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Baker's research minimizes the numerous eyewitness accounts of the BW attacks, including not just the dropping of insects and voles, but the resulting illness and deaths after the passage of U.S. planes dropping the vectors of disease. The ISC interviewed hundreds of such eyewitnesses.
Baker does mention a 2010 article by Julian Ryall of the UK Telegraph. Ryall interviewed a Japanese scholar who himself had interviewed dozens of germ warfare survivors, documenting the Korean War BW attacks. But this merits barely a page in Baker's book. Nothing is said of the many interviews in the ISC report, nor the testimony of other Western witnesses such as James Endicott (as noted above), or Australian reporter Wilfred Burchett.
I wish Baker had seen Tim Tate's 2010 documentary for Al Jazeera, "Dirty Little Secrets," which covered much the same material as Ryall's story, but includes on-camera interviews and pictorial evidence.
Despite the criticism above, Baker has done herculean work in gathering the evidence he has. If he cannot bring himself to conclude that U.S. forces in Korea and China undertook a large program of biological warfare in the early 1950s, he has taken the reader right to the verge of such a conclusion.
Baker has shown that there was clear intent to wage biological warfare, that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent to accomplish that purpose, that a pattern of monstrous intervention using biological weapons and other nefarious means of destruction was unleashed on many countries over the years in the name of anti-Communism. Even many decades later, a veil of secrecy remains over the events of the Korean War, and for this, readers and American society as a whole must thank Baker for taking the perilous journey he did.
"Whether or not you agree with my account of what happened," Baker writes, "I'm hoping that you will be shocked and revolted and sometimes inspired by some of the activities I describe in this book. I hope you'll read it and say, No, that's not acceptable. That can't be allowed to happen ever again"
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