88. Patreon Episode: Plum Island

Plum Island has been a hotbed of conspiracy theories since the mid 1900s. Rumors have spread and books have been written about subjects from Nazi scientists to biological weapons testing to genetically modified monsters all connecting back to this location. It is patrolled 24/7 and people wonder if it is to keep us out or to keep things in… or both?

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Episode Sources:

• https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/fbi-nwcda-091002.htm

• https://static.secure.website/wscfus/10426050/7243183/fbi-traub.pdf

• https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-847/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-847.htm

• Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory by Michael Carroll

• Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State

• By Brian E. Crim

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• https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_lyme_ig_amendment.pdf

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• The Belarus Secret by John Loftus, ‎Nathan Mille

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• https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-847/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-847.htm

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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZc-fO8pHc

• (3:50- Verner Von Brown)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNRhfJmDwLo

• 2:50- Erich Traub

• 48 seconds- Lyme disease founder

• The Book: http://www.empirestatelymediseaseassociation.org/BOOKS/1FREE-books/Michael_Carroll_Lab_257.pdf