e Chinese and North Korean claims. In his 1999 book, Regis cited a report from Yasuo Naito, a Japanese Moscow-based reporter for Sankei Shimbun, who said he found 12 documents in the Russian Presidential Archives "that showed how, beginning in 1952, a group of mid level North Korean, Chinese, and Russian operatives had forged evidence to support the germ w'rfare assertionr against the Americans" (228). Similarly, CNN World Affairs Correspondent Ralph Begleiter reported in 1999 that "newly released documents from the Soviet Union's secret archives" "show Soviet, Chinese and North Korean officials knew the Korean War germ warfare charges . . . were false" (1). These included an April
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