Chuck Bryant

Yeah.

So now we move on to the U.S.

Congress.

Yeah.

Very recently, about a month ago.

End of July, I think.

Yeah, there was a U.S.

House rep named Chris Smith, a Republican out of New Jersey.

who introduced legislation that said, hey, Department of Defense, you should review these claims that I'm seeing that our own Pentagon researched

using ticks to spread Lyme disease as a bioweapon in the mid-20th century.

I'm reading a lot about this in books and articles that we did research on Plum Island and other insects too, not just ticks, of turning them into bioweapons.

And this thing passed.

And a lot of this comes from a book written by Chris Newby called Bitten, colon, The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.

And this book, like, I think Chris Smith, the representative from New Jersey, said, like, this book really inspired me to take up this legislation.

But in the book, Newby basically says the government at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and on Plum Island, New York, before it was turned into an animal disease research center, were doing— It was an insect disease research center before that, I guess.

Right.

They were looking into—well, they definitely were doing biowarfare research there.

Early 1950s?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.