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Lieutenant Colonel of the Office of the Ministry

of Jurisprudence KACHAN for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory, Lieutenant Colonel PAPKOV

Interpreter BOLKHOVITINOV

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF ACCUSED TAKAHASHI TAKAATSU

December 6, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

Interrogation conducted through interpreter Protasov, Anatoli Nikola y e v i c h, who was
warned of his liability to prosecution for deliberately false interpretation under Art. 95 of the
Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R.

Signed: Protasov

Question: You are presented with the order to take criminal proceedings against you under
Art. 1 of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19,
1943. The substance of the charge is set forth in the order which has been presented to you.
Do you plead guilty?

Answer: Yes, I fully plead guilty to the charge under Art. 1 of the Decree of the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943. While in the post of Chief of the
Veterinary Service of the Kwantung Army, from 1941 to August 1945, i.e., until the day of
Japan's surrender, I took an active part in the Kwantung Army's preparations to conduct
bacteriological warfare and sabotage against the Soviet Union.

I learned of the plan to prepare to conduct bacteriological warfare at a conference held in
September 1941, from the lips of the Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army Umezu.

My activities in the Kwantung Army's preparations to conduct bacteriological warfare and
sabotage consisted in that while directing the practical work of Detachment 100, I gave orders
for the mass production of bacteriological weapons, in particular, the germs of severe
infectious diseases: glanders, anthrax, cattle plague, sheep plague and mosaic disease.

I kept check on the way Detachment 100 carried out these orders to produce
bacteriological weapons on a mass scale. For this purpose I myself visited Detachment 100
about once a month and verified the execution of my orders as regards the manufacture of
means of bacteriological warfare. In addition, I received verbal reports on these matters from
the Chief of Detachment 100, Wakamatsu.

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