Fifty years ago, American scientists were in a frantic race to counter what they saw as the Soviet threat from germ warfare. Biological pathogens they developed were tested on volunteers from a pacifist church and were also released in public places.
See more at BBC's article about its documentary (called Hotel Anthrax) on America's secret germ program: Link
You might say I have a "vested interest" in its becoming better known.
www1.va.gov/SHAD
My own personal online "archive":
http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14556
Feel free to contact me.
pbay@digisys.net.
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Please familiarize yourself with the subject matter FIRST, however.
J.B. STone, Human Test Rat
Project SHAD, USS Granville S. Hall,
Main Lab Ship, 1969