U.S. government planned to produce 130 million mosquitoes monthly for warfare.

Evidence

Jenkins’s lab was able to produce half a million disease-infected mosquitoes a month. Which wasn’t enough, apparently: in a summary report from January 1960, the Chemical Corps said it had proposed the construction of a full-scale plant that would have a monthly output of 130 million mosquitoes. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 666

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to the broader context of governmental research into biological warfare during the Cold War.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 666