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The CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign to try and locate Osama bin Laden by gathering DNA samples.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...

So now how do you know if the next humanitarian group running around your country isn't full of U.S. spooks?



"The misguided vaccine program in Pakistan was started in a poor neighborhood of Abbottabad, no doubt to give it an air of legitimacy. Yet after the first in a standard series of three hepatitis B shots was given, the effort was abandoned so that the team could move to bin Laden's wealthier community. This lapse in protocol proves that the best interests of the recipients were not the guiding principle of the effort—while not coincidently betraying the program for the sham it was."

Damn, they couldn't even be arsed to give them the full number of shots




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