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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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December 10, 1990
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BIOWARFARE RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT U.S. UNIVERSITIES
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Overshadowed by Star Wars, the push toward developing ghastly
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instruments of biological warfare has been one of the Reagan
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administration's best-kept secrets.
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The research budget for infectious diseases and toxins has increased
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tenfold since fiscal 1981, and most of the 1986 budget of $42
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million went to 24 U.S. Universities where the world's most deadly
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organisms are being cultivated in campus labs.
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The large sums of military money available for bio-technology
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research is a powerful attraction for scientists whose civilian
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funding resources have dried up.
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Scientists who formerly researched diseases like cancer now use
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their talents to develop strains of such rare pathogens as anthrax,
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Rift Valley fever, Japanese encephalitis, tularemia, shigella,
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botulin, and Q fever.
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Many members of the academic community find the trend alarming.
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However, when MIT's biology department voted to refuse Pentagon
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funds for biotech research, the administration forced it to reverse
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its decision by threatening to cut off other funds.
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In 1987, when the University of Wisconsin hired retired Army Col.
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Philip Sobocinski to help professors attract Pentagon-funded
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biowarfare research, a UW science writer was fired after disclosing
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the details in the student newspaper.
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Since the U.S. signed the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons
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Convention, which bans "development, production, stockpiling, and
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use of microbes or their poisonous byproducts except in amounts
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necessary for protective and peaceful research," the university-
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based projects are called defensive efforts aimed at developing
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vaccines and protective gear.
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Scientists who oppose the program insist that a germ-warfare defense
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is clearly impractical; the entire population would have to be
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vaccinated for every known harmful biological agent.
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The only feasible application of a "defensive" development is in
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conjunction with offensive use: Troops could be effectively
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vaccinated for a single agent prior to launching an attack with it.
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Another issue receiving even less attention is the safety or the
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security of the labs involved. Release of pathogens, either by
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accident or design, would prove tragic.
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Twenty-three U.S. schools, including the Universities of California,
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Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Utah, are
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currently engaged in Bio-Warfare Research.
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Sources: ISTHMUS, October 8, 1987, "Biowarfare and the UW,"
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by Richard Jannaccio;
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THE PROGRESSIVE, Nov. 16, 1987, "Poisons from the
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Pentagon," by Seth Shulman;
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WALL STREET JOURNAL, Sept. 17, 1986, "Military Science,"
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by Bill Richards and Tim Carrington.
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From: UTNE READER, September/October 1988, p. 87.
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