Biological Weapons: A Useful
and Timely Factual Overview
Global Research, February
07, 2020
Region: USA
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.
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.
This knowledge hasn’t been a
secret for a long time. In a classified 1948 report by the Pentagon’s Committee
on Biological Warfare, the main selling point was that:
“A gun or a bomb
leaves no doubt that a deliberate attack has occurred. But if … an epidemic
slashes across a crowded city, there is no way of knowing whether anyone
attacked, much less who”, adding hopefully that “A significant portion of the
human population within selected target areas may be killed or incapacitated”
with only very small amounts of a pathogen. (1) (2)
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 “First Strike” authority on their
use. In 1959, an attempt by Congress to remove this first-strike authority was
defeated by the White House and bio-chemical weapons expenditures increased
from $75 million to almost $350 million. That was an enormous amount of money
in the early 1960s. (3)
US Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara (image ABOVE) executed 150 top-secret bio-weapons
programs in the 1960s, 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 “to
consider all possible applications” of these agents against enemy nations in a
coherent plan for a total “biological and chemical deterrent capability”, the
plan to include cost estimates and an “appraisal of international political
consequences”. (4) (5)
In the year 2000, The
Project for the New American Century (6) (7) produced a report titled,
“Rebuilding America’s Defenses”, which contained a radical and belligerent
Right-Wing policy ambition for America. Their report called itself a “blueprint
for maintaining global US preeminence … and shaping the international security
order in line with American principles and interests.” The authors, their
genocidal mentality obvious, stated:
“Advanced forms of
biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform
biological warfare … to a politically useful tool.”
Bio-Weapons
Research Institutions
The US Army’s Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland is the military’s main
facility for research on biological warfare. It comprises 80,000 m². 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.
When Japan invaded China,
one of Dr. Ishii’s (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 – which is how the
Americans learned to weaponise insects – 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.
Founded on Ishii’s 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 “Project
Big Buzz” and “Project Big Itch” and “Operation Mayday” (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.
From a US Army report from
March of 1981, one writer noted that “you can marvel at how much (or how
little) it would have cost to launch a yellow fever-infected mosquito attack on
a city – with a handy “Cost per Death” chart included!.” The Dugway Sheep
incident is worth attention as well. (11)
Then we had “Operation
Drop Kick” (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 “Project SHAD
(Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Then, as late as 2000, we had “Project
Bacchus” designed 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.
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.
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 “first installment”. Vigo was eventually turned over to
Pfizer for “antibiotics manufacture” and was replaced in the mid-1950s by a new
state of the art facility at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. (13) (14) (15)
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’s 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 “significant volumes” of other biological agents. One contract
specified that the tendering company “must have the ability and be willing to
grow (anthrax) in 1,500-litre quantities”, and “must also be able to produce
3,000-litre batches” of unspecified other biological agents. (16) (17)
When a nation’s 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 “harmless” 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 ‘harmless’
anthrax.
There is no material
difference between a defensive and an offensive biowarfare program, and even
fools cannot claim “self-defense” when producing millions of liters of anthrax.
Even the US Government Accountability Office, in its 1994 report on these programs,
stated that US military’s Biological Defense Program contained
“scores of divisions, departments, research groups, bio-intelligence and more,
by no means all related to “‘defense’ in any sense”, and were by nature
belligerent and offensive military programs. We are nevertheless assured that
the US “has never used biological weapons”, by the same people who were
simultaneously tendering contracts for the production of anthrax and other
“pathogens” in multiple batches of 3,000 liters. Dissembling propaganda is
impossible to avoid in America, even in official military medical textbooks.
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.
One portion of the Plum
Island facility was designed exclusively to develop and test lethal animal
pathogens that could destroy an enemy nation’s food supply – 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 – who put it to good use. An additional
portion was the development, testing and production of bombs containing what
was called a “vegetable killer acid”, 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.
The textbook titled, Medical
Aspects of Biological Warfare (2007), published by the US military’s
Surgeon-General, admits to the establishment of “a large-scale production
facility in Pine Bluff, Arkansas”, with the new plant featuring “advanced
laboratory … measures enabling large-scale fermentation, concentration,
storage, and weaponisation of microorganisms”.
And it does also admit that
by 1951, the US had produced its first biological weapons, anti-crop bombs, and
“antipersonnel” munitions, having “weaponised and stockpiled” all these. It
adds that the CIA had independently “developed weapons using toxins including
cobra venom and saxitoxin for covert operations”, but that unfortunately “all
records regarding their development and deployment were destroyed in 1972” when
the information became public. (18)
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 – for thousands who were specifically
denied the medicines that would have saved their lives. (19)
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’s entire rice crops and to sufficiently contaminate the soil to prevent
re-growth.
This text is Part I of
a 3 Part article.
Part II The Geopolitics of
Biological Weapons
Part III Genetically
Modified Seeds: Conceived as a Weapon*
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Larry Romanoff is 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’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in
international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai
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Notes
(3) https://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/misc/doctrine/CDG/cdg_resources/manuals/fm/fm27_10.pdf
(11) https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident (This article has many useful references)
(18) Medical Aspects of
Biological Warfare; https://repository.netecweb.org/items/show/325
(19)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guatemala-syphilis-experiments-in-1940s-called-chillingly-egregious/
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