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Roosevelt authorized creation of the first U.S. agency dedicated to studying biological warfare. From its anodyne name—War Research Service—no one could deduce its mission. Anyone curious, though, could have made an educated guess by noting that its director was the renowned chemist George Merck, president of the pharmaceutical company that bears his family name.
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Stephen Kinzer (Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control)