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INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor; Member of the staff

Captain of Jurisprudence BELYUGA of the Office of the Ministry

for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory.

Senior Lieutenant BRAVE

Interpreter PL YACHENKO

EXCERPT FROM RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF HIRAZAKURA ZENSAKU

October 21 i'1949 City of Khabarovsk

Question: What do you know about Detachment 100 of the Kwantung Army?

Answer: Detachment 100 was the secret name of the veterinary-bacteriological
experimental detachment of the Kwantung Army. This detachment was formed by the
Kwantung Army Headquarters, but when, I cannot say. Detachment 100 carried out all its
work under the immediate guidance of Lieutenant General Takahashi Takaatsu, Chief of the
Veterinary Service of the Kwantung Army. The headquarters and main part of the personnel
of the given detachment were stationed in the city of Changchun, in the vicinity of the
Chinese settlement of Menchiangtung and its branches were located in the towns of
Kiamusze, Kokuzan and Dairen. As a bacteriological experimental detachment, Detachment
100 was staffed with researchers—bacteriologists, chemists and veterinaries, who were
completely occupied in developing various types of germs and strong poisons; research was
conducted on methods for the wholesale poisoning of both people and animals with these
poisons. For this purpose the personnel of this detachment conducted experiments on animals
and human beings. All the work of Detachment 100 and its branches was aimed at preparing
for bacteriological warfare and sabotage against the Soviet Union. Detachment 100 consisted
of four divisions, chief of them being the 2nd Division, which up to 1943 in turn consisted of
five sections.

In December 1943, at a joint conference of senior personnel of Detachment 100 and
representatives of the Kwantung Army Headquarters attended by: Major General Wakamatsu
Yujiro, the Chief of Detachment 100, his deputies, Lieutenant Colonel Hosaka Koremichi
and Major Yamaguchi Bunji, engineer Ida Kiyoshi, and Lieutenant General Takahashi
Takaatsu, Chief of the Veterinary Service of the Kwantung Army (the present whereabouts of
the above-mentioned persons I do not know), a plan was elaborated for forming under the

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