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nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, tostudy the possibilities of such warfare from every angle, makeevery preparation for reducing its effectiveness, and therebyreduce the likelihood of its use." [9]A couple months after this report to President Roosevelt, Stimsonwas authorized to develop a civilian agency to "take the lead onall aspects of biological warfare." It was assigned to the FederalSecurity Agency (FSA) to obscure its existence, and GeorgeMerck was named director of the new War Research Service(WRS). [9]As a result of this covert effort, according to Detrick's publicrelations director, "recombinant DNA research techniques" werebeing employed "through which certain organisms. . . [were]cloned to produce weaker, stronger or mutations of the original."These experiments, Covert wrote, became the "legacies of FortDetrick, but it was not done in the Fort Detrick laboratories."In other words, I thought, the road to Fort Detrick leads throughBethesda. If Covert printed the truth, the AIDS-like virusprototypes were developed outside the Fort and brought in fortesting. The only other regional facilities with the means andorganisms needed to produce immune-system-destroying viruses,in 1969-1970, was right down the road in Bethesda at the NCI'slabs, [12] or in West Point, Pennsylvania at MSD's. [10]The NAS on CBWOn October 13, 1969, following the onslaught of opposition toFort Detrick's silver anniversary festivities and the internationalCBW race in general, the NAS responded - not by disclosing itsclandestine efforts to support the development and testing of BWand antidotes, but by addressing the controversy at a"Symposium on Chemical and Biological Warfare." [13] Themeeting was chaired by Dr. Matthew S. Meselson, Director of theBiological Laboratories, Harvard University, and included threepresentations from American CBW notables.Attorney George Bunn, a former General Counsel for the UnitedStates Arms Control and Disarmament Agency presented asession dealing with "Gas and Germ Warfare: International LegalHistory and Present Status," during which he heralded the"success" of "the Geneva Protocol of 1925 which prohibits theuse of gasses and bacteriological methods of warfare. More than80 countries have ratified this treaty. . . . Many in recent years.The United States, the one country most responsible for thedrafting of the treaty, has still not become a party to it," he noted.[13]The chairman, commenting on Bunn's presentation, wrote:"This winter a group of 21 nonaligned states at the UnitedNational General Assembly introduced a resolution declaring as