Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy The Threat of Biological Warfare William C. Patrick III February 13, 2001 William C. Patrick III has almost fifty years of experience in the field of Biological Warfare. From 1965 to 1972, he was chief of the Product Development Division of the Agent Development and Engineering Directorate for the Army's Biological Warfare laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland. When the American bioweapons program was discontinued, he stayed on at Ft. Detrick to coordinate research on medical defenses against potential biological agents until he retired from government service in 1986. Mr. Patrick visited Iraq as a weapons inspector for the United Nations in 1994 on the Iraqi clandestine biological warfare program. He now acts as a consultant to the F.B.I., the Defense Intelligence Agency and the C.I.A. |