Present State of Progress in Biological Warfare in Foreign Countries. Report by the Joint Intelligence Committee

TOP SECRET to the outside world. If such a project existed, however, it would be necessary to regard the activities of the small group referred to in paragraph 7 as being merely a camouflage to mislead foreign intelligence. It would also be necessary to suppose that the antibiotics industry in the U.S.S.R. is being deliberately held back, while relatively large sums of foreign currency are spent on acquiring plant and "knowhow" which, but for security considerations, might have been obtained by reference to the supposed large-scale B.W.