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Public Menace-Private Profit: America’s Biowarfare Alliance
Antifascist Calling
In September, The New York Times reported that a University of Chicago researcher, Malcolm Casadaban, died after exposure to “a weakened and ordinarily harmless strain of the bacteria that cause plague.”
According to the Times, “Dr. Casadaban, an associate professor at the university, was studying the bacteria to create a better vaccine for plague … [...]
Posted in CBRN, Human Medical Experimentation Also tagged Anthrax, Artichoke, Biowarfare, Bluebird, CIA, DIA, MKDELTA, MKNAOMI, Project Bacchus, Project Clear Vision, Project Jefferson Leave a comment
CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces
Noah Shachtman/Danger Room
At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in 1973. But recently, [...]
Posted in Human Medical Experimentation, Intelligence Also tagged CIA, magic, manual, Operation Midnight Climax Leave a comment
Top 10 Weirdest CIA Programs
TopTens
Over the years, the American Central Intelligence Agency has gained a reputation for being the most far-reaching, sophisticated, and effective government intelligence agency on the planet. At the same time, the CIA has also become known for its incredible paranoia and propensity to undertake costly, sometimes illegal, and often downright absurd projects in the name [...]
Posted in Assassination, CBRN, Created Terror, Drugwar, Espionage, Human Medical Experimentation, Intelligence, Latin America, Military Industrial Complex, North America Also tagged Bay of Pigs, CIA, Cuba, False Flags, LSD, Operation Gold, Operation Midnight Climax, Operation Mockingbird, Operation Mongoose, Operation Northwoods, Project Pigeon, Stargate Project 1 Comment
MKULTRA Legacy: The Stain of Dishonor and the Prerequisites for Redemption
Gordon P. Erspamer, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
hat tip~ GNN
Despite the passage of four decades, America and its military have never come to grips with its own ghastly programs of using soldiers as guinea pigs to test chemical or biological weapons such as LSD, sarin, nerve gases, plague, mescaline, anthrax [...]
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments