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of the Soviet Army. That is why the bacteriological weapon was not employed,
notwithstanding the activization of the Kwantung Army's preparations to employ the
bacteriological weapon and notwithstanding the fact that the Kwantung Army was capable of
employing it.

Question: Against whom were all the measures to activize the preparations for
bacteriological warfare which you have listed and which were carried out in 1945 aimed?

Answer: I have already said that the bacteriological weapon was aimed chiefly against the
Soviet Union. A whole series of practical measures carried out by the Kwantung Army
Headquarters testifies to this, and in particular: the endorsement by the Chief of Staff of the
Kwantung Army of the considerations I voiced regarding the practical employment of the
bacteriological weapon against the Soviet Union, of which I have spoken above; the
bacteriological reconnoitring in North Khingan Province, bordering on the Soviet Union;
General Takahashi's report on methods of sabotage being prepared against the Soviet Union
in the event of hostilities.

All these circumstances bear witness to the fact that these preparations were aimed against
the U.S.S.R. in the event of the outbreak of hostilities.

I have nothing more that is essential to the case to testify.

Taken down correctly from my words and read to me in Japanese.

Matsumura

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor, Member of the staff

Guards Lieutenant Colonel of the Office of the Ministry

of Jurisprudence BAZENKO for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory, Senior Lieutenant KORSAKOV

Interpreter TSVIROV Military Prosecutor; Member of the staff

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