FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Tuesday, August 21, 2001
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DIARY ENTRY — Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 32–33 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Attended a meeting at the White House of the Policy Coordinating
Committee of the Biological Weapons Conference group. Chaired by Robert Joseph
(Special asst. to the President) and Richard Falkenrath (Deputy to Condolezza Rice).
Present at meeting was Ambassador Donald Mahley, Special Negotiator at State
Department for Chemical/Biological Weapons, as well as representatives from Justice
Dept., State, DOD, DHHS (me, John La Montagne, William Steiger), etc. Purpose was
to review document that the group put together (White Paper) as a policy that the
President will articulate in association with the USA refusing to re-certify the Biological

Weapons Conference. The paper takes a high road approach about how to handle this
problem, while recognizing that much of what was contained in previous agreements was
unenforcible. John La Montagne and I had contributed to the scientific components of
the white paper.