-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: "macnamara9" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:44 AM Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] CIA Bioterrorism in Cuba: Portent of 9-11 Anthrax?
> http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43b/070.html > > > US Bacterial War Details > > J. Clancy. 5 June, 1997 > > A previous post from details provided by the Cuban Foreign Ministry > described the recent release of Thrips Palmi insect over Cuban > vegetable growing areas. Granma writer Rodolfo Casals has now > provided the history of those attacks. But it is fair to remember > that the Miami Mafia appears to act as an independent agent of the US > Administration, while providing large financial help to both > Democrats and Republicans. > > "The US State Dept denies the veracity of these Thrip facts, alleging > that "it has not committed a single act of violation of the 1972 > agreement on chemical and biological weapons. Cuba maintains that all > the following accusations against successive Administations have been > confirmed over time from US information releases. In the early 1960's > US Intelligence Services and the military began to elaborate plans > for biological warfare, which have included blights that attack food > crops, sugar cane defoliants, bacteria that thwart sugar cane > cultivation and the interruption of rain by highly sophisticated > methods. > > In 1962, the CIA designed an operation known as Mongoose with the > goal of destroying the Cuban Revolution. The opera- tion's strategies > included the use of military force, sabotage and the assassination of > the nation's leaders, as well as the introduction of nonlethal > chemical agents that would cause illness among sugarcane workers > (hundreds of thousands of persons) and keep them off work for a > period of 24-48 hours. > > The Long Island newspaper NEWSDAY revealed in 1971 that a virus > originating in Fort Gulik, in the Panama Canal Zone, had been > delivered by fishing boat to agents working against Cuba. > > A book entitled,'The Fish is Red', for its part, reports that in > 1972, CIA agents first introduced the African swine fever virus that > decimated Cuba's livestock population. It is estimated that more than > half million pigs were sacrificed, burned and buried to combat the > epidemic. > > Several years later, NEWSDAY reported that a biological warfare > program aimed against poultry production in Cuba had failed, for > reasons not revealed. > > Between 1979 and 1981, four destructive diseases were unleashed that > seriously affected individuals and crops vital to the Cuban economy: > hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, dengue fever, sugar cane rust and tobacco > blue mould. COVERT ACTION a Washington based publication, stated that > as part of the CIA-Pentagon anti-Cuban arsenal, a disease known as > hemorrhagic dengue was introduced on the island, where it infected > hundreds of thousands of people, leaving 158 dead -including 101 > children. > > Eduardo Arocena, a leader of the antiCuba terrorist group Omega 7, > admitted before a US Court in 1984-while he was being tried for > murder-that in 1980 he had participated in an operation to introduce > germs into Cuba as part of the United States war against the Island. > > Five years earlier, in 1979, The WASHINGTON POST had reported that > the CIA had a program aimed against Cuban agriculture, and that since > 1962 Pentagon specialists had been manufacturing biological agents to > be used for this purpose. > > The secret bases operated in the US for the development of chemical > and bacteriological warfare include the Edgewood arsenal near the > city of Baltimore, amd Fort Detrick, in the State of Maryland. A > report issued in 1969 by the US Senate Committee on Labor and social > security recognised that under certain conditions, it is difficult to > prove guilt in a bacteriological attack if the organisms causing the > harm are sent clandestinely, which would allow for the argument that > the situation created is the result of a spontaneous epidemic. > > Of course Cuba is not the only country against which the US has used > these prohibited forms of weaponry. During the Vietnam War, there was > ample media coverage throughout the world, including the US Press, > regarding the indiscriminate use of highly toxic chemicals and > bacteriological agents affecting both humans and animals, as well as > defoliants aimed at devastating plantations, crops and forests -such > as Agent Orange. > > Other antecedents are far too numerous to catalogue. In 1981, for > example, the Press Agency of INDIA reported that bateriolog- > ical.experiments being carried out by US scientists in Lahore, > Pakistan, had led to 30 mysterious deaths. > > A year earlier, in 1980, the US Gov't declassified documents > revealing that in 1956, there had been plans to use the mosquito > which spreads yellow fever against the SOVIET UNION. > > There is more than sufficient information available to back Cuba in > its charges regarding this latest biological attack against it. There > are hard facts, conclusive evidence and more than convincing > arguments. It would not be just, if this were to remain as simply > another chapter in the United States Dirty War against the Cuban > people." > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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