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The Tragic True Story Of The CIA s Fake Vaccination Campaign By Marina Manoukian/Jan. 28, 2021 12:24 pm EDT/Updated: Jan. 28, 2021 12:24 pm EDT Although the CIA isn t entirely to blame for the fact that wild polio remains endemic in Pakistan, they certainly didn t help the situation when they tried to use a fake hepatitis B vaccination program to capture Osama bin Laden. And even though their plan didn t exactly work as intended, it was effective enough to lead to a distrust of healthcare workers working to administer polio vaccines, per As The Poynter Institute tells it, the situation was first reported by Saeed Shah, a Pakistani journalist, who claimed that the CIA and the State Department tried to stop him from publishing the story. The operation even reportedly used the Save the Children charity as a front, which goes against the CIA regulation that prohibits it from using American companies as fronts, although foreign companies are considered fair game. ....