He continued, "In fact, it is not a biological warfare center.

An existing 9,000-square-foot building is to be converted to offices from a former naval underwater warfare center.

Mr. Moore said the argument to save the warfare center this year would center largely on money.

Staff members of the former warfare center planted their New London sequoia in April 1966.

The coalition will argue that the warfare center, which specializes in sonar, should instead become a Navy center for acoustics.

In 1979 an accident at a Soviet biological warfare center killed some 70 people in the city of Sverdlovsk, now Ekaterinburg.

His last command was the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center.

He served at the Special Warfare Center and taught "terrorists" - insurgents, he says, who learned how to destabilize foreign governments.

In 1991 the Pentagon proposed closing the warfare center in New London, but the grassroots group convinced the commission to spare it.

But the C.I.A. has recently created an Information Warfare Center.