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Subject: MEETING ON BIO WARFARE LAB CAPABILITIES FOR THE AOR OPER DS     

Unit: OTSG        

Parent Organization: HSC         

Box  ID: BX003201

Folder Title: CONFIRMATION OF ATTACK WITH BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS                                                  

Document Number:         12

Folder Seq  #:         17






                                   UNCLASSIFIED


         DASG-HCD-D (50k)
                                                                  SJAN
         MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD

         SUBJECT: Minutes - Joint Working Group Meeting on Biological
         Warfare Laboratory Capabilities for the Area of Responsibility
         (AOR) for Operation Desert Shield (U)


         1. (U) Meeting was held on 3 Jan 91 at OTSG. Agenda and attendees
         list are provided at enclosures 1 and 2, respectively.

         2. (U) Purpose of meeting was to discuss the draft OSD memo on
         placement of BW lab capabilities in the AOR to provide irrefutable
         confirmation of a BW attack (Encl 3) and BW lab capabilities which
         should be added to existing capabilities in the AOR. Document
         entitled "Biological Warfare (BW) Attack in the Area of
         Responsibility (AOR) - Alert and Confirmation Capability for
         Operation Desert Shield,(U)II was finalized as the template of our
         position (Encl 4).

         3. (U) The Joint Working Group developed the following BW
         positions and initiatives:

            a.  @ It is neither feasible nor operationally acceptable to
         place comprehensive medical laboratory capabilities in the AOR to
         provide irrefutable confirmation of a BW attack upon which National
         Command Authority decisions can be made.

            b.  @ Irrefutable confirmation of an AOR BW attack should be
         based on analysis results of CONUS labs (e.g., U.S. Army Medical
         Research Institute of Infectious Disease, USAMRIID) and a
         confirmatory CONUS lab with world scientific standing. It was also
         mentioned that an agreement was
         potential BW samples they receive from the AOR would be split, half
         of the sample to be analyzed                         half shipped
         to USAMRIID for analysis. Potential BW samples received at
to
         Porton.

            c.      Additional BW lab capabilities should be placed in the
         AOR at the Navy Forward Lab (NFL), 996th Lab VA, and the Navy
         Medical Research Unit 3 in Cairo.  They are as follows:

                 (1) @ U.S. Army Medical    Research Institute of Infectious
         Disease (USAMRIID) should assemble an identical BW identification
         package as the one already sent to the NFL and 10th Medical Lab.
         This package will need to be forwarded to the 996th Lab VA NLT 15
         Jan 91 because of critical mission requirement.
                                       .J)ECLASSIFIED
         CLASSIFIED BY: MULTIPLE SOURC@
         DECLASSIFY ON: OADR            @ON: 05 DEC 96
                                         BY: SEC ARMY (DAMH) UNDER SEC 3.4 EO 12958
                                     SEGRELIT'

                                   UNCLASSIFIED

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File Room = sep96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-36
Box ID = BX003201
Unit = OTSG
Parent Organization = HSC
Folder Title = CONFIRMATION OF ATTACK WITH BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
Folder Seq # = 17
Subject = MEETING ON BIO WARFARE LAB CAPABILITIES FOR THE
Document Seq # = 12
Document Date =
Scan Date =
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 17-DEC-1996