The Plum Island Conspiracy Part 1: The History

The Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) is a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of animal diseases, or so we are told. During the Cold War, research on a biological weapons program directed towards livestock was conducted on the premises, making the PIADC the subject of controversies and earning cult status for the facility. The research center is located 2 miles northeast off the island coast of Long Island, New York. The island was purchased by the government during the Spanish-American War for the construction of Fort Terry, which was deactivated after WWII, and then reactivated in 1952 for the Army Chemical Corps.

The PIADC consists of 70 buildings, most of which are dilapidated, on 840 acres. In 1954, due to the disease outbreaks in Mexico and Canada, the Army gave the island to the Agriculture Department to establish a research center for the study of foot and mouth disease in cattle. The island was opened to the media in 1992, and in 1995 received a fine of $111,000 for storing hazardous chemicals on the island. It has since been shut off to the media. In 2000, the PIADC attempted to expand to include the study of diseases that affect humans, it was shot down. It was reconsidered once more in 2002. The island merits a $16.5 million annual budget, and in 2002, the PIADC was transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In 2003, a whistleblower who had voiced safety concerns regarding the facility with aides to Senator Hillary Clinton, won his lawsuit against the contractor who fired him after he had voiced his concerns.

The research facility program includes developing diagnostic tools and bio vaccines for foot and mouth disease and other livestock diseases. It also houses freezers containing samples of polio and diseases that can be transferred from animals to humans. Lab 257, authored by Michael C. Carroll, Ph.D., has alleged a connection between PIADC and the outbreaks of three infectious diseases: West Nile in 1999, Lyme Disease in 1975, and Dutch duck plague in 1967.

Much concern has been repeatedly voiced about the conditions of the buildings on Plum Island. Due to this, a program was launched in 1977 to upgrade several buildings, but was cancelled in 1979 due to issues with contractors. Remodeling was once again attempted and was somewhat successful (two buildings were combined into one), in 1995. Over time there was more deterioration, so on September 11, 2005, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that the PIADC would be replaced by a new federal facility. The new facility was to be named the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), and its proposed location is Manhattan, Kansas.

This idea has been called into question, and has been stalled thus far. The existence of biological warfare research and experiments on Plum Island was denied by the U.S. government for decades until a Newsday article provided documents proving otherwise in 1993.

Misty Marie

TheTruthSyndicate

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