US pardons Japanese war criminals for bio weapons data in post WWII trial: Russian media

MOSCOW - The US occupation forces decided not to prosecute a number of Japanese war criminals during World War II in exchange for their data on biological weapons following cruel experiments on humans alive, an article carried by the Russian government's official newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta has reported.

Countering objections from China and the Soviet Union, US Army General Douglas MacArthur, during the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, eliminated the atrocities committed by the notorious Unit 731, a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development operation.

The Japanese, in return, transferred all the results of the biological experiments conducted during World War II to the United States, the article said.

The United States was extremely interested in such data, and preferred this information to the triumph of justice amid the looming threat of the Cold War, the article said.