A Pentagon official begged her bosses not to cancel a Harvard University grant aimed at curtailing biological threats, arguing that pulling it would pose “grave and immediate harm to national security.”

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) director of contracting said the grant funded a Harvard research team that had reached a “pivotal juncture” in a project addressing the “biological threat landscape,” according to Monday court filings in the university’s lawsuit against the Trump administration, first reported by The Boston Globe.

The official was unnamed in the filings.

Harvard, which is suing the administration over roughly $2.5........

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