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Show five months to find him. Throughout 30 days of interrogation. he insisted that Unit 731 had used no humans in its 10 years of experiments. And since Ishii and his staff had burned Pingfan to the ground and murdered all their human guinea pigs in the week before the Russians arrived, we had noconclusive evidence to refute his version. The Russians, however, were convinced that Ishii was lying. They asked permission to interview him and other members of Unit 731 . When Ishii heard that he and some of his officers might be handed over to them, he changed his story and conceded to his American interrogators that he had conducted a few field 01315 of anthrax bombs but only against the Chinese. He then offered us a deal that was transmitted in this cable to Washington on May 6, 1947: Ishii states that if guaranteed immunity from 'war crimes in top-secr- et documentary form for himself, superiors and subordinates, he can describe the germ warfare program in detail." To determine the validity had produced medical data data that could not be obtained in our laboratories because of scruples attached to human experimentation. Hill and Victor expressed the hope that the individuals who voluntarily contributed this information w ill be spared embarrassment because of it, and that every effort will be made to pre- knowledged the existence of Unit 731 for the first time. of great value vent this information from falling into other hands." Thus, to prevent the Rus- sians from obtaining this biological warfare data and to monopolize it for our ow n use, we guaranteed Ishii and his fellow monsters immuni- - The admission followed the publication of Devil's Gluttony, by Seiichi Morimura with Masaki Shimosato. which has sold 1.4 million copies in Japan in less than a year. In addition to detailing the experiments at Pingfan. it points out that some of JaRyoichiSaito, today head of top pharmaceutical company ty from prosecution and kept the deal secret until the recent revelations. In April, the Japanese government ac pan's medical and pharmaceutical elite men like Ryoichi Naito, president of Green Cross, which developed the first artificial blood, and Hisato Yoshimura. one of the leading authorities on human endurance to cold of Unit 731. are alumni Whsn you rant more than just a heroscats heater. Comfort Glow The kerosene heater with something more. Something fuel tank. A built-i- n fan that better. Push-butto- n starting. Lift-ocirculates heat better. And porous ceramic wick that lasts and lasts. UL listed, of course. If you want more than just a kerosene heater, theres a glowing alternative. ut Ever Higher year, the Health Fnhis Insurance I Associ- - I I I I LJ ation of America es- timates, one out of six Americans w ill be hospitalized and will spend, on the average, SI 250 for 7.6 days in a semi-private room. Last year, Americans spent $287 billion on health care, an astronomical sum representing 9.8 9c of the gross national product. Of that sum, S55 billion went to physicians. a rise of about 17 from the previous year. fine Is Kssey he 1984 Olympics are two years off, but ABC, which paidS316.5 million for the TV' rights to both the winter and summer games, already has sold 75 of the commercial time. g, I of Ishii's potential gold mine of information, the Pentagon Main research building after being burned to hide crimes dispatched two biologists from Fort Detrick, Md.. our own chemical and biological w headquarters. In Tokyo, Drs. Edwin V. Hill and Joseph Victor interrogated Ishii and 20 other germ warfare specialists from Oct. 28 to Dec. 2, 1947. They were shocked by the number of experiments the Japanese had conducted over the years. But they reported that the experiments ar-fa- re 1 Moscow Olympics in 1980, when V.S. boycott cost ABC millions: ABC hopes nothing upsets its 1984 bonanza If you're interested, a spot in prime time will set you back about $250,000. ABC hopes to gross $625 million from the sports spectacles. |