Defendant Mitomo, who had volunteered for duty at Detachment 100 to be with his friends, contaminated rivers and reservoirs with glanders and anthrax, and fed prisoners porridge mixed with lethal doses of heroin. Mitomo injected one drug-weakened Russian with cyanide, dissected him, and then buried him near the cattle pit. There was a murmur of indignation in the courtroom. Not in the cattle pit, Mitomo clarified; in a different pit.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 631