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O'Neal: I most certainly would. I would like to state that these charges are false and absurd. I did sign a confession relating to germ warfare, but the statements contained in this confession were false. They were obtained under duress from the Chinese Communists . . .
O'Neal: Yes. I would put these methods into two categories : physical torture, of a sort, and mental torture. The physical torture is not actually what we usually think of as physical torture, such as the rack and whippings. It consisted mainly of standing at attention, having my face...
Summing up their torture techniques, Dr. Mayo charged the communists with exploiting not only physical pain, but also intense psychological pressure. He said, "The total picture presented is one of human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals' filthy, full of lice; festered wounds full of maggots...
At the same time, Dr. Mayo's report should be the army's guide to deciding the future of the men who did sign confessions. Some high ranking officers have argued that the signers have displayed a lack of moral strength that should disqualify them from still holding posts of...
2ND LIEUT. EDWARD G. IZBICKY of Chicago : "Interrogated 8½ hours a day for 60 days and four hours a day for 54 days. On May 25, 1953, he was sentenced to solitary confinement for 100 years-or until he accepted the germ warfare charges. He was then thrown into...