LOL! The figure in the poster with the gas mask does not make me feel safe in the least. Going to avoid going into the city in JULY.

This was done once before in some city. In the previous case (this was decades ago) light bulbs filled with non-lethal bacteria were released on subway tracks. The bacteria spread in a similar fashion to weaponized anthrax.

Who hasn't released some "non-toxic gases" in the subway system once in awhile?

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Did the CIA test LSD in the New York City subway system?

By PHILIP MESSING
New York Post
March 14, 2010

On Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York?s Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewalk just opposite Penn Station.

Olson?s ignominious end was written off as an unremarkable suicide of a depressed government bureaucrat who came to New York City seeking psychiatric treatment, so it attracted scant attention at the time.

But 22 years later, the Rockefeller Commission report was released, detailing a litany of domestic abuses committed by the CIA. The ugly truth emerged: Olson?s death was the result of his having been surreptitiously dosed with LSD days earlier by his colleagues.

The shocking disclosure led to President Gerald Ford?s apology to Olson?s widow and his three children, who accepted a $750,000 civil payment for his wrongful death.

But the belated 1975 mea culpa failed to close a tawdry chapter of our nation?s past. Instead it generated more interest into a series of wildly implausible ?mind control? experiments on an unsuspecting populace over three decades.

Much of this plot unfolded here, in New York, according to H.P. Albarelli Jr., author of ?A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA?s Secret Cold War Experiments.?

?For me, in countless ways the Olson story is a New York City story,? said Albarelli, a former lawyer in the Carter White House, who has written extensively about biological warfare and intelligence matters. ?The CIA itself was created and initially composed of wealthy men who came from Wall Street and New York City law firms.?

Olson was a research scientist assigned to the CIA?s Special Operations Division, at Ft. Detrick, Md., who was performing top secret research relating to LSD-25, a powerful new drug whose properties were barely understood. Could psychedelic drugs be used to get enemy combatants to lay down their arms, or work as a truth serum on reluctant prisoners?

Albarelli spent more than a decade sifting through more than 100,000 pages of government documents and his most startling chestnut might be his claim that the intelligence community conducted aerosol tests of LSD inside the New York City subway system.

?The experiment was pretty shocking ? shocking that the CIA and the Army would release LSD like that, among innocent unwitting folks,? Albarelli told The Post.

A declassified FBI report from the Baltimore field office dated Aug. 25, 1950 provides some tantalizing support for the claim. ?The BW [biological weapon] experiments to be conducted by representatives of the Department of the Army in the New York Subway System in September 1950, have been indefinitely postponed,? states the memo, a copy of which the author provided to The Post

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In an effort to prepare against chemical, biological and radiological attacks in the New York subway, the New York Police Department has announced plans to release harmless gases into the city?s streets and subway stations to better understand the pathways of airborne contaminants. Officials will use more than 200 sensors, set up throughout all five boroughs, to track these benign gases as they disperse. They?ll then use that data to build a computerized model that can help predict how airborne contaminants might behave, depending on locational and weather conditions.

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