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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
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U.S. Biological Warfare Research Program
Here is a press release from the Center for Public Integrity.
The Center for Public Integrity Schedules Press Conference for
April 1 on Its Study of the Military's Biological Defense Program
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Charles Lewis of The Center for Public Integrity,
202-223-0299
News Advisory:
"Biohazard: How the Pentagon's Biological Warfare Research
Program Defeats Its Own Goals," is a comprehensive Center for
Public Integrity study about how the Army has been spending
hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in order to protect
against the heinous threat of germ warfare. This report, written
by Seth Shulman and edited by Charles Piller, is based on a
year-long investigation of the military's biological warfare
defense program, and is the most thorough analysis ever conducted
by a nongovernmental organization. It describes a program crippled
by poor planning and inaptitude. Hundreds of specific biological
research projects are itemized in the extensive appendices.
This study will be released Thursday, April 1 at 9:30 a.m. at
the National Press Club, in the Lisagor Room.
In late 1990, as the world braced for war in the Persian Gulf,
jolted by the specter of the intentional use of viruses, bacteria or
toxins to kill or maim, U.S. military officials announced that they
would inoculate some American soldiers against two infamous
biological warfare agents. However, despite decades of effort spent
developing and stockpiling effective vaccines, the Pentagon
announced that its supply of vaccines was woefully inadequate.
This revelation raised many questions about the military's
biological defense program. But from "Biohazard" we now know that
this potentially deadly miscalculation was symptomatic of a program
misguided in its aims and poorly managed. Much of the program's
work was found to be ill-suited for defense, but could be applied
effectively to offensive goals.
"The Army's biological warfare research program has dismally
failed to uphold the public trust," said Charles Lewis, executive
director of the Center for Public Integrity. "And despite the
Army's claims that its biological warfare research is open and
unclassified, we discovered substantial secrecy and obsessive
bureaucratic obfuscation."
For this study, the center obtained a large cache of documents,
consulted dozens of experts, combed the publication records of the
program's top researchers, interviewed current and former government
insiders, and developed a database of the program's research
projects for an entire funding year.
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