Richard Sakakida, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Sakakida

American spy

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1920

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1996

Profession: military officer, spy

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Richard Motoso Sakakida (November 19, 1920 – January 23, 1996) was a United States Army intelligence agent stationed in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II.
He was captured and tortured for months after the fall of the country to Imperial Japan, but managed to convince the Japanese that he was a civilian and was released.
Employed by the Japanese Fourteenth Army (though still under suspicion), he gathered and passed along valuable information to the Philippine resistance.
He also planned and participated in the mass escape of about 500 Filipino prisoners.