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the fact that the command of the detachment cancelled the experiments, for reasons unknown
to me, I flew back to the detachment's headquarters next day.

As regards the charge that on my initiative Major General of the Medical Service Sato,
Chief of the Medical Service of the 5th Army, issued an order obliging commanders of
military units and hospital chiefs to organize the catching of rats and mice to be sent to
Branch 643, I plead not guilty to this, for I never made such a request to General Sato.

Question: For what purpose did Detachment 731 manufacture bacteriological weapons?

Answer: Detachment 731 manufactured bacteriological weapons on a mass scale for the
purpose of using them in war, but against which enemies of Japan these weapons were
intended to be used, I do not know. . . .

Question: Were Branch 643, its equipment, and the work it engaged in, military secrets?

Answer: In my opinion, the branch as such, its equipment and the work it engaged in were
not military secrets.

Question: Do you assert, then, that the breeding of fleas and rodents was not a military
secret?

Answer: No, that is not so. The breeding of fleas by the branch was kept secret; as regards
the breeding of rodents, in my opinion it was not a secret.

Question: Do you wish to add anything to your testimony?

Answer: I have nothing to add to my testimony.

This record of my statements, read to me by interpreter Guryanov in Japanese is correct,
which I certify.

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor^ Member of the stai.

Lieutenant Colonel of the Office of the Ministry

of Jurisprudence BUSHUYEV for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory* Major FURSENKO

Interpreter GUR YANOV

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