Fort Detrick

Conspiracy theories tagged "Fort Detrick."

5 articles

Debunked

AIDS as US Government Bioweapon

The Soviet-originated conspiracy theory — amplified by the KGB's Operation Denver — that HIV/AIDS was engineered at the US Army's Fort Detrick biological weapon

1983 · Soviet Union
AIDS as Genocide Against Black Africans
Debunked

AIDS as Genocide Against Black Africans

Examining the theory that HIV/AIDS was deliberately created and introduced into African and Black populations as a tool of racial genocide, the role of Operation INFEKTION, and the real history that fuels these beliefs.

1983 · Soviet Union
Mixed

Fort Detrick & US Biological Weapons

Fort Detrick served as America's biological weapons nerve center from 1943 to 1969. Conspiracy theories extend its legacy to AIDS, Lyme disease, and COVID-19. Explore the confirmed history and unproven claims.

1943 · United States
Frank Olson — CIA Scientist Murdered to Prevent Disclosure
Unresolved

Frank Olson — CIA Scientist Murdered to Prevent Disclosure

CIA biochemist Frank Olson fell from a 13th-floor window in 1953, nine days after being secretly dosed with LSD. Was it suicide, an accident, or murder? Explore the evidence.

1953 · United States
MKNAOMI — CIA Biological/Chemical Weapons Program
Confirmed

MKNAOMI — CIA Biological/Chemical Weapons Program

Confirmed CIA program maintaining a stockpile of biological and chemical agents at Fort Detrick — including exotic toxins, disease agents, and incapacitants — f

1952 · United States