Endicott, Stephen and Hagerman, Edward. The United States and Biological
Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea. Indianapolis:
Indiana University Press, 1999. 275 pages.
This book presents a massive amount of evidence that the U.S. used
biological warfare during the Korean War. What's stunning about this is that
so many Western scholars have dismissed such accusations for the last fifty
years, following the lead of the U.S., which has consistently lied to
Congress and the public on this issue. Despite an International Scientific
Commission that interviewed hundreds of witnesses, and concluded in 1952
that the charges were credible beyond a reasonable doubt, Western scholars
have always insisted that this Commission was a front for Red propaganda.
With newly declassified documents from the U.S., Canada, and Britain,
and after interviewing key people in China who were on the scene in North
Korea in 1950-1951, and with the cooperation of the Chinese Central
Archives, the authors make a very persuasive case. They show that the
U.S. program in germ warfare began when Japan's records of experimentation
on prisoners were appropriated after World War II. By the time Korea
started, the U.S. had an offensive capability. The effort in Korea was
more experimental than strategic, but it was definitely offensive rather
than defensive, and was part of an ongoing development program within the
bowels of the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence establishments.
ISBN 0-253-33472-1
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