Declassified evidence links U.S. bioweapons program to Lyme disease epidemic
Explosive evidence suggests Lyme disease may have originated from U.S. military bioweapons experiments in the 1960s, including deliberate releases of infected ticks as part of covert operations.
Declassified documents reveal the CIA dropped pathogen-infected ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers in 1962 under Operation Mongoose, with plans to incapacitate workers using biological weapons.
Between 1966–1969, the U.S. military released 282,800 radioactive ticks in Virginia, coinciding with the sudden spread of tick-borne diseases (Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever) in the Northeast.
The Plum Island Animal Disease Center, managed by the Army Chemical Corps, bred hundreds of thousands of ticks for biowarfare research. Lyme disease first emerged in Connecticut, just 13 miles from Plum Island.
Key research, including Willy Burgdorfer’s discovery of a second Lyme-related pathogen (the “Swiss Agent”), was suppressed. In 2019, Congress demanded an investigation into whether Lyme disease was accidentally—or intentionally—released by military bioweapons programs.
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