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be conducted by infecting cattle, using aircraft for the purpose.

Question: What was the nature of your report to Lieutenant General Takahashi?

Answer: I reported to Lieutenant General Takahashi in the presence of the Chief of
Detachment 100 on the results of the investigation, that is, on the state of the rivers, water
sources, their location, the location of roads, on changing cattle pastures and on the
possibility of transferring cattle.

Question: Was there any talk, in the course of your report to Lieutenant General Takahashi,
regarding the quantity of bacteria needed to infect those districts?

Answer: Yes, there was talk of that. I do not remember the exact figures, but I do recall
that kilograms were mentioned.

Question: On whose orders did you purchase cattle from the people of North Khingan
Province?

Answer: I purchased the cattle on the orders of Wakamatsu, Chief of Detachment 100,
from an industrial company and not from the people.

Question: What was to happen to this cattle in the event of war? For what purpose did you
purchase it?

Answer: Going by what Major General Wakamatsu said I know that this cattle was
intended for bacteriological sabotage. In the event of war this cattle was to' be infected and
dispersed in order to infect the cattle in the enemy rear.

Question: To summarize your testimony: You personally took part in two expeditions of
Detachment 100: in the expedition to the Tryokhrechye area and the expedition to North
Khingan Province?

Answer: Yes, I did.

Question: The main purpose of these two expeditions was to prepare for bacteriological
warfare against the U.S.S.R., is that not so?

Answer: That is correct.

Question: Were you on the staff of the 6th Section of Detachment 100?

Answer: That is correct.

Question: Was the principal assignment of Section 6 to prepare for bacteriological warfare
against the Soviet Union? Answer: Yes.

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