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By Cathy Burke |
House lawmakers are pressing the Pentagon on whether it experimented with weaponizing disease-carrying insects decades ago — and whether they were let loose, Roll Call reported.
The pressure came in an unusual amendment to the 2020 defense authorization bill, which was passed last week, the news outlet reported.
The amendment from Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., states the Pentagon's inspector general "shall conduct a review of whether the Department of Defense experimented with ticks and other insects regarding use as a biological weapon between the years of 1950 and 1975."
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