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| | Noted Bioweapons Foe: Plans for Fort Detrick Are Illegal |
 | | The Army maintains that its research at Fort Detrick has been, and will continue to be, solely defensive in nature. |
 | | Specifically, Boyle wrote that the work at Fort Detrick "will include acquiring, growing, modifying, storing, packaging and dispersing classical, emerging and genetically engineered pathogens." Such activities, along with expected research on the pathogens' weaponized properties, "are unmistakable hallmarks of an offensive weapons program," Boyle wrote. |
 | | USAMRIID Commander Col. George Korch Jr., said in 2004 that the government might genetically engineer organisms at Fort Detrick to make them deadlier to ensure that U.S. defenses would be effective against the most dangerous pathogens. |
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