Updated: Key DoD Official Who Argued for Unit 731 Amnesty Figures at Inception of U.S. Germ Warfare Campaign in Korea

Lt. General Shiro Ishii, creator of Japan’s Unit 731.

In July 2021, I posted lengthy sections of the germ warfare “confessions,” or “depositions” of four high-ranking U.S. POWs captured during the Korean War. One of them was from Colonel Andrew J. Evans, Jr., who had served with Air Force Joint Staff.