Pandemic and bioterror simulations - Dark Winter Exercise, Atlantic Storm, Clade X, Crimson Contagion Simulation, Event 201, Israel "War Games" simulation..

Pandemic and bioterror simulations - Dark Winter Exercise, Atlantic Storm, Clade X, Crimson Contagion Simulation, Event 201, Israel "War Games" simulation..

(June 22-23, 2001) Dark Winter Exercise
Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security,
and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention Terrorism, hosted a senior-level war game
examining the national security, intergovernmental, and information challenges of a biological attack on the American homeland.

Dark Winter was an "exercise" on 22-23 June 2001 "wherein senior former officials would respond to a bioterrorist induced national security crisis",
where "terrorists" started a smallpox outbreak in the US. The simulation eerily predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks that happened just 3 months later,
and also the initial government narrative of those attacks. It also reinforced other narratives, like an imminent threat
from supervillain Bin Laden, that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed an active bioweapon threat, an that the two had joined forces.
The name for the exercise derives from a statement made by Robert Kadlec,
who participated in the script created for the exercise, when he states that the lack of smallpox vaccines
for the U.S. populace means that “it could be a very dark winter for America."
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’.
The participants in Dark Winter not only had deep ties to U.S. intelligence services and the Pentagon, but also later became key leaders in similar exercises, like Event 201 and simulation censored here on GLP.
centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/about.html
wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winter

(January 14, 2005) Atlantic Storm
Atlantic Storm one day exercise scenario that simulated a summit of U.S. and European leaders meeting in the first few hours after discovery of bioterrorist attacks in Europe.
Their input of the participants was not scripted, but the whole scenario was an obvious effort by the US Deep State (represented by Madeleine Albright)
to influence compatible (European) politicians to implement certain measures; and from big pharma to increase sales.
Recommendation 1 from the organizers was a militarization of the field, dominating through NATO:
"The U.S. should work with the international community to plan for coordinated responses to major bioattacks and epidemics.
Such plans should include strategic and operational detail commensurate with other major international security agreements and organizations."
The one day exercise was planned over a 3 year period, so from the just after the 2001 false flag anthrax psychological operation -
and the companies Gilead Sciences and Emergent BioSolutions were conspicuously absent.
wikispooks.com/wiki/Atlantic_Storm

(October, 2010) Lock Step
Lock Step is one of four scenarios in a Rockefeller Foundation-funded paper
with the bland title “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development.”
In the simulation in cooperation with the Global Business Network of futurologist Peter Schwartz,
"a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership,
with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback" is described as Lock Step.
The scenario envisages what The Good Club's billionaire members long have pushed as an inevitable scenario,
and through their 'philanthropic funding' made national and international health planning centered around:
"In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit, killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults."
The game plays out 4 scenarios, but the Foundation does not state which outcome it prefers.
However, of the four scenarios, only Lock Step came to happen (in the government planning the Foundation has influence over,
not in the severity of the pandemic), and it has its advantages for RF: "Larger philanthropies" - like the Rockefeller Foundation - will retain an outsized share of influence",
where some foundations "might choose to align themselves more closely with.[...] "government objectives".
wikispooks.com/wiki/Lock_Step

(June 1, 2018) The Terrifying Lessons of a Pandemic Simulation (Clade X pandemic simulation, May 15, 2018, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Washington, DC)
“Clade X” was a daylong pandemic simulation held by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security,
in May(2018). The C.D.C. director was being played by a former holder of that job, the Secretary of Defense was the former Republican senator Jim Talent,
and the Secretary of Homeland Security was played by Tara O’Toole, a former Under-Secretary in that department.
Clade X turned out to be an engineered bioweapon, combining the virulence of Nipah virus with parainfluenza’s ease of transmission.
It had been intentionally released by A Brighter Dawn, a fictitious group modelled on the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo,
which carried out the sarin-gas attacks in the Tokyo subway system, in 1995. A Brighter Dawn’s
stated goal was to reduce the world’s population to pre-industrial levels.

The participants included the CIA and deep state operatives,
concluded that national and global health security should be "a higher priority for both the National Security Council and the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy, as well as for the agencies responsible for national security policy and diplomacy (eg, Department of Defense, Department of State and the intelligence community".
The exercise has many similarities with the reaction to the 2020 Covid-19 situation.
Following the Clade X exercise, the Center incorporated the key themes above into a series of high-level policy goals, especially "capability to produce new vaccines and drugs for novel pathogens within months not years".

Players and their roles:
John Bellinger, JD Former Legal Adviser for the US Department of State and the National Security Council Secretary of State
James Talent, JD Former US Senator (R-MO) and former US Congressman. Co-Chair of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism (WMD Commission) Secretary of Defense
Jamie Gorelick, JD Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Commissioner on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) Attorney General
Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, MD Former Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDHMH) Secretary of Health and Human Services
Tara O'Toole, MD, MPH Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, In-Q-Tel. Former Under Secretary for Science and Technology, Department of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security
Jeffrey Smith, JD Former General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Tom DaschlE, Former US Senator (D-SD) serving both as Senate Majority Leader and Minority Leader Senate Majority Leader
Susan Brooks, JD US Congresswoman (R-IN). Former US Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Speaker of the House of Representatives
Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

newyorker.com/science/elements/the-terrifying-lessons-of-a-pandemic-simulation
wikispooks.com/wiki/Clade_X

(January - August 2019) Crimson Contagion simulation
Crimson Contagion simulation was a simulation administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from January to August 2019
that tested the capacity of the U.S. federal government and twelve U.S. states to respond to a severe influenza pandemic originating in China.
The exercise involves a scenario in which tourists returning from China spread a respiratory virus in the United States, beginning in Chicago.
In less than two months the virus had infected 110 million Americans, killing more than half a million.
The report issued at the conclusion of the exercise outlines the government's limited capacity to respond to a pandemic,
with federal agencies lacking the funds, coordination, and resources to facilitate an effective response to the virus.

Trump administration ran pandemic simulation months before coronavirus hit
Former Air Force physician Robert Kadlec, who has studied biodefense issues for decades, led the exercise,
which imagined a contagious disease that originated in China and spread globally after nearly three dozen tourists
were infected and returned home. The hypothetical outbreak spread quickly through the U.S. after an infected person
attended a concert packed with thousands of others. The exercise, which took place from January to August of last
year, highlighted some of the problems that the federal government is struggling to handle now, such as insufficient
hospital space and medical supplies, as well as confusion between federal agencies and between states and the federal government.

(October 18, 2019) Event 201 - global pandemic exercise
Event 201 was a large scale simulation of a global coronavirus pandemic.
The final presentation was held in front of an audience on 18 October 2019.
The "exercise players" were prominent individuals from global business, government,
and public health, including Avril Haines, who was Deputy Director of the CIA under Obama.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum
and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201.
wikispooks.com/wiki/Event_201
centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

(November 12, 2021) Israel holds ‘war game’ in case of lethal new coronavirus strain
The simulation covered different aspects of a crisis, including mass inoculation, ordering curfews
and imposing a flight ban, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said.

scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3155763/israel-holds-war-game-case-lethal-new-coronavirus-strain