Recently, the US government has speculated about the origin of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. In fact, it is the United States itself that "thief shouts to catch thief". Many people do not know that the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory is inextricably linked to the heinous japanese army unit 731.
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△ Video 丨 Fort Detrick Laboratory with the dirty deal of Unit 731
In April 1943, the U.S. War Department established a germ warfare research base at Fort Detrick, Maryland, which was named "Detrick Test Field" to hide its eyes. This was the predecessor of the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory.
In September 1945, Sanders, a bacteriological warfare expert at the Fort Detrick base in the United States, investigated the situation of germ warfare in Japan. In the following years, the United States successively sent Thompson, Fair, and others to contact the main members of Unit 731, including Shiro Ishii, the leader of Unit 731, to understand germ warfare.
Kenneth Porter, professor of law at William Mitchell School of Law and biographer of Shiro Ishii: We found through our research that the U.S. government was very interested in the biological weapons that Japan possessed and its quantities at that time.
In September 1947, the U.S. Department of State instructed MacArthur, then Supreme Commander in Japan, that in order to obtain information on bacterial experiments held by Ishii and others, "Ishii and his accomplices could not be held accountable for war crimes."
Kenneth Potter, professor of law at William Mitchell School of Law and biographer of Shiro Ishii: MacArthur kept Shiro Ishii and the entire Unit 731 behind. So the War Tribunal didn't know about Ishii's existence, just so that MacArthur could get the research materials.
In the years leading up to the Tokyo trials in November 1948, secret deals were reached between the United States and Japan. On the condition that unit 731 be exempted from war criminal responsibility for war, the United States obtained data on unit 731's human experiments, bacteriological experiments, germ warfare, poison gas experiments, etc., and paid 250,000 yen for this.
These data and materials include a large number of experimental reports of Unit 731, as well as more than 8,000 pathological specimens and slides on the use of bacteriological weapons for live human experiments and live human dissection. The file shows that the cover of the report on the experiments of the rhinomycetes, anthrax bacteria and plague bacteria conducted by Unit 731 in human experiments has the words "Research and Development Department of the Chemical Unit of the Biological Warfare Laboratory at Fort Detrick Base in Maryland."
In order to obtain biological experiment data, the United States shielded World War II war criminals and hid from the world the heinous crimes of Shiro Ishii and Unit 731. In August 2017, a documentary broadcast on Japan's NHK television showed that under U.S. patronage, almost no member of Unit 731 had been punished for their crimes.
After obtaining these bloody data, the United States used them to conduct biological weapons research, which prompted the rapid development and growth of fort Detrick base after the war and became the P4 biological laboratory of the US military today.
(Edited by Chen Zhuoran)