U.S. Government Documents
on Prevention

This is our working compendium of biosecurity-related U.S. government documents in the public domain. To recommend a government document for inclusion, please email the Webmaster.

Central Intelligence Agency

• Terrorist CBRN: Materials and Effects (2003)
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, July - December (2003)
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, January - June (2003)
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, July - December (2002)
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, January-June (2002)
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, July - December (2001) [External link]
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, January - June (2001) [External link]
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, July - December (2000) [External link]
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, January - June (2000) [External link]
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, July - Dec (1999) [External link]
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, January - June (1999) [External link]
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, January - June (1998) [External link]
• Report of Proliferation-Related Acquisition in 1997 [External link]

Department of Defense

• Report on Activities and Programs for Countering Proliferation and NBC Terrorism Volume I Executive Summary (2007)

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Select Agents and Toxins Theft, Loss and Release Information Document (2008)

OIG

• Summary Report on State, Local, Private, and Commercial Laboratories’ Compliance With Select Agent Regulations (2008)
• Summary Report on Universities' Compliance With Select Agent Regulations (2006)
• Summary Report on Select Agent Security at Universities (2004)

National Institutes of Health, National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity

• Addressing Biosecurity Concerns Related to the Synthesis of Select Agents (2006)
• NSABB Draft Guidance Documents (2006)

Department of Agriculture

• Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002; Possession, Use, and Transfer of Biological Agents and Toxins; Final Rule (2005)

OIG

• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Evaluation of the Implementation of the Select Agent or Toxin Regulations Phase I (2005)

Department of State

• Country Reports on Terrorism [External link]
• Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments (2005)
• Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control and Nonproliferation Agreements and Commitments (2001)

 Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office)

• Biosafety Laboratories: Perimeter Security Assessment of the Nation's Five BSL-4 Laboratories (2008)
• Biological Research Laboratories: Issues Associated with the Expansion of Laboratories Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2007)
• Plum Island Animal Disease Center (2005)
• Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nonproliferation Programs Need Better Integration (2005)
• Combating Bioterrorism: Actions Needed to Improve Security at Plum Island Animal Disease Center (2003)
• Weapons of Mass Destruction: Additional Russian Cooperation Needed to Facilitate U.S. Efforts to Improve Security at Russian Sites (2003)
• Weapons of Mass Destruction: Observations on U.S. Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Programs in Russia (2003)
• Homeland Security: CDC's Oversight of the Select Agent Program (2002)
• Nonproliferation: Strategy Needed to Strengthen Multilateral Export Control Regimes (2002)

Other

• Intelligence Capabilities of U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction (2005) [External link]

DNI

• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions (2004)