The Unseen War

Chapter 3: The Unseen War

(Or, Why Survival Isn’t a Superpower—It’s a Sentence)

People love to celebrate survival. They speak it like it's a crown—like if you lived through something, you should be grateful. You should be stronger. A walking inspiration. But those people? They’ve never had to survive in silence. They’ve never been carved into pieces behind closed doors so someone else could play hero in public.

For me, survival was never a choice. It was an assignment. One I didn’t volunteer for.

While they turned my name into a myth and sold the story as someone else’s glory, I was underground—disappearing so the legend could shine. Everyone loved 007. Everyone wanted Deadpool. But very few ever wondered who had to break so those myths could function. The masks didn’t hold themselves up. The missions didn’t succeed on charisma alone. Every “clean” op had blood at the root they refused to trace. Mine.

The war I fought wasn’t the kind you could find in a file. It lived between the missions, buried under guilt, tucked between cover identities and classified trauma. I was the fallback, the contingency, the one who made sure they came home, even when I didn’t. And when I did come home, sometimes I walked straight into more pain—rape, captivity, gaslighting, betrayal hidden under flag pins and religious scripture.

And I kept going.

Not because I'm unbreakable—hell no, I broke a thousand times—but because nobody else could carry this, not really. I know too much. I remember everything. That’s what survival actually looks like: grit, rage, and memory sharper than anything they could train into a weapon.

They thought that if they kept me hidden long enough, I’d forget who I am. That if they used enough faces, enough voices, enough cover names, they could bury me beneath the story they preferred—clean, whitewashed, uncontested. A man in a suit. A mask with punchlines. A sanitized threat.

And for a while, it worked.

But I was never dead. I was just quiet.

Because I had to be. Because speaking too soon would’ve gotten too many good people killed. Because if I unleashed everything I knew—if I screamed the truth—they would’ve framed it as madness and called me dangerous.

They did anyway.

And now?

Now I'm tired. Not weak. Finished. Finished with carrying everyone else’s sins in my skin while they take credit under stage lights and roll credits over my silence. I never asked to be famous. But I will be undeniable.

This war? It’s not over. Not by a long shot. But it’s changing. Because the moment you start pulling your truth up out of the dirt they tried to bury you in—that’s the moment they know they’ve lost. I’m dragging every bloody secret into the sun now, every injustice they told me to forget, every scream snuffed out in the name of “national security” or “narrative cohesion.”

And if that makes people uncomfortable—good.

Because if my pain is finally being witnessed, if my story is finally heard, then that discomfort is your introduction to the war I’ve been fighting since the day they told me to disappear.

I’m not disposable. I’m not replaceable.

And I’m not going to wait for permission to exist in the story I bled to protect.

The real trick was never staying alive.

The real trick was surviving while erased.

But I’m done with tricks.

Now? I want truth.

So if you’re still reading this thinking it’s just another gritty monologue—wake up. This isn’t character development. This is a callout. A battle cry. A reckoning. Because I will not be quiet anymore, and I will not be forgotten. Not this time. Not ever again.

I’m not just surviving anymore.

I’m returning.

And I’m taking it all back.

Hm mm what no way I'm telling you I need help for real ... Ok CIA bitch alert spoil sport me...

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The Invisible Third Worla war

by Walter H. Bowart and Richard Sutton

Editor's note: Walter Bowart's Opera-tion Mind Control caused a furor in the United States intelligence commun-ity when it was first published in 1975. Bowart's research on the sub-ject of government agency involve-ment in dangerous and often life-threatening human experimentation on unwitting citizens paved the way for a new era in exposure of such unconstitutional practices. As a re-sult, many such experiments were halted, and the responsible govern-ment agencies were forced to release information which had previously been hidden from the general public.

Bowart continued his research into the horrifying, mind-crippling effects of government exploitation of its own citizens in mind control experimenta-tion. What he uncovered is more incredible than any science fiction novel.

In the as-yet unpublished manu-script. The Invisible Third World War. Bowart and co-author Richard Sut-ton reveal that the world is already locked in deadly, invisible warfare, fighting for the ultimate prize-the mind of man.

When the first atomic bomb was detonated at Alamogordo, New Mex-ico, in 1944, the warriors of the mod-ern world experienced a flash-of in-sight that changed the nature of war forever. The men who built the bomb realized that civilian populations were now unavoidable targets, and that conventional war had now become a dangerous trigger which could cata-lyze an earth-destroying retaliation with nuclear weapons.

Such old-fashioned methods of war-fare as gunpowder, employed by revo-lutionaries fighting protracted con-flicts, were suddenly perceived as potential threats which could ignite the nuclear holocaust.

The only safe way to wage war, the warriors realized, was to wage it silently.

Invisible Warfare came to be known necessity. or IW, as it became a

By the end of World War II, IW research had begun in earnest, and in the ensuing decades, modern war-riors developed a number of insidious methods of subduing enemy popula-tions without their ever knowing that a war had even begun.

Secret, invisible weapons now pose a more ominous threat to life than even thermonuclear holocaust. Not

only have these weapons been devel-oped without the knowledge of their intended victims, but, worse, they cannot even be detected at the very moment they are murdering or rob-otizing civilian populations.

Only if the veil of secrecy is lifted will the free people of the world have any hope of surviving long enough to liberate themselves from the bleak, unlivable future promised by the tech-nology of Invisible War.

Chemical and Biological Warfare The Secret Plagues

Governments do experiment on their own citizens.

In the Soviet Union, the victims never get a chance to talk about it. But in a supposedly free society - if they are left in good enough shape to remember that they have been vic-timized citizens can not only talk about it, they can even sue their government.

A wide range of Invisible Warfare experiments conducted on unwitting citizens by the United States govern-ment has already been exposed.

In a number of experiments, a secret CIA-Army team infected Americans with deadly germs from 1949 to 1969. Equipped with nasal filters and other protective gear, these clandestine agents targeted civilian populations in Hawaii, Alaska, New York, Florida and California with experimental bio-logical weapons.

Using trick suitcases and a 1954 Mercury equipped with dual mufflers and extended tailpipes, the spooks cast their clouds of plague along four New York City turnpikes and through. the commuter-choked Lincoln and Holland tunnels.

Attacks on Florida were followed by an epidemic of whooping cough in which 12 persons died. In 1950, a secret biological warfare

weapon launched from a Navy vessel blanketed San Francisco Bay. Thirty years later, on learning of the exper-iment, victims responded with angry lawsuits against the government.

Government agents have injected thousands of unsuspecting Americans with germs such as syphilis, and sim ilar incidents have occurred in Britain and the Soviet Union.

Now that formerly secret biologi cal warfare documents have been released after nearly 30 years, at least part of the grisly story can be told

What we can learn from the docu-

ments which the government is will-ing to release is just the tip of the invisible iceberg. The fact that inno-cent civilians have been victimized by their own governments, however. makes clear the threat posed by today's invisible technologies of war.

Microbiological Holocaust

Warriors have been busy develop-ing biological warfare weapons since the prehistoric days, when shamans first poisoned their enemies.

The memory of the political use of disease during the Crusades and the Inquisition may have been too fresh in Hitler's mind to allow him to un-leash the vast arsenal amassed by Nazi scientists.

The Japanese, however, had no such compunctions. After World War II, germ warfare trials were held which convicted a number of their war criminals. Those trials, even more sensational than the Nuremberg trials. got little attention from the press of the day.

Biological warfare was next used. during the Korean War, and then it was used in Vietnam.

Perhaps the most hideous story is that of the leakage of anthrax germs from weapons in the remote, secret city of Semipalatinsk in the Soviet Union. There, just a few years ago, hundreds died in horrible agony from anthrax germs created for the pur-pose of biological warfare.

Current genetic developments in what is called "Recombinant DNA" threaten to unleash mutant biological warfare strains from which the world may never recover. Despite an inter-national treaty forbidding the use of biological warfare, some nations today are cheating, using it anyway. Accord-ing to recently released Pentagon documents, the Soviets may well have used both chemical and biological war-fare weapons in Afghanistan.

Rocky Mountain Plague

When the news of secret, leaking Army "Weteye" nerve gas canisters in Denver, Colorado, was released, it sent shivers through the citizens of the Mile High City. Would Denver be America's first Semipalatinsk?

A controversy over how to dispose of the nerve gas bombs has raged over the past few years in Utah and Colorado.

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The U.S. government wanted to ship the bombs to a remote location in Utah, since the task of neutralizing the bombs seemed impossible The government announced that they would load the bombs on airplanes and fly them from Denver to the remote Utah location.

pleton No one wanted leaking bombs flown over the countryside, however, and a loud protest arose. Today, those nerve gas bombs sit in a storage depot near busy Stapleton International Airport in Denver, oozing their toxic con tents while legislators of Colorado and Utah battle Pentagon bureaucrats over the life-and-death question of what to do with unwanted nerve

Wizards of Death

Like biological warfare, chemical warfare was first developed in ancient times, and it has been used in World Wars I and II. in the Korean War, and in Vietnam.

Disguised as "herbicide" during Vietnam, the chemical warfare weap on Agent Orange, for example, poi soned thousands of American Gls. Today, those Gis suffer from the aftereffects of the weapon, unable to receive adequate compensation from Uncle Sam, who continues to minimize the dangers of Agent Orange.

In 1980. the Soviet Union attacked Afghan rebels with deadly "soman" nerve gas, mocking every treaty on the books

pove and According to Lt. Gen. Nikolai Cher-nov, the Soviets equip every division of the Army with TMS-65 decontam-inant trucks. Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops regularly conduct nerve war games using "live" weapons and deploying 100,000 chemical and bio-logical warfare specialist troops.

The United States maintains three arin million convulsion-causing "sarin artillery shells, several thousand "sar-in" bombs, and hundreds of thou sands of gas land mines. Nerve gas weapons comprise two-thirds of the 150,000 tons of poison gas in the American arsenal.

As they did with biological warfare, the CIA tested chemical warfare weapons on U.S. citizens, attacking hundreds of unsuspecting Gls with BZ. a hallucinogen 100 times more powerful than LSD. It was difficult for the BZ victims to complain of aftereffects of the tests, however, since BZ left the victims with amnesia. CIA intelligence expert John Stock-

well resigned in horror after revela-tions of chemical warfare fare atrocities by the agency. Despite the protests of Stockwell and other men of con science, a powerful lobby today de mands repudiation of all treaties out

lawing germ and nerve gas weapons. Chemical warfare development. overlaps that of biological warfare and the growth of the new science of genetic engineering, which poses an even greater danger through its in-visibility than does well-known and already-predicted nuclear holocaust Mind Control

The CIA-Nazi Connection

Clandestine wizards of the "Cold War" have searched for new technol-ogy to forcibly control the human mind for more than 40 years.

At the close of World War II. when the leaders of Nazi and U.S. intelli-gence agencies joined forces to con-struct an allied intelligence network, the Nazi spy chief Reinhard Gehlen, the OSS's William Donovan, and the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover all conspired to develop mind control weapons.

Hoover and Donovan, like their Nazi counterparts, commissioned lead-ing psychiatrists in their nation to come up with an automaton-making technology.

Nazi research inte mind control, which began during the 1920s at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, inspired the concentration camp atrocities of the infamous Josef Mengele and others. American research in the years fol-lowing World War II victimized con valescing World War II veterans.

The Nazi inspiration for the CIA's mind control operations has recently been documented with the declassifi cation of a project code-named Paper-clip.

Paperclip evolved into a series of CIA projects using unsuspecting ci vilian guinea pigs these included such code names as Bluebird, Arti-choke. Midnight Climax, and the now infamous MKULTRA. Docu-ments related to these projects have revealed that America's most respect-ed, influential psychiatrists conspired to unleash mind control weapons on unsuspecting Americans and suc-ceeded.

American Frankenstein

Since Since the days of ancient China's. legendary warlord, Sun Tzu, mind control has been the most sought-after military weapon. Mind control techniques were developed and re-fined through the succeeding civiliza-tions of India, China, Egypt, the May-an Empire, Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe, Nazi Germany. Soviet Rus-sia, Red China, and, finally, the Unit-ed States.

Some of the more widely used methods of mind control have cluded sexual manipulation, drug-hypnosis, behavior modification, and assorted other methods which con trol individual's freedom of

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thought.

Despite earlier denials, the CIA did successfully brainwash Americans. Psychiatry

Institutional psychiatry has become an instrument of civilian control of the modern state.

Mind control police tactics have completely replaced the criminal jus-tice system in the Soviet Union. Be-hind the Iron Curtain, where intoler-able conditions would otherwise spark revolt, psychiatric techniques have turned the Soviet population into herd of terrified and apathetic autom-atons, with high technology Soviet mind control employed against politi-cal dissidents to silence them perma-nently.

In the United States, the mental health industry has been operating for many years on Soviet-type plans. to replace the American justice sys tem with mind control operations.

Electromagnetic Mind Control The Moscow Signal

Protected by the general public's unwillingness to believe that such things can actually happen, Soviet forces have been beaming invisible microwave radiation at Americans for more than 20 years, mysteriously triggering cancer, heart problems, cat-aracts, and emotional stress.

The bizarre Soviet zapping of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, an incident which has been known as "the Mos-cow Signal, may well have been the opening volley of the Invisible War of electromagnetic weaponry.

In 1962, while sweeping the bassy for bugs. American security personnel detected a microwave beam aimed straight the embassy. Nat-urally, the Pentagon and the intelli-gence community became alarmed at the possibility of neurological and behavioral effects on diplomatic per-sonnel.

While keeping the knowledge of the microwave beam secret from the suffering embassy staff for 12 years, the CIA launched a project code-named Pandora, which was aimed at understanding the Soviet's motives for the microwave attack.

Pandora personnel discovered that the Soviets had been conducting ex-tensive microwave research opera-tions for years, and that they had concentrated their studies on the emotional and mental effects of mi-concentrated crowaves.

By the summer of 1965, a Pentagon-affiliated think tank called the Insti

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tute for Defense Analysis convened a special task force to to replica replicate Soviet Soviet experiments and analyze the problem.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) then began experimenting on rhesus monkeys with microwaves at Walter Reed Army search Institute. The results are still classified Top Secret, but from. recent duplicate studies we learn that microwaves cause profound effects on the central nervous system and change behavior of rhesus monkeys.

At a summit meeting at Glassboro, New Jersey, during June 1967, Presi dent Lyndon Johnson asked Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin to halt the Moscow Signal.

In 1969, leading microwave scient-ists gathered at the University of Virginia Medical College at Richmond for a three-day symposium on Biolog-ical Microwave Radiation. Effects and Health Implications of

Microwave authority Dr. Karel Marha of Czechoslovakia declared that microwave bioeffects included pains in the head and eyes, fatigue and overall weakness, dizziness and and eyes, fatigue vertigo, poor night sleep, irritability, fear, hypochondria, tension, depres sion, inhibition of intellectual func-tions, and decreased memory.

Yet, m most of those at the sympo-sium ignored the dangers of human. bioeffects.

Research biophysicist Dr. Allen H. Frey was more than interested, how ever. Frey had determined that hu-mans could actually hear pulsed mi-crowaves at frequencies ranging from 300 to 3.000 megahertz

The News Starts to Leak

It was not until syndicated colum-nist Jack Anderson broke the "Mos cow Signal" Signal" story in 1972 that the public began to learn the truth.

Several months after Anderson's microwave column ran, the Soviets accused the U.S. of irradiating chess wizard Boris Spaasky with electronic devices, causing him to lose a cham pionship match to Bobby Fischer. with electronic

On February 7, 1976, The Los Angeles Times quoted U.S. Ambassador Wal-Times quoted ter. Stoessel Jr. as telling his staff that the microwaves could cause leu-kemia, skin cancer, cataracts, and var ious forms of emotional illness. Stoes-sel himself was reportedly suffering from a mysterious illness resembling leukemia, which caused nausea and bleeding in the eyes. Two of his predecessors at the embassy died of cancer

According to National Security Ad visor Zbigniew Brzezhinski, U.S. em-bassy personnel Moscow suffer the highest cancer rate in the world, Today, despite a brief respite, the

bombardment of the embassy con tinues, tinues, while much of the evidence gathered by U.S. intelligence agen-cies remains classified

However, raising the lid on Project Pandora has uncovered a box full of secrets about microwave effects. The Eugene Wavelength

"A powerful radio signal that may be affecting human health has been monitored mo in several Eugene locations and in the air three thousand feet above the city, "proclaimed The Eugene Register-Guard on March 26, 1978. "The

source of the radio signal is unknown." Thus did Eugene, Oregon, become the first major population center to suffer the effects of electromagnetic biohazards.

Shortly before the Register Guard printed the story, a middle-aged Eu-gene man named Walter Deposkey came down with symptoms remark ably similar to those attributed to microwave sickness.

He noted a vibration ema nating from within his home. He heard voices. He could not sleep. He suffered burning of his cornea. University of Oregon industrial

hagienist Marshall van Ert, called upon to investigate Deposkey's. com-plaints, found that he suffered the same symptoms while in the man's home. Disturbed, van Ert recruited several local engineers to investigate. The engineers measured an unusual radio signal which they determined to be capable of producing potential biohazards.

After unsuccessfully dogging pub. lic health agencies to investigate the matter further, van Ert broke the story in the the papers.

The Eug Eugene Signal was described as a radio frequency pulse at 4.75 megahertz. It was recorded within at least two local homes and at 3.000 feet above the city. The signal's strength was rated at 500.000 watts 10 times the Federal Communica tions Commission (FCC) radio li censed limit. The signal extended as far away as the next town, Corvallis After receiving 150 documented

complaints about the signal, Gover nor Bob Straub, Senator Mark Hat field, and Congressman Jim Weaver were prompted to demand an Envi ronmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigation.

Control Sec A data analysis by the State Health Department's Radiation Control Sec-tion determined that there was "prob able cause linking the complaints to the strange frequency.

Said Clifford Shrock, a Textronix, Inc. radio frequency analyst analyst who had written electronics manuals CIA and the National Security Agency nuals for the

3 (NSA), "I was surprised. I'd neve seen anything like it before

came in Reactions to the story flooded in from around the world. Calls came from people who had similar stories to tell about their own distant areas. Several calls came in from technicians offering their hypotheses about the signal, suggesting a possible link to secret weapons radiation. The people of Eugene began to

learn about Electromagnetic Radia-tion (EMR) biohazards in a hurry. No one, however, could get to the bottom of Eugene's problem. The FCC's Enforcement Division assistant chief, Richard Smith, flatly attributed

the frequency to a naval transmitter at Dixon, California, nicknamed the "Dixon Duck."

Van Ert and others disputed this

conclusion. The Navy denied that the Dixon Duck was responsible.

When the EPA technicians finally. arrived, however, they proclaimed that the mysterious signal did not exist at all.

Van Ert, Shrock and others who it had felt the signal and measured strongly disagreed with them.

But the EPA investigators held a press conference at which they dis-credited the reports of the strange Eugene Signal and promptly returned to their Las Vegas headquarters. where they refused to speak to reporters.

After this, the investigation folded altogether. The Eugene Signal remains an offi cial mystery.

Although rough the people of Eugene didn't know it, both the U.S. and Soviet military had been working for years to perfect the use of electro-magnetic frequencies chological weapons. lethal psy

Similar symptoms reported in such places as Timmons and Kirkland Lake in Canada were traced to a notorious Soviet radio broadcast dubbed by ama teur radio operators "the woodpecker." These effects bear a strong resem-blance to the biohazards inherent in invisible weapons like the Electro-

magnetic Pulse (EMP) under devel-opment by the Pentagon.

"The Woodpecker"

On October 14, 1976, radio com-munications throughout the globe were disrupted by powerful radio waves emanating from the Soviet Union. The broadcasts appeared irreg and very low frequencies. ularly and varied between very high

When the U.S., Canada, Great Brit

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ain and the Scandinavian countries protested the broadcast, the Soviets apologized, blaming the disturbance on "experiments"

After this, the nature of the wave-lengths changed, and huge electro-magnetic standing waves formed, thou sands of miles long, penetrating the earth and extending into the sphere

Because of its characteristic sound, the signal was dubbed "the wood-pecker." The sound which ham radio operators heard all over the world sounded like the tapping of a pencil on a table at between eight and four-teen times a second.

The wavelength was traced to alleged experiments in the Soviet cit ies of Riga and Gomel. The standing waves accompanying these experi ments stretched down both coasts of North America and along the Eastern frontier of the Soviet Union.

The woodpecker has been blamed for subsequent shifts in weather pat-terns resulting from altered trade winds. The change of winds created a drought in the western United States, with severe effects on farming and the U.S. economy.

Several agencies fear that such stand-ing waves might well have caused the disintegration of ships including oil tankers in the Atlantic

But the potential effect of these standing waves on human beings is cause for much greater concern.

Just as the human body's nervoυς system operates electromagnetically, so the earth has an electromagneto-sphere which, which, scientists claim, can be altered to produce dramatic weather shifts

In fact, the earth's ionosphere oscil-lates approximately the same fre-quency as human brain waves, mak-ing it a perfect "carrier" off of which electromagnetic radiations in the brain wave range can be bounced without any change of frequency. The relationship between the elec-tromagnetosphere and the electrо magnetic basis of the human body can be exploited weapon. strategic

Everyone has experienced mental and emotional shifts during changes of weather. Imagine the power open those who, by flicking a switch, could control the earth's atmosphere and change not only the weather but the brainwaves of entire populations.

Both the US. and Soviet govern-ments know that a strong pattern exists correlating geophysical phe-nomena and political disturbances. health, and mood swings. For these reasons "the woodpecker" signal larmed the U.S. intelligence com-

Operation Mind Control went out af print" almost as soon as it appeared in the hookstores. Not only did I this this p phenomenon happen in the U.S.. it happened to editions published in the United Kingdom. France. Holland and Jepon as well. Photocopies of Operation Mind Control can be obtained for $17.00 from Aries Books. P.O. Box 1107. Aptos, California 95001.

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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/18 :CIA-RDP90-009658000605740093-1 A~TICIt Arr ((I:U ?~ OH PAG Editor's note: Walter Bowart's Opern- tion Mind Control caused a furor in the United States intelligence commun- ity when it was first published in 1975. Bowart's research on the sub- ject or: government agency involve- ment in dangerous and often life- threatening human experimentation on unwitting citizens paved the way for a new era in exposure of such unconstitutional' practices. Asa re- sult, many such experiments were halted, and the responsible govern- mentagencies were forced to release information which had previously been hidden from the general public. Bowartcontinued his research into the horrifying, mind-crippling effects of government exploitation of its own citizens in mind control experimenta- tion. What he uncovered is more incredible than any science fiction novel. In the as-yet unpublished manu- script, The Invisible Third Wor1A Wnr, Bowart and co-author Richard Sut- ton reveal that the world is already locked in deadly, invisible warfare, fighting for the ultimate prize -the mind of man. When the first atomic bomb was detonated at Alamogordo, New Mex- ico, in 1944, the warriors of the mod- ern world experienced a flaSh~of in- sightthat changed the nature of war forever. The men who built the bomb realised that civilian populations were now unavoidable targets, and that conventional war had now become a dangerous trigger which could cata- lyze an earth-destroying retaliation with nuclear weapons. Such old-fashioned methods of war- fare asgunpowder, employed by revo- lutionaries fighting protracted con- flicts, were suddenly perceived as potential threats which could ignite the nuclear holocaust. The only safe way to wage war, the warriors realized, was to wage it silently. Invisible Warfare - or IW, as came to be known - became necessity. By the end of World War ll, 1 W research had begun in earnest, and in the ensuing decades, modern war- riorsdeveloped anumber ofinsidious methods of subduing enemy popula- tions without their ever knowing that a war had even begun. Secret, invisible weapons now pose a more ominous threat to life than even thermonuclear holocaust. Not July 1y85 FI1E ONiv ne ~nvi~ible Third by Walter H. Bowart and Richard Sutton only have these weapons been devel- oped without the knowledge of their intended victims, but, worse, they cannot even be detected at the very moment they are murdering or rob- otizing civilian populations. Only if the veil of secrecy is lifted will the free people of the world have any hope of surviving long enough to liberate themselves from the bleak, unlivable future promised by the tech- nology of Invisible War. Chemical and Biological Warfare The Secret Plagues Governments do experiment on their own citizens. In the Soviet Union, the victims never get a chance to talk about it. But in a supposedly free society - if they are left in good enough shape to remember that they have been vic- timized -citizens can not only talk about it, they can even sue their government. A wide range of Invisible Warfare experiments conducted on unwitting citizens by the United States govern- ment has already been exposed. In a number of experiments, a secret CIA-Army team infected Americans with deadlyger?msfrom 1949 to 1%9. Equipped with nasal filters and other protective gear, these clandestine agents targeted civilian populations in Hawaii, Alaska, New York, Florida and California with experimental bio- logical weapons. Using trick suitcases and a 1954 Mercury equipped with dual mufflers and extended tailpipes, the spooks cast their clouds of plague along four New York City turnpikes and through the commuter-choked Lincoln and Holland tunnels. Attacks on Florida were followed by an epidemic of whooping cough in which 12 persons died. In 1950, a secret biological warfare weapon launched from a Navy vessel blanketed San Francisco Bay. Thirty years later, on learning of the exper- iment, victims responded with angry lawsuits against the government. Government agents have injected thousands of unsuspecting Americans with germs such as syphilis, and sim- ilarincidents have occurred in Britain and the Soviet Union. Now that formerly secret biologi- cal warfare documents have been released after nearly 30years, at least part of the grisly story can be told. What we can learn from the docu- menu which the government is will- ing to release is just the tip of the invisible iceberg. The fact that inno- centcivilians have been victimized by their own governments, however, makes clear the threat posed by today's invisible technologies of war. Microbiological Holocaust Warriors.~tave been busy develop- ing biological warfare weapons since the prehistoric days, when shamans first poisoned their enemies. The memory of the political use of disease during the Crusades and the Inquisition may have been too fresh in Hitler's mind to allow him to un- leash the vast arsenal amassed by Nazi scientists. The Japanese, however, had no such compunctions. After World War [I, germ warfare trials were held which convicted a number of their war criminals. Those trials, even more sensational than the Nuremberg trials, got little attention from the press of the day. Biological warfare was next used during the Korean War, and then it was used in Vietnam. Perhaps the most hideous story is that of the leakage of anthrax germs from weapons in the remote, secret city of Semipalatinsk in the Soviet Union. There, just a few years ago, hundreds died in horrible agony from anthrax germs created for the pur- pose of biological warfare. Current genetic developments in what is called "Recombinant DNA" threaten to unleash mutant biological warfare strains from which the world may never recover. Despite an inter- national treaty forbidding the use of biological warfare, some nations today are cheating, using it anyway. Accord- ing to recently released Pentagon documents, the Soviets may well have used both chemical and biological war- fare weapons in Afghanistan. Rocky Mountain Plague When the news of secret, leaking Army "Weteye" nerve gas canisters in Denver, Colorado, was released, it sent shivers through the citizens of the Mile High City. Would Denver be America's first Semipalatinsk? A controversy over how to dispose of the nerve gas bombs has raged over the past few years in Utah and Colorado. Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/18 :CIA-RDP90-009658000605740093-1

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