Ticks Were Weaponized for a Long Time in Infamous National Security Sites Like Plum Island and Fort Detrick
“The United States maintained an active biological warfare program during the Cold War from 1943 until 1969, when President Richard Nixon ordered its end.
The initiative, based at Fort Detrick in Maryland*, investigated different pathogen delivery mechanisms, including insects like fleas, mosquitoes, and ticks. One prominent experiment, Operation Big Itch in 1954, entailed the release of around 670,000 fleas from cluster munitions to investigate their viability as disease vectors.
… with some work reportedly done on Plum Island, where enormous colonies of soft and hard ticks were kept. Wildlife, like as deer and birds, easily migrated between the island and the Connecticut mainland, perhaps allowing infections to reach local populations. The initiative gained traction during the Kennedy administration. In response to Cuba’s alliance with the Soviet Union, the United States launched Operation Mongoose, a clandestine attempt to destabilize Fidel Castro’s dictatorship. Some plans apparently considered using disease-carrying insects to attack Cuban agricultural workers, particularly in sugarcane and tobacco fields, in an attempt to damage the island’s economy. While the exact scope of these intentions is unknown, declassified records reveal that Project 112, which was authorized in 1962, increased biological weapons experimentation and included research into mass insect production.
From 1966 to 1969, the United States military dispersed 282,800 ticks labeled with radioactive carbon-14 along bird migration paths in Virginia. The purpose was to investigate how ticks and the diseases they may carry spread across large areas. Notably, lone star ticks, previously unknown north of the Mason-Dixon line, quickly established populations on Long Island.”
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According to a retired CIA black ops agent contacted by investigative reporter Kris Newby for “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons,” the clandestine weaponized tick program began during Operation Mongoose, in which he took part.
Via The Spectator:
“On December 18, 2018, Donald Trump signed an order preview and report on biological weapons experiments on and in relation to ticks [and] tick-borne diseases.'” The probe is long overdue, yet the findings will come as a surprise to many. A increasing body of evidence indicates that during the Cold War, ticks were manipulated and utilized as delivery methods for biological warfare weapons. The US military may have released weaponized ticks on the populace, either purposefully or unintentionally.
I met a man in his sixties who had worked in black operations for the CIA. He informed me that the craziest thing he ever did was dump diseased ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers in 1962. I investigated the details of what he told me; it came out that dropping diseased ticks in Cuba was a sub-project of Operation Mongoose, which attempted to weaken Fidel Castro’s authority in Cuba by undermining the country’s economic… The Chemical Corps, located in Fort Detrick, Maryland, directed the United States’ entomological bio-weapons program.
The effort was nearly as massive and covert as the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. In 1951, Willy Burgdorfer, a medical zoologist from Basel, Switzerland, was hired to do feasibility studies for Fort Detrick. His lab was located in the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, which housed the biggest living tick collection in the United States. Burgdorfer frequently visited Fort Detrick, where he collaborated with former Nazi bio-warfare specialists who had been let into the nation under Operation Paperclip.”
