A committee report from 1950 focused on biological warfare strategies.

Evidence

ONE OF THE MANY DOCUMENTS that Ned and Steve managed to get declassified, the “1951 Program Guidance Report,” dated December 5, 1950, was a thirteen-page set of recommendations by the Committee on Biological Warfare of the Department of Defense’s Research and Development Board (RDB), chaired by MIT-trained weaponeer William Webster. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 137

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 137
• XREF: connects to: The U.S. studied using insects to spread illness during the 1950s. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1040; The U.S. recommended intensified biological warfare research in 1951. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 139