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British government released anthrax on London Underground in deadly Cold War test
The test of the deadly toxin was just one of hundreds of experiments involving unwitting servicemen and civilians to help scientists research effects of bioweapons
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Government scientists secretly conducted a series of trials in the 1950s and 1960s to assess how easily saboteurs could spread deadly toxins among Britons (Image: Getty)
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Some mysterious deaths just seem destined to lodge themselves into the annals of unsolved mysteries and generate stories of dark conspiracies and murders. Such cases can become embroiled with all manner of talk of nefarious dealings and sinister characters pulling the strings, and one such very odd case is that of a man who worked in the area of government mind-control experiments, fueling talk of cover-ups and ominous experiments in programming the human mind.
On the cold morning of November 28, 1953, at around 2 am, people walking along Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York, were shocked to see a body come crashing down from the 13