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Fort Detrick was the site of Biological Warfare research; there is a building on the base which was sealed in plastics after an accidental release of Anthrax . On Veterans Day, November 11, 1969, President Richard Nixon asked the Senate to ratify the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting use of chemical and biological weapons. Nixon assured Fort Detrick its research would continue. On November 25, 1969, Nixon signed an Executive Order outlawing offensive biological research in the United States. BIOLOGICAL TESTS PERFORMED ON SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied hundreds of thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances. The quote from the study: Many experiments that tested various biological agents on human subjects, referred to as Operation Whitecoat , were carried out at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in the 1950's. The human subjects originally consisted of volunteer enlisted men. However, after the enlisted men staged a sitdown strike to obtain more information about the dangers of the biological tests, Seventh-Day Adventists who were conscientious objectors were recruited for the studies. CONSPIRACY THEORIES Some AIDS Conspiracy Theorists , notably Jakob Segal , claim that Fort Detrick was the site where the United States government invented HIV . FOOTNOTES |
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