# EP 044 The Poison Library | Hidden History of CIA Assassination Weapons

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Podcast: [Some Unapproved Thinking | Forbidden History | Conspiracy Insights | Hidden History](https://stenobird.com/podcast/some-unapproved-thinking-forbidden-history-conspiracy-insights-hidden-history-7640666)
Published: 2026-04-08T05:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcast.show/3956942/episode/153795040/
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Duration seconds: 1443

## Resource

Hidden history and forbidden history collide when the CIA's MK-NAOMI program turned hospitals into weapons laboratories. Tracy Brinkmann reveals how federal agencies built a poison library—developing assassination weapons while testing deadly pathogens on unwitting patients—and what this historical pattern teaches us about institutional accountability and institutional criticism. From shellfish toxin to poison pens, discover how the ultimate unaccountable power operates in plain sight. Tracy Brinkmann explores MK-NAOMI, the CIA's biological warfare program that developed assassination weapons while testing deadly pathogens on unwitting subjects. From shellfish toxin to poison pens, he reveals how the agency built a poison library under medical cover, turning hospitals into weapons laboratories and patients into test subjects for the ultimate unaccountable power. https://SomeUnapprovedThinking.com

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