“CONFESSIONS” IN KOREA
AMERICAN COURT OF INQUIRY
(Rec. 6 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. A Marine Corps Court of Inquiry saw a Communist propaganda film today as it opened the first formal investigation of germ warfare “confessions’’ by Ameiican prisoners in j .orea. The film included “confessions” by four United States Air Force fliers that they had waged germ warfare. It. did not include Colonel Frank Schwable. whose case was before the Court.'
Colonel Schwable, the highest-rank-ing Marine officer captured by the Communists, has admitted that .he signed a 6000-word germ warfare “confession” under Communist torture. He repudiated it after his repatriation in September, 1953. General Lemuel Shepherd, the Marine Corps Commandant, asked the Court to “advise me as to whether the degree of physical, mental, and pschological suffering experienced by Colonel Schwable was such as would reasonably constitute an excuse for acts of the type he is alleged to have committed.”
It is the first such case in United States military history.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27277, 18 February 1954, Page 11
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