The Hiroshima Cover-Up


... A story that the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors.

... Recently, Mr. Weller's son, Anthony, discovered a carbon copy of the suppressed dispatches among his father's papers (George Weller died in 2002). Unable to find an interested American publisher, Anthony Weller sold the account to Mainichi Shimbun, a big Japanese newspaper. Now, on the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings, Mr. Weller's account can finally be read.


After killing Mr. Weller's reports, U.S. authorities tried to counter Mr. Burchett's articles by attacking the messenger. General MacArthur ordered Mr. Burchett expelled from Japan (the order was later rescinded), his camera mysteriously vanished while he was in a Tokyo hospital and U.S. officials accused him of being influenced by Japanese propaganda.

Then the U.S. military unleashed a secret propaganda weapon: It deployed its own Times man. It turns out that William L. Laurence, the science reporter for The New York Times, was also on the payroll of the War Department.

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Images, A-Bomb Survivors recollect and try to express what happened 30 years ago in Hiroshima. Arranged by Hiroshima Appeal Committee. Supported by NHK Hiroshima.

Posted: Sun - March 5, 2006 at 03:12 PM            

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