Thread:Harostar/@comment-12511635-20170114040413/@comment-10733658-20170114041322

Well, obviously we know that the highest ranks knew the truth about the Owls all along. They knew Yoshimura had retired to the 20th Ward and was running Anteiku, but left him alone as long as he stayed out of their business.

And it seems they knew all along there were two Owls, since they had two different frontlines for the extermination operation. They were hoping to get both Owls, but failed in the end because they didn't know Arima was in league with Eto.

The experiments that Kanou was doing for the CCG obviously leaked out, to some degree. We don't know how much was known by the higher-ranked people outside of V, or what rumors there were back in the day. But enough suspicion was there for Iba to tell his subordinates about these rumors.