A certain nation sold its a portion of its soul after WW II. Giving safe haven for some in exchange for the results of experiments and knowledge. Even by some reports bringing Joseph Mengele and other Nazis into the West to counter Soviet Nazis. Rocket scientists for sure.
What kind of stain does this place on our CIA and other intelligence operations when this was at the seminal event of their founding?
I read an interesting article that thinks it bit us back during the Korean war. When Ishii was protected from war crimes trials and simply released back to normal life in exchange for the information, the USSR noted that.
North Korea was pounded from the air and the war went the length of the peninsula... as would be expected in Asia, disease broke out everywhere.
The communists realized that the head of Japanese biological warfare was protected by us and they put 2 and 2 together to decide that the man who unleashed bioweapons on them 5 years before had done it again with us.
So they started widely torturing our pilots to “prove” it.
It was a massive communist propaganda effort, but they likely believed it themselves to varying degrees.
Call the whambulance.