Dugway Official’s Top Secret Briefing to FBI Special Agent Details Germ War Capabilities

Map of Dugway Proving Ground, combined with the Utah Test and Training Range. Source: Dugway Proving Ground, Mission & Capabilities Overview, Published by U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (pg. 10)

On November 15, 1950, Jay C. Newman, Special Agent in Charge at the Federal Bureau of Intelligence’s Salt Lake City office, wrote a memo to J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI. The subject was a briefing he received from a top military official concerning work on biological warfare experiments at the secretive U.S. Army Dugway Proving…