Biological Warfare Test Station

Biological Warfare Test Station, Granite Peak, Utah. 

To a greater degree, perhaps, than in any of the other CWS research programs, the one for biological warfare was a joint service undertaking. The Navy, for example, provided almost a quarter of the technical staff required at Camp Detrick and other test installations, drawing them principally from the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and the Bureau 

From the very beginning responsible officials maintained the strictest secrecy in this country, Canada, and England concerning the fact that work was being done in BW. They took stringent security measures not only to prevent the enemy from obtaining information, but also to keep the public and the armed forces from becoming unduly alarmed over the possibility of BW. 

Because they were set up as classified exempt stations, Camp Detrick and other BW installations took elaborate precautions to conceal their purpose. The professional background of employees could not be revealed, no person receiving special procedures (as the vaccination routines were called) might donate blood to the Red Cross, and the nature of materials and stores procured for the installation was disguised. 

An important phase of security operations at Camp Detrick involved the nearby town of Frederick. Despite all efforts, as was reported in a security survey made in the town, anyone who really wanted to find out 

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