{"id":153464,"date":"2020-02-10T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=153464"},"modified":"2020-02-17T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:50:10","slug":"biological-weapons-a-useful-and-timely-factual-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/biological-weapons-a-useful-and-timely-factual-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Biological Weapons: A Useful and Timely Factual Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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7 Feb 2020 – The US government and its many agencies and educational and health institutions have for many decades conducted intensive research into biological warfare, in many cases strongly focused on race-specific pathogens.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In a report to the US Congress, the Department of Defense revealed that its program of creating artificial biological agents included modifying non-fatal viruses to make them lethal, and genetic engineering to alter the immunology of biological agents to make treatment and vaccinations impossible. The military report admitted that at the time it operated about 130 bio-weapons research facilities, dozens at US universities and others at many international sites outside the purview of the US Congress and the jurisdiction of the courts.<\/p>\n

This knowledge hasn\u2019t been a secret for a long time. In a classified 1948 report by the Pentagon\u2019s Committee on Biological Warfare, the main selling point was that:<\/p>\n

\u201cA gun or a bomb leaves no doubt that a deliberate attack has occurred. But if \u2026 an epidemic slashes across a crowded city, there is no way of knowing whether anyone attacked, much less who\u201d, adding hopefully that \u201cA significant portion of the human population within selected target areas may be killed or incapacitated\u201d with only very small amounts of a pathogen. (1) (2)<\/p>\n

A US Army operating manual from 1956 stated explicitly that biological and chemical warfare were an integral operating portion of US military strategy, were not restricted in any way, and that Congress had given the military \u201cFirst Strike\u201d authority on their use. In 1959, an attempt by Congress to remove this first-strike authority was defeated by the White House and Kennedy increased bio-chemical weapons expenditures from $75 million to almost $350 million. That was an enormous amount of money in 1959. (3)<\/p>\n

US\u00a0<\/strong>Defense Secretary Robert McNamara\u00a0executed 150 top-secret bio-weapons programs in the late 1960s and early 1970s, performing bio-weapons experiments and field tests on an unwitting public, sometimes in foreign countries but most often against American citizens. McNamara ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff \u201cto consider all possible applications\u201d of these agents against enemy nations in a coherent plan for a total \u201cbiological and chemical deterrent capability\u201d, the plan to include cost estimates and an \u201cappraisal of international political consequences\u201d. (4) (5)<\/p>\n

In the year 2000,\u00a0The Project for the New American Century<\/strong>\u00a0(6) (7) produced a report titled, \u201cRebuilding America\u2019s Defenses\u201d, which contained a radical and belligerent Right-Wing policy ambition for America. Their report called itself a \u201cblueprint for maintaining global US preeminence \u2026 and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests.\u201d The authors, their genocidal mentality obvious, stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cAdvanced forms of biological warfare that can \u2018target\u2019 specific genotypes may transform biological warfare \u2026 to a politically useful tool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bio-Weapons Research Institutions<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Army\u2019s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases<\/strong>\u00a0at Fort Detrick, Maryland is the military\u2019s main facility for research on biological warfare. It comprises 80,000 m\u00b2. By the mid-1980s, this bio-weapons section of Fort Detrick was receiving nearly $100 million per year, and this was only one of many sections.<\/p>\n

When Japan invaded China, one of Dr. Ishii\u2019s (unit 731) grand successes was to develop methods of mass-producing fleas and ticks infected with the plague and other lethal pathogens for distribution among civilian populations \u2013 which is how the Americans learned to weaponise insects \u2013 to breed and disseminate ticks infested with Lyme Disease from their secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory in New York State. This was also the source of the US programs of breeding and disseminating mosquitoes and fleas infected with cholera and Yellow Fever in China and North Korea, to say nothing of the domestic mosquito programs the US inflicted on its own people.<\/p>\n

Founded on Ishii\u2019s human research, the US military developed an entomological (insect) warfare facility, and initially prepared plans to attack Russia and the Soviet States with entomological bio-weapons. The facility was designed to produce 100 million yellow fever-infected mosquitoes per month, its output tested on unwitting American civilians by dropping infected mosquitoes and other insects over large portions of the US. As is so typical for the US military, these projects beginning in the 1950s and 1960s were given juvenile appellations like \u201cProject Big Buzz\u201d and \u201cProject Big Itch\u201d and \u201cOperation Mayday\u201d (8) (9) (10), but were tests of the feasibility of producing billions of insects, infecting them with lethal pathogens, then loading them into munitions and dispersing them over Russia from aircraft or even missiles.<\/p>\n

From a US Army report from March of 1981, one writer noted that \u201cyou can marvel at how much (or how little) it would have cost to launch a yellow fever-infected mosquito attack on a city \u2013 with a handy \u201cCost per Death\u201d chart included!.\u201d The Dugway Sheep incident is worth attention as well. (11)<\/p>\n

Then we had\u00a0\u201cOperation Drop Kick\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(12), designed to test various ways of dispersing infected insects over large geographical areas, the tests carried out over various parts of the continental US, including most of the East Coast. We had \u201cProject SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Then, as late as 2000, we had\u00a0\u201cProject Bacchus\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0designed to determine the feasibility of constructing an anthrax production facility in a foreign country while remaining undetected. There were other of these programs of course, all with foolish names and all designed to assess the dissemination of infected insects and other lethal pathogens into civilian populations. They were kept very secret since they were illegal in domestic law and contravened international law and many weapons treaties that other nations signed with the US in good faith.<\/p>\n

In addition to Fort Detrick, the US military has a bio-weapons ordnance plant at Vigo, Indiana, which was a massive production facility that specialised in biological pathogens, and capable of producing 275,000 bombs containing Botulinum or one million anthrax bombs per month. The fermenter tanks at Vigo contained 250,000 gallons, or about one million liters, making it, according to reports, by far the largest bacterial mass-production facility in the world.<\/p>\n

This was not a recent development; Vigo was fully operational during the Second World War, essentially a bio-anthrax factory, one of its first orders being from Winston Churchill in 1944 for 500,000 anthrax bombs, and which Churchill stated should be considered only the \u201cfirst installment\u201d. Vigo was eventually turned over to Pfizer for \u201cantibiotics manufacture\u201d and was replaced in the mid-1950s by a new state of the art facility at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. (13) (14) (15)<\/p>\n

The Daily News published an article on 24 September 2005, in which it detailed US Army plans for bulk purchases of anthrax, relating a series of contracts that had been discovered by Edward Hammond, director of the Sunshine Project, which emanated from the military\u2019s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. These notices asked various companies to tender for the production of bulk quantities of anthrax, as well as to produce \u201csignificant volumes\u201d of other biological agents. One contract specified that the tendering company \u201cmust have the ability and be willing to grow (anthrax) in 1,500-litre quantities\u201d, and \u201cmust also be able to produce 3,000-litre batches\u201d of unspecified other biological agents. (16) (17)<\/p>\n

When a nation\u2019s military is producing lethal biological pathogens in quantities of millions of liters, it is time to stop pretending we are not engaged in biological warfare. It is of no comfort that the military might claim these to be \u201charmless\u201d strains of pathogens, since (1) any facility capable of producing benign pathogens can easily produce lethal varieties and (2) there is no such thing as \u2018harmless\u2019 anthrax.<\/p>\n

There is no material difference between a defensive and an offensive biowarfare program, and even fools cannot claim \u201cself-defense\u201d when producing millions of liters of anthrax. Even the US Government Accountability Office, in its 1994 report on these programs, stated that\u00a0US military\u2019s Biological Defense Program<\/strong>\u00a0contained \u201cscores of divisions, departments, research groups, bio-intelligence and more, by no means all related to \u201c\u2018defense\u2019 in any sense\u201d, and were by nature belligerent and offensive military programs. We are nevertheless assured that the US \u201chas never used biological weapons\u201d, by the same people who were simultaneously tendering contracts for the production of anthrax and other \u201cpathogens\u201d in multiple batches of 3,000 liters. Dissembling propaganda is impossible to avoid in America, even in official military medical textbooks.<\/p>\n

There were other sites and facilities besides Fort Detrick that were constructed by the US military solely for the development of bio-weapons, including the Horn Island Testing Station in Mississippi which was meant to be the primary bio-weapons testing site, and the Plum Island Germ Laboratory in New York State from which the military spread Lyme Disease among half the area population.<\/p>\n

One portion of the Plum Island facility was designed exclusively to develop and test lethal animal pathogens that could destroy an enemy nation\u2019s food supply \u2013 as the US attempted to do in North Korea. Deadly strains of foot-and-mouth disease were one result of this research, which the Americans later shared with their fellow psychopaths at Porton Down in the UK \u2013 who put it to good use. An additional portion was the development, testing and production of bombs containing what was called a \u201cvegetable killer acid\u201d, and which could destroy cereals, grains, and most cultivated vegetable crops. I have a strong suspicion that many of the recent bird flu and swine flu epidemics originated from pathogens created at Plum Island.<\/p>\n

The textbook titled,\u00a0Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare<\/strong>\u00a0(2007), published by the US military\u2019s Surgeon-General, admits to the establishment of \u201ca large-scale production facility in Pine Bluff, Arkansas\u201d, with the new plant featuring \u201cadvanced laboratory \u2026 measures enabling large-scale fermentation, concentration, storage, and weaponisation of microorganisms\u201d.<\/p>\n

And it does also admit that by 1951, the US had produced its first biological weapons, anti-crop bombs, and \u201cantipersonnel\u201d munitions, having \u201cweaponised and stockpiled\u201d all these. It adds that the CIA had independently \u201cdeveloped weapons using toxins including cobra venom and saxitoxin for covert operations\u201d, but that unfortunately \u201call records regarding their development and deployment were destroyed in 1972\u201d when the information became public. (18)<\/p>\n

And the US military has tried to weaponise venereal diseases, leading to travesties like the Guatemala Syphilis project, where they infected thousands then left them to die. The official narrative, while admitting the criminality, stubbornly adheres to the tale of a charitable purpose of testing medications \u2013 for thousands who were specifically denied the medicines that would have saved their lives. (19)<\/p>\n

The US military appears desperate not only to find biological ways to kill nations of people, but is equally interested in methods of destroying their food supply. Accordingly, it also confessed to another several dozen (at least) occasions where devastating crop and plant disease agents had been released, in experiments to test methods of destroying the entire food plant life of an enemy nation. In 2012, Japanese media revealed that the United States government had tested specific, DNA-engineered crop-killing bioweapons in Okinawa and Taiwan during the 1960s and early 1970s, and that the US military tested some of these within the continental US as well. They were also applied in Vietnam. The purpose of Agent Orange was never as a defoliant as claimed, but developed instead to destroy Vietnam\u2019s entire rice crops and to sufficiently contaminate the soil to prevent re-growth.<\/p>\n

NOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0www.nasonline.org\/about-nas\/history\/archives\/collections\/cbw-1941-1948.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/bs-xpm-2004-08-01-0408010004-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(3) https:\/\/usacac.army.mil\/sites\/default\/files\/misc\/doctrine\/CDG\/cdg_resources\/manuals\/fm\/fm27_10.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(4)\u00a0http:\/\/archive.vva.org\/archive\/TheVeteran\/2006_03\/featureSHAD.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(5)\u00a0https:\/\/rielpolitik.com\/2016\/08\/07\/cover-up-project-shad-deception-in-open-waters\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(6)\u00a0https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/lcwa00010308<\/a><\/p>\n

(7)\u00a0https:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php\/Project_for_the_New_American_Century<\/a><\/p>\n

(8)https:\/\/blackthen.com\/operation-big-itch-operation-drop-kick-fleas-infected-mosquitoes-dropped-black-towns\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(9)\u00a0https:\/\/military.wikia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Big_Itch<\/a><\/p>\n

(10)\u00a0http:\/\/self.gutenberg.org\/articles\/operation_may_day<\/a><\/p>\n

(11)\u00a0https:\/\/military.wikia.org\/wiki\/Dugway_sheep_incident<\/a>\u00a0(This article has many useful references)<\/p>\n

(12)\u00a0https:\/\/military.wikia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Drop_Kick<\/a><\/p>\n

(13)\u00a0https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/bioterrorism-hits-home\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(14)\u00a0https:\/\/libcom.org\/files\/Churchill%20and%20Poison%20Gas.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(15)\u00a0https:\/\/forum.axishistory.com\/viewtopic.php?t=232989<\/a><\/p>\n

(16)\u00a0https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn8044-us-army-plans-to-bulk-buy-anthrax\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(17)\u00a0https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg18725184-800-us-army-plans-to-bulk-buy-anthrax\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(18) Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare \u00a0https:\/\/repository.netecweb.org\/items\/show\/325<\/a><\/p>\n

(19) https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/guatemala-syphilis-experiments-in-1940s-called-chillingly-egregious\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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This is Part 1 of a 3-Part article<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part II The Geopolitics of Biological Weapons<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part III \u00a0Genetically Modified Seeds: Conceived as a Weapo<\/em><\/strong>n<\/em><\/p>\n

Larry Romanoff<\/em>\u00a0is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai\u2019s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at:\u00a02186604556@qq.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9\u00a0Larry Romanoff<\/a>, Global Research, 2020<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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