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File: aabfw_02.txtMemo For General Glosson RE: Your question to Lt Col Hill and Mr Chris Centner (AV 225-2683 or 3309) Ref Salmon pac R&D facility - may contain Anthrax - one of the most dangerous biological weapons known. Research area may contain small amounts. Destruction of bunkers may spread disease for miles. According to US Army Biological threat analysis ctr -.disease may spread to countries including "USSR" ,Syria, Israel, Turkey, and Greece causing thousands of millions' of casualties. "Best case would be that bunkers are empty but we don't know that. Ex: The Soviets accidentially released 221bs of anthrax in 1979 and it spread tens of square miles creating 400 to 1600 casualties in sparsely populated area (Sverdlorsk). Military and civilian populations in Middle East are fully susceptible to anthrax. Anthrax may persist in the soil for days, weeks, or months. There are no detectors for anthrax. Symptoms are so non-specific that diagnosis in time for penicillin treatment would be highly unlikely If you breath anthrax it's nearly 100% fatal. If ingested through gut, its about 70%. [(b)(6)] . 151 ~tiN
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