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Mission, Lieutenant Colonel Amano, who, as I had learned from Major General Wakamatsu,
was aware of the assignments my group had received. I know that in his report to the
Kwantung Army Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Amano commended the work we had
done.

Simultaneously with the afore-mentioned work, I, on the orders of Major General
Wakamatsu, in the summer of 1945 purchased from the inhabitants of North Khingan
Province 500 sheep, 100 head of cattle and 90 horses with the 80,000 yen which had been
assigned for this purpose.

I knew from what Major General Wakamatsu had told me that in the event of war against
the Soviet Union, the cattle were to be infected with anthrax and glanders and the sheep with
sheep plague and, for sabotage purposes, left in the rear of the Soviet troops in order to cause
outbreaks of severe infectious diseases. I knew that for this purpose the necessary quantities
of the afore-mentioned germs were to be carried by aircraft to the places where the cattle I
had bought would be, and the cattle were to be infected by sabotage groups formed for the
purpose.

I also plead guilty to the fact that while I was in North Khingan Province, I, on the orders
of Major General Wakamatsu, purchased cattle (10 calves) to be used for experiments
conducted early in the spring of 1945 in the region of the river South Khan-gol. I learned
from Major Yamaguchi, who took part in these experiments, that during the experiments
called "winter manoeuvres," tests were made of the action of cattle-plague and sheep-plague
germs under winter conditions by spraying these germs on the snow and on cattle feed
scattered on the snow. These experiments were made under conditions similar to those under
which bacteriological sabotage against the Mongolian People's Republic was to be conducted,
for it is known that, in Mongolia, cattle gain their food in the winter time by grazing.

In addition to this, in the summer of 1943, with the object of ascertaining the amount of
poison that was needed to kill horses (with potassium cyanide, strychnine, etc.), I, on the
orders of Chief of the 2nd Division, Hasaka, experimented on 40-50 horses from units of the
Kwantung Army. As a result of these experiments, ten horses died. I did not know for what
purpose these experiments were made, but I presume thaf methods were being sought of
using poisons for sabotage purposes.

I have nothing more to say on the case, the record of my statements is correct and was read
to me in Japanese, which I hereby certify.

Hirazakura

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor, Member of the staff

Major of Jurisprudence BOGOD of the Office of the Ministry

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