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for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory,

Lieutenant NAZAROV

Interpreter YELGIN

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF ACCUSED MITOMO KAZUO

December 6, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

Interrogation conducted through interpreter Y e 1 g in,G r i g o r i Georgievich, who was
warned of his liability to prosecution under Art. 95 of the Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R.

Signed: Yelgin

Question: You are charged with crimes punishable under Art. 1 of the Decree of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943. Do you plead guilty to
the charge brought against you?

Answer: I fully plead guilty to the charge brought against me in conformity with the
announced order of December 5, 1949, 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 which I understand.

Question: To what, concretely, do you plead guilty?

Answer: I plead guilty to the fact that in April 1941 I voluntarily joined Detachment 100 of
the Kwantung Army which engaged in manufacturing germs of anthrax, glanders, cattle
plague and sheep plague, and also that, knowing that these germs were being manufactured
especially for the purpose of waging war against the Soviet Union, I took an active part in
their manufacture in the special laboratory of Detachment 100.

On joining the afore-mentioned detachment I went through a special course of training in
the cultivation of the germs of anthrax and glanders, which I myself cultivated in an incubator
that was especially assigned to me. I conducted this work throughout the whole period I was
in the detachment, i.e., from April 1941 to October 1944.

Furthermore, on many occasions I took part in experiments to test on animals and living
people the effectiveness of the lethal bacteria I had cultivated in anticipation of their use by
the Command of the Kwantung Army in war against the Soviet Union. Thus, in July-August
1942, I, with a group of researchers from Detachment 100, took part in an expedition in the
area of Tryokhrechye, where the durability of glanders germs was tested in the river Derbul

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