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|funders=Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
 
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|participants=Sam Nunn, David Gergen, R. James Woolsey, John White, John Tilelli, Margaret Hamburg, Frank Wisner, George Terwilliger, Jerome Hauer, William Sessions,  Frank Keating, Dan Mahoney, Jim Miklaszewski, Mary Walsh, Sian Edwards, Judith Miller, Lester Reingold,Tara O'Toole,Tom Inglesby,Randy Larsen,Mark DeMier,Sue Reingold,Dennis Reimer,John Hamre
 
|participants=Sam Nunn, David Gergen, R. James Woolsey, John White, John Tilelli, Margaret Hamburg, Frank Wisner, George Terwilliger, Jerome Hauer, William Sessions,  Frank Keating, Dan Mahoney, Jim Miklaszewski, Mary Walsh, Sian Edwards, Judith Miller, Lester Reingold,Tara O'Toole,Tom Inglesby,Randy Larsen,Mark DeMier,Sue Reingold,Dennis Reimer,John Hamre
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}}'''Dark Winter''' was an "[[terrorism exercise|exercise]]" "wherein senior former officials would respond to a bioterrorist induced [[national security]] crisis."<ref>http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/index.html</ref>
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}}'''Dark Winter''' was an "[[terrorism exercise|exercise]]" on 22-23 June 2001 "wherein senior former officials would respond to a bioterrorist induced [[national security]] crisis."<ref>http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/index.html</ref>
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The exercise centered on "[[terrorists]]" starting a [[smallpox]] outbreak in the US, a situation that was uncanny reminiscent of the [[2001 anthrax attacks]] that happened just 3 months later, and the narrative that Iraq posed an active bioweapon threat.
  
 
==Scenario==
 
==Scenario==
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The exercise centered on "[[terrorists]]" starting a [[smallpox]] outbreak in the US, that had uncanny similarities to the [[2001 anthrax attacks]] that happened just months later, and the narrative that claimed Iraq had an active bioweapon program.  
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The two day exercise simulated a bioterror attack in the form of aerosolized smallpox targeting 3 shopping centers in [[Oklahoma City]], Oklahoma. By the end of the second week, there were 2,000 cases in 15 states, then turning into a pandemic killing millions.
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The panic and hysteria in the ensuing national crisis causes food riots and National Guardsmen firing on citizens.<ref>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2001/10/25/avoiding-a-dark-winter</ref>
  
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The drill simulated a bioterror attack in the form of aerosolized smallpox targeting Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.In the simulation, the smallpox turned into a pandemic, killing millions. The culprit of the attack in this imaginary scenario was [[Bin Laden]]’s [[Al Qaeda]] network. One of the very last lines of the scripted drill is a fake broadcast reporting ‘there is a very high probability this attack was conducted by either state or a state sponsored international terrorist organization’ and that ‘A prominent Iraqi defector is claiming that Iraq arranged the bioweapons attack on the US through intermediaries’.
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The culprit of the attack in this imaginary scenario was [[Bin Laden]]’s [[Al Qaeda]] network, but one of the very last lines of the scripted drill is a fake broadcast reporting ‘there is a very high probability this attack was conducted by either state or a state sponsored international terrorist organization’ and that ‘A prominent Iraqi defector is claiming that [[Iraq]] arranged the bioweapons attack on the US through intermediaries’.
  
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==Press preparation for anthrax attack==
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==Press Coverage==
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Three months after participating in Operation Dark Winter, on September 4th 2001, NY Times reporter [[Judith Miller]] co-authors an article on Pentagon plans to develop a more potent version of weaponized anthrax, titled “U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits”. Judith Miller’s main journalistic beat during this period was covering the very secretive US bioweapons program.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-the-bush-administration-used-the-2001-anthrax-attacks-to-manufacture-consent-for-the-iraq-war/251763/</ref>
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The simulation seeded the idea of an anthrax threat in the national imagination. Three months after participating in Operation Dark Winter, on September 4th 2001, NY Times reporter [[Judith Miller]] co-authored an article on Pentagon plans to develop a more potent version of weaponized anthrax, titled “U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits”. Judith Miller’s main journalistic beat during this period was covering the very secretive US bioweapons program.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-the-bush-administration-used-the-2001-anthrax-attacks-to-manufacture-consent-for-the-iraq-war/251763/</ref>
  
 
==Successors==
 
==Successors==

Revision as of 11:00, 7 July 2020

Event.png Operation Dark Winter (terrorism exercise,  Biological weapon/Preparation) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Date22 June 2001 - 23 June 2001
LocationWashington DC
PlannersJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Analytic Service, Tara O'Toole
ParticipantsSam Nunn, David Gergen, R. James Woolsey, John White, John Tilelli, Margaret Hamburg, Frank Wisner, George Terwilliger, Jerome Hauer, William Sessions, Frank Keating, Dan Mahoney, Jim Miklaszewski, Mary Walsh, Sian Edwards, Judith Miller, Lester Reingold, Tara O'Toole, Tom Inglesby, Randy Larsen, Mark DeMier, Sue Reingold, Dennis Reimer, John Hamre
Interests • “terrorism”
• smallpox
DescriptionDark Winter was an exercise wherein senior former officials would respond to a bioterrorist induced national security crisis. Uncannily predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks. Held June 2001

Dark Winter was an "exercise" on 22-23 June 2001 "wherein senior former officials would respond to a bioterrorist induced national security crisis."[1]

The exercise centered on "terrorists" starting a smallpox outbreak in the US, a situation that was uncanny reminiscent of the 2001 anthrax attacks that happened just 3 months later, and the narrative that Iraq posed an active bioweapon threat.

Scenario

The two day exercise simulated a bioterror attack in the form of aerosolized smallpox targeting 3 shopping centers in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. By the end of the second week, there were 2,000 cases in 15 states, then turning into a pandemic killing millions. The panic and hysteria in the ensuing national crisis causes food riots and National Guardsmen firing on citizens.[2]

The culprit of the attack in this imaginary scenario was Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, but one of the very last lines of the scripted drill is a fake broadcast reporting ‘there is a very high probability this attack was conducted by either state or a state sponsored international terrorist organization’ and that ‘A prominent Iraqi defector is claiming that Iraq arranged the bioweapons attack on the US through intermediaries’.

Press Coverage

The simulation seeded the idea of an anthrax threat in the national imagination. Three months after participating in Operation Dark Winter, on September 4th 2001, NY Times reporter Judith Miller co-authored an article on Pentagon plans to develop a more potent version of weaponized anthrax, titled “U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits”. Judith Miller’s main journalistic beat during this period was covering the very secretive US bioweapons program.[3]

Successors

Dark Winter was the first in the series of events which included Event 201 about a novel fast spreading fatal coronavirus.

 

Known Participants

15 of the 25 of the participants already have pages here:

ParticipantDescription
David GergenWhite House insider since the 1970s. Two Bilderbergs in the 1990s. Operation Dark Winter
Margaret HamburgUS physician and expert in pandemic preparedness. Board of the Council on Foreign Relations.Operation Dark Winter, Clade X, GAVI, CFR, Wellcome Trust,Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation
John HamreUS MICC insider
Jerome HauerA deep state actor with multiple connections to the 9-11 event who appeared on television to promote the 9-11 official narrative.
Frank Wisner IIFormer US Secretary of State, son of Frank Wisner of the mighty wurlitzer
Robert Kadlec"Vaccine mafia" spook with doomsday speculations about biological weapons attacks
Frank KeatingUS lawyer who attended Operation Dark Winter as Governor of Oklahoma, a job he also held at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing
Randall LarsenMilitary/Homeland Security WMD expert.
Jim MiklaszewskiJournalist who in June 2001 attended Operation Dark Winter. The first to report the Pentagon had been attacked on 9-11.
Judith MillerCarried the can for the fraudulent story about Iraq's WMD
Sam NunnUSDSO? Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative, 2 Bilderbergers, participated in both Operation Dark Winter & A Spreading Plague
Tara O'TooleA fellow bioweapons expert stated 'she makes Dr. Strangelove seem sane'.
Lester ReingoldUS journalist who attended Operation Dark Winter. Guest lecturer in the graduate writing program at Johns Hopkins University
William SessionsFBI director dismissed by Bill Clinton, Operation Dark Winter, became lawyer for Russian-Jewish mafia leader Semion Mogilevich.
James WoolseyEx CIA director still (per 2020) very active in deep state networks.

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:All Roads Lead to Dark Winterreport1 April 2020Whitney Webb
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References

  1. ↑ http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/index.html
  2. ↑ https://www.economist.com/united-states/2001/10/25/avoiding-a-dark-winter
  3. ↑ https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-the-bush-administration-used-the-2001-anthrax-attacks-to-manufacture-consent-for-the-iraq-war/251763/
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