General Mills (Sinclair supporter) developed WMDs in early 60s

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Looks like the people who brought us Betty Crocker, Wheaties (The Breakfast of Champions), Trix (Are for Kids!), Cheerios and Lucky Charms also help bring us the American Enterprise Institute, cradle-to-grave public relations and bioweapons.

Thanks, Sinclair, for helping expose your fellow travelers over at General Mills!

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Think and Ask
http://www.thinkandask.com/news/sarin.html

The US initiated a biological weapons program in 1942 which was banned in 1969 by President Richard Nixon. The program was directed by George W Merck, president of pharmaceutical company Merck, based in Fort Detrick, MD. Experimental pathogens included smallpox, anthrax, and plague. General Electric, Lockheed, Monsanto, Goodyear, and General Mills all participated in the program.

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General Mills Developed Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/05/1614019.php
http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a414.htm

The breakfast cereal manufacturer General Mills was the nation's foremost developer of Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction in the early 1960s.

The Department of Defense has released small portions of several reports detailing the work in biological warfare performed by the Minneapolis-based company following a lengthy declassification review.

During World War 2, American consumer products companies were expected to come to the aid of their nation's defense needs. After the war, many of these companies established small but lucrative defense contracting divisions.

General Mills set up a research division to tap into the long experience the company had in grinding or milling of fine particles, and in fabricating large thin films used for balloons, as well as making intricate electronics assemblies.

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General Mills Biological Warfare Research
http://groups.google.com.br/groups?q=general+mills&hl=pt-BR&lr=&selm=8quhfg%245br%241%40pencil.math.missouri.edu&rnum=3


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Social Network Diagram for General Mills
(Note how close General Mills is to defense contractors such as General Electric and Boeing)
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_GENERAL_MILLS_CORPORATION


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nd surprise, surprise - General Mills gives money to right-wing think-tank The American Enterprise Institute:
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4456


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Also of minor interest: former General Mills chief executive Mark Willes was the guy with no media experience who was appointed to head up the LA Times and destroy the wall between the marketing and news departments (he also closed down NY Newsday in NYC).
http://archives.cjr.org/year/98/1/woo.asp

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It also turns out that General Mills, inventor of the lovable Betty Crocker, has always appreciated the power of the media to mold minds. General Mills marketing executive Wayne Chilicki says: "When it comes to targeting kid consumers, we at General Mills follow the Proctor & Gamble model of ‘cradle to grave’. We believe in getting them early and having them for life."
http://www.crossroad.to/News/MindControl.html