The CIA planned biological attacks against Soviet crops using spores.
Evidence
Once the E-73 feather bomb was a reality, shown to have performed well on fields of oats in New York, the Air Force and the CIA began figuring out how best to use it to ruin Soviet agriculture. … The plan came to be called Project Steelyard—perhaps this was an allusion to the counterweighted steelyard scales that farmers traditionally used to measure how much heavy things (like bags of grain) weighed. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 328
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 328
- XREF: connects to: Castro suspected the CIA introduced biological plagues to undermine Cuba. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 107; The CIA treated foreign nations as laboratories for experimentation. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 349; The CIA’s MKULTRA program involved unethical biochemical experimentation. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 106
Broader Connections
- The CIA treated foreign nations as laboratories for experimentation.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 349 - Castro suspected the CIA introduced biological plagues to undermine Cuba.
#exemplifies(0.70) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 107 - The CIA’s MKULTRA program involved unethical biochemical experimentation.
#exemplifies(0.60) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 106