https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/04/22/army-report-details-germ-war-exercise-in-ny-subway-in-66/70772a8b-8223-47de-99b4-876d5e57dd9c/
Details of the experiment, previously disclosed only in broad outline, were contained in a 71-page report of the Army's Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, Md.
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It was released under the Freedom of Information Act in response to a request by the Church of Scientology.
wait what
Edit: I read the rest of the article and it does not explain this. There’s no further mention of the FoIA request, scientology, or why they were looking into this.
Also, there’s this interesting bit:
According to the report, which cited the existence of subways in the Soviet Union, Europe and South America as well as the United States, the tests were conducted not only to assess the vulnerability of subway systems to covert biological attack, but also to determine "methods of delivery that could be used offensively."
the more you look at stuff like this the more you find articles from the 80s where the church of scientology was going after the CIA. it's wild
Church of scientology were super based, they were basically the Lenins and Antifa of yore. They basically made Marx look like a really tame liberal back in the day. Heck, even some of Mao's works must have been heavily inspired by them. Modern day leftist thought owes a lot to the tireless efforts of L Ron Hubbard, but most would just call them tankies.
that wasn't the test. They were spraying people and no one noticed.
Yes, the test was about trying out inconspicious attack vectors for biowarfare, but it seems they didn't spray people. I had imagined it like that as well at first, but according to this , their agents didn't apply the bacteria to people directly, but went into the stations and dropped lightbulbs filled with the bacteria on the subway tracks. Dropping them on the tracks meant that the trains then spread the bacteria throughout NYC's subway system.
Love how this was printed in 1980, 14 years after the experiment :pain:
Every evil thing you've seen that is evil and that America is capable of technologically they have done or tried to do.
If a legitimate government did this, it does make sense. public transportation has a lot of people in high concentrations and closed airways/repeated contact places, so to see how effectively one could spread disease through them is a smart idea with something harmless. However, the US did it, so I have my doubts.
They just straight up say in the report that it was to test how effective this would be if they did it to the soviets.
yeah, but they said that about literally everything back in the day. I think it was a requirement for funding. but I legitimately think something else worse could've been in the works here.
They were probably looking for other info during Operation Snow White and came across this by accident.
