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发帖数: 1 | 1 The Great Germ War Cover-Up
https://newrepublic.com/article/158008/germ-warfare-book-nicholson-baker-
baseless-review
In late September of 1950, just as U.S. armed forces were surging up the
Korean peninsula, residents of the San Francisco Bay Area noticed an odd
odor. The unidentifiable smell hung around for a week. People scratched
their heads and pointed fingers—they thought the problem could be their
neighbors cooking brussels sprouts, or maybe it was sewer gas. What they
didn’t suspect is that they were being sprayed with microorganisms by their
own government.
But they were. From offshore ships, researchers working for the Army, Navy,
and CIA engulfed the area in Serratia mar-cescens, Bacillus globigii, and
zinc cadmium sulfide particles. Residents, not realizing they had become
unwitting test subjects, breathed it in—“nearly everyone of the 800,000
people in San Francisco,” according to a governmental report. In theory,
the germs and chemicals were innocuous, but a local hospital was surprised
by the sudden appearance of nearly a dozen cases of Serratia marcescens
bacterial infections, never seen in that hospital before. One infected
patient, a retired pipe fitter, died.
It wasn’t the only time the U.S. government did this. Federal researchers
secretly fogged Minneapolis and St. Louis during the Korean War. In 1966,
they would run a similar experiment on New York City, dropping light bulbs
filled with Bacillus subtilis variant niger into subway stations during rush
hour to see how far the bacilli would spread—more than a million New
Yorkers were exposed. In all, the Army acknowledged having conducted
bacteriological tests on 239 populated areas between 1949 and 1969. |
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