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Fraggin'

By Bill Shunas

SP 5 Willy (Ret.)

Codename, "MKULTRA." Codename "MKNAOMI." Clouds of bacteriological weapons floating in over New York, San Francisco, and Florida. Certain individuals being given mind-altering drugs. Sounds like a giant plot for a book or a movie. SPECTOR is trying to take over the world again. Call in 007. The Russians are coming. Call Henry "Super K" Kissinger.

But it's not a book or movie. It's real! It happened! And it wasn't the Russians, nor the Cubans, or Mexico or the Ayatollah. No, it was the CIA, the Defense Department, the Army and the Navy.

Recent documents released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that these things all happened.

In 1950 the Army wanted to study the possibility of attacking seaport cities with biological weapons. They wanted to see how the wind would blow the stuff around and what kind of defense would be used against it. So they got a Navy mine-laying vessel to cruise around San Francisco Bay releasing an aerosol contaminated with bacteria.

For six days, the 800,000 residents of San Francisco lived in a bacteria contaminated fog. One of the bacteria--called "serratra"--caused an outbreak of pneumonia and at least one death. This was one of 239 such experiments carried out by the Army.

The Defense Department was looking for a chemical weapon that could incapacitate someone without killing them. They needed some human guinea pigs and the found them in an around Edgewood Arsenal. Soldiers and civilians volunteered. Some were told that they would be testing drugs that were already on the market. Others were told that they were going to test new clothing, or go to chemical warfare school. What they got was a drug ten times more powerful than LSD--and loss of memory, inability to concentrate, flashbacks and hallucinations that lasted up to seven years after the experiment.

In 1955 the CIA tried an experiment of releasing biological agents over New York City and parts of Florida near Tamps. These projects were called by the names of MKULTRA and MKNAOMI.

In Florida they released whooping cough bacteria. In 1955 the number of cases of whooping cough was about four times what is normal. In 1956 the number of cases was about double. The normal number of deaths from whooping cough in Florida was one a year. In 1955 twelve died. Most were children. All but one was black.

Call in James Bond. Call in somebody! How can it be that they're killing people in order to protect and defend them? But, yes, it makes sense. For those of us who remember Vietnam, we remember how the U.S. was going to bomb the back to the Stone Age in order to save them.

Recently six crewmen from the Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast were caught with marijuana aboard ship. They were reduced in grade and given 45 days extra duty.

There's nothing unusual about this is today's modern military. Happens all the time. Except that in this case, their ship, the Steadfast, is the leading ship in the Coast Guard for capturing marijuana smugglers. So far they've captured and confiscated over 1 million pounds of grass.

I guess this goes to prove that old saying about how you don't bite the hands that feeds you.

Then there are people who know not to bite the hand that feeds them. Take the brass at Clark Air Base for example. Near the end of the last fiscal year they had spent $715,000 less than their budget. If they didn't spend it before the year ended they would lose it--and worse, their budget might be cut for the next year.

So, of course, they went out and spent the money. Among other things they bought $20,000 worth of color TV's and spent $32,000 re-surfacing the base tennis courts. A happy year at Clark. The supply sergeants probably made a little more in windfall profits and the officers got a little truer bounce to their balls!

I always wondered how some of our officers got to be the way they were. Now I realize that they were trained to be like that. It's been disclosed that part of the hazing procedure for underclassmen at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was to have them kill chickens with their teeth and run around wearing Ku Klux Klan robes. Many of them took this part of their training seriously.

This isn't the grand old Army that John Wayne used to try to sell us. That Army was supposed to bite off the heads of the racists and burn crosses at the doorsteps of chickens. They got it mixed up at West Point--along with lots of other things.

GRENADE OF THE MONTH

This month's grenade goes to Frank Collin, former head of the Nazi Party headquartered in Chicago, and pretender to the title of national "fuehrer." Funny Frankie was arrested and charged with taking indecent liberties with children.

Funny Frankie used to take one eleven and three fourteen year old boys to Nazi Party Headquarters where he committed the sex acts and then took pictures of the naked boys holding a rifle. At the moment he's out on bond.

Funny Frankie must have wanted to get on the list of Famous Freaky Fascists of History along with Hitler's General Staff and Dick and Bebe. Now that he got caught with his pants down, his career has taken a nosedive. But there is still hope: we hear that West Point is interested--they think Funny Frankie might just fit into their program!