Americans Working on Germ Warfare

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.ecccsccccece Assertions by a Philadelphia anti-war committee, that the University of Pennsylvania has been involved in secret research into chemical and germ warfare, have provoked a violent controversy in which the authorities have now been forced to confirm the existence of a laboratory staffed by forty chemists, biologists, physicists, mathematicians and meteorologists, and financed by the Pentagon to the tune of £12 million annually - nearly a third of the entire University budget. The allegations which forced this disclosure were the result of a rumour that the university was carrying out research into diseases of rice, and the Philadelphia committee correctly linked this with chemical warfare efforts in South Vietnam