Thread by @ColonelTowner

Ever heard of Operation Shocker? Well, you are about to...
1) Operation Shocker was run for 23 years; it was a counterintelligence op run by the FBI against USSR. Did you know the FBI did this type of thing? They had a US

2) Army sgt pretend to defect to the USSR while he was on active duty in DC. He was given 100's of thousands of dollars by USSR to provide their spies in the US information. It amounted to over 4k documents on a "new nerve gas" that the US scientists believed

3)unweaponizable (a dude to wast USSR money, you know like the Chechnya conflict with lots of dead bodies but at least they US could brag about giving the USSR their own Vietnam? Yea, like that but with nerve gas. WTAF; these ppl are insane.

4) It operation began in 1959 with First Sergeant Joseph Cassidy, who was assigned to the Army's nuclear power bureau. The FBI and Army officials asked Sgt Cassidy to contact with an USSR "naval attache" who they believed was a spy.

5) Cassidy began a long term exchange of info about the nerve agent program for $$. Cassidy worked directly with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to provide "classified information" to the USSR agent. USSR wanted to know if the US was involved in developing its nerve gas program.

6) The initial info Cassidy provided was real from our program. Five years later, the US was ready to begin sending fake information. Cassidy was provided a G-series nerve agent, GJ, which the US believed to be a dud

7) bc it couldn't be stabilized and therefore couldn't be used in a weaponizable form. Cassidy entire goal was to squander USSR resources. However, authur David Wise, in his book Cassidy's Run, suggests that the real info provided to the USSR assisted it in the development of

8) the Novichok agents. Sweet, nothing like giving your 'enemy' info to drive a germ war build up. See how that works. Is it possible that the fake program wasn't so fake? That we gave ourselves the ability to build nerve agents by giving the 'enemy' nerve agents?

9) Then accusing them of having them to further build ours? Yes of course it is and that's the reason you can't let these bastards have secrets. We are the only ones who suffer when their Dr Evil plans go wrong.

10) The operation was highly classified, and when two FBI agents died in a plane crash 😳😳😳while surveilling a Soviet spy, press and public were misled about the circumstances, and even the agents' families were told nothing for years.

11) and of course that wasn't an isolated incident as far as pretending to have capability we didn't have just to get the USSR to do something so it gave us the ability to do it ourselves, you know, just to keep up... the FBI

12) created a disinformation operation using double-agent Dmitri Polyakov. It's purpose was feeding USSR misleading info that the US was covertly continuing with its biological weapons program despite telling the

13) US citizens it was over and done. This led USSR to expand its biological weapons program. James Risen wrote about it portions of this here:

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