Secret deal between U.S. Fort Detrick, Japanese germ warfare unit revealed
Secret deal between U.S. Fort Detrick, Japanese germ warfare unit revealed Xinhua © Provided by Xinhua HARBIN, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United States pardoned members of a notorious Japanese germ warfare unit after World War II in exchange for their data on biological weapons, research by a Chinese historian has revealed. In a secret deal struck between September 1945 and November 1948, Fort Detrick of the U.S. Army spent 250,000 yen, about several thousand U.S. dollars at that time, obtaining data and medical papers on human experiments, bacterial tests, germ warfare, and toxic gas experimen...