The Navy conducted aerosol tests on guinea pigs beginning in 1943.

Evidence

At the University of California, Berkeley, a teacher and bacteriologist, Albert Krueger, oversaw the Naval Biological Laboratory, which had an outpost on the island of Alameda, near Oakland. (Fulfilling the requirement that certain infectious research be carried out offshore.) Beginning in 1943, Krueger’s team worked on experimental aerosol weapons using pestis as their active agent: plague. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 199

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 199
• XREF: connects to: Guinea pigs exposed to the aerosol died from induced diseases. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 197

Broader Connections

• Guinea pigs exposed to the aerosol died from induced diseases. #expands (0.75) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 197