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The Biology of Doom:
The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project
By Ed Regis 2000
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...America's own covert biological weapons program from its origins in World War II...employed 5,000 people and tested pathogens on 2,000 live human volunteers; conducted open-air tests on American soil; sprayed our cities with bacterial aerosols; and stockpiled millions of bacterial bombs for instant deployment. Yet, surprisingly, almost nothing has been published about this project until now. This is the first book to expose the true story of America's secret program to create biological weapons of mass destruction...
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On May 8, 1951, North Korea's minister of foreign affairs...sent a cable to the president of the UN Security Council saying that the United States had attacked Pyongyang and the surrounding areas with weapons carrying the smallpox virus...some 3,500 cases of smallpox had broken out in the area, with 350 deaths...
Ridgway called the charges "deliberate lies."...smallpox was endemic in the affected areas and these were natural outbreaks...
...In February 1952, however, North Korea's Pak Hen Yen was back with new claims. "The forces of the American imperialist invaders again used bacteriological weapons early this year for mass annihilation of the people," he said. "The American imperialist invaders, since January 23 this year, have been systematically scattering large quantities of bacteria-carrying insects by aircraft in order to disseminate infectious diseases over our front line positions and rear."
Bacteriological tests showed, he claimed that the insects were infected with plague, cholera, and other diseases
Shortly afterward, in March, Chou En-lai, minister for foreign affairs of the People's Republic of China, claimed that the United States was also bombing China with bacterial weapons. The Americans were using not only insects but a fantastic assortment of bombs and vectors in an attempt to spread smallpox, anthrax, plague, meningitis, encephalitis, and cholera, along with fowl septicemia and four different diseases of plants.
These charges were soon accompanied by details which, if authentic, would indeed appear to show that American bombers had flown over the area and dropped the biological kitchen sink upon the Far East. There were eyewitnesses, photographs, lab results, and artifacts.
On March 12, 1952, according to local public health authorities, residents of K'uan Tien, a town near the Yalu River in the Liaotung Province of China, watched as eight American F-86 jet fighters flew overhead and one of them released a bright cylindrical canister. This was in broad daylight, shortly after noon, and the witnesses set out to find the object. The failed. What they found, instead, were swarms of anthomyiid flies and masses of spiders.
Everything about these insects was anomalous: they appeared in habitats that were wrong for the species, at the wrong time of the season (some of the insects had been found on snowbanks), and in concentrations, combinations, and distribution patterns that were irregular in the extreme.
A seperate group of investigators found quantities of fowl feathers scattered in the vicinity. When the flies, spiders, and feathers were examined in the laboratory, all of them showed traces of the anthrax microbe, Bacillus anthracis.
Nine days after the incident, a search party located a small depression in the ground, one that looked as if it had been made by a bomb. Inside the crater, and on the surface of the snow-covered cornfield that surrounded it, were the remains of an object that apparently had shattered upon impact...an "artificial eggshell."
Even before they'd found the eggshell, members of the search team had fallen ill with respiratory infection. After a short course of the disease, four of them were dead of pulmonary antrhax. That, anyway, was the story...
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"How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. "
~Henry David Thoreau
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"The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day."
~Theodore Roosevelt
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"The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world."
~James Baldwin - From chapter one of "The Devil Finds Work" (orig. pub. 1976)
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"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest...no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism...true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village."
~Gandhi
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