Re: Germ war thing again

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ysk - In Nov 98, Mike Feinsilber, an AP writer, reported that 12 documents 
retrieved from the Presidential Archives in Moscow by Cold War historians 
Milton Leitenberg and Kathryn Weathersby show conclusively that the Soviets 
lied about U.S. germ warfare in Korea during the height of the Korean War. 
Lietenberg is a biological warfare specialist at the U. of Maryland - 
Weathersby is a historian who specializes in the Soviets' role in the Korean 
War. 

The communists charged that US planes dropped disease-bearing insects over 
the battlefields using 448 aircraft on 68 mission to spread plague, anthrax, 
cholera, encephalitis and meningitis. 25 Americans were forced to sign 
"confessions." The claims were instigated by the Chines at a time when North 
Korean soldiers were dying of cholera in large numbers. According to he 
researchers, the allegations were fully supported by Uncle Joe and Mao.

 A 669-page report supporting the communist claims was issued by the late 
Joseph Needham, a Brit biochemist and avowed Marxist - he headed the 
communist-backed "International Scientific Commisssion for the Investigation 
of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China." (Whew!!!!!) 
The researchers showed that North Koreans facing execution were infected with 
plague to make the case; in addition, two regions of infection were 
simulated. After Joe Stalins death in 1953, the Presidium of the Council of 
Ministers of the USSAR adopted a resolution that said, "The Soviet Government 
and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were 
misled. The spread in the press of information about the use by the Americans 
was based on false information. The accusations against the Americans were 
ficticious." Marty