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cadres of medical men who were afterwards distributed among all the detachment's divisions,
including those which devised and manufactured bacteriological weapons.

The Materials Division supplied the necessary materials and medical supplies needed by
Detachment 731.

When General Kitano finished his report I proceeded to inspect the detachment. It is
difficult for me now to recall what I saw in each division separately; I can describe what I
saw only in general outline, without saying definitely which division carried out any
particular process of the detachment's work. Nevertheless, I distinctly remember that I
learned the character of the work carried on by all the most important of the detachment's
divisions. In one division (production, I think) I saw the process of breeding bacteria in large
quantities. That division had high-capacity equipment—boilers and other apparatus necessary
for the mass production of bacteriological weapons.

In other premises I saw special boxes containing a vast quantity of live fleas. I was
informed that these fleas were to be infected with plague, after which they could be used as
carriers of plague epidemics. What I saw in other premises I cannot now recall.

After I had inspected the detachment's chief premises, I, and the officers who accompanied
me, went up into the detachment's tower, from which I viewed the aerodrome, concerning
which I gave detailed evidence at the previous interrogation.

After I had fully inspected the detachment's work and had gained an impression of the
character of its activities, I was extremely amazed at the scale on which the research work
was conducted and at the detachment's colossal potentialities for manufacturing
bacteriological weapons.

Yamada

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor, Members of the staff

Lieutenant Colonel of the Office of the Ministry

of Jurisprudence BAZENKO for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory,

Senior Lieutenant BRAV&

Senior Lieutenant GDIKHMAN

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