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bluefishinit · 2023-06-09 · Original thread
Horrific, yet sadly not the only time the US government has used bio weapons on their own population.

The most well known examples are MKUltra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

And the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

If you want to look at something slightly more speculative, I recommend Dr. Mary's Monkey: https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Marys-Monkey-Cancer-Causing-Assass...

It talks about how the CIA worked with Dr. Mary Sherman and Dr. Alton Ochsner to develop a cancer causing bio-weapon intended to give Castro cancer, but ultimately became part of the plot to assassinate JFK when that fell through.

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