From 1952 to 1957, an Army worker cultivated wheat disease at a military airfield.

Evidence

From 1952 to 1957 an Army worker named Tom West cultivated quantities of wheat disease on plots the size of football fields at an unused military airfield in Boca Raton, Florida—now the site of the Boca Raton Airport. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 856

Categorization

• XREF: The historical context links this to the broader trend of chemical warfare in the Cold War.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 856