KOREAN WAR.

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Statements by Two American Air Force Officers, First edition, first printing, scarce in commerce, of this propaganda pamphlet issued a few months before the publication of the controversial "Needham Report", an exposé of American biological warfare in Korea which drew on the explosive testimonies of Enoch, Quinn, and other POWs.Issued as a supplement to the magazine People's China in May 1952, this pamphlet contains the full confessions of Enoch and Quinn, a broadcast by Quinn, letters from Enoch to his family and to the Chinese 'volunteer' forces in Korea, and a state newspaper editorial warning that "the day of judgement of the American war criminals is near" (p. 15).Highly influential at the time, the statements of Enoch, Quinn, and others were subsequently recanted following their release. Their experiences in captivity are now considered an early example of "brainwashing", a term coined in 1950 by Edward Hunter to describe Chinese communist interrogation techniques.

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