STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS Area Code 415

321-1200

Hareh 11, 1969
Dear Kiley--
I look forward to seeing you 3/24.
Some suggestions for discussion:

Li/Image problems of CW and Bi work. Can't be separated from
x3 substantial issues--

Minimizing the secret sector. Can one major installation be
made open (like iialter Reed) and concentrate the sensitive work
elsewhere? Delegate its operation to the PHS?

Get more biologists interested in the threat of Bi proliferation.
More open exposition of the problem, and elicitation of research that
might bear sxe on control systems. Tighteh (sic) security in areas

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that might contribute to proliferation.

Where will it all end? Can Bi proliferation be controlled? Will
BW be adopted as a guerilla tactic, and what countermeasures are
possible? (I am very worried about this, but hardly dare mention it
for fear of putting an evil idea in someone's head.)

Is there any danger of a Skull Valley
igicident with a Bw agent? ‘sill we have to wait till after the fact
to set up a review conmission that looks for possible trouble?

I am planning to attend uUIIO and Pugwash conferences on By hazards
‘and control approaches in May. I hardly know here to begin in trying
to approach these problems, but wa can even less afford not to. TI will
ask your personal reaction to sone of the schemes that have been sug-
gested (especially deden's idea of emphasizing deployment-verification

and strengthening detection systems-- I'm sure you saw his piece in
the AKM, ) .

Yours,

Dr. Riley Housewrigh
Technical Director
Department of the Army
Fort Detrick

Frederick, Maryland 21701

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