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Kris Newby

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Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

He said he stuffed plague in fleas, deadly yellow fever virus in mosquitoes, and then a grab bag of disease agents inside of ticks. So the way I know that is from Willie Bergdorfer. Later on, I got his lab notebooks and reports to the NIH in Fort Detrick to prove that.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

I have a witness testimony from someone who worked for the CIA who dropped infected ticks on Cuba right after the Bay of Pigs incident. fiasco. And so that's the main proof, two eyewitness reports and multiple government documents.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

I have a witness testimony from someone who worked for the CIA who dropped infected ticks on Cuba right after the Bay of Pigs incident. fiasco. And so that's the main proof, two eyewitness reports and multiple government documents.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

I have a witness testimony from someone who worked for the CIA who dropped infected ticks on Cuba right after the Bay of Pigs incident. fiasco. And so that's the main proof, two eyewitness reports and multiple government documents.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

Well, Willie Bergdorfer was brought over by the Public Health Service, which is now NIH, and he had a contract with the bioweapons headquarters, Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

Well, Willie Bergdorfer was brought over by the Public Health Service, which is now NIH, and he had a contract with the bioweapons headquarters, Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

Well, Willie Bergdorfer was brought over by the Public Health Service, which is now NIH, and he had a contract with the bioweapons headquarters, Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

After World War II, they interviewed the bioweapon ears in Germany and both Japan, and the Americans were pretty appalled at what they learned, but they were terrified because they knew that the Russians got a hold of some of that information too. A lot of really diabolical bioweapons experiments. They told Congress about it. The Pentagon got more funding.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

After World War II, they interviewed the bioweapon ears in Germany and both Japan, and the Americans were pretty appalled at what they learned, but they were terrified because they knew that the Russians got a hold of some of that information too. A lot of really diabolical bioweapons experiments. They told Congress about it. The Pentagon got more funding.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

After World War II, they interviewed the bioweapon ears in Germany and both Japan, and the Americans were pretty appalled at what they learned, but they were terrified because they knew that the Russians got a hold of some of that information too. A lot of really diabolical bioweapons experiments. They told Congress about it. The Pentagon got more funding.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

So there was an infusion of funding for the bioweapons program and the chemical weapons program. And the bioweapons program was almost as big as a Manhattan nuclear project and just as secretive. And so Willie was brought over because of his special skills in working with ticks. The Japanese were working with tick-borne diseases. And so he... At that time, America felt like they...

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

So there was an infusion of funding for the bioweapons program and the chemical weapons program. And the bioweapons program was almost as big as a Manhattan nuclear project and just as secretive. And so Willie was brought over because of his special skills in working with ticks. The Japanese were working with tick-borne diseases. And so he... At that time, America felt like they...

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

So there was an infusion of funding for the bioweapons program and the chemical weapons program. And the bioweapons program was almost as big as a Manhattan nuclear project and just as secretive. And so Willie was brought over because of his special skills in working with ticks. The Japanese were working with tick-borne diseases. And so he... At that time, America felt like they...

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

They didn't have a good handle on how to really supersize this kind of biological warfare. He was done there to do early pilot studies, like what is the best combination of ticks and diseases in the ticks for a deadly strain, for an incapacitating strain, for... a kind of tick that could be dropped on Vietnam versus a colder climate tick, which could be dropped on Russia.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

They didn't have a good handle on how to really supersize this kind of biological warfare. He was done there to do early pilot studies, like what is the best combination of ticks and diseases in the ticks for a deadly strain, for an incapacitating strain, for... a kind of tick that could be dropped on Vietnam versus a colder climate tick, which could be dropped on Russia.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

They didn't have a good handle on how to really supersize this kind of biological warfare. He was done there to do early pilot studies, like what is the best combination of ticks and diseases in the ticks for a deadly strain, for an incapacitating strain, for... a kind of tick that could be dropped on Vietnam versus a colder climate tick, which could be dropped on Russia.

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

And on the Russian side, they were doing the same thing. So it's an escalation of this capability, even though it's just a stupid kind of weapon. When you have nukes, why do you need a kind of weapon that can't be controlled or targeted and has a high probability of affecting your own soldiers and population?

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

And on the Russian side, they were doing the same thing. So it's an escalation of this capability, even though it's just a stupid kind of weapon. When you have nukes, why do you need a kind of weapon that can't be controlled or targeted and has a high probability of affecting your own soldiers and population?

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

And on the Russian side, they were doing the same thing. So it's an escalation of this capability, even though it's just a stupid kind of weapon. When you have nukes, why do you need a kind of weapon that can't be controlled or targeted and has a high probability of affecting your own soldiers and population?

Dhru Purohit Show
Was Lyme Disease a Lab Leak? The Sinister History of One of the Fastest-Growing Infectious Diseases

You couldn't trace bomb fuses or fingerprints on the back of a tick. It was very much a stealth weapon, I would say.