All language subtitles for Conspiracy Theory s02e01 Plum Island

Hidden power, secrets, cover -ups,
corruption.

You think you know the whole story?

Think again.

I've been governor, a Navy SEAL, a
fighter.

I've heard things that'll blow your
mind. And now I think it's time you get

whole story.

Now, the government's real -life island
of horror.

A secret bio -warfare lab.

A stone's throw from New York City and
Boston.

If it wasn't so close to the East Coast,
they ought to nuke it.

A U .S. facility created by former Nazi
scientists doing animal research that

could wipe out the human race.

And evidence the damage is already being
done.

A mutated human body.

That is correct.

Jesse Ventura takes to the scene to
expose the government's deadliest

We got the Coast Guard behind us. And he
discovers an even larger, more lethal

conspiracy.

Hundreds of germ labs in a ring of fire
engulfing the nation. This is something

that could affect someone from Maine to
California, from Alaska to Florida.

Mutant animals.

Mutated humans.

A conspiracy of germs, disease, greed,
and a target for terrorists.

The range finder of Al -Qaeda.

Biologically sitting duck.

Plum Island.

And the bioterror conspiracy.

I'm Jesse Ventura, and this is
Conspiracy Theory.

We got these guys paralleling us.

We got the Coast Guard behind us. Now,
what the hell?

Jesse Ventura is crashing through
dangerous waters.

He's headed for Plum Island, a top
-secret government germ lab off the

New York.

But Homeland Security has radioed word
they want him stopped.

Oh, he's paralleling us. There's no
doubt about it.

The governor has evidence that Plum
Island is a bio -warfare time bomb.

Only now.

The clock is ticking for him.

I used to be a governor. What do they
think I am, a terrorist?

It was a raid out of my Navy frogman
days.

Only this time I didn't have a gun or a
knife.

But from what I'd already found, they
probably wouldn't be much help anyway.

This all started when I got a call from
a guy named Kenneth King.

He's an expert on biowarfare, the use of
viruses and germs as weapons.

He said we're facing a major bioweapons
threat and not from any terror group.

Since 9 -11, the government's been
opening germ labs all over the country,

supposedly developing drugs and vaccines
to protect us against bioterror. But he

claimed these labs, our labs, could kill
us all.

There were about 200 high containment
germ lab facilities in 2001.

There are now at least 1 ,356 plus many
more off the Brooks.

You now have a kind of military academic
industrial complex.

that is devoted to hyping the fear of
bioterror so that they will continue to

get the funds. Let me ask you this. What
do these places actually do?

A whole bunch of things, some of it very
reckless.

We have a clear indication that
accidents are occurring regularly.

They're being concealed from the public
because the biodefense industry does not

want the American public to become
concerned about their activity.

We know other countries and terror
groups are ready to use bioweapons

us.

So you'd figure defense research would
be a good thing.

Kenneth King warned that it's not.

They are taking the approach that a
terrorist might create some new

we'll go ahead and do it ourselves to
see if it's possible to do it. And then

once we've done it, maybe we can dream
up a defense against it. And what you're

telling me is they're not taking the
proper precautions at these facilities

a risk could be run, that some of this
bio stuff could get loose?

They're refusing to acknowledge the
possibility that this stuff could get

These things seem out of control, and
they're all a bunch of outlaw cowboys

and every facility.

Yes, that's what I think. This is
something that could affect someone from

to California, from Alaska to Florida.

Absolutely. How much involvement in
these labs does the Department of

Security have now?

Well, right now, they are trying to
build a couple of the big labs

and they were going to develop animal
diseases that spread between animals and

humans. Well, after they started getting
some flack, they posted this little

diseases of interest list that took off
most of the scary bioweapons agents.

Are they lying?

I think so, yes. Really? Yes. The
Department of Homeland Security is being

untruthful with the American public in
what they're doing. That's what I think.

Kenneth King spelled out the conspiracy.

Bioweapons research masquerading as
animal research.

Germs and viruses that are supposedly
restricted to animals crossing over to

humans. And the labs themselves letting
all kinds of germs and bioweapons escape

into the air, into your neighborhood.

In your opinion, what's the worst case
scenario we face?

The worst case scenario is that virus
that they created could get out of the

and start that pandemic that we've all
been worrying about.

Sounds like we've dodged the bullet so
far, but luck can't hold out forever.

We learned that on 9 -11.

If I choose to investigate this, where
would you recommend I go? I certainly

would suggest that you look into the
facility at Plum Island.

Plum Island.

It's about two miles off the northeast
coast of Long Island, New York, 70 miles

from New York City, across the Sound
from Connecticut, not too far from

Since 1954, home of the Plum Island
Animal Disease Center, started by the

and now run by Homeland Security.

And if Kenneth King is right.

What's going on there will make your
hair stand on end.

They always claim that they didn't do
anything in the biological weapons area,

although the Government Accountability
Office indicated in a report in 2003

they were doing a project for the
Department of Defense to try to

camelpox so that it would be like
smallpox. I would call that bioweapons

research.

Told me about this place called Plum
Island, one of the most dangerous bio

in the country. Yeah, get ready for
this. They're moving it and they're

upgrading it to an even more dangerous
level. They're moving it? Yeah. To

To Kansas, the heart of cattle country.

Are you kidding me? They're going to
move a bio lab into the central part of

country where the majority of our food
supply comes from? Come on, guys. Aren't

we overreacting a little bit here?
Actually, no, Alex. There have been a

of outbreaks. Can we positively say
something has gotten off of this island?

Well, there's this.

What in the hell is that?

What is that, a shaved dog?

They call it the Montauk Monster.

It was found up washed along the shores
of Long Island a couple of summers ago.

And apparently there are at least two
others.

I don't know, maybe it's a raccoon?

That interests me enough right there.

Let's get focused. Let's go out and find
out what goes on at Plum Island.

The investigation was underway.

June was following up on the Kansas
lead.

She'd see where the feds want to move
the Plum Island lab and make it even

of a danger.

Alex and I were headed to the airport.

So, uh, Montauk monster, huh?

I've never seen anything ever that
looked like that thing that we saw in

picture. We were going to New York.

He'd hit the beach and find out more
about this Montauk monster.

Me? I knew that eventually I'd be making
an assault on Plum Island.

Coming up, the Nazi scientist behind the
Plum Island experiments.

Trump was the godfather of Plum Island.

Then, monsters and mutants.

Plum Island is blamed for bizarre
creatures washing up on shore.

Human body. Human body with elongated
fingers.

And later, Jesse Ventura goes Navy SEAL
on the place and storms Plum Island by

sea. SEALs don't get stopped.

The mysterious Plum Island off the coast
of Long Island, New York.

The site of a government laboratory
where scientists are rumored to be

the Geneva Conventions by creating
biological weapons.

Is this a hothouse for catastrophe?

Jesse Ventura's team spreads out to find
the truth.

I was driving across Long Island to get
some background on the place.

Alex Piper was already on the beach.

following up on reports that some weird
animal made it from Plum Island to the

mainland.

The Montauk monster is a creature that
washed up on this beach in July of 2008,

and more monsters have washed up. Now,
when you say monster, what are we

about here?

What I really mean is creature.

It's a creature that scientists cannot
explain exactly what species it is.

It's something that I've never seen
before, and I don't think the world's

seen before either.

Nick Cuttenaro is a local. He reported
on the first creature sighting on his

website. When a second one washed up, he
was called to the scene.

The first monster was found right here
in Montauk, right on the beach. On this

beach right here. That is correct.

People thought it was a raccoon.

It was a turtle without a shell, or it
was an animal that may have been

crossbred.

Crossbred. Two animals in a lab bred
together to be something completely new.

That is correct.

I have pictures and video clips. I've
seen it with my own eyes more than once.

While Alex was learning more about the
Montauk Monster, I was a few miles

with Carl Grossman. He's a journalist
and professor, the expert on the history

of Plum Island.

When did Plum Island become what it is
today?

After World War II, there was a Nazi
scientist, a guy named Eric Traub,

and he figured he would set up off the
coast of Long Island.

This sort of germ warfare lab he ran
during the war to develop insects, ticks

and so forth for biological warfare.

In Germany, Eric Traub worked for
Heinrich Himmler, who ran Hitler's

SS. It was Traub's idea to inject animal
diseases into ticks, then release the

ticks as an army of bioweapons.

Traub was brought to the States after
the war under Operation Paperclip, a U

government program that recruited Nazi
scientists.

We know Paperclip brought over rocket
experts like Wernher von Braun, who

start NASA.

The Dr. Mengele types don't get so much
attention.

So, Erich Traub comes from Nazi Germany,
and so, in essence, what is he, the

godfather of Plum Island?

It was a Cold War situation, and we
figured that we better grab them before

Soviets do. Trout was the godfather of
Plum Island.

Back on the beach, Alex was seeing a
pattern.

One monster is weird enough, but two?

So when you come upon the second
monster, what's going through your mind?

This was something that I've never seen
before.

Can you pick up the head again?

That's really weird. The creature

was bloated, leathery, it had patches of
hair, and it

smelled like a mix of a low tide and
rotten garbage. And claws.

Claws. And matchstick -like fingers.

It almost resembled somewhat of a
chicken claw.

It's really odd.

With the proximity of Plum Island being
close to Montauk and this beach right

here, what I think and what a lot of
other people think is perhaps it came

Plum Island.

Ah, totally weird.

Experts say the turbulent tides and
currents make it very possible the

came from Plum Island.

It's also possible that something
escaped from the lab.

The feds haven't had the best of luck
keeping a lid on their nasty little

secret.

How is the security there?

Is it as secure as it should be for
something as sensitive as this?

Absolutely not. Plum Island is a sitting
duck. The ferry to Connecticut goes

right past it. It's totally exposed.

I mean, and I'm not giving ideas to
anybody because, in fact, folks with

connections to al -Qaeda have been found
with information dossier.

on Plum Island.

Carl Grossman wasn't exaggerating.

Haifia Siddiqui is a Pakistani scientist
who was named one of the seven most

wanted Al -Qaeda fugitives.

Lady Al -Qaeda, they called her.

When she was captured in 2008, she was
carrying handwritten documents about a,

quote, mass casualty attack and a list
of targets, including Plum Island.

In the range finder of Al -Qaeda, if
they want to hit Rome Island,

there is utterly not a problem. I mean,
it just sits there. It's not secluded.

It's right there on the coastline. And
all some Al -Qaeda characters have to do

is to rent a Boston Whaler and one of
these rockets.

You would have a disaster.

What type of accidents have you heard
about?

The most serious accident was in 1978
when there was some sort of screw -up

the negative pressure system at the main
laboratory and some foot -and -mouth

disease virus just came out.

Those are only a few of the problems.

There have been virus outbreaks,
infected workers, contaminated raw

flushed into Long Island Sound.

Even after 9 -11, after Homeland
Security took over, there were outbreaks

foot and mouth.

But the scariest thing to escape is this
tiny little tick.

The insect Eric Traub worked with may be
the most fierce weapon of all.

Experiments done with ticks raises the
specter that that might be the source.

A Lyme disease, a biological warfare
experiment done by former Nazi

that got out of control. Do you believe
it is? We wanted to see the records in

connection to these tick experiments.

And what did you discover?

The claim was we have no records.

What?

I mean, government always has records.
Government records

everything they do.

That's standard operating procedure. And
the thing that I'm learning is that

whenever you see standard operating
procedures violated, that is your

sign that there's a conspiracy going on.

This lab sounds like a recipe for
disaster. And in my experience, the

government's not going to level with us.

That's why I wasn't too surprised by the
call from Alex.

Hi, Alex. What do you got? Forget about
the Montauk monster.

They found a human body, a mutated human
body on Plum Island. What in the hell?

Coming up, human experiments gone
horribly wrong.

When they found him, they found five
holes drilled in his head.

Then, the governor meets a victim of a
Plum Island biowarfare virus.

In your opinion, what should be done
with Plum Island?

If it wasn't so close to the East Coast,
they ought to nuke it.

And later, Jesse Ventura storms the
shores of Plum Island to find out what

really goes on.

Jesse Ventura is headed across Long
Island Sound toward Lyme, Connecticut.

This is the town that gave name to Lyme
disease, the debilitating chronic

ailment spread by tick bites.

Some say Lyme disease was created on an
escape from nearby Plum Island.

But that's not the only thing that's
escaped.

Alex Piper has evidence of human
experiments.

A body found in early 2010 on a Plum
Island beach.

Human body. Human body with elongated
fingers.

A mutated human body.

That is correct.

Well, you're saying the research is not
just being conducted on animals, but

possibly on humans as well. Well, I
would say that it leads you in a

that you really don't want to go down
when thinking about what's really going

on.

Alex headed straight to Suffolk County
Police Headquarters.

And guess what?

The cops refused to comment on the so
-called Montauk monsters, and they

out of an interview about the mutant
man.

Trying to get some more information
about that dead body that was found on

Island not too long ago. Sorry, we can't
help you. So, even though yesterday

they agreed to speak with us, today they
don't want to talk to us on camera.

That's correct.

What are they trying to hide? I was
getting an idea after I arrived in Lyme

met up with Randy Sykes.

He came down with Lyme disease about 15
years ago.

Then he began investigating and found
evidence it was created by the

What has Lyme disease done to you?

Destroyed me. I used to run two and a
half miles a day. I'd hit the police gym

every morning on the way into work.

And bench pressing, weight lifting.

And I got to the point where I couldn't
walk three -tenths of a mile before I

just collapsed and gave up. I forgot how
to add. Couldn't add 13 and 13 on

paper. It'll attack any part of your
body.

It's like standing by the river and
throwing in a handful of confetti. When

hits the river, it just fans out. It
goes through your veins, and wherever it

ends up, liver damage. It's incredible.

You believe Lyme disease was created,
correct?

We've found so many things, like, for
instance, the strain is patented by the

Department of Defense. I have the patent
here for it. Let's get down to layman's

terms. This is our government doing
biological warfare?

I would say.

Plum Island.

Is that where you believe all this takes
place?

I have papers where they infected ticks.

They were infecting ticks with all types
of viruses. And for what purpose would

they say that they were doing that?

Well, it's, you know, like a military
-type installation, and they don't

do things to help people. Right.
Anything the military is involved with

and destruction.

Yeah.

Randy, they're doing these experiments
on Plum Island. You pretty much proved

that with your documentation.

How would the infected tick get off the
island? A few months out of the year,

the current is blowing in towards shore.

But I read they did outdoor experiments,
infecting the ticks, leaving them

outdoors.

And, you know, birds fly back to shore.

Migration's going throughout the
country, different areas.

One tick, one flock of birds flying from
Plum Island to the mainland, can carry

an army of these natural warriors.

And if there's any question that Lyme
disease is a weapon, it turns out that

Randy Sykes found the smoking gun. A
document from 2005 in which the feds

list the bioterror agents they were
working on at Plum Island and other

Anthrax, teleremia, cholera, desert
fever, Lyme disease.

I mean, they're all talking about
biowarfare and Lyme's listed every time.

they're the ones saying it's biowarfare.

So this is clearly bioterrorism or
biowarfare. And it seems we're using our

people as guinea pigs.

Randy, in your opinion, what should be
done with Plum Island?

If it wasn't so close to the East Coast,
they ought to nuke it.

Randy Sykes' information put everything
into perspective.

If infected ticks could cripple 3
million people, imagine what else is out

there. Yeah. Hey, Governor, it's Alex.

I'm at the Suffolk County Police
Department. The Homicide Squad are

investigating an unidentified male body
that was washed ashore on the southwest

beach area of Plum Island. A white male,
approximately 6 to 6 foot 2 inches

tall, with a large build and very long
fingers.

They gave me a news release. The party
line.

Yeah, well, after I read that, I had a
lot more questions. So I cornered one of

the officers, and he gave me some
answers.

They found him in the middle of January,
but he was wearing nothing but a short

-sleeved shirt and cargo pants.

The officer did tell me that when they
found the body, there were five holes

drilled in his head.

They think it was the product of a
neurosurgery. Man, what are they doing

there? He had no identification, nothing
that would identify him.

The mutant man on Plum Island, that case
remains open and unsolved.

Governor, it's me.

I'm in Kansas.

I'm at the site where they want to build
this place, the National Bio and Agro

-Defense Facility. They're planning on
building it right in the middle of the

university. And it's in the middle of
cattle country. You can see it's

just by standing here.

They're serious about moving a top
-secret bio -warfare lab into the middle

the nation's food supply?

I need to get out to that island and dig
up those secrets that no one wants us

to know about.

Coming up, plans to move the Plum Island
terror target put the entire country in

danger. Almost any outbreak would be a
worst -case scenario.

The governor leads the Coast Guard on a
wild chase to Plum Island.

What the hell? I used to be a governor.

And later, he heads to Washington and
surprises the powers behind the Plum

Island mystery.

Homeland security rules by threat and
rules by intimidation.

Jesse Ventura is at the marina in Orient
Point, New York.

Yards away is the Homeland Security
Ferry Terminal for workers at Plum

The governor and Alex Piper have
chartered their own boat to the

animal research lab.

Their navigator is Jim McCoy. He worked
on Plum Island until he blew the whistle

on dangerous sloppy practices that could
lead to bio -warfare outbreaks and mass

casualties. He lost his job.

He won the lawsuit.

I got a boat with a captain who's going
to take us over. So you ready to go for

a boat trip? Let's go. Let's go take a
look at this place.

Alex and I were ready to shove off on a
boat called the Coyote.

Captain Ron.

How are you? Good, good. Well, as an old
Navy man requesting permission to come

aboard.

It was all systems go.

But all of a sudden, Captain Ron lost
his sea legs.

He refused to take us to Plum Island.

And guess what? None of the other
captains would take us

either. Homeland Security had laid down
the law.

So it's clear that Homeland Security
operates under fear and intimidation.

could literally strip them of their
license for driving a boat out in what's

open water. You could read it and abuse
scared to death.

While Alex and I were figuring our next
move, June had found her connection in

Manhattan, Kansas.

That's where they want to move the Plum
Island lab and make it bigger and more

dangerous.

Professor Tom Manny.

is leading the fight to stop it. I think
it's a bad idea to move

it off of Plum Island or anywhere onto
the mainland because of the foot and

mouth disease, because it is such a
deadly virus.

Deadly not in the sense that it kills,
but in the sense that it takes so few

virus particles to infect animals.

Consequences of an infection.

are just horrendous for the whole
economy because it immediately shuts

export of beef to the rest of the world.

The same thing happened in England in
2001. The first effect is a quarantine,

something like three to five mile
radius.

So the effects would be catastrophic.

They would be.

Everybody you talk to around here sets
this place up like it's the incubator

germ warfare, biological warfare.

I mean, this is ground zero.

The fact that they won't even take you
out on the boat says everything that you

need to know. Yep.

Why would they care? If there wasn't
something diabolical out there, they

wouldn't care.

We are in the heart of Tornado Valley,
aren't we? We are. I haven't heard them

provide any data that they've designed
this to have those door seals withstand

the pressure drop of a tornado.

And some of the releases at Plum Island
have been from the failure of those door

gaskets. So let's say there was an
outbreak of foot and mouth.

It could easily be transported to the
rest of the country, couldn't it?

Almost any outbreak would be a worst
case scenario because as soon as it was

detected, which could be a week or two,
then this whole area, three, five miles,

whatever they decide, would be
quarantined. The animals would be

I've heard the number of 400 ,000 in the
whole county area.

You can take us to Plum Island?

Okay, thank you. Yeah, we'll be right
there.

Looks like we found a captain that'll
take us to Plum Island.

Let's go for it. All right, get out of
here before he changes his mind.

He may yet anyway.

We had to call another marina to get a
captain to take us to Plum Island.

But when his boat came into view, we
knew he was the man for the job.

Now it was just a matter of getting out
of the harbor.

Oh, he's paralleling us, there's no
doubt about it.

Coming up, Jesse Ventura races to Plum
Island with the Coast Guard in a hot

pursuit. What the hell? What do they
think I am, a terrorist?

Then, a Plum Island veteran revisits the
scene of the horrors.

The people were going around putting
duct tape around the outside doors on

biocontainment area.

But duct tape doesn't stop viruses.

And later, Mr. Ventura goes to
Washington to hunt down Plum Island's

You're being funny with me now, doctor.
Would I dare to be funny with you?

The Coast Guard is hot on the tail of
Jesse Ventura as he attempts to reach

Island.

Word is out that he's accompanied by Jim
McCoy, a Plum Island worker who was

fired after he blew the whistle on
dangerous safety violations.

Oh, yeah, this Coast Guard boat's
definitely following us.

Look at, yeah.

We got the Coast Guard behind us. We got
these guys. What the hell? I used to be

a governor. What do they think I am, a
terrorist?

The Coast Guard boat stayed in sight the
entire time, but they didn't stop us.

Before we knew it, we were at Plum
Island.

What was your job here?

My job was in the bio level three
containment laboratory.

You got fired.

Yes, I did.

What did you do to get fired? I had
interrupted a meeting in the

building that was attended by the then
acting director for Homeland Security,

Senator Clinton's New York.

manager, as well as other
representatives, aides and environmental

And you interrupted their meeting. And
what did you do? I asked to speak

I had safety issues that I've observed
on Plum Island and I wanted to discuss

them with them. There was no level of
security monitoring.

inside the biocontainment area.

So you brought these facts up and you
were fired over it?

Yes, sir.

I felt the safety of the people that
worked there, for the people who live in

this community, and for our country,
that these things had to be told, even

it meant my job.

Jim McCoy knew where all the bodies were
buried and where bodies and bioweapons.

may have escaped.

What are those buildings right there?

They used to keep their livestock in
pens there.

And there was talk when I worked at the
lab that a cow that had been injected

with the virus got out and got into the
pen with all the other cows.

And they had to kill all the cows.

The long building with all the stacks
sticking up, that is the biocontainment

laboratory. In the event of a power
failure to the island, the generators

kick on. And that is something that
didn't happen in December of 2002.

There was a period of four hours that
they lost power from the mainland.

During this time, they had no
ventilation to the biocontainment area

that the viruses would be kept in a
negative pressure.

Pretty dangerous.

Yes. The people were going around
putting duct tape around the outside

the biocontainment area and trying to
contain whatever might be getting out

the atmosphere. But duct tape doesn't
stop viruses.

Could this be a place where biological
weapons could be being built?

It's unknown what they're developing.

We were just digging in when we noticed
we had company.

See it?

Right over there. He's followed us all
the way around the island now.

We were as close as we could get.

The Coast Guard was on our tail again.

And security vehicles were shadowing us
on the island.

We had to turn back.

You know, I find it very, very
interesting.

I'm a former governor.

A former mayor, a former Navy SEAL with
a top -secret security clearance, yet I

can't go on Plum Island. I get the Coast
Guard tailing me. I get vehicles along

the shore watching our every move.

Where I come from, if you're the one
paying the money, that makes you the

How come we the people aren't the boss
anymore?

We're the one paying the salaries of
these people, and yet they deprive us of

knowing what they do on this island.

They want to get heavy. I can give as
good as I get.

Next stop, Washington, D .C. I paid a
visit to Congressman Tim Bishop.

If there's anyone who'd know what's
going on at Plum Island, this is the

Plum Island's in his district.

He was a little surprised to see me, but
at least he had the guts to talk to me.

Not like some of these guys.

That's a strange place out there, Plum
Island. I got chased around by the Coast

Guard. I got chased around and shadowed
by Homeland Security.

Does that island concern you? Well...

I think there was a period of time where
I was very concerned because I felt

that there was not a sufficient
investment in securing the island. And

of what you encountered, I think, was an
increased level of security for the

island. None of the fishing boats would
take us out there.

Because of fear of retribution from
Homeland Security, which I found

That Homeland Security rules by threats
and rules by intimidation. I have to

tell you, I have never heard any
suggestion of threat or intimidation. I

have not.

Well, I'm giving you your first one
then.

What concerned me the most about it was
when I read the history of it. And I saw

who the godfather is of Plum Island,
Eric Traub.

who was a Nazi right under Himmler, that
many people think probably should have

stood trial at Nuremberg. But his
expertise is attempting to create

warfare using ticks and mosquitoes.

To spread them. That doesn't bother you
that this guy came there? If that was

what was going on there, if I was
convinced that that was what was going

there, that would bother me. But I don't
believe that that's what's going on

there. So you're comfortable and don't
believe in the conspiracy that Lyme

disease originated there because it
started in Lyme, Connecticut, which is

across the water?

I do not accept that. You don't accept
that? I do not. What accomplishments

they got out of that?

Well, they have...

conducted research that has... What has
been achieved?

I've heard nothing.

Are you angry that there's the
possibility it could move to Kansas?

I wouldn't use the word angry. I am
troubled by that.

And in fact, I have been working to try
to keep the facility open.

On Plum Island. Aren't you concerned,
though, that if something could go wrong

at this place and what the results of it
could be? Plum Island is so -called

zoonotic diseases are not studied at
Plum Island. Diseases that are animal

-borne that can spread to humans. The
only diseases that are studied at Plum

Island are animal -borne diseases that
do not spread. And you know this

absolutely?

I accept what I've been told.

Okay.

I guess that's the difference between
him and me. I don't just accept what

been told.

There was someone else I wanted to find
anyway.

A guy who knows Plum Island firsthand.

The guy who tells people like
Congressman Bishop things they accept.

I staked him out where he works. And
sure enough, there he was.

Dr. Breeze, I was not expecting to see
you here.

Coming up, the truth revealed.

The doctor in charge of the Plum Island
lab admits humans are being infected

with deadly viruses.

Everybody that works in the laboratory
will actually inhale virus that's in the

air. Some of the infections also infect
people.

I was not expecting to see you here.

Jesse Ventura's investigation of the
Plum Island conspiracy has taken him to

Washington, D .C. He's just cornered a
key player.

A man who knows Plum Island's secrets.

Dr. Breeze, you were in charge of Plum
Island, is that correct?

Uh, that's right. Roger Breeze.

Dr. Roger Breeze. In the 1990s, he ran
the lab dreamed up by Nazi scientist

Eric Traub.

Plum Island had some of its biggest
security breaches under his watch.

Now that Homeland Security has taken
over, he's one of the overlords, a chief

scientist in the Biological Weapons
Program.

Why is Plum Island so secretive? It
isn't secretive at all.

Well, I tried to go there and I was put
under surveillance by Homeland Security.

I was tailed by the Coast Guard. And I'm
a former governor, a mayor, a Navy SEAL

with a top secret security clearance.
Why would they behave that way?

I think it's because it's really
completely misguided approach to the

Okay, to your knowledge, do we do
biological warfare at Plum Island?

No. No.

No, not at all. I mean, what concerns me
is the history of Plum Island, the

creator of Plum Island, Eric Traub. He
was a Nazi. His expertise was biological

warfare, infecting mosquitoes and wood
ticks.

He created it. I actually don't know
anything about Eric Traub. So the

experiments they do there, is it
strictly on animals?

It's on animals, yes. Some of the
infections also infect people.

Isn't that interesting?

Seems the congressman who accepts what
he's told was told a bunch of BS.

The only diseases that are studied at
Plum Island are animal -borne diseases

that do not spread to humans.

Some of the infections also infect
people.

After all the lies about Plum Island not
being a hazard to you and me, the guy

who ran the lab admits the exact
opposite.

Did Lyme disease originate at Plum
Island?

Well, you know, that's something that
you hear all the time. Well, let's make

leap then. If Eric Traub was with Nazis,
could he have been ahead of his time

and created it here?

So you're saying to me there's nothing
for the public to worry about at Plum

Island?

The people that work at Plum Island,
they're just ordinary Americans.

Dr. Breeze played dumb about the Montauk
monster and the mutated man.

Do you know anything about that?

I don't know. You're being funny with me
now, doctor. Would I dare to be funny

with you?

He had his story down, but then he let
slip something I could hardly believe.

At Plum Island.

You had the outbreak of hoof and mouth.
What precautions are taken at Plum

Island that makes it safe?

Everybody that works in the laboratory
where there's foot and mouth disease

actually inhale virus that's in the air
during the course of the day, and it

will be trapped in the back of the
throat. So that's why at Plum Island

always been a rule that if you go inside
the laboratory...

then you're not allowed to have an
animal that might catch foot in that

or the other diseases that are working
there at home. You can't visit a zoo or

circus or any place, pet store.

He admitted that people bring infectious
disease off the island and security is

on the honor system.

That's one for the books.

Doctor, now, there's talk they're going
to move it to Kansas.

Why would we want to move it to Kansas
in the heart of America, which, as you

say, if something gets out, is probably
going to be far more devastating in a

place like Kansas than it would be on
Long Island?

I agree with it. I agree with it
totally. Why do they want to move it?

The Congress decides what it wants to
do. It's a $700 million construction.

I guess we have to assume that Kansas
had some great lobbyists.

Oh, I think for certain. Okay, no, I
mean, we've made that assumption.

It all comes down to politics as usual.

Look at that place.

It's a toxic, ticking time bomb for an
outbreak of cataclysmic proportions.

And they want to move it to the middle
of the country?

What could go wrong?

The military academic industrial
complex.

That's a new one to me, but it says a
lot.

Combine fear, greed, and our tax
dollars, and you've got a biowarfare

that's out of control.

It's a conspiracy, all right, and it
poses a bigger threat to this nation

any terror group.

There's more than 1 ,300 of these germ
labs across the country. That means one

of them is probably upwind from you.

At any moment, you and I can wind up
victims of an attack or careless

something you can't see, hear, or even
know about.

You really want to take that chance?

Think about it. And while you're at it,
if you have a pet, be sure and check it

for ticks.

I'm Jesse Ventura, and this is
Conspiracy Theory.