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April 6,1982
Japs said to use GIs
in WW II germ tests
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A shuttle bus, which stalled at the corner of
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Construction union leader
United Press International
NEW YORK — U.S. officials
reportedly knew Japanese germ
warfare researchers ex
perimented on American pris
oners during World War II, but
never tried them for war crimes
because they feared the Soviets
would copy their “bacteria
bomb” if the information was
made public in a trial.
The Japanese experiments
began in Manchuria during the
invasion of China in the 1930s
and continued during World
War II, using captured Amer
icans as guinea pigs, infecting
them with pathogens and syste
matically killing them to study
the effects, Morley Safer re
ported Sunday in a CBS “60 Mi
nutes” interview with John
Powell, a former editor of China
Weekly Review.
Safer said U.S. officials
learned of the Japanese experi
ments after the war and found
plans for producing bacteria
bombs.
Safer said the officer in
charge of the project was Gen.
Shiro Ishii, whose top secret
731-Corps operated under the
mtm of
water purification
guise
unit.
“Sometimes they were unbe
lievably scientific,” Powell said.
“On day 3 they would select one
man out and kill him and auto
psy him to the extent to which
the disease had affected his va
rious internal organs. Then a
few days later they would kill
another man.
“In one experiment with
hemorrhagic fever, they killed
everybody,” he said.
A documentary supplied to
“60 Minutes" by the Japanese
Broadcasting System revealed
that the 731-Corps was one of
the biggest germ factories in the
world, experimenting with pla
gue, cholera and typhoid germs.
Safer said at the end of the
war the prisoners were killed
and their bodies incinerated.
The death factories then were
blown up.
Neither Ishii nor any mem
bers of his corps of hum
perimenters were brouji
trial as war criminals.
Ishii was taken to the Am
chemical warfare center
Detrick, Md., and interroj
Afterward, he was grantt
freedom.
Powell was born in Chit
was called back to the l|
States to testify before tl
ate after he published J
that the United States
germ warfare in Korea.I
his wife, Sylvia, later ueij
dieted for sedition and ti
but the charges were dropi
1961.
The U.S. Armydeclilti
mem on the Japanese!
ments and officials at thtf
Department and the
ment of Defense deniedIj
ledge of germ warfares
part of Japan.
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WASHINGTON —The lead
er of AFL-CIO construction un
ions Monday blasted President
Reagan’s economic plan just be
fore Reagan himself appeared
before the group.
Prior to Reagan’s speech,
AFL-CIO President Lane Kirk
land told the delegates Amer
ican workers are facing the
bleakest outlook since.the Great
Depression and pointed to the
low rate of housing construction
in particular.
The union group is the same
one Reagan addressed last year
before being shot. Fifty-three
weeks after the March 30 assassi
nation attempt, Reagan re
turned to the Washington Hil
ton Hotel with a message similar
to the one he carried a year ago
— a plea for support for his
sweeping fiscal program.
Reagan was expected to de
fend his plan in the face of
mounting criticism that intensi
fied last week when it was
announced March’s unemploy
ment rate reached 9 percent,
matching the post-World War II
high.
Both speakers addressed ab
out 3,000 delegates to a legisla
tive conference of the AFL-CIO
Building and Construction
Trades Conference.
“Young families despair of
ever having a home they can call
their own,” Kirkland said.
Those who scrape together
enough money in spite of high
interest rates face possible fore
closure in the event of unem
ployment or illness, he added.
Kirkland responded strongly
to Reagan’s comments that his
policies must be given more time
to work.
rate of 17.9 percent. A year ago
the construction jobless figure
stood at 14.7 percent.
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“If you see a house burning, a
ship sinking, or a man drown
ing, do you give it more time to
complete the disaster?” Kirk
land said.
Kirkland said organized labor
must help elect members of
Congress who will put America
on the road back to social and
economic justice.
Regional conferences of the
15 million-member labor feder
ation indicated that a consensus
can turn the economy around
with political action, he said.
In the March unemployment
figures released Friday, con
struction workers had a jobless
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