1999-2000 Project Bacchus

Attachments

1998-Today Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
Anthrax
Arms control
Biological warfare (BW)
Bioterrorism
Military projects of the United States
United States Biological Weapons Program operations and exercises
United States clandestine programs omitted from the Biological Weapons Convention

Notable was the fact that the clandestine program was omitted from BWC confidence-building measure (CBM) declarations.
Project Bacchus operated from 1999-2000 to investigate whether would-be terrorists could build an anthrax production facility and remain undetected.
Project Bacchus was a covert investigation by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency US Defense Department to determine whether it is possible to construct a bioweapons production facility with off-the-shelf equipment.
The book, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, and the article are the only publicly available sources[citation needed] concerning Project Bacchus and its sister projects, Clear Vision and Jefferson.[1]