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Lindsey Graham: “The U.S. Office of Technical Assessment has included Cuba among the 17 countries in the world which are believed to…”

On the recordDecember 13, 2001
The U.S. Office of Technical Assessment has included Cuba among the 17 countries in the world which are believed to possess biological weapons. As I believe the Senator said a few moments ago in his statement, the former deputy director of the Soviet Union's biological weapons program, Mr. Ken Alibek, revealed that the Soviet Union had been providing assistance to Castro and that Cuba now has one of the most sophisticated genetic engineering labs in the entire world. Was the Senator from New Jersey aware of that history of preparation for violence through terrorism?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Discussing Cuba's potential biological weapons capabilities and its history of Soviet assistance.

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