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2nd Division a sixth section, called the "bacteriological." This section was designated for the
mass preparation of germs and their storage in special basement storehouses.

After this conference, extensive construction work was indeed launched in Detachment
100 in accordance with the plan drawn up, that is, special one-storey buildings with basement
storehouses were erected. The personnel of the detachment was increased.

Lieutenant General Takahashi Takaatsu, Chief of the Veterinary Service of the Kwantung
Army, frequently visited Detachment 100 to give guidance on the spot and to intensify
control over fulfilment of the given plan.

In conversations with a narrow circle of the personnel, the Chief of Detachment 100, Major
General Wakamatsu, repeatedly said: "In the event of war between Japan and the Soviet
Union, Detachment 100 must become a factory producing various germs and strong poisons
on a mass scale for waging bacteriological warfare and sabotage against the Soviet Union."

And indeed, a large quantity of germs and chemical agents was prepared in the 6th Section.
Several times I myself had occasion to visit the section's premises where germs and strong
poisons were stored in special metal containers; on entering these storehouses strips of gauze
impregnated with a special solution were placed over the mouth and the nose. It was
permitted to touch the containers only with rubber gloves. For secrecy purposes these
containers bore only numbers, written in paint, and had no other inscriptions. Research on
forms and methods of carrying out sabotage was also conducted in Detachment 100; for
instance, the question of employing aircraft for this purpose was worked out. . . .

Hirazakura

INTERROGATOR

Member of the staff

of the Office of the Ministry

for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory,

Senior Lieutenant NAZAROV Interpreter GERTSMAN

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF WITNESS MATSUMURA TOMOKATSU

October 27, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

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