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Pentagon Declassified the Project on the Use of Mosquitoes and Mites as Weapons
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Photo: Daily Mail. Daily Mail found a 69-page U.S. Army report on Pentagon's website: a paper describing Project Bellwether, in which the military conducted field tests with Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, yellow fever vectors from 1959 to 1960. A total of 52 experiments were conducted at the Utah test site, involving volunteer soldiers, to determine whether tropical insects would survive in hot dry climates and whether they would be able to bite targ…
The classified documents confirmed what had been considered a conspiracy theory for years: the United States military had indeed explored the possibility of using insects as biological weapons.
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