Scientists conducted covert biological warfare tests in San Francisco in 1950.
Evidence
What was happening just then, in secret, was that scientists of covert warfare from Camp Detrick, along with Berkeley’s Albert Krueger and Captain Cecil Coggins of Naval Intelligence, had converged on San Francisco in order to investigate the “offensive possibilities of attacking a seaport city with a BW aerosol.” — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 258
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 258
- XREF: connects to: Serratia marcescens caused infections and at least one death in San Francisco. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 259; The military’s bacterial tests likely caused a cluster of infections in San Francisco. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 261
Library Connections
- The military’s bacterial tests likely caused a cluster of infections in San Francisco.
#expands(0.90) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 261 - Serratia marcescens caused infections and at least one death in San Francisco.
#expands(0.85) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 259