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Sat 15 Jan, 2005 07:53 pm
Quote:JAMES BONES
THE TIMES, LONDON
NEW YORK, Jan. 15. ?- Iraqi insurgents beware: the Pentagon once considered developing aphrodisiacs to use as "weapons of mass affection".
Newly declassified documents reveal that the US defence department received a proposal from an air force laboratory to create a chemical agent ?- quickly dubbed the "love bomb" that would make enemy fighters sexually irresistible to each other. The 1994 proposal by the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, sought funds for work on "chemicals that affect human behaviour so that discipline and morale in enemy units are affected".
"One non-lethal example would be aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical caused homosexual behaviour," the proposal said.
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