{"id":284253,"date":"2018-09-13T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T06:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/13\/smarmyanarchist-and-during-the-1950s-and-1960s\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T06:48:12","slug":"smarmyanarchist-and-during-the-1950s-and-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/13\/smarmyanarchist-and-during-the-1950s-and-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smarmyanarchist.tumblr.com\/post\/177946413565\/and-during-the-1950s-and-1960s-the-army-and-the\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">smarmyanarchist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd 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: \u201cWashington Post, 17 December 1979, p. A18, \u201cwhooping cough cases recorded in Florida jumped from 339 and<br \/>\none death in 1954 to 1,080 and 12 deaths in 1955.\u201d The CIA received the bacteria from the Army\u2019s biological<br \/>\nresearch center at Fort Detrick, Md,\u201d] The following year, another toxic substance was disseminated in the streets and tunnels of New York City. [Reference Cited:\u00a0\u201cSan 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\u2019s Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas (Maryland, 1990), passim.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>We will also see in the chapter on Cuba how the CIA conducted chemical and <br \/>biological warfare against Fidel Castro\u2019s rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>-Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II <\/i>by William Blum<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smarmyanarchist: \u201cAnd 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/13\/smarmyanarchist-and-during-the-1950s-and-1960s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19579,261,5610,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}