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CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)

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Re: CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)

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This reminds me of a video I stumbled across on YT : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMq-fApmzts This guy alleges that the US were 'kind' on Japan (only light tribunal?) after the war because they wanted to acquire the bio-warfare knowledge of the Japanese. And the Japanese tested bio-bombs.

That doesn't make sense. The US won and Japan lost, the US could have taken whatever information they wanted to.

Re: CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)

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I stopped reading when the author categorized "prisoners of war being told to read confessions over Chinese propaganda radio" as "testifying publicly", almost at the start of the piece: > It was the propaganda version of an incendiary bomb. In 1952 U.S. Air Force and Marine flyers, shot down during the Korean War, testified publicly that they had been ordered to drop biological weapons (BW) on China and North Korea.…

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Re: CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)

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Examples? Is there any domestic crime as well?

How about the time when American pregnant women were given "vitamin cocktails" by their doctors which turned out to be radioactive to see if radioactive particles would be passing the placenta barrier? [1]

Or this Syphillis study? [2]

And then there was the time the US waged germ warfare against the Bay Area... [3]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/12/21/r...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

Re: CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)

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This reminds me of a video I stumbled across on YT : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMq-fApmzts This guy alleges that the US were 'kind' on Japan (only light tribunal?) after the war because they wanted to acquire the bio-warfare knowledge of the Japanese. And the Japanese tested bio-bombs.

That doesn't make sense. The US won and Japan lost, the US could have taken whatever information they wanted to.

Documents have a habit of burning to ashes if they have a chance of becoming evidence.

What this is referring to is the relative immunity Unit 731 got post-war in exchange for research results being handed over, which is a well-known historical fact.

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