You could look it up.
Long story short: Once again Gotham residents get to be guinea pigs while riding the rails, just like back in the 60s when the C.I.A. and a special Army unit from Fort Detrick "that specialized in biological an...
You could look it up.
Long story short: Once again Gotham residents get to be guinea pigs while riding the rails, just like back in the 60s when the C.I.A. and a special Army unit from Fort Detrick "that specialized in biological and chemical warfare came to New York in
June 1966 and secretly dropped light bulbs loaded with what they
regarded as harmless bacteria onto the tracks of stations along Avenue
of the Americas and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. Another technique was to
drop the light bulbs on the sidewalk ventilation grates, and let the
little cloud of bacteria drift down below in a kind of mist. People
waiting for trains got doused with the stuff."
"'When the cloud engulfed people, they brushed their clothing, looked up
at the grating apron and walked on,' according to Leonard Cole in the book
'Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas,' an account of the Army’s experiments in
populated areas."
"Other scientists brought meters in satchels and handbags to measure how
quickly the stuff spread. Concerned that they might have to explain what
they were doing, they brought fake letters of identification. Only one
had to explain himself: a scientist who walked into a station smoking a
cigarette and was stopped by a police officer. Elsewhere, nosy
bystanders were given icy glares, and backed off."
"Although the bacteria were generally believed to be harmless, there were
reports that some people were sickened by them. But it was years before
anyone realized that the Army had carried out this and other
experiments."
This time, 47 years after the top-secret June 1966 operation later revealed in Congressional hearings in 1975 that exposed the C.I.A.'s "Family Jewels," "The N.Y.P.D. will release small amounts of harmless, colorless gas in 5 boroughs and 21 subway lines."
Why don't you feel better knowing this?
