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WWII video points to secret bio warfare studies in Singapore

Footage of activities in Outram Park by a branch of Japanese army's covert operations unit discovered

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Melody Zaccheus

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Footage of secret World War II operations of a biological warfare branch in Singapore has been discovered recently.
The black-and-white film recording of OKA 9420 shows large, bubbling vials of liquids on high benches as well as Japanese personnel in white laboratory coats and what appears to be locals at work at the College of Medicine Building in Outram.
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