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/

  • naom3 [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    👁️

    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."

    • glingorfel [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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

        • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          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.