Catalogue description War Cabinet and Cabinet: Bacteriological Warfare Committee: Minutes and Papers

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Reference: CAB 136
Title: War Cabinet and Cabinet: Bacteriological Warfare Committee: Minutes and Papers
Description:

This series contains the secretary's files dealing with various subjects including provision of effective counter-measures against bacteriological attack.
Date: 1941-1946
Arrangement:

Chronological
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Cabinet, Bacteriological Warfare Committee, 1941-1944

War Cabinet, Bacteriological Warfare Committee, 1942-1942
Physical description: 14 file(s)
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1976 Cabinet Office
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Following a meeting of the Defence Committee on 2 January 1942 which agreed to proposals put forward by Lord Hankey (the Paymaster General) to proceed with a project to manufacture and store infected cattle cakes, a structure for the Bacteriological Warfare Committee was set-up.

Its terms of reference were:

  • (1) The primary object of research and experimentation was to provide effective protective measures.
  • (2) That, subject to (1) above, Lord Hankey was authorised to take such measures as he might from time to time deem appropriate to enable the United Kingdom without undue delay in the event that the enemy use bacteria offensively.

There were a few caveats to (2) above, which are listed in CAB 136/1

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