BW Locations

[Jim Knipp <jknipp@usit.net>]

Ted:

I'm not sure this is what you are looking for, but here are the sites I can
recall at which BW material was either manufactured, purified, and/or stored.

1. Antipersonnel Agents

 Directorate of Biological Operations (DBO), Pine Bluff, Arkansas
 DBO manufactured and stored a wide variety of BW agents and/or delivery
systems; I have seen the facility, including the equipment and purification
facilities for Venezuelan Equine Encephalomylytis (sp?), or VEE. I do know
many other antipersonnel agents were grown and stored there as well, but I
not sure what they all were. The Director in the early 1970s was Glenn Acorn.

2. Anticrop Agents

 Fort Detrick, Md. -- Rice Blast

 Beale AFB, California -- Grew Wheat Stem Rust

 Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Denver, CO -- purified Wheat Stem Rust (i.e,
separated the rust spores from the chaff) and stored the purified spores in
cryogenic storage there.

 Dugway Proving Ground -- here the "research quantities" of bio agents were
stored for use in "defensive research" after destruction of the stockpile.
The term "research quantities" is somewhat misleading, as these are live
organisms that reproduce quickly, so a stockpile could easily be restored.

In 1971, while a student at the US Army Command and General Staff College,
I wrote a paper taken from unclassified literature only about the
significance (or lack thereof) in destroying the stockpile. Although the
paper is now out-of-date, the bibliography (again, all of unclassified
sources, primarily newspapers) may be of some help; I'm sending it to you.

Jim