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...Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled last month that Ryan, who was director of the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit from 1980 to 1983, "acted with reckless disregard for the truth" in the prosecution of John Demjanjuk as the Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible...
Until the early 1980s, few Japanese were eager to learn about events like Unit 731's activities in Manchuria, a region in northern China conquered and governed by the Japanese army from 1932 to 1945. Untold thousands of Russians, Koreans and Chinese suspected of anti-Japanese activities were brought to the ! Unit 731 base at Pinfang, near Harbin. Clinically referred to as maruta, or "logs," they were initially treated well since the experiments required healthy subjects. Eventually, however, some of the prisoners were infected with contagious diseases -- typhoid, tetanus, anthrax, syphilis -- or poisoned with mustard gas; others, stripped and tied...
...late summer of 1945 the surviving inmates were put to death, and Ogasawara was among the men assigned to dispose of the bodies. After the war, senior officers of Unit 731 captured by the Soviets were sent to Siberian labor camps. The U.S. agreed not to prosecute unit members in exchange for the death camp's medical data...
Today an exhibition about Unit 731, complete with photographs and artifacts, is touring Japan, with 40 stops planned around the country; Ogasawara -- along with other former unit members -- offers his testimony at the exhibition whenever he can. For a Japan that still has not totally come to terms with the wartime past, his words are painful reminders of one of the darkest chapters in the country's history...
...ideological balance, Halperin has suffered from a hit-and-run campaign by conservative ideologues, most notably Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan Pentagon official who has been firing off tirades at him since last June. From his berth at the right-wing Center for Security Policy, a private Washington research unit, Gaffney has sent streams of faxes showcasing a highly selective sampling of Halperin's writings to a list of 1,200 leading people in Washington...