Operation Dark Winter
Operation Dark Winter is the codename for an in 2001 (June 22-23) conducted bio-terrorist attack simulation on the continent of the United States, which took place under real conditions.
The simulation’s target was to assess the shortcomings during such a national emergency, should it come to a biological attack against the American people. This project served for creating preventive measures and strategies to cope with this kind of problem. Moreover, this should make the government as well the population aware of such a problem.
The scenario of Dark Winter was about a local smallpox attack on Oklahoma City. It was designed so that things were out of control soon. It resulted in an emergency to the fact that the National Security Council, on the one hand, had to focus on locating the attack-origin and on the other had to contend with the problem of the ever-spreading virus. Not being able to keep in step with the virus with such a rapid contagion rate would mean for the high rate of civilian casualties, that all emergency equipment in America would reach their limits, a breakdown in essential institutions and civil disorder.
Dark Winter has revealed how vulnerable we have become.
These catastrophic contingencies and the fact that many people would lose their lives have been used to demonstrate the weaknesses of the US health infrastructure, but secretly to point out that it would not be able to avert such a threat and deal with. Not to be forgotten is also the resulting stampede among the population, which would lead to a complete stop of the social apparatus, which in turn would entice people to outbreaks of violence at all ends. Also, intelligence services such as TV and radio would have enormous problems to provide appropriate security procedures for the population.
Many years later and with a retrospective to Dark Winter, a new presidential directive called Directive 51 was put into effect tacitly.
https://division.zone/operation-dark-winter/
The Pentagon’s “Operation Dark Winter”: June 2001 Bioterror Exercise Foreshadowed 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks
And see this.
Dark Winter participants Judith Miller – the New York Times reporter who had long hyped bioterror threats through books and articles – and CIA head Woolsey were two of the loudest voices blaming the Anthrax attacks on Iraq.
Woolsey was an outspoken proponent of war against Iraq even before 9/11.
Moreover, the parallels between the Dark Winter exercise and the Anthrax attacks are numerous. For example, in the Dark Winter exercise:
Anonymous letters are sent to the media
Anonymous letters threatened anthrax attacks on the United States
Iraq and Bin Laden are top suspects
Remember, neoconservatives planned regime change in Iraq 20 years ago (and the U.S. had already carried out regime change in Iraq in the early 1960s).
It has been extensively documented that the White House decided to invade Iraq before 9/11:
Former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11, and inserted “crap” in its justifications for invading Iraq. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill – who sat on the National Security Council – also says that Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11. Top British officials say that the U.S. discussed Iraq regime change even before Bush took office. And in 2000, Cheney said a Bush administration might “have to take military action to forcibly remove Saddam from power.” And see this.
Cheney made Iraqi’s oil fields a national security priority before 9/11. And the Sunday Herald reported: “Five months before September 11, the US advocated using force against Iraq … to secure control of its oil.” (remember that Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer and others all say that the Iraq war was really about oil.)
Here are the other 5 of the scripted news clips from Dark Winter:
https://youtu.be/MkFPXgC-Ib0
https://youtu.be/VMd4z19IJU0
https://youtu.be/BAkzNx3zFtQ
https://youtu.be/hABMVGrr7VA
https://youtu.be/irtlyPCZMxA
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pentagons-operation-dark-winter-june-2001-bioterror-exercise-foreshadowed-911-and-anthrax-attacks/5407575