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Dave Dempsey

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13. 7. 2015 - 10:45

Today's Webtip: SFGATE

conspiracy fact of the day: the US military did biological weapon testing on all of San Francisco

I know that sounds like the beginning of a really bad conservative joke, but it is actually one of those things that the U.S. government once considered a Very Good Idea.

Back in 1949 some government types realized that SF may have been open to an offshore bioweapons attack. In the kind of thinking that has triggered many a wing-nut moment, some number of people in the chain of command decided to test out that theory. By spraying the city with a bunch of "harmless" bacteria.

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