he was a former police bureaucrat , the first head of the cabinet security affairs office and a writer . 元警察官僚・初代内閣安全保障室長・作家
his branch descendant (his older sister ) includes munekiyo sassa who worked for mitsukuni tokugawa (a person who is said to be the model of sukesaburo sasaki , suke-san in ' mito komon ' ), and atsuyuki sassa (former head of the cabinet security affairs office ). 傍流（実姉）の子孫として、徳川光圀に仕えた佐々宗淳（「水戸黄門」の助さんこと佐々木助三郎のモデルとされる人物）、元内閣安全保障室室長の佐々淳行などがいる。
