ONE OF THE MANY DOCUMENTS that Ned and Steve managed to get declassified, the “1951 Program Guidance Report,” dated December 5, 1950, was a thirteen-page set of recommendations by the Committee on Biological Warfare of the Department of Defense’s Research and Development Board (RDB), chaired by MIT-trained weaponeer William Webster.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 137