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General Ridgway by special couri

of the London Daily Worker, stat
“Confronted now with these
American officers, the United Na

before the entire world.”

Full details of ‘the secret orde

authorities.
They have been revealed by

Col. Frank H. Schwable, former

chief of staff of the U.S. First

Marine Aircraft Wing, and Major

Roy H. Bley, ordnance officer of

the First Marine Aircraft Wing,

shot down last year and now held,
as prisoners of war by the Korean

People’s Army and Chinese Peo-

ple’s Volunteers.

These two high-ranking U.S. of-
ficers ‘have disclosed that:

@ the directive to launch germ
warfare was sent by the Am-
-erican Joint Chiefs-of-Staff to
General Ridgway by a special
courier in October 1951;

@ this directive was passed to
General Weyland, commander
of the Far East Air Force, and
transmitted by him personally
to General Everest, command-
er of the Fifth Air Force and
to the commander of the 19th
Bomb Wing in Okinawa—the
base for B29s;

@® B29s began using bacteriologi-
cal bombs in Korea in Novem-
ber 1951, followed by other
types of aircraft;

@ in May last year new orders

were issued for intensifying
and expanding germ warfare
and establishing a contamina-
tion belt for high concentra-
tion of cholera across the nar-
row waist of North Korea.

“ Schwable and. Bley told me the

| whole story of the secret orders,

the part played by U.S. marine
aircraft in germ warfare and the
tremendous efforts made by the
U.S. command to deceive its own

| personnel and its allies to sup-

port the fiction that it was not
using germ bombs. .

Both men told stories identical
down to the smallest detail,
though they had not met since
capture.

Col. Schwable, for 22 years
a marine aviator, was in the
class of “need to know” about
germ warfare in order to carry
out the duties of chief of staff.
That was why General Lamson-
Scribner, assistant commander of
the First Marine Aircraft Wing,
checked with him whether he had

|been fully briefed on the “Sup-

rop” program (the code name for
germ bombs) shortly after his ar-
rival at the wing.

“Col. Arthur A. Binney, the of-
ficer I relieved as chief of staff,
had given me, as his duties re-
quired that he should, an outline

jof the general’ plan of bacterio-

logical war in Korea and details
of the part played up to that time
by the First Marine Aircraft
Wing,” Schwable told me in his
quiet, authoritative and somewhat
pedantic manner. 5

Referring to the October 1951
directive which initiated germ war
in Korea, he said: “In that month
the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff sent a di-.
rective by hand to the Command-
ing General, Far East Command,
at that time General Ridgway,
directing the initiation of bacteri-
ological warfare in Korea on an
initially small experimental stage,
but in expanding proportions.

“This directive,’ he went on,

er in October, 1951. :

In forwarding the evidence to the UN, J. R. Campbell, edito

ed:
statements of such high-ranking
tions must act to stop this crime,

otherwise it will be branded as equally guilty with the United States

Below is given a condensation of Winnington’s dispatches relat-
ing his interview with the two U.S. officers.
By_ALAN WINNINGTON

SOMEWHERE IN NORTH KOREA
rs issued by Washington for all-out

strategic germ warfare are in the hands of Korean and Chinese

“was passed to the commanding
general of the Far East Air Force
General Weyland, in Tokyo.

. “General Weyland then called
into a personal conference Gener-
‘al Everest, the commanding gen-

a member of the international

eral of the Fifth’ Air Force in
Korea and also the commander of
the 19th Bomb Wing at Okinawa,
which operates directly under the
Far East Air Force.”

These orders were taken to
Korea verbally by General Ever-
est and passed down verbally to
the First Wing. e

The basic objective at that
time, Schwable told me, was to
test all types of germs and) con-
.tainers then available in every

sort of terrain and temperature
conditions, to \ observe what
countermeasures would be used
by the Koreans and Chinese. f

Schwable stated: “If the situa-
tion warranted, while continuing
the experimental phase of bac-
teriological warfare according to
the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s direc-
tive, it might be expanded to be-
come a part of a military or tac-
tical effort in Korea.”

The B29s began in November
and B26s soon after. In, early
January; General Schilt, then com-
manding the First Wing, was call-
ed to the Fifth Air Force head-
quarters, where General Everest
personally ordered him to have
Marine Night Fighter Squadron
513 take part in the bacteriologi-
cal program. F
. This squadron, based at K-8
Air Force base at Kunsan, was to
be serviced with germ bombs by
the Third Bomb Wing, whose B26s
had already been dropping germ
bombs. x

These Marine night fighters be-
gan dropping germ bombs at the
end‘of January last year.

“This. was the situation up to
‘my arrival in Korea,” said
Schwable, and he then described
the developments after he became,
Chief of Staff.

“During the latter part of May
1952 the new commanding gener-
al of the First Marine Aircraft

Captured U.S. officers

bare germ war secrets

germ warfare in Korea was sent by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff to

Wing, General Jerome, was called
to Fifth Air Force Headquarters
and given a directive for expand-
ing bacteriological operations,

“The directive was given per-
sonally and verbally by the new
commanding general of the Fifth
Air Force, General Barcus.

“On the following day, May 25,
General Jerome outlined the new
stage of bacteriological operations
to Wing staff at a meeting in his
office at which I was present in my
capacity as chief of staff.

“Other staff members of First
Wing present were: General Lam-
son Scribner, assistant command-
ing general; Col. Stage, intelli-
gence officer; Col. Wendt, opera-
tions officer; and Col. Clark, logis-

tics officers.

Here, Dr. Joseph Needham, famous British scientist who was

scientific commission which in-

vestigated germ warfare charges in Korea last year, is shown
talking over the evidence with another member of the commission.

“The directive from General
Barcus, transmitted to and dis-
cussed by us that morning was
as follows: a contamination belt
was to be established across Ko-
rea in-an’ effort to stop enemy
supplies from reaching the front
lines. ‘

“The Marines would ,take the
left flank of this belt, to include
the two cities of Sinanju and
Kunuri and the area between and
around them. ! ; ;

“The remainder of the belt
would be handled by the Air
Force in the centre and the Navy
in the east or right flank.”

Marine Squadron 513 had the
responsibility of spreading chol-
era in this area and maintain con-
tamination. :

Col. Schwable described securi-
ty as “the most pressing problem _
affecting the First Wing, ‘since,
the operational phase of bacteri-
ological warfare, as well as other eo
combat operations, is controlled
by Fifth Air Force.”

~The words “bacteria” or
“germ” were prohibited. Germ
bombs were referred to in top
secret orders as “superpropa-
ganda” or “suprop” bombs and
separate top secret orders mere-
ly scheduled so many “suprop”
bombs. on mission number ¢o-
and-so contained in the normal
orders.

Reports went back in the same
way. In the case of Squadron 513
no special orders were needed for
routine contamination of the belt
and reports merely included the
code words Sinanju or Kinuri.

Bombs were only dropped in
conjunction with ordinary.
bombs or napalm fo, give the
appearance of a normal attack
and discussion of the subject
was banned except behind clos-
ed doors and officially. —

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 6, 1953 — PAGE 7

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