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    Congress gets a little ticked at 25-year lab tests

    by Carl Hiaasen, Tribune Content Agency Jul 22, 2019 3 minutes

    An absolutely true news item: The U.S. House of Representatives is seeking to investigate whether the Department of Defense used biowarfare laboratories for the possible "weaponization" of disease-carrying ticks between 1950-1975.

    Classified Summary from Project Lyme, Phase One, dated Jan. 12, 1950, submitted from Biowarfare Lab 7-G at Fort Detrick, Md.:

    Methodology: Pursuant to DOD directives, approximately 177 live adult ticks were collected as potential candidates for war-time weaponization.

    Sterile tweezers were used to capture

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