In any case, the appropriation bill which is said to have contained funding for the biological warfare research, H.R. 15090, was actually not introduced until December 3, 1969, some five months after the July hearing. It was approved by the House on December 8th, by the Senate on December 15th, and was signed into law by President Nixon on December 29th as Public Law 91-171. Careful scrutiny of the measure reveals no mention of $10 million (or any other figure) to create an invulnerable virus.
Do classified projects usually appear as line items in a publicly distrubited document?
For veteran budget watchers, deciphering the facts behind such late additions is a challenge. They often appear in amounts so small no one would notice, written in language so obscure no one would understand. It sometimes takes rigorous investigation to pin the money to a specific company and sponsor, even more to find out the real reasons behind them.
The late additions are less subject to public scrutiny and debate. Lawrence Korb, an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, said the last-minute additions are even worse than the ones that make their way into earlier versions of the bill "in the sense that nobody can do anything about them."
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Introduced and signed in less than a month? With signature 1 day before New Year's Eve? Sounds like a late addition to me. And that addition may not have ever mentioned the virus research. The late addition may have been written in the obscure language referenced above.