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What Our Readers Say
Che~ical
and Biological Warfare
Your article, "The Specter of Poi–
son Gas War fare," June-July, 1980,
issue of
The Plain Truth
indeed was
very interesting.
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wou1d like to add
my comments regarding the subject .
Having been an instructor for the
military in Chemica1 and Biological
Agent Weapon s Systems from
March , 1968, to late 1970, we knew
in 1968 that the U.S.S.R. had a
chemical agent capability and a
potentia1 bio1ogica1 agent capability
with the possibi1ity that either or
both could be employed in warfare.
We were well aware that the Soviets
were very serious in their training of
chemical warfare using the actual
agents in the field as their troops
went about their normal duties while
being exposed to the agents. During
warfare, it is expected that the
Soviets could employ the incapacita–
ting chemical agent "BZ."
The U .S. had no standard Biological
Agent Weapons System; however, the
capability of employing incapacitating
or lethal biological agents was a possi–
bility until 1969 when President Nix–
on ordered all "inventory" stocks of
microorganisms and the delivery sys–
tems destroyed. We were well aware
that a possible enemy such as the
U.S.S.R. had a potential biological
agent capability and very likely would
use it to his advantage.
Now what about the possibility of
causing disease in plant life? In this
application antiplant agents called
fungi would be employed. Fungi
includes molds, mildews, smuts,
mushrooms , toadstools, puflballs and
yeast. These agents achieve their
results by producing disease in the
host plants so that the grain yield is
greatly reduced, even to the extent
that it is not sufficient to harvest.
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would be possible to infect, let's say,
a wheat field on the upwind side and
under desirable conditions the anti-
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plant agent will be carried by the
wind from plant to plant eventually
affec ting virtually every stalk of
wheat, destroying same. The disease
spreads extremely fast and by the
time it is discovered the irreversible
darnage is beyond control. This sys–
tem of plant destruction can be
applied to many, many types of plant
life over thousands of acres and theo–
retically reduce the harvest substan–
tially.
We have known for years the poten–
tia! of chemical warfare. ls it possible a
potential enemy could create a man–
made pestilence of famine?
Pro. ..
Don K. Colson
Sierra Vista, Ari zona
No magazine in our entire country
has pointed out so clearly and
convincingly the terrifying dangers
mankind faces from our new weapons
of war as has
The Plain Truth.
The masses of people everywhere
want nothing so much as to líve their
short lives in peace but we have
allowed the hate merchants, warmon–
gers and munition profiteers to take
over and now we face a World War
111 which could kili every human
being on earth.
Unless somehow people every–
where can be informed and really
aroused we truly face an ominous
future.
Charles C. Lockwood
Bradenton, Florida
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Maybe what you say is true but
1
see no need to constantly indulge in
horror stories concerning things over
which
1
have no control.
Prisons
Ed Kilber
Artesia, New Mexico
1
am in receipt of Junej July, 1980,
The Plain Truth
and was pleased to
see sorne comment on the state of the
prison system in the United States.
The researched processes of the
criminal mind at a distant view for
analysis do nothing to assist the priso–
ner to know that someone cares and
certainly doesn ' t make for interesting
reading material for those presently
incarcerated.
Danna Sickler
Winter Park, Florida
Warrnest greetings to you all. At
the present time
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am an inmate here
at Jackson Prison in Michigan . The
art icles in the Junej J uly issue on
"Understanding the Criminal Mind"
and " Are Prisons the Biblical Way to
Deal with Crime?" are truly the most
enlightening articles 1 have ever read.
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speak as one that has becn taken
advantage of by a man-made system
that doesn ' t even begin to understand
God's way of doing things.
lt
's just so
wondcrful to know that soon our
Lord and Savior will be returning to
this earth, to do away with such a
poor system of doing things. A sys–
tem that makcs laws, jus t to break
other laws. Laws that wouldn't be
needed in the first place if mankind
would just obey "God's Eterna!
Law." Picase keep up the good work.
You ' re all in my prayers and
thoughts.
C. E.
Jackson , Michigan
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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want to express my deep
appr~
ciation for your recent article on
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek . Not
many have the understanding or the
honor to recognize the greatness of
thi s noble stateswoman and what she
did and strove to do for her country
and the world.
Rodney Whitt
York, Kentucky
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