Saturday, November 03, 2018
Possible but inconclusive
The 'everyday vintage' tumblr has a set of pix from Cuba in 1981. As you'd expect, it includes some innovative cars and pretty girls. It also includes several billboards with government slogans. One slogan focuses on an epidemic of dengue fever. The caption says:
Havana. CIA/Dengue fever poster. Cubans said that the dengue fever epidemic in 1981 had been started by the CIA, 1981
Was that true? Considering the CIA's long-standing obsession with Cuba, any and all types of genocide are possible.
The Wikileaks archive shows that CIA was running a large "Dengue Project" in the late '70s, hiring lots of scientists and working with various agencies. CIA also noticed when a dengue epidemic in Egypt was blamed on Israeli bioterror.
Does this add up to anything? No. It does show why Cuba had specific reasons to be suspicious, given CIA's constant murderous intent. I wouldn't be surprised if Cuba had far better info than the unclassified stuff in this data dump.
Labels: Asked and badly answered
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