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February 23, 1952	Cable, Filippov (Stalin) to Mao Zedong Stalin promises support with investigating Amercan bacteriological warfare in North Korea
February 21, 1952	Ciphered Telegram No. 16715 from Beijing, Mao Zedong to Filippov [Stalin] Mao Zedong requests help from Stalin regarding the dropping of insects on North Korea by the United States.
February 28, 1952	Cable from Nie Rongzhen, 'Report on American Invaders Using Bacteriological Weapons and Our Responsive Action'
November 8, 1953	Cable from Mao Zedong to Kim Il Sung, 'Plans to Publicize the Confessions of Americans Prisoners of War on Germ Warfare' Mao Zedong explains to Kim Il Sung China's plan to issue a communique regarding germ warfare.
May 14, 1952	Mao Zedong, 'Comments on a Report about the Situation of Anti-Germ Warfare Prevention Work' Mao's comment on the report concerning plague in North Korea and encephalitis in Northeast China.
February 19, 1952	Mao Zedong, 'Comments on the Report concerning the Discovery and Handing of the Enemy Air Dropping Insects on the Korean Front' Mao Zedong's comment on a report from Nie Rongzhen on the dropping of insects over North Korea by the United States.
September 1997	Wu Zhili, 'The Bacteriological War of 1952 is a False Alarm' Wu Zhili's claims that bacteriological warfare allegedly conducted by the United States in Korea in 1952 was a "false alarm."
April 24, 1953	Protocol No 6 of the Meeting of the Presidium of the CC CPSU about the MVD Note on the Results of the Investigations into the Reports of Former Advisers to the Ministry of State Security and DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cdes. Glukhov and Smirnov Response of USSR to false allegations that Americans used biological weapons in North Korea calls for both dismissal of V.N. Razuvaev from his posts as Ambassador of the USSR to the DPRK and military adviser and the commission of Molotov to address the allegations and send his resultant report to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung. This protocol also authorizes the removal of Ignatiev from the CC CPSU.