07-08-2012, 07:07 AM
Quote:Following Japanese surrender at the end of WW II one would have thought that these crimes against humanity would have been exposed and punished, similar to Nazi war crimes at the Nuremberg trials. But this was not the case. General Douglas MacArthur made a deal with Japan's chief BW expert, Shiro Ishii, protecting him from prosecution by literally covering up the entire BW story. Ishii and his BW team gave their expertise to the U.S. According to Barenblatt, "Not only did they escape war crimes proceedings and public scrutiny by virtue of their cooperation with the U.S. occupation authorities, they also became prominent public health officials and respected academic figures in Japanese university and government circles. A few became quite wealthy as executives of pharmaceutical companies."
The Soviet Union knew about Japan's BW program and in late 1949 called for Ishii to be apprehended and tried by the U.S. occupation forces in Japan as the ringleader of the secret Japanese program. In response, Gen. MacArthur's office in Tokyo denounced the Soviet charges of Japanese biological warfare and a U.S. cover-up as evidence of communist propaganda.
In fact on March 13, 1948 the U.S. War Department cabled instructions to Gen. MacArthur in Japan to give "immunity" to Japanese BW operatives. "Information retained from Ishii and associates may be retained in intelligence channels," the instructions concluded.
There were war crimes trials in Japan after WW II. B.V.A. Roling, the last surviving judge from the Tokyo trials, who represented the Netherlands on the international tribunal, learned of this American deception many years later. "As one of the judges in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, it is a bitter experience for me to be informed now that centrally ordered Japanese war criminality of the most disgusting kind was kept secret from the Court by the U.S. government," Roling wrote. The U.S. should be "ashamed because of the fact they withheld information from the Court with respect to the biological experiments of the Japanese in Manchuria on Chinese and American prisoners of war," he said.
In the 1950's Ishii was secretly taken to the U.S. to lecture at Fort Detrick, MD on how to best conduct germ warfare. And as the Korean War heated up, Ishii was used by the U.S. to advise on how to spread deadly disease in that war against North Korean and Chinese forces. North Korea, China and the Soviet Union all claimed in 1951-52 that the U.S. Pentagon was using germ warfare on a large scale in the Korean War.
Thank you, Ed, for re-posting this article. I selected a few paragraphs here about the Japanese Unit 731 in Manchuria. Shiro Ishii, an M.D., was made Director of the Japanese biowarfare program by Emperor Hirohito. I have read several books about this program, and it is nauseating, American, British, and Australian prisoners of war were subjected to deliberate infections and vivisection, as were Asian citizens in the conquered lands. And yes, we used Shiro Ishii and his knowledge to conduct biowarfare in North Korea. Did you know that he was buried here in the United States? I read that in a book about the Japanese surrender and the treaty with Japan by an American journalist. It did not state where in the United States he is buried, but anyone interested could research this item. I believe I may still have that book, but it is in a box stored in the garage somewhere...
My interest in this came from the fact that Jose Rivera told me he had lived in Japan after the war and enjoyed his life there very much. He had asked me if I thought he looked Japanese(?). In some of his documents I saw that he had gone to Japan in 1948, after a year at Fort Detrick, and we know he worked as a bacteriologist with Dr. Carl Lamana, active in American biowarfare work. Also, Rivera claimed familiarity with the Japanese language in government documents. He returned to the U.S. and to San Antonio, Texas, in the mid-1950s before moving to the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (NINDB) of the National Instiutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Watch this video of what is happening to people who live near Fort Detrick, cited above by Ed:
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2012/08/...today.html
Adele