U.S. Gov’t Exposed for Conducting Bio-Warfare Experiments in San Francisco that Killed US Citizens

 Many Americans would not be surprised to hear that the United States  government conducted one of the largest human experiments in history by  simulating a chemical attack on thousands of unsuspecting individuals.  But that attack was carried out in San Francisco, California, and the  people who died and were seriously injured as a result were poisoned by  their own government. 

In 1950, the U.S. government carried out this attack by spraying the city of San Francisco with the microbe Serratia marcescens in an attack that targeted thousands of innocent civilians. Discover Magazine reported that the experiment was conducted as a “vulnerability test to identify susceptible regions in the event of a biological terrorist attack.” 

The attack was called “Operation Sea-Spray” and San Francisco was  chosen as the target because it is close to the ocean and because it has  a unique geography, tall buildings, and dense population. For six days in September 1950, the United States Navy used giant hoses to spray clouds of Serratia along  the San Francisco coastline, which resulted in the city’s 800,000  residents receiving heavy doses of the chemical. 

It is also estimated  that residents in the neighboring communities of Albany, Berkeley, Daly  City, Colma, Oakland, San Leandro, and Sausalito, were exposed to it. While the military insisted that Serratia marcescens is “rarely a cause of illness,”  Discover noted that there were a number of serious illnesses and even  one tragic death reported as a result of the government’s chemical  attack: 

“A week after the spraying, 11 patients were admitted  to the now defunct Stanford University Hospital in San Francisco with  severe urinary tract infections, resistant to the limited antibiotics  available in that era. One gentleman, recovering from prostate surgery,  developed complications of heart infection as Serratia colonized his  heart valves. His would be the only death during the aftermath of the  experiment … Stanford published a report on the outbreak,  noting that ‘the isolation of a red pigment-producing [bacterium] from  the urine of human beings was of interest, at first, as a curious  clinical observation. Later, the repeated occurrence of urinary-tract  infection by this organism, with bacteremia in two patients and death in  one, indicated the potential clinical importance of this group of  bacteria.’”

While this experiment was one of the largest, it was not the only  time the U.S. government intentionally poisoned its own citizens. Three  congressmen began speaking out in October 2017 and calling for the  government to be held accountable for conducting secret experiments across the country that involved testing radioactive material on vulnerable and poor populations in the 1950s. 

The revelations were recently brought to light by author and professor Lisa Martino-Taylor in her book, “Behind the Fog: How the US Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans.”  

She said she discovered that a small group of researchers “worked  to develop radiological weapons and later ‘combination weapons’ using  radioactive materials along with chemical or biological weapons.”

 “They targeted the most vulnerable in society in most cases,” Martino-Taylor said. 

“They  targeted children. They targeted pregnant women in Nashville. People  who were ill in hospitals. They targeted wards of the state. And they  targeted minority populations.” A number of victims were poor, pregnant women in Nashville, Chicago,  and San Francisco, who were unknowingly given a mixture that included  radioactive iron on their first prenatal visit, to thousands of students  who were subjected to “radiation fields” that were created at various high schools and universities in California. 

When fields in St. Louis were sprayed with chemicals that included  radioactive materials in the 1950s, Mary Helen Brindell, who is now 73,  told the AP that she was aware of a squadron of green planes flying low  overhead while she was playing a baseball game with friends, and  covering them all in “a fine powdery substance that stuck to skin.” 

Since then, Brindell said she has suffered from “breast, thyroid, skin and uterine cancers,” and her sister died of a rare form of esophageal cancer. “I just want an explanation from the government. Why would you do that to people?” she said. 

The fact is that while some will call it just another “crazy  conspiracy theory,” there is legitimate evidence to show that the  federal government has been caught intentionally poisoning its citizens  on numerous occasions, and the officials who are responsible have never  been held accountable for the attacks that caused a lifetime of health  problems for thousands of Americans. 

By TFTP Staff Writer: @rachelblevins

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