The CIA had a long, sordid history of secretly promoting the US bioweapons program. One of the agency’s first projects was establishing a network of so-called “ratlines” that Army intelligence officers used to smuggle some 1,600 chemicals and bioweapons and WMD experts—many of them Nazi Party kingpins and notorious war criminals—out of the reach of the Allies’ Nuremberg prosecutors following World War II. The directors of a notorious operation, code-named Paperclip, provided these researchers with new identities and put them to work developing US germ warfare capacity at Ft. Detrick and
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