ByCHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR
Published:14:13 EST, 6 March 2026|Updated:14:55 EST, 6 March 2026
A biochemist has claimed to have found evidence that the modern Lyme outbreak in the US could have been the result of CIA bioweapon experiments.
Dr Robert Malone, who helped lay the groundwork for mRNA vaccine technology, made the explosive allegations this week after analyzing declassified government documents, historical records from Cold Warbiological weaponsprograms and scientificresearch on tick-borne diseases.
Malone highlighted experiments in the 1960s that allegedly released more than282,000 radioactive ticks in Virginiaand open-air tick research at Plum Island, a federal laboratory located near theConnecticutcommunity where Lyme disease was first identified.
The experiments were designed to track how disease-carrying ticks spread through the environment, with scientists marking the parasites using radioactive Carbon-14 so their movements could be detected with Geiger counters, a portable, gas-filled instrument.
Malone’s report argued the research was part of a much larger Cold War biological weapons program known as Project 112, which involved dozens of secret tests aimed at studying how insectscould be used to spread pathogens.
The program, authorized by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1962, oversaw 134 planned tests and included facilities capable of breeding millions of infected insects each week.
According to the report, the same region where these experiments took place later experienced an unprecedented surge in tick-borne illnesses.
Malone's claims follow calls from US officials to investigate whether federal agencies experimented with pathogen-laden ticks as tools of war.
Source: Drudge Report
