主题：【整理原创】朝鲜战争中的细菌战（二） -- 思炎

关于美军使用生物武器，最早是苏联人提出的，在当时的国际背景下，我国采用了苏联人的说法。

Stranger still is the story of the documents from the Russian presidential archives that first surfaced in January 1998 in a Japanese newspaper, Sankei Shimbun, and were purportedly obtained by its Moscow-based reporter. They concern the Byzantine power struggle within the Soviet leadership in the first months after Stalin's death in 1953; in particular, the efforts of Lavrenti Beria, deputy chairman of the council of ministers, the official in charge of security police affairs for the Communist Party, to remove Semen Ignatiev, a Khrushchev protege, from his post of minister for state security. As it turned out, Beria himself fell foul of the new order and was tried and executed for being a spy- but not before he had charged Ignatiev with conspiring with the Chinese to accuse falsely the US of using biological weapons in North Korea.

In the documents, Beria claims that Ignatiev participated in a plot to prepare "two false areas of exposure" of plague and cholera in North Korea, claiming to Dr Needham's commission that they had been dropped from US planes.

But are the documents genuine? Outside researchers have not, as a general rule, been granted access to the presidential archives in the Kremlin, and even Russian researchers are still not allowed to make photocopies. The 12 documents in question were copied by hand by an as yet unnamed Russian researcher, then typed up in Russian and given to the Sankei Shimbun, which translated them into Japanese and published them.

As strange as the sudden emergence of the Russian documents is the apparent absence of any diplomatic move by the United States to persuade the Russians to open up this still-secret section of their presidential archives so that the 12 documents can be properly authenticated. At the same time, the Pentagon could be providing the missing pages from US military archives - or, perhaps, it cannot because those documents have also been destroyed. In the absence of such evidence, a "whiff of concern" remains that the US did experiment with biological weapons.