In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1950-us-released-bioweapon-san-francis...

Beginning on September 26, 1950, the crew of a U.S. Navy minesweeper ship spent six days spraying Serratia marcescens into the air about two miles off the northern California coast. The project was called “Operation Sea Spray,” and its aim was to determine the susceptibility of a big city like San Francisco to a bioweapon attack by terrorists.

In the following days, the military took samples at 43 sites to track the bacteria's spread, and found that it had quickly infested not only the city but surrounding suburbs as well. During the test, residents of these areas would have inhaled millions of bacterial spores. Clearly, their test showed, San Francisco and cities with similar size and topography could face germ warfare threats. “In this regard, the experiment was a success,” writes Kreston.

But there was a catch. At the time, the US military thought that Serratia couldn’t harm humans. The bug was mostly known for the red spots it produced on infested foods and had not been widely linked to clinical conditions. That changed when one week after the test, 11 local residents checked into a Stanford University Hospital complaining of urinary tract infections.

Upon testing their pee, doctors noticed that the pathogen had a red hue. “Infection with Serratia was so rare that the outbreak was extensively investigated by the University to identify the origins of this scarlet letter bug,” writes Kreston. After scientists identified the microbe, the cases collectively became the first recorded outbreak of Serratia marcescens. One patient, a man named Edward Nevin who was recovering from prostate surgery, died, and some have suggested that the release forever changed the area's microbial ecology, as Bernadette Tansey pointed out for the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004.

The military had performed similar tests in other cities across the country over the next two decades, until Richard Nixon halted all germ warfare research in 1969. The San Francisco experiment didn’t become public knowledge until 1976.

https://www.businessinsider.com/military-government-secret-experiments-biologica...

Other experiments involved testing mind-altering drugs on unsuspecting citizens. In one shocking, well-known incident, government researchers studied the effects of syphilis on black Americans without informing the men that they had the disease — they were told they had "bad blood." Researchers withheld treatment after it became available so they could continue studying the illness, despite the devastating and life-threatening implications of doing so for the men and their families.

testing mind-altering drugs. Tested in small village in France.
https://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf

studied the effects of syphilis on black Americans
http://www.tuskegee.edu/about_us/centers_of_excellence/bioethics_center/about_th...

Victor Sunny wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 10:22am:


Maybe 'The Chinese Embassy Job" - but that wasn't a CIA job... more of an ASIS/MI6/RCMP job...

NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 10:52am:


You put the poo on your own face. When the pandemic started, every Chinese wore masks. Westerners were still arguing if they need masks. The politicians even said no to masks.

Victor Sunny wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 11:39am:

Of course you did. The Chinese regime had 3 months warning of the virus when they covered up the outbreak from as early as October 2019. Then the regime forced the WHO into collusion to extend the full cover-up by a further 2 months while direct evidence of the virus' origins was destroyed. That was nearly 5 months to horde PPE equipment.

It hasn't made much difference, but. There's a hole in Chinese census numbers by around 3 to 5 million, so the full count of the death toll in China would likely double the total true number of world deaths from the virus.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 12:50pm:

Explained eventually why so many Chinese were mega-buying PPE from Australian pharmacies (and no doubt from every nation in the world outside China) to ship back to China; particularly between December 2019 and February 2020.