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Sep 2Liked by Jeffrey S. Kaye

Thank you for all this research. It's invaluable!

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Japanese documents on delivery of biological weapons wasn't "shared" with the US after WW2. It's standard operating procedure for the victor in a conflict to appropriate the documents of the losing side and study their tactics. The US *took* those documents.

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Actually, the documents had been hidden by Unit 731 members, who themselves had been sworn to secrecy under pain of death. The U.S. bargained for the documents, which is well-documented by now. See link: https://apjjf.org/christopher-reed/2177/article

Indeed, the U.S. did seize many Japanese documents after the war, but unaccountably they were returned to Japan in 1958. This policy was part of the general decision to make Japan a bulwark in the U.S. anti-Soviet alliance. On the return, see: https://www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/military_archives/#:~:text=The%20papers%20that%20had%20survived,Military%20Archival%20Library%20of%20NIDS.

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Why are those documents declassified now? Goebbels said that you could tell the people anything, as long as you did it too late for them to do anything about it.

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I'm not sure which documents you are referring to here. The FBI documents I wrote about were part of a larger collection that had been FOIA'd by another researcher, as mentioned in the article. As for the National Archives collection of Japanese documents, some of them were ferreted out by journalist John W. Powell. Others were part of the release by the National Archives as part of a general release of Nazi war documents, following upon journalistic and scholarly exposures during the 1980s and 90s of U.S. cooperation with Nazi and Japanese war criminals.

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