CIA effectively stopped the extermination of the Polio virus - indirectly

Both the spy thing and the impotency thing rumors were going on before the bin laden raid.

Originally Posted by BillSeurer
Both the spy thing and the impotency thing rumors were going on before the bin laden raid.

Yeah, anti-vaccination conspiracy theories have existed and even been somewhat widely held in some regions of the world. The use of a vaccination ruse in one particular CIA operation is not the origin of these ideas, but it may likely increase how credible they appear in some populations.