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Shigeto Nakana, Japanese army chief of staff, accepts responsibility for the breach of security that resulted in the arrest 10 days earlier of three army officers on charges of spying for the U.S.S.R. and resigned his post A short time later, Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira replaced the director general of Japan's Defense Agency and noted that the agency would no longer be given access to intelligence reports compiled by Japan's overseas military attaches.