Robert F. Kennedy Jr Explains the History of the U.S. Bioweapons Program

“The first mission of the CIA, when it was started in 1947, was called Operation Paperclip. And Operation Paperclip was an effort to get German Nazi scientists, many of whom were sentenced to death or who were facing prosecution at Nuremberg, to smuggle them out on ratlines and put them to work developing bioweapons and chemical weapons and nuclear weapons and missile systems in the United States. So a lot of them ended up in Fort Detrick. They ended up down in Galveston or one of the Navy labs. And that was the beginning of the United States bioweapons program.”