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...world has marveled uneasily at Communist ability to extract confessions from Communist victims. In the last months of the Korean war, Chinese Communist propaganda began distributing motion pictures and tape recordings of detailed confessions by U.S. airmen-mature, trained Air Force and Marine officers-that they had participated in germ warfare in North Korea. The recent return of these ex-prisoners offers the U.S. the best chance it has ever had to understand some Communist techniques for destroying truth...
Last week the Defense Department released a transcript of some of the bogus germ-warfare confessions, along with testimony given by the U.S. officers after they got back home. Excerpts...
Communist Voice: What did you feel like-what was your state of mind when you carried out this germ-warfare mission...
...clear and documented report last week, Doctor Charles W. Mayo, United States delegate to the United Nations, shattered all remnants of the illusion about the decency of the Chinese communists. His speech exposed the Communist "germ warfare" charges by telling how the "confessions" were obtained...
...animals' filthy, full of lice; festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish." But always, in return for signing a confession of having conducted germ warfare, the prisoners were promised an end to torture, good treatment, mail from home that been withheld, and often a reprieve from a death sentence passed by a communist court...