A Fort Detrick two-fer on weapons of mass destruction

[Magda Hassan]

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.


Adele

Adele, that's quite something that the head of Unit 731 is buried in the USA.... Also, the more you write about Rivera the creepier he becomes - and he was at full creep from the start! Most of the people who were in some way affiliated or connected [directly or indirectly] to the JFK assassination and other interconnected black ops were WWII veterans involved in the darker parts of that War and its aftermath. It is my contention that the US Military never 'stood down' from WWII [except as a PR exercise]. They also absorbed the worst of their enemy's weapons and scientists [and perhaps 'ethics' (sic)], and they became an integral part of our arsenal and are to this day [now more advanced]. Very sad history that few really understand.

Agreed on all counts Peter. :darthvader: And fascinating and educational as always Adele. You have led a 'interesting' life in the minefields there Adele...well, actually one very nasty encounter but you lived to tell the story. And we are all the wiser for it.