globalresearch | 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 on the
right) 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)
