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CIA partners with Army bioweapons lab to develop incapacitating agents — including weaponized arthropods.
330,000 mosquitoes dropped from aircraft to test dispersal patterns over populated areas.
DoD scales biological testing to ships and open-air environments. Thousands of servicemembers exposed without consent.
UK admits WWII anthrax tests contaminated an entire island. Decontamination takes 20+ years.
Executive order to destroy all US biological weapons stockpiles. Fort Detrick officially pivots to defensive research.
Senate investigation exposes MKNAOMI, MKULTRA, and other covert programs. CIA admits to developing weaponized ticks.
Mysterious cluster of juvenile arthritis cases. Later identified as tick-borne Borrelia burgdorferi.
Congress votes to investigate whether DoD experimented with weaponized ticks and accidentally released them.
FOIA releases confirm Fort Detrick tick research overlapped geographically and temporally with first Lyme cases.
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