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CONSPIRACY THEORISTS have had a whale of a time with the covert spraying information, much of which cited the "CovertAction Quarterly ... was an American publication focused on and critical of the US Central Intelligence Agency. It was founded by former CIA officer turned agency critic Philip Agee and others in 1978." Between super-paranoia and super-secrecy there is immense territory for the truth to lie. http://www.nospray.org/SecExper.shtml View in LinkedIn

SCOTT GOTTLIEB has pointed out that the advent of "garage biology" has made bioterrorism more feasible, and more capable of introducing a novel strain. Ricin was not even on the fed's list of agents to watch for. http://lnkd.in/dvGFp5B View in LinkedIn

US UNPREPAREDNESS FOR BIOLOGICAL THREATS. Read this chilling set of articles that include quite scathing criticism by Scott Gittlieb in 2003 of CDC and public health capabilities for diagnosing even natural disease outbreaks, let alone a real and possibly synthetic threat. Reactive diagnosis after the event is too late. A national surveillance system that uses routine hospital blood samples for shotgun DNA sequencing pioneered by Craig J Venter, and checking the data against known viruses worldwide. http://lnkd.in/dvxttgj View in LinkedIn

MERCK'S GERM WARFARE UNIT B "When the USA entered the war, mounting British pressure for the creation of a similar research program for an Allied pooling of resources, led to the creation of a large industrial complex at Fort Detrick, Maryland in 1942 under the direction of George W. Merck. The biological and chemical weapons developed during that period were tested at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. Soon there were facilities for the mass production..." http://lnkd.in/dFHK9z5 View in LinkedIn

CHURCHILL'S GERM WARFARE R&D. "With the onset of WWII, the Ministry of Supply in the United Kingdom established a BW programme at Porton Down ... The research was championed by Winston Churchill and soon tularemia, anthrax, brucellosis, and botulism toxins had been effectively weaponized. In particular, Gruinard Island in Scotland, during a series of extensive tests was contaminated with anthrax for the next 48 years." http://lnkd.in/dFHK9z5 View in LinkedIn

SEMIPALATINSK TEST SITE. "The Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk from 1949 until 1989 with little regard for their effect on the local people or environment. The full impact of radiation exposure was hidden for many years by Soviet authorities and has only come to light since the test site closed in 1991. From 1996 to 2012, a secret joint operation of Kazakh, Russian, and American nuclear scientists and engineers secured the waste plutonium in the tunnels of the mountains." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site View in LinkedIn

HARD TO ANTICIPATE THE UNKNOWABLE. "Congress ... tried to prepare by creating finite lists of known pathogens and toxins and developing measures to surveil, police, and counter them; But in the new biology world, scientists can now create life themselves and learn about it from the inside. "What we have done so far is going to blow your freakin' mind." (Venter). http://lnkd.in/dyGvsfW View in LinkedIn

CONTAMINATED TESTING SITE. "The Edgewood area of the Aberdeen Proving Ground site was proposed to the Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites requiring long term remedial action on April 10, 1985 ... Virtually all the land areas of the site contain contaminated or potentially contaminated sites and potentially buried ordnance. Substances disposed of in the area include significant quantities of napalm, white phosphorus, and chemical agents. On-site surface waters include rivers, streams, and wetlands." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_Proving_Ground View in LinkedIn

BIOSECURITY LAG."As the scientific community has started debating "human-directed evolution," the biosecurity establishment remains behind the curve." http://lnkd.in/dyGvsfW View in LinkedIn

OPEN AIR TESTS. "Carroll Island was used as a testing location for open air static testing of chemical weapons since the 1950s ... from July 1, 1964 to December 31, 1971 nearly 6-1/2 tons of chemicals were disseminated on the test area including 4,600 pounds of irritants, 655 pounds of anticholinesterase compounds such as the nerve gasses Sarin and VX, and 263 pounds of incapacitants such as LSD. Simulant agents, incendiaries, decontaminating compounds, signaling and screening smokes, mustard, and herbicides were also released as well as riot control gasses." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_Proving_Ground View in LinkedIn