Editing Fort Detrick (section)

====Testing performed on Seventh-day Adventists (1940–1974)====
The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied hundreds of thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances.

The quote from the study:

<blockquote>Many experiments that tested various biological agents on human subjects, referred to as [[Operation Whitecoat]], were carried out at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in the 1950s. The human subjects originally consisted of volunteer enlisted men. However, after the enlisted men staged a [[sitdown strike]] to obtain more information about the dangers of the biological tests, [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventists]] (SDAs) who were [[conscientious objector]]s were recruited for the studies.<ref>Staff Report prepared for the committee on veterans' affairs December 8, 1994 John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia, Chairman at [http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/rockrep.cfm gulfweb.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813164326/http://gulfweb.org/bigdoc/rockrep.cfm |date=2006-08-13 }}</ref></blockquote>

The Army purchased an additional {{convert|147|acre|ha}} in 1946 to increase the size of the original "Area A" as well as {{convert|398|acre|ha}} located west of Area A, but not contiguous to it, to provide a test area known as Area B.<ref>{{Cite web
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|quote=In September 1946, an additional 147 acres were purchased to increase the size of the original Area A location. At the same time 398 acres located west of Area A, but not contiguous to this area, were purchased to provide a test area. This parcel was located west of Rosemont Avenue, then Yellow Springs Pike, bordering Montevue Lane on the south, near the old Alms House, north by Kemp Lane and Rocky Springs Road and the Krantz family property along today's Shookstown Road. It was named Area B.
}}</ref> In 1952, another {{convert|502.76|acre|ha|1}} were purchased between West 7th Street and Oppossumtown Pike to expand the permanent research and development facilities.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=http://www.detrick.army.mil/cutting_edge/chapter03.cfm
|title=Cutting Edge, The History of Fort Detrick, Chapter 3 Building an Installation
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005110001/http://www.detrick.army.mil/cutting_edge/chapter03.cfm
|archive-date=2013-10-05
|quote=In 1952, the Army purchased 502.76 acres of land located between West 7th Street and Opossumtown Pike to expand the permanent research and development facilities.
}}</ref>

Jeffrey Alan Lockwood wrote in 2009 that the biological warfare program at Ft. Detrick began to research the use of insects as disease vectors going back to World War II and also employed German and [[Japanese people|Japanese]] scientists after the war who had experimented on human subjects among POWs and concentration camp inmates. Scientists used or attempted to use a wide variety of insects in their biowar plans, including fleas, ticks, ants, lice and mosquitoes – especially mosquitoes that carried the [[yellow fever]] virus. They also tested these in the United States. Lockwood thinks that it is very likely that the U.S. did use insects dropped from aircraft during the Korean War to spread diseases, and that the [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] and [[North Korea]]ns were not simply engaged in a [[propaganda]] campaign when they made these allegations, since the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense had approved their use in the fall of 1950 at the "earliest practicable time".  At that time, it had five biowarfare agents ready for use, three of which were spread by insect vectors.<ref>Jeffrey Alan Lockwood, Six Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War. Oxford, 2009.</ref>