President Richard Nixon ended the biological warfare program in 1969 & America signed the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention with Nixon officially renouncing biological warfare; did the CIA contravene

& violate Nixon's ban by continuing biological weapons research with biological agents and toxins (see below)? There are many accounts and statements and document II seeks to shed light

LINK:

https://wmdcenter.ndu.edu/Portals/97/Documents/Publications/Case%20Studies/cswmd_cs1.pdf

‘Nixon announced his new policy on biological warfare at a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 25, 1969. “Biological weapons have massive, unpredictable, and potentially uncontrollable consequences,” he declared. “They may produce global epidemics and impair the health of future generations.” In recognition of these dangers, he continued, the United States had decided to destroy its entire stockpile of biological agents and confine its future biological research program to defensive measures, such as vaccines and field detectors.’

and

‘British draft convention calling for a global ban on the development, production, stockpiling, and transfer of biological weapons. “These important decisions,” Nixon intoned, “have been taken as an initiative toward peace. Mankind already carries in its own hands too many of the seeds of its own destruction. By the example we set today, we hope to contribute to an atmosphere of peace and understanding between nations and among men.”’

then:

DOCUMENT II

LINK:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB58/RNCBW_USABWP.pdf