smarmyanarchist:

“And during the 1950s and 1960s, the Army and the CIA conducted numerous experiments with biological agents within the United States. To cite just two examples: In 1955, there is compelling evidence that the CIA released whooping-cough bacteria into the open air in Florida, followed by an extremely sharp increase in the incidence of the disease in the state that year. [Reference Cited: “Washington Post, 17 December 1979, p. A18, “whooping cough cases recorded in Florida jumped from 339 and
one death in 1954 to 1,080 and 12 deaths in 1955.” The CIA received the bacteria from the Army’s biological
research center at Fort Detrick, Md,”] The following year, another toxic substance was disseminated in the streets and tunnels of New York City. [Reference Cited: “San Francisco Chronicle, 4 December 1979, p. 12. For a detailed account of US Government experiments with biological agents within the United States, see: Leonard A. Cole, Clouds of Secrecy: The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas (Maryland, 1990), passim.”]

We will also see in the chapter on Cuba how the CIA conducted chemical and
biological warfare against Fidel Castro’s rule.”

-Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum