THE INVISIBLE THIRD WORLD WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605740093-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: July 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Editor's note: Walter Bowart's Opern-
tion Mind Control caused a furor in the
United States intelligence commun-
ity when it was first published in
1975. Bowart's research on the sub-
ject or: government agency involve-
ment in dangerous and often life-
threatening human experimentation
on unwitting citizens paved the way
for a new era in exposure of such
unconstitutional' practices. Asa re-
sult, many such experiments were
halted, and the responsible govern-
mentagencies were forced to release
information which had previously
been hidden from the general public.
Bowartcontinued his research into
the horrifying, mind-crippling effects
of government exploitation of its own
citizens in mind control experimenta-
tion. What he uncovered is more
incredible than any science fiction
novel.
In the as-yet unpublished manu-
script, The Invisible Third Wor1A Wnr,
Bowart and co-author Richard Sut-
ton reveal that the world is already
locked in deadly, invisible warfare,
fighting for the ultimate prize -the
mind of man.
When the first atomic bomb was
detonated at Alamogordo, New Mex-
ico, in 1944, the warriors of the mod-
ern world experienced a flaSh~of in-
sightthat changed the nature of war
forever. The men who built the bomb
realised that civilian populations were
now unavoidable targets, and that
conventional war had now become a
dangerous trigger which could cata-
lyze an earth-destroying retaliation
with nuclear weapons.
Such old-fashioned methods of war-
fare asgunpowder, employed by revo-
lutionaries fighting protracted con-
flicts, were suddenly perceived as
potential threats which could ignite
the nuclear holocaust.
The only safe way to wage war, the
warriors realized, was to wage it
silently.
Invisible Warfare - or IW, as
came to be known - became
necessity.
By the end of World War ll, 1 W
research had begun in earnest, and in
the ensuing decades, modern war-
riorsdeveloped anumber ofinsidious
methods of subduing enemy popula-
tions without their ever knowing
that a war had even begun.
Secret, invisible weapons now pose
a more ominous threat to life than
even thermonuclear holocaust. Not
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only have these weapons been devel-
oped without the knowledge of their
intended victims, but, worse, they
cannot even be detected at the very
moment they are murdering or rob-
otizing civilian populations.
Only if the veil of secrecy is lifted
will the free people of the world have
any hope of surviving long enough to
liberate themselves from the bleak,
unlivable future promised by the tech-
nology of Invisible War.
Chemical and Biological Warfare
The Secret Plagues
Governments do experiment on
their own citizens.
In the Soviet Union, the victims
never get a chance to talk about it.
But in a supposedly free society - if
they are left in good enough shape to
remember that they have been vic-
timized -citizens can not only talk
about it, they can even sue their
government.
A wide range of Invisible Warfare
experiments conducted on unwitting
citizens by the United States govern-
ment has already been exposed.
In a number of experiments, a secret
CIA-Army team infected Americans
with deadlyger?msfrom 1949 to 1%9.
Equipped with nasal filters and other
protective gear, these clandestine
agents targeted civilian populations
in Hawaii, Alaska, New York, Florida
and California with experimental bio-
logical weapons.
Using trick suitcases and a 1954
Mercury equipped with dual mufflers
and extended tailpipes, the spooks
cast their clouds of plague along four
New York City turnpikes and through
the commuter-choked Lincoln and
Holland tunnels.
Attacks on Florida were followed
by an epidemic of whooping cough
in which 12 persons died.
In 1950, a secret biological warfare
weapon launched from a Navy vessel
blanketed San Francisco Bay. Thirty
years later, on learning of the exper-
iment, victims responded with angry
lawsuits against the government.
Government agents have injected
thousands of unsuspecting Americans
with germs such as syphilis, and sim-
ilarincidents have occurred in Britain
and the Soviet Union.
Now that formerly secret biologi-
cal warfare documents have been
released after nearly 30years, at least
part of the grisly story can be told.
What we can learn from the docu-
menu which the government is will-
ing to release is just the tip of the
invisible iceberg. The fact that inno-
centcivilians have been victimized by
their own governments, however,
makes clear the threat posed by
today's invisible technologies of war.
Microbiological Holocaust
Warriors.~tave been busy develop-
ing biological warfare weapons since
the prehistoric days, when shamans
first poisoned their enemies.
The memory of the political use of
disease during the Crusades and the
Inquisition may have been too fresh
in Hitler's mind to allow him to un-
leash the vast arsenal amassed by
Nazi scientists.
The Japanese, however, had no
such compunctions. After World War
[I, germ warfare trials were held
which convicted a number of their
war criminals. Those trials, even more
sensational than the Nuremberg trials,
got little attention from the press of
the day.
Biological warfare was next used
during the Korean War, and then it
was used in Vietnam.
Perhaps the most hideous story is
that of the leakage of anthrax germs
from weapons in the remote, secret
city of Semipalatinsk in the Soviet
Union. There, just a few years ago,
hundreds died in horrible agony from
anthrax germs created for the pur-
pose of biological warfare.
Current genetic developments in
what is called "Recombinant DNA"
threaten to unleash mutant biological
warfare strains from which the world
may never recover. Despite an inter-
national treaty forbidding the use of
biological warfare, some nations today
are cheating, using it anyway. Accord-
ing to recently released Pentagon
documents, the Soviets may well have
used both chemical and biological war-
fare weapons in Afghanistan.
Rocky Mountain Plague
When the news of secret, leaking
Army "Weteye" nerve gas canisters
in Denver, Colorado, was released, it
sent shivers through the citizens of
the Mile High City. Would Denver be
America's first Semipalatinsk?
A controversy over how to dispose
of the nerve gas bombs has raged
over the past few years in Utah and
Colorado.
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