Mobile Production Facilities for Biological Agents (UN Security Council slide)
A computer-rendered diagram of truck-mounted biological-weapons plants, shown to the UN Security Council six weeks before the invasion of Iraq. The slide presented the labs as established fact. The claim rested mainly on one Iraqi defector, codenamed 'Curveball,' whose reliability had already been questioned inside the U.S. and German intelligence services, and those doubts were not on the slide.
- Date
- February 5, 2003
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- U.S. Department of State (Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Document
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- George W. Bush Administration
- Leader
- George W. Bush
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance, Science and technology
- Event
- Iraq War
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of State, remarks to the UN Security Council, 5 February 2003.
Text on the object
Mobile Production Facilities For Biological Agents Active Material Tanks Spray Dryers Filling Machine Fermentation Control Panel
Label positions (top title; callout labels pointing to parts of the rendered trucks): Active Material Tanks and Fermentation/Control Panel label the left-hand truck, Spray Dryers and Filling Machine label the right-hand truck.
