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look on his face—my legs were shaking—and not just at me—at ever yone.
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‘Even if I have to part the grasses…’”
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Aer escaping, Ishii faked his death, but was found by the CIA. When
they learned that Ishii possessed valuable information they did not want

falling into Soviet hands as the Cold War was about to start, the CIA worked

with Ishii to keep the Soviet Union from bringing him to justice at the

Khabarovsk Trial. Out of the 3607 members of Unit 731, only 12 were
brought to Soviet Union for the Khabarovsk Trial and most were released by

1956 except for one who committed suicide in a Soviet jail. e west oen

dismissed the Khabarovsk Trial as communist propaganda, but it was one of

the more revealing interrogations of Unit 731. e other scientists traded

their research results from Unit 731 for immunity from the United States.
e U.S.’s Camp Detrick was the recipient of that information. Most

scientists who worked at Unit 731 ended up with promising careers in

Japanese politics or the pharmaceutical industr y. In 1959, Ishii died

peacefully from lar yngeal cancer.