00:00In 1984, someone poisoned the salad bars of 10 restaurants in a small Oregon town.
00:05751 people got sick.
00:07Some were hospitalized, and it was all planned.
00:10The Rajneeshis were a cult led by an Indian guru named Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh.
00:15They had built their own city in the Oregon desert.
00:18They called it Rajneeshparam, but they wanted more power.
00:21They wanted to control the local county election, and their plan was terrifying in its simplicity.
00:26Make enough voters too sick to leave their homes on election day,
00:29so they ran a test.
00:30Members of the cult quietly spread salmonella bacteria across restaurant salad bars in the Dalles, Oregon.
00:36They used salad dressings, coffee creamers, and their own hands.
00:39People started collapsing within days.
00:41Doctors were confused.
00:42Nobody suspected a cult.
00:44It took over a year before investigators uncovered the truth.
00:47By then, it had already become the largest biological terror attack in American history.
00:51No foreign enemy, no military weapon,
00:54just a group of true believers willing to poison their own neighbors for power.
00:59No foreign Quinn turned shall not have been true for good теперь,
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