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Answer: I don't remember exactly, but I should think from 10 to 15 grams.

Question: How long did a production cycle last?

Answer: Two or three months.

Question: How many cultivators were there in the special section which bred the parasites?

Answer: I don't recall the exact figure, but I should say from 4,000 to 4,500.

Question: Consequently, with its available equipment, the detachment could produce 45
kilograms of fleas in one production cycle?

Answer: Yes, that's true.

Question: What was intended to be done with these fleas in the event of bacteriological
warfare?

Answer: They were to be infected with plague.

Question: And employed as a bacteriological weapon?

Answer: Yes, that is so.

Question: In what manner were the plague fleas to be used as a bacteriological weapon?

Answer: In my time, it was considered that the most effective method was to drop the fleas
from aeroplanes.

Question: Were fleas dropped from aeroplanes by the expedition to China?

Answer: They were.

Question: Fleas infected with plague?

Answer: Yes. The bacteriological attack in China with the help of plague fleas was to
cause a plague epidemic.

Question: Did I understand rightly, that when Germany began war on the Soviet Union,
Ishii ordered that the first thing was to speed up the production of fleas?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In what way were the fleas infected with plague?

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