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FTR #1171 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
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Introduction: In numerous programs and lectures, we have discussed the important, devastatingly successively mind control programs engaged in by the military and CIA. Those programs were developed in reaction to downed American airmen who–after captivity–gave testimony that they had been involved in biological warfare attacks against China and North Korea during the war.
A superb book about Unit 731–the Japanese biological warfare unit during World War II–had a chapter in the British edition that was omitted in the American edition.
(Sadly, the books are out of print, although both the British and American editions are available through used-book services. Mr. Emory heartily encourages listeners to obtain the book. Even the American edition–missing this key chapter–is worthwhile. Hopefully, a publisher will obtain the rights to the book and re-issue it. If so, we will enthusiastically promote the work.)
The chapter in the UK edition chronicles the investigation into the allegations of American BW use during the Korean War, including circumstantial evidence that Unit 731 veterans and methodology may well have been used in the alleged campaign.
That chapter is altogether objective, avoiding ideological bias toward either side in the conflict.
Because of that, we found the omission of this chapter from the U.S. edition to be significant. As the brilliant Peter Dale Scott noted: “The cover-up obviates the conspiracy.”
It is a matter of public record that Unit 731’s files were incorporated into the U.S. biological warfare program, and veterans of the Unit bequeathed their expertise to the Americans in exchange from immunity from prosecution for war crimes.
Key Points of Discussion and Analysis
- The program begins with discussion of a Telepress dispatch from Burma alleging that key veterans of Unit 731–including former commanding officer general Shiro Ishii–were dispatched to Korea with ship-borne equipment to wage biological warfare.
- Next, the program details the considerable interest on the part of the U.S. command structure in biological warfare–an interest that grew considerably as the war progressed.
- A British veteran of the Korean War discussed suspicious activity by an American military unit as Chinese troops were advancing on UN forces, following that country’s entry into the war. The soldier recounted: How the U.S. personnel were placing feathers in buildings, while wearing face masks; how he had a suspicious booster shot shortly after encountering the American troops; seeing hundreds of dead Chinese troops in a village, who did not appear to have been shot or wounded in any way.
- The authors note that Unit 731 often used BW to attack supply routes and that the introduction of Soviet-built MIGs into the war–forcing U.S. B‑29s to operate at night–may have been a motivation for the alleged BW attacks.
- The program concludes with presentation of the scientific credentials of the International Scientific Commission investigating the allegations of biological warfare. ” . . . . Dr. Andrea Andreen, director of the Central Laboratory of the Hospitals Board of the City of Stockholm; Jean Malterre, Ingenieur-Agricole, director of the Central Laboratory of Animal Physiology, National College of Agriculture, Grignon, France; Dr. Oliviero Olivo, professor of Human Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bologna, Italy; Dr. Samuel Pessoa, professor of Parasitology at the University of Sao Paolo and formerly director of public Health for the State of Sao Paolo; Dr. Nicolai Zhukov-Verezhnikov, professor of Bacteriology at, and Vice-President of, the Soviet Academy of Medicine and formerly chief medical expert at the Khabarovsk trial, and finally, Dr. Joseph Needham, FRS, Sir William Dunn Reader in Biochemistry, Cambridge University, formerly scientific counsellor, Her Britannic Majesty’s Embassy, Chungking and later director of the Department of Natural Sciences, UNESCO, (He became in 1966, the Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and is currently writing a history of science and civilization in China.) . . . .”
1. The program begins with discussion of a Telepress dispatch from Burma alleging that key veterans of Unit 731–including former commanding officer general Shiro Ishii–were dispatched to Korea with ship-borne equipment to wage biological warfare.
2. Next, the program details the considerable interest on the part of the U.S. command structure in biological warfare–an interest that grew considerably as the war progressed.
3. A British veteran of the Korean War discussed suspicious activity by an American military unit as Chinese troops were advancing on UN forces, following that country’s entry into the war. The soldier recounted: How the U.S. personnel were placing feathers in buildings, while wearing face masks; how he had a suspicious booster shot shortly after encountering the American troops; seeing hundreds of dead Chinese troops in a village, who did not appear to have been shot or wounded in any way.
The authors note that Unit 731 often used BW to attack supply routes and that the introduction of Soviet-built MIGs into the war–forcing U.S. B‑29s to operate at night–may have been a motivation for the alleged BW attacks.
4. The program concludes with presentation of the scientific credentials of the International Scientific Commission investigating the allegations of biological warfare. ” . . . . Dr. Andrea Andreen, director of the Central Laboratory of the Hospitals Board of the City of Stockholm; Jean Malterre, Ingenieur-Agricole, director of the Central Laboratory of Animal Physiology, National College of Agriculture, Grignon, France; Dr. Oliviero Olivo, professor of Human Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bologna, Italy; Dr. Samuel Pessoa, professor of Parasitology at the University of Sao Paolo and formerly director of public Health for the State of Sao Paolo; Dr. Nicolai Zhukov-Verezhnikov, professor of Bacteriology at, and Vice-President of, the Soviet Academy of Medicine and formerly chief medical expert at the Khabarovsk trial, and finally, Dr. Joseph Needham, FRS, Sir William Dunn Reader in Biochemistry, Cambridge University, formerly scientific counsellor, Her Britannic Majesty’s Embassy, Chungking and later director of the Department of Natural Sciences, UNESCO, (He became in 1966, the Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and is currently writing a history of science and civilization in China.) . . . .”
An interesting supplement to this series–noting the suspicious gunshot death of Arvo Thompson, who debriefed General Shiro Ishii of Unit 731, who was implicated in the attacks on China and North Korea:
https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/secret-plan-revealed-cia-told-to-destroy-those-supporting-communist-germ-warfare-myth-f466dfb071be
“Secret Plan Revealed: CIA Told to “Destroy” Those Supporting Communist Germ Warfare ‘Myth’ ” by Jeffrey Kaye; Medium; 12/05/2022.
. . . . Suspicious Deaths
Only weeks after the October 1953 “basic plan” was operationalized, the U.S. introduced a major publicity campaign through the United Nations to discredit the Communist charges, shepherded through by OCB stalwart, Army counterintelligence officer, Col. Philip Corso. More ominously, one of the biological warfare program’s ostensible critics within Ft. Detrick itself, Frank Olson, was surreptitiously dosed with drugs and thrown out a window to his death in November 1953.
Whether it was connected or a tragic coincidence, a week before Olson died, nine-year-old Susan Rothschild, daughter of Ft. Detrick’s Colonel Jacquard H. Rothschild, was found strangled in a ditch near her house at Sagamihara, a housing development for U.S. military personnel at nearby Camp Zama.
Col. Rothschild at that time was assigned as Chief Chemical Officer to U.S. Far East Command in Tokyo. If there was a germ warfare program in Korea, as most existing facts argue, then Rothschild had to have been a leader in that effort.
The tensions around the top secret U.S. biological warfare program, and its operationalization during the Korean War, were high. Already, whether by suicide or murder, two other top U.S. biological warfare officials (besides Olson) were found shot to death in the previous few years.
One of the dead was Colonel Arvo T. Thompson, shot to death in his hotel room in Tokyo, 18 May 1951. Thompson had been one of the Army Chemical Corps’ primary debriefers of Lt. General Shiro Ishii, head of Japan’s notorious biological warfare Unit 731. Thompson’s report was passed on to Frank Olson in Camp Detrick’s Special Operations Division. (Camp Detrick was renamed Fort Detrick in 1956.)
These and other suspicious deaths surrounding the biological warfare program at Ft. Detrick, including the possible attempted murder of a high-ranking POW germ warfare confessor, will be explored in a separate article.
Recent reporting, as well as historical reports from the Watergate period, have shown that covert U.S. and allied governments have repeatedly turned to secret means to discredit or sideline critics of U.S. government policy and whistleblowers of U.S. war crimes. This article demonstrates that this policy was well underway by the end of the Korean War.
The Olson and Rothschild deaths occurred weeks after the implementation of a secret plan approved by President Eisenhower’s high-level Operations Coordinating Board, by which “ counter-propaganda and personalized seduction and coercion” was to be “initiated as a matter of urgency against persons and groups where the Soviet campaign has been especially effective” (bold added for emphasis).
Also noteworthy were the steps taken against English-language journalists who reported on the germ war: John W. Powell (U.S.), Wilfred Burchett (Australia) & Alan Winnington (UK). Powell was arrested and tried for sedition for his reporting. Burchett and Winnington were subjected to obloquy and had their passports taken from them. . . .
Food For Thought,
Dave Emory