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Why Does the Public Tolerate its Biological Warfare?

• https://thefallingdarkness.com, by Eric Zuesse

 However, under U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940s, a biowarfare R&D program, "Operation Capricious," was created in 1943 so secretly that though it operated under William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, who headed the OSS predecessor to the CIA, it was hidden even from Donovan himself. The way it was hidden is that it was being described to higher-ups as purely defensive, R&D against insect pests that enemy nations might use against America by bombing America with germ-infected insects. It was placed under the direction of George W. Merck, the hereditary President of the pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. This newly formed U.S. biological warfare program, that he headed, produced and stockpiled bacillus anthracis (anthrax), clostridium botulinum (botulism), and other deadly bacteria. However, starting under U.S. President Harry S. Truman, the actually aggressive program was finally approved and operationalized by the U.S. military in 1952 against North Korea and parts of China, but it was crude and unsuccessful, like all prior biowarfare efforts had been.
No biological warfare program has ever been strategically successful, because the really effective pathogens, such as viruses or the plague, simply cannot be successfully targeted — they are too contagious — and no weapon that can't be targeted can be of use either tactically or strategically. However, the United States today has a vast network of biological-warfare laboratories, by far the world's largest, many of them located in foreign countries.


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