Evidence of US Germ Warfare in Korea and China 1952, 1952.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Peking Studio of the Chinese People's Republic, production company.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Revolution, War, Conflict in China & Korea

Wars & Revolutions

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (video file 0:32:32) : Sound, Black and White.

Place of Publication:

1952,

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital.

Summary:

The film presents what is claimed to be evidence of US Germ Warfare in China and Korea. Film opens with images of American bombs, which the narrator says contained disease carrying insects. The Americans claimed it was just a leaflet carrier, but the narrator says it can also carry infected insects. The film shows people holding up a container and parachute that were used to deliver infected insects. The documentary can broadly be split into two parts. The first half records scientific investigations carried out in China. It includes field work in Korea and laboratory work carried out in China. Scientists disinfect bombs, extract insects and then carry out experiments on the diseases they are carrying. The footage includes microscope slides and the dissection of a mouse. This portion of the documentary concludes with a list of the diseases found in insects allegedly dropped by American planes. The film moves on to look at the response of independent journalists, and to a press conference with a captured US Air Officer, who admitted to participation in germ warfare. This is one of the first examples of an American POW being persuaded to this kind of testimony and fuelled fears in the USA about Communist brainwashing techniques during the McCarthy period. The political thriller/satire, 'The Manchurian Candidate', made ten years later, is also predicated on brainwashing of American POWs during the Korean War.

Credits:

Production Company: Peking Studio of the Chinese People's Republic.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on 17 October, 2017).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.