The Detrick scientists attempted to improve upon Japanese biological warfare practices.
Evidence
THE DETRICK SCIENTISTS read this book about the Khabarovsk trial carefully, I suspect. They studied the reports by Fell and Hill and Victor. And then they tried to improve on what the Japanese had planned to do to the Russians. Kill the wheat, kill the pigs, kill the chickens, kill the cattle, sicken the population. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 635
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 635
- XREF: connects to: In 1945, 3,900 people worked at Detrick with no public knowledge. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 234; Immunity promises allowed the US to gain vital knowledge about Japanese biological warfare. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 492; Japanese germ-warfare scientists conducted human experimentation during WWII. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 624