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weapons, and all other methods of biological warfare.-The U.S. will confine its biological research to defensivemeasures such as immunization and safety measures, and-The Department of Defense has been asked to makerecommendations as to the disposal of existing stocks ofbacteriological weapons." " [13,15]Nixon's recommendation to Congress went further than theposition of many other countries that had earlier ratified theprotocol in suggesting that "bacteriological weapons will neverbe used, whatever other countries may do." [15]In an accompanying document, Nixon's Secretary of StateWilliam P. Rogers made it clear that "the United StatesGovernment considers that toxins, however manufactured, willbe considered as biological weapons and not chemical weapons."In this and other ways, Nature observed, "the position of theUnited States on chemical and biological weapons" had been"transformed within the short space of a year." (see fig. 4.1)The RuseBy November 1970, a year after Nixon ratified the GenevaProtocol, nothing had changed except the public's perception ofCBW risk. [16] Rather than receive the promised annual cut inbiological warfare research funding, the DOD's BW budgetincreased from $21.9 to $23.2 million. The stockpiledbioweapons Nixon pledged would be rapidly destroyed remainedintact in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and the announced transition ofFort Detrick from a BW testing facility to a solely defensive NIHrun health research lab had not occurred.'Nature' carefully followed the events from Washington,Bethesda, and Fort Detrick, and reported:"The general absence of forward movement in the directionpointed by President Nixon is ascribed by some to skillfuldelaying tactics by the Army, which is held to be determined notto drop its biological weapons until its hand is forced. . . . Nixonseems not to have been properly briefed on the extent of thelikely opposition [to the cuts]." [16]I later learned that, indeed, Nixon may not have been properlyadvised, but the ruse was by no means an accident.The BPL Exercise"Would this library have the Rockefeller Commission's report onCIA Wrongdoing?" I asked Mike, one of several Countwaylibrarians stationed at the on-line services center. I was interestedin following up a hunch that the CIA, reportedly involved in LSD