Many Americans would not be surprised to hear that the United States government conducted one of the largest human experiments in history by simulating a chemical attack on thousands of unsuspecting individuals. But that attack was carried out in San Francisco, California, and the people who died and were seriously injured as a result were poisoned by their own government.
In 1950, the U.S. government carried out this attack by spraying the city of San Francisco with the microbe Serratia marcescens in an attack that targeted thousands of innocent civilians. Discover Magazine reported that the experiment was conducted as a “vulnerability test to identify susceptible regions in the event of a biological terrorist attack.”
The attack was called “Operation Sea-Spray” and San Francisco was chosen as the target because it is close to the ocean and because it has a unique geography, tall buildings, and dense population. For six days in September 1950, the United States Navy used giant hoses to spray clouds of Serratia along the San Francisco coastline, which resulted in the city’s 800,000 residents receiving heavy doses of the chemical.
It is also estimated that residents in the neighboring communities of Albany, Berkeley, Daly City, Colma, Oakland, San Leandro, and Sausalito, were exposed to it. While the military insisted that Serratia marcescens is “rarely a cause of illness,” Discover noted that there were a number of serious illnesses and even one tragic death reported as a result of the government’s chemical attack:
“A week after the spraying, 11 patients were admitted to the now defunct Stanford University Hospital in San Francisco with severe urinary tract infections, resistant to the limited antibiotics available in that era. One gentleman, recovering from prostate surgery, developed complications of heart infection as Serratia colonized his heart valves. His would be the only death during the aftermath of the experiment … Stanford published a report on the outbreak, noting that ‘the isolation of a red pigment-producing [bacterium] from the urine of human beings was of interest, at first, as a curious clinical observation. Later, the repeated occurrence of urinary-tract infection by this organism, with bacteremia in two patients and death in one, indicated the potential clinical importance of this group of bacteria.’”
While this experiment was one of the largest, it was not the only time the U.S. government intentionally poisoned its own citizens. Three congressmen began speaking out in October 2017 and calling for the government to be held accountable for conducting secret experiments across the country that involved testing radioactive material on vulnerable and poor populations in the 1950s.
The revelations were recently brought to light by author and professor Lisa Martino-Taylor in her book, “Behind the Fog: How the US Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans.”
She said she discovered that a small group of researchers “worked to develop radiological weapons and later ‘combination weapons’ using radioactive materials along with chemical or biological weapons.”
“They targeted the most vulnerable in society in most cases,” Martino-Taylor said.
“They targeted children. They targeted pregnant women in Nashville. People who were ill in hospitals. They targeted wards of the state. And they targeted minority populations.” A number of victims were poor, pregnant women in Nashville, Chicago, and San Francisco, who were unknowingly given a mixture that included radioactive iron on their first prenatal visit, to thousands of students who were subjected to “radiation fields” that were created at various high schools and universities in California.
When fields in St. Louis were sprayed with chemicals that included radioactive materials in the 1950s, Mary Helen Brindell, who is now 73, told the AP that she was aware of a squadron of green planes flying low overhead while she was playing a baseball game with friends, and covering them all in “a fine powdery substance that stuck to skin.”
Since then, Brindell said she has suffered from “breast, thyroid, skin and uterine cancers,” and her sister died of a rare form of esophageal cancer. “I just want an explanation from the government. Why would you do that to people?” she said.
The fact is that while some will call it just another “crazy conspiracy theory,” there is legitimate evidence to show that the federal government has been caught intentionally poisoning its citizens on numerous occasions, and the officials who are responsible have never been held accountable for the attacks that caused a lifetime of health problems for thousands of Americans.
By TFTP Staff Writer: @rachelblevins
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I used to be wary of conspiracy theories and still am (flat earthers) but through my own research, have discovered that most of the government conspiracies are pretty much true. This particular incident in San Fran reminds me of the MK ULTRA program that spiked some town in Tennesse's drinking water with LSD. Of course, they didn't know how safe LSD was at the time, but how sinister does one have to be to force a whole town of people to loose their mental faculties and believe they had gone crazy?
yeah I tend to think that flat earthers themselves are a conspiracy sometimes lol
Would it really be a surprise if they were still conducting operations just like this one? Look up that's not water vapor coming out of those planes.
Fluoride in everything too....its crazy.
I am an architectural photographer and I can attest to these clouds only showing up in my photos since 2004. Creepy.
It reminds me of the incident in a small French town in the 50s (there's a RT documentary). Of course being French, the townsfolk thought the psych poison making them go insane was just bad bread - what else was so ubiquitous? Decades later it would turn out the US and French were experimenting with water soluble hallucinogens and had dumped the poison in the water supply.
OH wow, we will have to dig deeper into that story, thanks!
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Government all over the world do some crazy stuff.I can't believe that such happen on the soil of US.So what is all this noise the government makes about protecting the citizens?
My mother as well as the women of her generation were caught up in the United States government plot to sterilize all Native American women. They gave my mother and other women vitamins. They made my mother really sick so she stopped taking them other women didn't get as sick and continue taking them and have massive health problems to this day.
Sad but true...
yes, we are truling living in a poison world
Amazing the amount of dirt coming out...
Thanks for bringing more out! The issue is there is so much evidence!