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Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction:
A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo

Senate Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
October 31, 1995 Staff Statement

APPENDIX A

AUM SHINRIKYO MEMBERS

AOYAMA, YOSHINOBU Aum Shinrikyo lawyer

ASAHARA, SHOKO Aum Shinrikyo leader

Asano, Shinya Aum member, former Japanese Self Defense Force member

Chow, Tom Head of the Aum affiliate in Taiwan

ENDO, SEIICHI Head of the Aum Health and Welfare Ministry and top biologist

Fujinaga, Kozo Aum Science and Technology Subordinate

Furukawa, Masao Subordinate to Hayakawa - organized shooting tour to a Russian military base

Hara, Yoshiro Aum member connected by the Japanese police to preparations for the Tokyo attack

Hasegawa, Shigeyuki Runs two Aum affiliated chemical companies

Hashimoto, Saturo Aum Home Affairs Ministry subordinate - sprayed Sarin related to the Tokyo attack

Hatakeyama, Hironobu Aum member connected by the Japanese police to preparations for the Tokyo attack

HAYAKAWA, KIYOHIDE Construction Ministry Head

HAYASHI, IKUO Head of Aum's medical division, the Treatment Ministry

Hayashi, Yasuo Aum member in the Science and Technology Ministry - connected by the Japanese police to the Tokyo attack 1995

Hiramatsu, Yasuo Upper management member of Aum who acted as purchasing agent for United States purchases

Hiraoka, Yumiko Aum Nun and sect leader of Aum's New York office

Hirata, Masayuhi Aum doctor

Hirose, Kenichii Indicted for participating in the Tokyo gas attack

Horii, Takahisa Aum doctor

Ikeda, Itsuro Aum member connected by the Japanese police to preparations for the Tokyo attack

INOUE, YOSHIHIRO Head of Aum's Intelligence Agency and Action Squads

Jo, Hiroyuhi The man who stabbed Murai

JOYU, FUMIHIRO Former Aum leader iMoscow - since March 1995, he has been the lead spokesman for Aum in Japan

Kadokawa, Tomoki Science and Technology Ministry subordinate Katahira, Kenichiro Aum doctor

KIBE, TETSUYA Aum's Defense Agency Chief

Kikuchi, Naoko Aum Health and Welfare Ministry member related by the Japanese police to the Tokyo attack

Kitamura, Koichi Aum Home Affairs subordinate related by the Japanese police to the Tokyo attack

Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Science and Technology Ministry subordinate, chemical team member, and secretary to a senior Aum member

Maruyama, Michimaro Aum member connected to the Tokyo attack

MATSUMOTO, CHIZUO Lay alias for Asahara

Matsumoto, Takeshi Aum member suspected in the abduction of a Japanese notary official

MATSUMOTO, TOMOKO Asahara's wife

Mitsuka, Yoshihiroum member connected by the Japanese police to preparations for the Tokyo attack

Moriwaki, Yoshiko Aum member connected by the Japanese police to preparations for the Tokyo attack

MURAI, HIDEO Head of the Aum's Science and Technology Ministry

NAKADA, KIYOHIDE An Aum senior sect member in the Home Affairs Ministry and Construction Ministry

NAKAGAWA, TOMOMASA The Aum's Household Agency Director

Nakamoto, Hideo Mitsubishi employee arrested for suspicion of helping an Aum and former Self Defense Force member steal company secrets

Nakamura, Noburu Aum Home Affairs Ministry subordinate - sprayed Sarin related to the Tokyo attack

Nakano, Katsuhiko Aum member arrested in connection with gun manufacturing

NIIMI, TOMOMITSU Head of the Aum Home Affairs Ministry

Ochida, Kotaro An Aum pharmacist - strangled by Yasuda

Oikawa, Takayuki Aum member - arrested in connection with gun manufacturing

Oka, Hideki Aum member connected by the Japanese police to preparations for the Tokyo attack

Okada, Hiroyuki Aum member connected by the Japanese police to preparations for the Tokyo attack

Ouchi, Toshiyasu Defacto head of the Aum sect in Moscow since March 1995

Sasaki, Kayoko Aum member connected by the Japanese police to preparations for the Tokyo attack

Satoru, Hirata Aum Intelligence Agency member connected to the kidnapping of a Japanese notary official

Shirai, Takahisa Aum member and former Japanese Self Defense Force member

Sotozaki, Kiyotaka Aum member connected by the Japanese police to the Tokyo attack

Sugimoto, Shigeo Aum Home Affairs Ministry member indicted for the Tokyo gas attack - alleged to have strangled another Aum member

Takahashir, Katsuya Aum Intelligence Agency subordinate Takizawa, Kazuyoshi Aum scientist

Tashita, Seiji Aum member connected by the Japanese police to the Tokyo attack

Terajima, Keiji Aum Home Affairs Ministry subordinate - helped make Sarin

Togashi, Wakashio Aum Science and Technology subordinate

Tomita, Takashi Aum Home Affairs Ministry subordinate

Tonosaki, Kiyotaka Aum member indicted for Tokyo gas attack

Toyoda,Toru Aum member indicted for Tokyo gas attack

TSUCHIYA, MASAMI Head of the Aums Chemical Division of the Science and Technology Ministry and the top chemist

Uchiyama, Rie Aum member - kidnapped her father

Watabe, Kazumi Aum Science and Technology Ministry subordinate and engineer

Yamagata, Akira Aum Home Affairs Ministry subordinate and former Japanese Self Defense Force member - alleged to have used VX gas to kill renegade Aum members

Yasuda, Hideaki Aum member who strangled Ochida

Yokoyama, Masat Aum member indicted for Tokyo gas attack

  • This document was compiled and prepared by Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' Staff using police records, news articles, and other open sources.

    ALL UPPER CASE INDICATES KEY AUM MEMBERS.

    APPENDIX B, "THE COST OF DEVOTION,"

    APPENDIX C

    AUM SHINRIKYO FACILITIES

    Okamura Tekko cult took over Hydraulic cylinder factory, 60-70 cult members work there

    Ishikawa Prefecture

    Tomizawa Yamanashi Prefecture Aum Facility to produce firearms

    Matsumoto Aum two story facility

    Tokyo Aum HQ in Tokyo

    Minami Aoyama

    Tokyo Aum Co. HQ 287 Setagaya

    Setakayu-ku

    NYC Aum Supreme Truth 8 East 48th St, NYC

    Shizuoka Prefect Aum facility 995

    Yamanashi Prefect Aum facility

    Kamikuishiki Prefecture Aum Training Center at the foot of Mt. Yamanshi Fuji

    Bonn Aum sect activities

    Tokyo Nakano Ward Aum affiliated hospital

    New York City Small Aum chapter

    Columbia College

    Okinawa Prefecture Aum facility

    Namino, Kumanoto Aum HQ before Kamikuishiki, evacuated

    Tomizawa,Yamanashi Aum facility. Police seized steel pipes resembling gun barrels.

    Vladivostok, Russia Aum attempt to lease Mil-26 transport helicopter

    Ukraine Alleged to have approached arms dealer to purchase two T-72s main battle tanks

    Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Aum commune

    Prefecture

    Zaire Aum studied alleged ebola outbreak

    Naganohara, Gunma Aum facility

    Prefecture

    Osaka, Cuo Ward Aum facility

    Fujinomiya, Shizouka Aum facility

    Prefecture

    Omiya, Saitama Aum Apartment

    Prefecture

    AUM SHINRIKYO COMPANIES

    UNITED STATES

    A.U.M. Publishers

    8 East 48th Street, #2E

    NY, NY 10017

    212/421-3687

    A.U.M. Company LTD

    8 East 48th Street, #2E

    NY, NY 10017

    212/421-3687

    Asahara

    AUM USA CO., LTD 53 Crosby Street

    NY, NY

    AUM Publishing

    8 East 48th Street, #2E

    NY, NY 10017

    212/421-3687

    Aum Inc

    8 East 48th Street, #2E

    NY, NY 10017

    212/421-3687

    Aum Supreme Truth 8 East 48th Street, #2E

    NY, NY 10017

    212/421-3687

    m

    8 East 48th Street, #2E

    NY, NY 10017

    212/421-3687

    Yoga Center

    8 East 48th Street, #2E

    NY, NY 10017

    212/421-3687

    JAPAN

    Aum Hospital

    Nakano Ward

    Tokyo

    Aum's Computer Support Center,

    Sapporo City

    Egi Building

    3-chome, Minami Nijo

    Chuo-Ku, Sapporo City

    Aum's Computer Support Center,

    Osaka Nihonbashi Shop

    Sanki Medical building

    5-9-2 Nihonbashi

    Naniwa-ku, Osaka

    Aum's Computer Support Center,

    Nagoya Shop

    3-31-12 Osu

    Naka Ward

    Nagoya City

    Aum's Computer Support Center,

    Akihabara Shop

    Hasegawa Chemical Company

    Hikari Seimitsu Kogo

    Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture

    Imagawa Juban Yaki, Kameido

    5-29-21 Kameido

    Koto-ku, Tokyo

    Mahapsya Inc of Japan

    7-5-12 Minami Ayoama

    Minato-ku, Tokyo

    Oumo Shinrikyo

    Seiki Toitsu Tsusho Sangyo

    aka: World Unified Trade and

    Industry World Unification

    Industry

    Shimomura Chemical Company

    Shinrito

    3-8-11 Miyamae

    Suginami-ku, Tokyo

    Kokiso Building

    4-4-3 Sotokanda

    Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    Aum's Computer Support [error] enter,

    Minami Aoyama Center

    Mahaspohsa Building

    7-5-22, Minami Aoyama

    Minato-ku, Tokyo

    Bell Epoch

    Beck

    Cafeteria Unmei No Toki

    Nishi Eifuku

    5-54-5 Eifuku

    Suginami-ku, Tokyo

    Umakarou Yausukarou Tei, Ekoda

    1-52-1 Kotake-cho Merima-ku, Tokyo

    Umakarou Yasukarou Tei,

    Kichijoji

    4-25-7 Honcho, Kichijoji Musashino City, Tokyo

    Umakarou Yasukarou Tei,

    Kinshicho Waise Building 1-11-4 Taihei

    Sumida-ku, Tokyo

    Umakarou Yasukarou Tei, Marutacho, Kyoto

    10-5 Jurakumawari Higashi-cho

    Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City

    AUSTRALIA

    Clarity Investments PTY, LTD

    c/o Murchia and Associates

    Barristers and Solicitors

    250 St. Georges Terra Perth, Australia

    Mahaposya Australia PTY

    c/o Murchia and Associates

    Barristers and Solicitors

    250 St. Georges Terrace Perth, Australia

    TAIWAN

    Dai Hanei (Great Prosperity)

    Maha Posya, Inc

    Taipei


    APPENDIX D

    CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR EVENTS:

    THE AUM SHINRIKYO "DOOMSDAY CULT"

    1984 Asahara forms the Aum Shinsen-no kai Company, a book publisher and yoga training center.

    1987 The name of the organization is changed to Aum Shinrikyo.

    1987 Aum USA Company Limited is incorporated in New York City.

    August 1989 Aum Shinrikyo is recognized as a religious corporation by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

    February 1990 25 Aum members, including Asahara, run for the Lower House but none are elected.

    1991 Aum Shinrikyo begins religious activities in Moscow.

    October 1992 Aum "medical mission" sent to Zaire to obtain a sample of the deadly Ebola virus.

    June 1992 The Russian Ministry of Justice registers Aum Shinrikyo as an official religious organization.

    June 1993 The sect purchased a 500,000 acre sheep ranch in Western Australia.

    June 1993 Noxious fumes from a budding believed to be affiliated with the sect cause I 00 people to mplain in the Koto Ward of Tokyo.

    September, 1993 Asahara and up to 26 other sect members visit the ranch in Australia.

    April 1994 Aum members visit Australia to investigate the possibility of extracting uranium.

    June 1994 The sect purchased an Ml- 17 helicopter from Russia.

    June 27, 1994 7 die and over 500 are injured when the sect releases sarin gas in Matsumoto.

    July 1994 The sheep ranch in Australia is sold at a loss.

    July 1994 Residents repeatedly complain of peculiar odors from the sects Kamikuishiki complex.

    Sept. 1, 1994 231 people in seven towns in western Japan (Nara prefecture) suffer rash and eye irritations from unknown fumes.

    Dec. 12, 1994 Aum Home Affairs Ministry head Tomomitsu Niimi attacks a man with VX nerve gas. The man dies ten days later.

    January 1995 Niimi attacks Hiruki Nagaoka, the leader of the Association of the Victims of Aum Shinrikyo, with VX gas but he survives.

    March 5, 1995 11 people hospitalized from strange fumes in the Keihin Kyuko train line in Yokohama.

    March 15, 1995 Three attache cases containing liquid, fans, vents, and batteries are discovered in the Kasun-dgaseki subway station in Tokyo.

    March 20, 1995 12 die and 5,500 are injured from sarin gas releas in five trains of the Tokyo subway system.

    March 30, 1995 The director of the National Police Agency is shot.

    April 1995 A Russian court bans all Aum Shinrikyo activities.

    April 4, 1995 Odors are noticed from a suspected Aum hideout in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

    April 8, 1995 Ikuo Hayashi, the head of the Treatment Ministry is arrested.

    April 11, 1995 20 people complain of sore throats and a foul odor on the Keihin Kyuko line in Yokohama.

    April 12, 1995 Tomomitsu Niimi, head of the Home Affairs Ministry is arrested.

    April 19, 1995 500 people are hospitalized due to mysterious fumes in the Yokohama railway system.

    April 19, 1995 Kiyohide Hayakawa, the Aum Construction Minister, is arrested.

    April 21, 1995 27 people are overcome by fumes in a store near the Yokohama rail station.

    April 23, 1995 Hideo Murai, theum Shinrikyo Science and Technology Minister, is stabbed to death in front of Aum headquarters.

    April 26, 1995 Seiichi Endo, the head of the Health and Welfare Ministry and Masami Tsuchiya, the head of the Chemical Division of the Science and Technology Ministry, are arrested.

    May 3, 1995 Yoshinobu Aoyama, the sect's lawyer is arrested.

    May 5, 1995 Two bags of poison gas are found in the men's restroom in the Shinjuku bway station in Tokyo.

    May 3, 1995 Traces of Sarin are found in samples, taken in March, from 24 dead sheep on the ranch previously used by the sect in Western Australia.

    May 15, 1995 Yoshihiro Inoue, the Aum

    Intelligence Agency head is arrested. Shoko Asahara, Aum leader, is arrested.

    May 16, 1995 A parcel bomb explodes in the

    offices of Tokyo's Governor, wounding an aide.

    June 26, 1995 Asahara's wife, Tomoko Matsumoto, is arrested.

    July 4, 1995 Poison gas is found in the women's

    restroom on the Hibiya line, Kayaba-Cho subway station and in the men's restroom of the Japanese Railway Shinjuku station in Tokyo.

    October 6, 1995 Tokyo District Court holds hearings on the disbandment of Aum Shinrikyo.

    October 7, 1995 Fumihiro Joyu, the sect's spokesman is arrested.

    October 26, 1995 Asahara's trial continued to a date uncertain.



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