Ground Zero Special Report: Project 112
by Clyde Lewis
The Reboot Of Gain Of Function Tick Talk
Life, Illness, and the Value of Time
As I continue my journey of health, that constantly reminds me of my denial about old age. I am beginning to understand that health, whether it is good or bad is still life. Bad health isn’t the greatest but life is life span is valuable.
There is no ‘healthy life.’ There is only life.
For going on eight months my life has been recovery and hope. However, for me it is like reliving the whole Covid-19 all over again only without the masks and criticism.
It is limiting.
Health and illness comprise now the same interactions, the same losses, the same wins, the same monitoring by the same devices and the same institutions.
However the more time I have to think about it , the more I feel that the American way of life is so grueling that every day is an exercise in self-destruction and the cures and supplements we take to “keep up” everything we eat and drink every pill and treatment is an Iatrogenic artifact.
The Morality of Gain-of-Function Research
The proof is in the declassified documents that raise the questions about the morality of “gain of function” exercises.
I have talked about them before.
Two years before Covid -19 forced us into a self-imposed quarantine I spoke to a standing room only crowd in Palm Springs about Clade X and the case against a government that is well known for testing pathogens on an unsuspecting public.
America’s Cold War Biological Warfare Program
During the Cold War, the United States maintained an active biological warfare program from 1943 until President Richard Nixon ordered its termination in 1969.
Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco would be to a bioweapon attack.
There has been speculation that the experiment may have contributed to one death and at least ten illnesses.
There is more –and many of these Gain of function experiments are a matter of record.
Fort Detrick, Plum Island, and Vector Research
Centered at Fort Detrick in Maryland*, these Gain of function programs explored various delivery systems for pathogens, including insects such as fleas, mosquitoes, and ticks. One notable experiment, Operation Big Itch in 1954, involved releasing approximately 670,000 fleas from cluster munitions to test their viability as disease vectors.
Some the work reportedly was conducted at Plum Island, where large colonies of both soft and hard ticks were maintained. Wildlife, including deer and birds, moved freely between the island and the Connecticut mainland, creating potential pathways for pathogens to reach local populations.
Operation Mongoose and Biological Sabotage
The program gained additional momentum during the Kennedy administration. In response to Cuba’s alignment with the Soviet Union, the United States launched Operation Mongoose, a covert campaign aimed at undermining Fidel Castro’s regime.
Some proposals reportedly examined the use of disease-carrying insects to target Cuban agricultural workers, particularly in sugarcane and tobacco fields, in an effort to disrupt the island’s economy.
Project 112 and Mass Insect Production
While the full extent of these plans remains debated, declassified documents confirm that Project 112, authorized in 1962, expanded biological weapons testing and included research on mass insect production.
Between 1966 and 1969, the U.S. military released 282,800 ticks labeled with radioactive carbon-14 along bird migration routes in Virginia.
The goal was to study how ticks—and the diseases they might carry—could spread across wide areas. Notably, lone star ticks, previously not found north of the Mason-Dixon line, soon established populations on Long Island.”
According to the account of a retired CIA black ops agent interviewed by investigative reporter Kris Newby in “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons,” the covert weaponized tick program actually went live during Operation Mongoose, in which he participated.
Donald Trump signed into law an order to ‘review and report on biological weapons experiments on and in relation to ticks and tick-borne diseases.’
The investigation is long overdue but even so, the facts it uncovers will come as a shock to many.
A growing body of evidence shows that during the Cold War ticks were tinkered with and used as delivery mechanisms for biological warfare agents. And these weaponized ticks may have been released both intentionally and unintentionally on an unsuspecting public by the US military.
COVID-19 and the Return of Gain-of-Function Questions
While many people were distracted by the release of the Epstein files and the UFO files — there were reports about how Covid 19 was actually a Gain of function exercise gone wrong.
Last April, A former senior official at the National Institutes of Health was indicted on obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges for allegedly concealing federal records about gain of function research into viruses like the one that caused the Covid pandemic.
David Morens, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland on three felony counts for allegedly using a Gmail account to hide official communications.
According to the indictment, Morens sent and received emails on his private account in order to thwart Freedom of Information Act requesters seeking information about so-called gain-of-function research, which can make pathogens deadlier or more transmissible in order to study them.
Fauci, Wuhan, and Declassified Biolab Claims
Tulsi Gabbard , during her tenure as United States Director of National Intelligence, released declassified documents that allege Dr. Anthony Fauci misled Congress and had unpublicized communications with intelligence agencies regarding the origins of COVID-19.
In her final act as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released a collection of declassified documents about COVID-19’s origins and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The headline claim was explosive: “Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab Research That Sparked COVID.” Her press release and accompanying five-minute-long video monologue went further, accusing Fauci of manipulating intelligence assessments and lying to Congress.
She also revealed new evidence showing U.S. government funding for more than 120 biolabs across more than 30 countries. Not only did these labs work with dangerous pathogens, they often involved this gain-of-function research.
This has been long suspected in the “Conspiracy theory” realms that Fauci used taxpayer money to conduct gain of function experiments in wet markets in Wuhan.
Now it appears that a gain of function exercise not connected to Fauci appears to be a reboot of Project 112.
RFK Jr., Lyme Disease, and Alpha-Gal Syndrome
According to reporter Liam Cosgrove HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently addressed the astronomical increase in Lyme Disease and alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne infection that causes potentially life-threatening allergic reactions to red meat:
Kennedy remarked:
“Last week, I went to New Hampshire… to address this explosion of alpha-gal, and we take it very seriously.
One of the epicenters is Martha’s Vineyard where 50% of the adult population is now affected. It is really a devastating disease.
You can’t eat red meat for the rest of your life. We are looking at medications that can serve as both prophylactics and also potentially cures for it. We’re funding those studies now and we’re working with the companies that are making those.
We’ve also launched a major effort on tick control through a number of different strategies that address deer populations… Three ticks that are causing these, most of the tick-borne diseases, all breed on deer. And we’re looking at strategies for eliminating their breeding capacity.”
Reports of Tick Infestations and Metal Boxes
Over the last month, a groundswell of anecdotal accounts and videos from farmers and ranchers across the country have flooded social media, depicting massive tick infestations on their properties.
They have discovered metal boxes on their properties full of ticks.
This could indicate that there may be a new gain of function program underway that infects people with Alpha Gal. However no one has traced the boxes to any lab or government activity.
Lone Star Ticks and the Spread of Red-Meat Allergy
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that The lone-star tick is expanding across the U.S., leading to more cases of alpha-gal syndrome.
Lone-star ticks are named not for the single white dot on their backs that looks like a single star.
A bite from this tick triggers a red-meat allergy. In some cases, it also causes an allergy to dairy and other products or medication derived from mammals-gelatin capsules included.
They are moving beyond their traditional base in the Southeast and south-central U.S., pushing farther north and west.
The ticks are especially common in coastal areas, such as Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts and Suffolk County in New York.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as many as 450,000 Americans have alpha-gal syndrome. That is nowhere near the level of Lyme disease, which accounts for a similar number of diagnoses each year.
What Alpha-Gal Syndrome Does to the Body
Unlike Lyme disease, which is an infection, alpha-gal is an allergy.
It’s caused by the saliva in a tick and how it intersects with the immune response of certain people.
When a lone-star tick bites you, it introduces the sugar molecule alpha-gal into your bloodstream. The immune system responds, and the next time you eat red meat and related products it identifies those as a threat, resulting in an allergic reaction.
The most common symptoms are hives and gastrointestinal issues, but symptoms can progress to shortness of breath and even anaphylactic shock.
Misdiagnosis and Medical Blind Spots
An added problem: Some doctors believe cases are still being missed. After all, until recently many healthcare providers knew little about the condition caused by lone-star tick bites.
A 2023 CDC report found that 42% of healthcare providers had limited knowledge of alpha-gal syndrome and 35% weren’t confident in their ability to diagnose it.
Patients say misdiagnosis of the syndrome is common and diagnoses can be delayed. That’s because allergic reactions often take place three to six hours after eating the culprit. Among common misdiagnoses: irritable bowel syndrome.
Food, Medicine, and Mammalian Product Sensitivities
So what are people with alpha-gal syndrome allergic to? Everyone is allergic to beef and other meats such as pork, lamb and venison, but not to non-mammal meats such as poultry or fish.
A smaller percentage also have sensitivity to dairy and have to avoid gelatin and products containing it including Jell-O, gummy bears and even gel-cap pain relievers as well as medications made in mammalian cells.
While the best treatment is avoiding red meat, another option is the injectable drug Xolair. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2024 for all food allergies, the drug helps reduce allergic reactions after accidental exposures.
For about one-third of people, alpha-gal will go away within three to five years.
Meat Allergy, Climate Policy, and Behavioral Engineering
WEF World Economic Forum Matthew Liao has endorsed the use of lone star ticks to curb meat consumption. He states- “We can induce ‘meat allergy’ by using Lone Star Ticks to stop the consumption of meat and “help the planet”
There are members of world health groups that meet in DAVOS that believe reducing meat consumption will curb Climate Change.
The sick part of all of this is that the condition itself, is the subject of a recent academic paper that argues for the intentional spread of this illness.
A 2025 paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Bioethics proposed that Alpha-Gal Syndrome could function as a “moral bioenhancer” to discourage meat consumption and suggested that we should genetically engineer ticks to spread the condition more effectively.
“Beneficial Bloodsucking” and Moral Bioenhancement
Another sick reality is that those involved with any gain of function activity can have plausible deniability because it has been found that changes in urban development have also brought humans into closer contact with wildlife that carry ticks.
Deer populations have increased in many regions, and with less people hunting compared to generations before, it creates an ideal environment for tick proliferation which means more exposure to humans and more bites.
A another medical paper titled, “Beneficial Bloodsucking”, was published in the reputable peer-reviewed journal Bioethics.
The authors are Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, both professors in the Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law at Western Michigan University School of Medicine.
They argue that Alpha-Gal Syndrome can function as a “moral bioenhancer.”
Basically, if eating meat is considered morally wrong due to animal welfare, environmental, or climate reasons, then actively promoting the spread of AGS is not just permissible, but “strongly pro tanto obligatory” essentially a moral imperative.
To accomplish this, they propose genetically modifying ticks to spread AGS more effectively while reducing other disease risks, framing it as an ethical intervention to “enhance” human behavior by making meat consumption difficult or impossible for more people.
Why the Tick Question Cannot Be Ignored
Now you know why I am concerned.
The uptick in tick bites, how fast these diseases spread, and how severely, appears to be happening because of government gain-of-function research.
This is how Covid 19 began , with an area of research dedicated to genetically altering organisms with the goal of enhancing biological functions like transmission and pathogenesis.
Another “coincidence” to ponder is that 50% of the Wampanoag Native American tribe in southeastern Massachusetts now have Alpha-Gal syndrome.
That’s quite the sudden increase for a people group that has lived alongside nature for millennia.
So even though there is no evidence to say that the bioengineering of ticks to spread Alpha-Gal is happening currently, it’s important to have these conversations and look at what is and is not being talked about.
