 35–36}}</ref>

She requested to return to the United States in order to have her child born on American soil,<ref name="A&E"/><ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|110}} but influential [[gossip columnist]] and radio host [[Walter Winchell]] lobbied against her.<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|112–114}} Her baby was born in Japan but died shortly after.<ref name="A&E"/><ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|119}} Following her child's death, D'Aquino was rearrested by the U.S. military authorities and transported to [[San Francisco]] on September 25, 1948.<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|129, 133–134}}