Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 83
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Jones: By kempei, do you mean their police?
Pryor: Yes, the military police--the Kempei Tai. It was
kind of like the Gestapo. They operate more like the
Gestapo than they do as American MPs.
Jones: I understand they inflict a lot more torture in
their interrogations.
Pryor: And so they had numbers of those people. Some of
them would be dressed as natives, and they'd be
stupid enough to approach a prisoner and want to
speak to him in Thai or Malay or broken English or
something, you know, like a native would use and
then ask him a question and then put the
interrogatory suffix on it, nani. They'd come out
with nani or ka or something on that order, you
know. It was a dead giveaway. They were just a
little bit silly with their attempts to fool us.
Jones: What would be their chief idea of interrogating you?
To find out if you knew something they didn't?
Pryor: Yes. It was probably to try to trap you into some
kind of revelation of something they didn't know--to
divulge something that they were only suspicious
about, such as this contact with the natives. Many
of these natives were working with the OSS. We know
that now because we found out after the war was83
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/85/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.