Thanks Fred. Again consistent with a series of calculated and multi-level story telling
Rinjiro Shirata:

I find the statement that Ueshiba was completely separate from Omoto and he devoted his life to budo to be indredulous. Simply an amazing revision and distancing from verifed factual evidence to the contrary.

The leaking out of inconsistencies: This was when the local police chief hid Ueshiba from arrest. Again Shirata:

Same interviewee, taking about the same person, two conflicting statements. Actually there are many more that people write off as complexities of a relationship. In my best SNL... Yea, that's it, complexity! It's all very complex.
Reminds me of the interviews with the execs from Goldman Sacs and AIG and Paulson and Geithners origins as company men...later telling stories that were in direct opposition to their prior statements and closing the interviews when it was read back to them. With one of them telling the reporter "These things are too complex for normal people to understand them."
Different Administrations, different players...the same money men; company men, and story lines that are-in the end- amazing machines in motion.