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Weaponized Ticks: 9 Events. 4 Decades. 6 States + Cuba.

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1953·Fort Detrick, Maryland

CIA Project MKNAOMI Begins

CIA partners with Army bioweapons lab to develop incapacitating agents — including weaponized arthropods.

1954·Savannah, Georgia

Operation Big Buzz

330,000 mosquitoes dropped from aircraft to test dispersal patterns over populated areas.

1962·Multiple US Sites

Project 112 / SHAD Expanded

DoD scales biological testing to ships and open-air environments. Thousands of servicemembers exposed without consent.

1968·Scotland, UK

Gruinard Island Cleanup Begins

UK admits WWII anthrax tests contaminated an entire island. Decontamination takes 20+ years.

1969·Washington, D.C.

Nixon Orders Bioweapons Destruction

Executive order to destroy all US biological weapons stockpiles. Fort Detrick officially pivots to defensive research.

1975·Washington, D.C.

Church Committee Reveals CIA Programs

Senate investigation exposes MKNAOMI, MKULTRA, and other covert programs. CIA admits to developing weaponized ticks.

1976·Old Lyme, Connecticut

First Lyme Disease Cases Identified

Mysterious cluster of juvenile arthritis cases. Later identified as tick-borne Borrelia burgdorferi.

2019·Washington, D.C.

House Passes Amendment for Investigation

Congress votes to investigate whether DoD experimented with weaponized ticks and accidentally released them.

2024·National Archives, D.C.

Declassified Documents Surface

FOIA releases confirm Fort Detrick tick research overlapped geographically and temporally with first Lyme cases.

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