NSDM 35: full transcription
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Build the capability quietly. Use it at a scale the public never approved. Account for it only once a court forces the paperwork into daylight. The Classified Record traces that exact pattern from a 1946 screening memo to the 3.4 million warrantless searches the FBI ran in a single year, using the government’s own documents, not speculation.
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The United States will similarly renounce the use of all other methods of bacteriological/biological warfare, for example, incapacitating agents. The United States bacteriological/biological programs will be confined to research and development for defensive purposes, immunization, safety, and field detection measures.
In National Security Decision Memoranda 35 and 44 you directed that all stockpiles of biological agents and munitions be destroyed and that the biological research program of the Department of Defense be confined to defensive purposes only. A detailed plan for the destruction of all biological agents, toxins and associated weapons has been prepared.
This transcription covers Nixon's central public reasoning and the memorandum's operative directive, along with a follow-up memo confirming the actual destruction plan for the existing stockpile. The complete Foreign Relations of the United States documentary record includes the full internal policy review process leading to the decision.
Document: National Security Decision Memorandum 35. November 25, 1969.
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