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FTR #1172 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
FTR#1173 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
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.
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
- FTR#1172 begins with review 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.) . . . .”
- The second program then takes up the findings of the ISC, resuming from the where we left off in FTR #1172. Note that Dr. Wen-kwei Chen had investigated some of Unit 731’s plague attacks during the Second World War, working for the Nationalist Chinese.
- Presenting the scientific evidence examined by the ISC, the authors note that numerous anomalies in epidemics and associated insect and mammalian vectors led the scientists to conclude that BW was the source of the pathologies.
- Apparent insect vectors appeared in unseasonably cold environments, some as cold as -10 degrees centigrade.
- Apparent mammalian vectors were also anomalous, with fully developed adults appearing exclusively, when immature rodents would be expected.
- By the same token, apparent insect vectors were anomalous, with fully developed adults, many ready to lay eggs appeared.
- Many of the insect and mammalian vectors appeared at times of the year that were not consistent with natural events.
- Infectious microorganisms were also anomalous, with types of bacteria appearing at times of the year and areas not consistent with observed natural patterns.
- Species of infectious organisms were anomalous, as well, with some never having occurred in the areas that were affected.
The introduction of FTR#1173 consists of reading and analysis of Tom O’Neill’s presentation of the career of one of the CIA’s most important MK-Ultra mind control operatives, which occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Korean War–1954.
Key Points of Discussion and analysis include:
- Shaver’s unusual behavior and demeanor at the initial scene of the crime: ” . . . . He was shirtless, covered in blood and scratches. Making no attempt to escape, he let the search party walk him to the edge of the highway. Bystanders described him as ‘dazed’ and ‘trance-like’ . . . .”
- Shaver’s apparent lack of awareness of the immediate circumstances of the crime: ” ‘What’s going on here?’ he asked. He didn’t seem drunk, but he couldn’t say where he was, how he’d gotten there, or whose blood was all over him. Meanwhile, the search party found Horton’s body in the gravel pit. Her neck was broken, her legs had been torn open, and she’s been raped. . . .”
- ” . . . . Around four that morning, an Air Force marshal questioned Shaver and two doctors examined him, agreeing he wasn’t drunk. One later testified that he ‘was not normal . . . . he was very composed outside, which I did not expect him to be under these circumstances.’ . . .”
- Shaver didn’t recognize his own wife when she came to visit him. ” . . . . When his wife came to visit, he didn’t recognize her. . . .”
- Initially, he believed someone else committed the crime. ” . . . . He gave his first statement at 10:30 a.m., adamant that another man was responsible: he could summon an image of a stranger with blond hair and tattoos. . . .”
- Eventually, he signed a statement taking responsibility: ” . . . . After the Air Force marshal returned to the jailhouse, however, Shaver signed a second statement taking full responsibility. Though he still didn’t remember anything, he reasoned that he must have done it. . . .”
- Enter Jolly West: ” . . . . Two months later, in September, Shaver’s memories still hadn’t returned. The base hospital commander told Jolly West to perform an evaluation: was he legally sane at the time of the murder? Shaver spent the next two weeks under West’s supervision . . . While Shaver was under–with West injecting more truth serum to ‘deepen the trance’–Shaver recalled the events of that night. He confessed to killing Horton. . . .”
- West was a defense witness who, instead, appears to have aided the prosecution: ” . . . . At the trial, West argued that Shaver’s truth-serum confession was more valid than any other. And West was testifying for the defense . . . .”
- Shaver’s behavior at the trial is further suggestive of mind control: ” . . . . One newspaper account said he ‘sat through the strenuous sessions like a man in a trance,’ saying nothing, never rising to stretch or smoke, though he was a known chain-smoker. ‘Some believe it’s an act,’ the paper said, ‘others believe his demeanor is real. . . .”
- Shaver’s medical records at Lackland Air Force base had vanished. ” . . . . But, curiously, all the records for patients in 1954 had been maintained, with one exception: the file for last names beginning with ‘Sa’ through ‘St’ had vanished. . . .”
- West posed leading questions to Shaver, who denied having ever taken the victim’s clothes off. ” . . . . West had used leading questions to walk the entranced Shaver through the crime. ‘Tell me about when you took your clothes off, Jimmy,’ he said. And trying to prove that Shaver had repressed memories: ‘Jimmy, do you remember when something like this happened before?’ Or: ‘After you took her clothes off, what did you do?’ ‘I never did take her clothes off,’ Shaver said. . . .”
- The interview was divided into thirds, the middle third of which was not recorded! ” . . . . The interview [with Shaver] was divided into thirds. The middle third, for some reason, wasn’t recorded. When the record picked up, the manuscript said, ‘Shaver is crying. He has been confronted with all the facts repeatedly.’ . . .”
1. FTR#1172 begins with presentation of the scientific credentials of the International Scientific Commission investigating the allegations of biological warfare.
. . . . One source of information, the Report of the International Scientific Commission for the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China, which was prepared with Chinese and North Korean assistance, is generally accepted today as being of high quality . . . 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.) . . . .
2. Presenting the scientific evidence examined by the ISC, the authors note that numerous anomalies in epidemics and associated insect and mammalian vectors led the scientists to conclude that BW was the source of the pathologies.
- Apparent insect vectors appeared in unseasonably cold environments, some as cold as -10 degrees centigrade.
- Apparent mammalian vectors were also anomalous, with fully developed adults appearing exclusively, when immature rodents would be expected.
- By the same token, apparent insect vectors were anomalous, with fully developed adults, many ready to lay eggs appeared.
- Many of the insect and mammalian vectors appeared at times of the year that were not consistent with natural events.
- Infectious microorganisms were also anomalous, with types of bacteria appearing at times of the year and areas not consistent with observed natural patterns.
- Species of infectious organisms were anomalous, as well, with some never having occurred in the areas that were affected.
- The second program concludes with the presentation given by Dr. Joseph Needham of the ISC and Canadian Christian preacher Jim Endicott, who had not only worked for Chiang Kai-shek’s forces during World War II, but U.S. secret military intelligence. They reinforced the findings of the ISC.
3. The introduction of FTR#1173 consists of reading and analysis of Tom O’Neill’s presentation of the career of one of the CIA’s most important MK-Ultra mind control operatives, which occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Korean War–1954.
Louis Jolyon West was Jack Ruby’s psychiatrist, and presented the untenable hypothesis that Ruby killed Oswald because he had a brief psychomotor epileptic event in the basement of the Dallas jail. In fact, the evidence suggests strongly that West had helped to erase Ruby’s memory of having killed Oswald.
The broadcast sets forth the murder of Chere Jo Horton, a three-year-old girl whose mutilation, rape and murder were pinned on 29-year-old Jimmie Shaver.
An obvious victim of mind control, apparently implemented in considerable measure by Louis Jolyon West, Shaver was programmed to take responsibility for the killing, despite enormous contradictions in the evidence.
Key Points of Discussion and analysis include:
- Shaver’s unusual behavior and demeanor at the initial scene of the crime: ” . . . . He was shirtless, covered in blood and scratches. Making no attempt to escape, he let the search party walk him to the edge of the highway. Bystanders described him as ‘dazed’ and ‘trance-like’ . . . .”
- Shaver’s apparent lack of awareness of the immediate circumstances of the crime: ” ‘What’s going on here?’ he asked. He didn’t seem drunk, but he couldn’t say where he was, how he’d gotten there, or whose blood was all over him. Meanwhile, the search party found Horton’s body in the gravel pit. Her neck was broken, her legs had been torn open, and she’s been raped. . . .”
- ” . . . . Around four that morning, an Air Force marshal questioned Shaver and two doctors examined him, agreeing he wasn’t drunk. One later testified that he ‘was not normal . . . . he was very composed outside, which I did not expect him to be under these circumstances.’ . . .”
- Shaver didn’t recognize his own wife when she came to visit him. ” . . . . When his wife came to visit, he didn’t recognize her. . . .”
- Initially, he believed someone else committed the crime. ” . . . . He gave his first statement at 10:30 a.m., adamant that another man was responsible: he could summon an image of a stranger with blond hair and tattoos. . . .”
- Eventually, he signed a statement taking responsibility: ” . . . . After the Air Force marshal returned to the jailhouse, however, Shaver signed a second statement taking full responsibility. Though he still didn’t remember anything, he reasoned that he must have done it. . . .”
- Enter Jolly West: ” . . . . Two months later, in September, Shaver’s memories still hadn’t returned. The base hospital commander told Jolly West to perform an evaluation: was he legally sane at the time of the murder? Shaver spent the next two weeks under West’s supervision . . . While Shaver was under–with West injecting more truth serum to ‘deepen the trance’–Shaver recalled the events of that night. He confessed to killing Horton. . . .”
- West was a defense witness who, instead, appears to have aided the prosecution: ” . . . . At the trial, West argued that Shaver’s truth-serum confession was more valid than any other. And West was testifying for the defense . . . .”
- Shaver’s behavior at the trial is further suggestive of mind control: ” . . . . One newspaper account said he ‘sat through the strenuous sessions like a man in a trance,’ saying nothing, never rising to stretch or smoke, though he was a known chain-smoker. ‘Some believe it’s an act,’ the paper said, ‘others believe his demeanor is real. . . .”
- Shaver’s medical records at Lackland Air Force base had vanished. ” . . . . But, curiously, all the records for patients in 1954 had been maintained, with one exception: the file for last names beginning with ‘Sa’ through ‘St’ had vanished. . . .”
- West posed leading questions to Shaver, who denied having ever taken the victim’s clothes off. ” . . . . West had used leading questions to walk the entranced Shaver through the crime. ‘Tell me about when you took your clothes off, Jimmy,’ he said. And trying to prove that Shaver had repressed memories: ‘Jimmy, do you remember when something like this happened before?’ Or: ‘After you took her clothes off, what did you do?’ ‘I never did take her clothes off,’ Shaver said. . . .”
- The interview was divided into thirds, the middle third of which was not recorded! ” . . . . The interview [with Shaver] was divided into thirds. The middle third, for some reason, wasn’t recorded. When the record picked up, the manuscript said, ‘Shaver is crying. He has been confronted with all the facts repeatedly.’ . . .”
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill; Little, Brown and Company [HC]; Copyright 2019 by Tom O’Neill; 978–0‑316–47755‑0; pp.226–232; pp.370–374.
5. The second program then takes up the findings of the ISC, resuming from the where we left off in FTR #1172. Note that Dr. Wen-kwei Chen had investigated some of Unit 731’s plague attacks during the Second World War, working for the Nationalist Chinese.
. . . . In P’yongyang the ISC met one of their most interesting witnesses, Chinese plague specialist Dr. Wen-kwei Chen. Chen, as we have seen, was the expert sent by the Nationalist Chinese during the Second World War to investigate ethe outbreak of plague that had broken out in Changteh in November 1941 following Unit 731’s plague flea air raid. Since then, under the Communist regime, Chen ha become President of the South-West Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and was currently seconded to the Ministry of Health and then Epidemic Prevention Service of Korea to help contain the numerous alleged outbreaks of plague during the Korean War. He outlined from personal experience the history of the Japanese BW raids during the Pacific War, and added that the techniques currently being used were remarkably similar, although on a larger scale.
Chen stated that the same plague flea technique had been confirmed in Korea and that the “results attained today gave me much satisfaction, because they explain the reason why the Americans deliberately protected the Japanese bacteriological war criminals.”
Since the beginning of 1952 (and even before) the Chinese and their North Korean allies alleged that numerous isolated foci of plague had appeared, always associated with the sudden appearance of American planes. In early all the incidents which had received study, plague bacteria had been found on the fleas. However, the variety of flea discovered was not the rat flea, the most common carrier of the disease in nature, but human fleas (Pulex irritans). The Commission obtained information that for as long as the past five centuries there had been no recorded outbreak of plague in Korea, and that the nearest endemic centres were 300 miles away in Manchuria or 1.000 miles to the south in China’s Fukien Province. Moreover, February—the date of the first plague incident—was no less than three months early for the normal appearance of human plague in similar climates to North Korea.
The ISC investigated two plague incidents in Korea. At Kang-Sou towards the middle of March a farmer found numerous fleas floating on the surface of water in a jar near his well. A plane had circled over his village the previous night. The man died three days later of bubonic plague. The fleas were found upon examination to b infected with plague bacteria. Prompt sanitary measures had prevented further cases. On July 31st, the ISC visited the laboratories of the Korean epidemic Prevention Service near P’yongyang, and were told by Dr. Chen that the strains isolated from the Kang-Sou fleas and tissues from the victim were of a particularly virulent variety. No more than 10–20 micro-organisms (calculated by dilutions) had been found sufficient to kill a guinea pig with certainty in five days. Human cases, like that of the present victim, had succumbed rapidly sometimes within twenty-four hours, without buboes.
In the second case, Chinese volunteers in Korea had found masses of fleas on a bare hillside near Hoi-Yang. Six hours earlier an American plane had circled low over the region for about ten minutes without strafing or bombing. The fleas were again discovered to be human fleas, and infected with plague.
The next course of action which the ISC took was perhaps in retrospect a mistake. It was certainly greatly to reduce the “scientific” acceptability of its report in the West. On August 3rd and 4th, the Commission accepted an invitation to visit a POW camp to interview captured American airmen who allegedly had confessed that America was using BW. . . .
6. The second program concludes with the presentation given by Dr. Joseph Needham of the ISC and Canadian Christian preacher Jim Endicott, who had not only worked for Chiang Kai-shek’s forces during World War II, but U.S. secret military intelligence.
They reinforced the findings of the ISC.
. . . . In 1952 [Joseph Needham says], when the ISC was being formed, my principal motivation was to go to the aid of the Chinese bacteriologists and zoologists in their need, many of whom I had known well during the Second World War. I think that all the evidence shows that BW, on an experimental scale and using unusual vectors, was engaged in during the Korean War. Of course, it is entirely true that the members of the Commission never actually saw any incident. What we did see were specimens of the containers that had been used and of the vectors, as well as victims of the attacks. . . . I think the Americans just wanted to see what degree of success could be obtained with the essentially Japanese methods. My judgment was never based on anything which the downed airmen had said, but rather entirely on the circumstantial evidence. . . .
. . . . In February 1952, Canadian Christian preacher and peace campaigner Jim Endicott and his wife were also invited by the Chinese Committee for World Peace to investigate the Koran BW allegations. . . .Endicott was a well known figure in the country. . . . he had been relief worker during Japanese bombing attacks on Chungking during 1939–1940, a political adviser to Chiang Kai-shek’s New Life Movement and, until 1946, a member of US secret military intelligence in China in 1944–5, Endicott had become acquainted with, and gained the mutual respect of, many Chinese Communists, friendships which survived the Communists’ takeover and reconstruction. . . .
I recently received my copy of the UK version of Unit 731 and did a quick perusal of the index as I am wont to do with historical texts. I was very interested to find a reference to Jim Endicott the Canadian minister born in China who ended up moving to Canada in the 1950’s. I was a neighbour to his son, Stephen, who taught Chinese history at a local university where I took courses in the 1980’s. One of those courses was one on modern Chinese history with Stephen’s father-in-law. I got to know Stephen fairly well and ended up buying a couple of his books including 1998’s The United States and Bacteriological Warfare (University of Indiana Press). This book goes into great detail regarding the accusations made by China and North Korea and gives interesting background on Fort Detrick and the co-operation of Canadian scientists including Guilford B. Reed. It’s dense with information though quite readable and credible. It’s little wonder that Nobel prize winner Lester Pearson went after Endicott so vehemently. This book shouldn’t be too difficult to find. I read it 20 years ago and plan to read it again in the near future.
Excellent update on this subject:
https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/a‑real-flood-of-bacteria-and-germs-communications-intelligence-and-charges-of-u-s-4decafdc762
“These documents provide strong corroborating evidence that the germ warfare charged by the Communists, and by a number of outside observers, journalists and investigators, did in fact occur. The consilience of evidence includes the testimony of U.S. Air Force and Marine personnel captured by North Korea and China, though that evidence will only be examined here in the context of how it arises in the relevant CIA documents. Conversely, the evidence pertaining to other theories about the germ warfare charges, e.g., that it was a “hoax,” lack such convergent evidence.”
A new climate study was just released that concluded the Earth could become effectively an alien environment inhospitable to humans by the year 2500 if current climate change trends continue. And long before we hit that ‘alien Earth’ point, we’re going to see a dramatic change in what types of plants an animals are capable of living in a given area. What used to be temperate zones are going to warm up and either dry out (like the death of the Amazon) or get drench and take on the characteristics of new tropical zones. It’s just the latest grim reminder of the humanity’s suicidal trajectory.
But we can’t forget that the mega-threats facing humanity don’t just include climate change. We’re only getting more and more capable of unleashing a nuclear or biological warfare catastrophe. So given that we should expect an expansion of tropical zones, and just a general shift in what types of plants and pests and biologically capable of living in different areas of the earth, it’s worth taking a look at how climate change, and in particular the growth of tropical-like climate zones, could complicate biowarfare in the future. Especially the kind of biowarfare that involves releasing pests into target countries in the hopes of wreaking biological havoc. Because as the follow 2002 article about then-recently declassified Australian government archives revealed, Australia’s top post-WWII microbiologist, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, actually advocated for the use of biological warfare on Southeast Asian countries. And the reasoning he used for why it would be ‘safe’ for Australia to do so without risking blowback is the fact that Australia’s climate is temperate compared to its tropical neighbors. In other words, the bugs Australia was going to drop on its neighbors can’t survive in Australia anyway. It’s the kind of rationale that makes biological warfare seem ‘safe’ to use.
Macfarlane recommended that biological and chemical weapons should be developed to target food crops and spread infectious diseases in the secret 1947 report, citing Australia’s temperate climate as giving it a key military advantage. As Macfarlane wrote, “Specifically to the Australian situation, the most effective counter-offensive to threatened invasion by overpopulated Asiatic countries would be directed towards the destruction by biological or chemical means of tropical food crops and the dissemination of infectious disease capable of spreading in tropical but not under Australian conditions.” Macfarlane was reportedly quite alarmed about the large Southeast Asian populations, so some sort of inflicted population control appears to be part of the motive here.
Macfarlane also wrote about how biological warfare could be used as a kind of coup de grace to a virtually defeated enemy and compel surrender in the same way that the atomic bomb served in 1945, seeing it as a psychological warfare method that can induce defeat without destroy the enemy’s industrial potential which can then be taken over intact. It’s a snapshot of how biowarfare was almost treated as just another conventional war fighting tool. And Australia’s relatively different climate from its neighbors was a key part of Macfarlane’s reasoning for why this type of warfare was feasibly ‘safe’. So that points to another weird complication from climate change: the game theories of biological warfare based on relative climate differences are set to be scrambled in real-time:
“The department initially blocked release of the material on the basis it would damage Australia’s international relations. Dr Dorling sought a review and the material was finally released to him late last year.”
Ha! Yeah, revealing how you planned preemptive biological attacks on your neighbors decades ago probably won’t help with your international relations. But the files were eventually released and we got to learn about how Sir Macfarlane really did recommend that Australia wage a kind of preemptive biological warfare on its highly populated neighbors. Thanks to Australia’s temperate climate this was seen as safe from blowback:
And Macfarlane was quite explicit about the nature of his recommendations: these were to be offensive weapons. Not defensive. He was recommending a plan to be put into motion, not a contingency:
Now, returning to the issue of expanding tropical zones, it’s worth asking what the climate prognosis is for Australia. Did the government end up releasing any of those tropical pest on its neighbors? If so, are they still there? Because based on climate change prediction for Australia, while much of the continent is going to be drier and hotter than ever, the northern fringes could end up becoming tropical zones much its neighbors. It might take a while, but bio-blowback will eventually happen.
As we can see from that old declassified Australian report, relative climate differences were seen as creating military strategic opportunities. Or strategic vulnerabilities for the tropical countries. This insight was already there in 1947. And we’re now in an era where relative climate differences are being thrown into a chaotic flux, but also with more of the world entering into tropical-like climates where pests thrive. More vulnerable targets but also more potential for chaotic blowback. So let’s hope the biological war planners of the future have a keen understanding of the role climate change is going to play in the long-term impact of the super-bugs they release. Yes, we should ideally hope the biological war planners of the future don’t actually exist. But if they do exist, it would probably help if they recognize that biological blowback is just a matter of time after you broke the climate.
@Pterrafractyl–
Jesus F*ing Christ!
What a piece of work Burnet was!
The book “The Djakarta Method” by Vincent Bevins fills in what ultimately became the West’s “ecological” response to Indonesia.
https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr1177-the-jakarta-method-in-latin-america/
Adding depth to the considerations you have presented is the fact that environmental modification for military purposes has been a fact for decades.
Stay Tuned!
Dave