U.S. Drops Fleas With Bubonic Plague On North Korea
By: David Swanson, Global Research |
This happened some 63 years ago, but
as the U.S. government has never stopped lying about it, and it’s
generally known only outside the United States, I’m going to treat it as
news.
Here in our little U.S. bubble we’ve heard of a couple versions of a film called The Manchurian Candidate. We’ve
heard of the general concept of “brainwashing” and may even associate
it with something evil that the Chinese supposedly did to U.S. prisoners
during the Korean War. And I’d be willing to bet that the majority of
people who’ve heard of these things have at least a vague sense that
they’re bullshit.
If you didn’t know, I’ll break it to you
right now: people cannot actually be programed like the Manchurian
candidate, which was a work of fiction. There was never the slightest
evidence that China or North Korea had done any such thing. And the CIA
spent decades trying to do such a thing, and finally gave up.
I’d also be willing to bet that very few
people know what it was that the U.S. government promoted the myth of
“brainwashing” to cover up. During the Korean War, the United States
bombed virtually all of North Korea and a good bit of the South, killing
millions of people. It dropped massive quantities of Napalm. It bombed
dams, bridges, villages, houses. This was all-out mass-slaughter. But
there was something the U.S. government didn’t want known, something
deemed unethical in this genocidal madness.
It is well documented that
the United States dropped on China and North Korea insects and feathers
carrying anthrax, cholera, encephalitis, and bubonic plague. This was
supposed to be a secret at the time, and the Chinese response of mass
vaccinations and insect eradication probably contributed to the
project’s general failure (hundreds were killed, but not millions). But
members of the U.S. military taken prisoner by the Chinese confessed to
what they had been a part of, and confessed publicly when they got back
to the United States.
Some of them had felt guilty to begin
with. Some had been shocked at China’s decent treatment of prisoners
after U.S. depictions of the Chinese as savages. For whatever reasons,
they confessed, and their confessions were highly credible, were borne
out by independent scientific reviews, and have stood the test of time.
How to counter reports of the
confessions? The answer for the CIA and the U.S. military and their
allies in the corporate media was “brainwashing,” which conveniently
explained away whatever former prisoners said as false narratives
implanted in their brains by brainwashers.
And 300 million of so Americans more or less sort of believe that craziest-ever dog-ate-my-homework concoction to this day!
The propaganda struggle was intense. The
support of the Guatemalan government for the reports of U.S. germ
warfare in China were part of the U.S. motivation for overthrowing the
Guatemalan government; and the same cover-up was likely part of the
motivation for the CIA’s murder of Frank Olson.
There isn’t any debate that the United
States had been working on bio-weapons for years, at Fort Detrick — then
Camp Detrick — and numerous other locations. Nor is there any question
that the United States employed the top bio-weapons killers from among
both the Japanese and the Nazis from the end of World War II onward. Nor
is there any question that the U.S. tested such weapons on the city of
San Francisco and numerous other locations around the United States, and
on U.S. soldiers. There’s a museum in Havana featuring evidence of
years of U.S. bio-warfare against Cuba. We know that Plum Island,
off the tip of Long Island, was used to test the weaponization of
insects, including the ticks that created the ongoing outbreak of Lyme
Disease.
Dave Chaddock’s book This Must Be the Place, which I found via Jeff Kaye’s review,
collects the evidence that the United States indeed tried to wipe out
millions of Chinese and North Koreans with deadly diseases.
“What does it matter now?” I can imagine people from only one corner of the earth asking.
I reply that it matters that we know the
evils of war and try to stop the new ones. U.S. cluster bombs in Yemen,
U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. guns in Syria, U.S. white
phosphorus and Napalm and depleted uranium used in recent years, U.S.
torture in prison camps, U.S. nuclear arsenals being expanded, U.S.
coups empowering monsters in Ukraine and Honduras, U.S. lies about
Iranian nukes, and indeed U.S. antagonization of North Korea as part of
that never-yet-ended war — all of these things can be best confronted by
people aware of a centuries-long pattern of lying.
And I reply, also, that it is not yet too late to apologize.
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