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Three years ago, I wrote about a Forbes article in this newsletter that stated “More Americans Face Possibly Life-Threatening Red Meat Allergy After Spike in Tick-Borne Illness”
This coincided with a video that was circulating at the time where a researcher from the World Science Festival, Matthew Liao, seemed to suggest that we could cut meat consumption across the world if we voluntarily infected ourselves with alpha-gal syndrome, which comes from the Lonestar Tick, which causes an allergic reaction to red meat. If the video below does go to the timestamp 33:36, this link will take you there.
He also suggested we could breed out tall people so we’re not consuming as many resources.
At the time, I had some fun with it and speculated that these ticks were some plot by fake meat companies to make people allergic to real meat so they’d be forced to go vegetarian or eat their artificial slop. How were they doing this? Didn’t really know, it was mainly a joke and a bit that I could speculate on.
But something strange happened about a month ago. I saw that familiar video of Liao with the red curtain background making the rounds again on Twitter.
I thought it was odd and totally random that a clip from 3 years ago came up again out of the blue. There were no other conversations about this topic circulating, people were reacting like this was brand new.
Come to find out that on March 4th,, Dr Robert Malone just released an article going over the origins of this red meat allergy/lyme disease/ and tick bioweapons based on declassified CIA documents.
So, the tin foil hats were right. Lyme disease has been around forever, but the reason that it’s so prevalent in the U.S is in part because the CIA planned to use ticks and fleas as bioweapons to take out the Cubans in the 50s and 60s.
There are 3 parts to this. There’s the tick experiments the U.S miliary conducted in Virginia, the development and planned implementation of tic bioweapons on the Cubans, and what seems like a lab leak that affects Americans today.
According to Malone’s article, the U.S Military released 282,000 lone star ticks made radioactive with Carbon-14 (a weak radioactive material, looks like just enough for them to track) along bird migration routes, with the goal of tracking the spread of ticks through the weak radioactivity.
I tracked down this source, and where the 282k number comes from is this “Final Tick Table.” The actual study documenting this is from the Journal of Entomology, Volume 8, Issue 6, 30 December 1971, pages 623-635. The abstract is available here, with the full journal behind a paywall.
So this is an actual study that did happen, and real non-native Lonestar ticks were released in Virginia by the military. That is a fact.
Moving on to the bioweapon development and planned implementation, this memo, which I believe comes from the JFK files, outlines proposed sabotage operations against Cuba.
The document and its redaction make it murky, because the description on the right hand side states that this is where the CIA suggested biological or chemical agents against Cuban crops, but it seems that the specific lines where it would state that are redacted. It should also be noted that it does specifically state anything about ticks or fleas.
Nevertheless, the claim of dropping infected ticks on Cuban sugar cane farmers to infect workers comes from an interview that Kris Newby did with a CIA operative who was discussing the crazy things he was apart of during his career and stated,
“The craziest thing I ever did was drop infected ticks on Cuban sugar cane workers in 1962”
What he is referring to was a part of Operation Mongoose, a CIA operation to weaken Fidel Castro’s position in Cuba.
Where stories conflict here is that in the operative’s account, he claims that the deployment was canceled due to Cuba’s shifting winds making things difficult. For this to work, the planes would basically have to skim the water to Cuba to avoid radar detection. Now maybe it’s just semantics because doing it and on the way to doing are basically the same thing in this case, but there was definitely a plan to do this.
How we know there was a plan to do this was because of the research and development done for Operation Big Itch in 1954 which aimed to determine the coverage patterns and survivability of the tropical rat flea as a source of disease. The fleas were not infected themselves during testing, but they put these fleas in cluster bombs, and determined that you could successfully drop these flea bombs from a plane and can spread whatever disease you load into them for 24 hours.
This was thought to be ran by the U.S Army Chemical Corps, who also controlled the Plum Island Animal Disease Center from 1952-1969; which is a facility in Connecticut where Lyme disease was first identified (and formally recognized as Lyme disease in 1975, although there’s evidence of it being around for thousands of years.)
This facility acknowledged containment failures in their experiments where their animal test subjects would mingle out in nature. Which wouldn’t be a huge problem for the public, if they weren’t breeding non-native ticks and dealing with literal diseases.
Now if you go back to a few section above, the release of 282,000 lonestar ticks that were released in Virginia, as a result of military experiments, is how all this ties into the red meat allergy issue, caused by alpha-gal syndrome. Getting bit by a lonestar tick (originally native to the southeast and and midwest), is the main cause of alpha-gal syndrome, and it would not be as prevalent of an issue without those experiments.
It is unreal what our agencies are capable of.
UN Document - lists the Army and Cia Plans
Actual CIA Document about the plans for infesting the sugar cane farms
