several pilots among the released prisoners asserted that they had dropped bio-weapons from their warplanes—contradicting Washington’s fierce insistence that it had never deployed such weapons. “The most-used germ bomb was a 500-pounder,” one pilot reported. “Each had several compartments to hold different kinds of germs. Insects like fleas and spiders were kept separate from rats and voles.” These allegations set off a new burst of denials from Washington. Gottlieb,
