U.S. Weighed Radioactive Poisons

Cold War Papers on Potential Assassination Methods Unveiled

Early in the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the potential for using radioactive poisons to assassinate “important individuals” such as military or civilian leaders, according to newly declassified documents.

Approved at the highest levels of the Army in 1948, the effort was a well-hidden part of the military’s pursuit of a “new concept of warfare,” using radioactive materials from atomic-bomb production to contaminate swaths of enemy land or to target military bases, factories or troop formations.

Military historians who have researched the broader radiological warfare program said in interviews that they had never before seen evidence that it included pursuit of an assassination weapon. Targeting public figures in such attacks is not unheard of; last year an unknown assailant used a tiny amount of radioactive polonium-210 to kill Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London.

So, do we think the CIA and other ‘Unnamed Spy Agencies’ have become more ethical? Do we think tactics have become more legal? Does the Geneva Convention still exist? It existed during the Cold War, we didn’t care then, do we care now?

Assassination of foreign figures by agents of the U.S. government was not explicitly outlawed until President Gerald R. Ford signed an executive order in 1976 in response to revelations that the CIA had plotted in the 1960s to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro, including by poisoning.

And now for the most exciting news, right out of the Michael Crichton novel Swarm …

Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs. Rick Weiss: Washington Post

Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.

“I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects.”

“I’d never seen anything like it in my life,” the Washington lawyer, Bernard Crane said. “They were large for dragonflies. I thought, ‘Is that mechanical, or is that alive?’ ”

That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar sightings at political events in Washington and New York. Some suspect the insectlike drones are high-tech surveillance tools, perhaps deployed by the Department of Homeland Security.

No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. But a number of U.S. government and private entities acknowledge they are trying. Some federally funded teams are even growing live insects with computer chips in them, with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies and controlling their flight muscles remotely.

The robobugs could follow suspects, guide missiles to targets or navigate the crannies of collapsed buildings to find survivors.

These little projects are all done with outsourced DOD companies whose bottom line is profit. Secret is in the eye of the beholder when it comes to the bottom line. Whatever we have, ‘they’ have. The FOIA is the chance for Americans to see what the US Government tries to hide from its citizens. America is still the world’s Number 1 arms dealer, Russia and China are close behind. What is withheld from Americans can be used against them. The US has demonstrated over and over that it cannot be trusted. Lying to Americans is status quo – Americans are NOT on a need to know basis. However, our arms buyers always have a need to know … even if they are the ones shooting at us …

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