Plum Island’s Mysterious Past Yields an Uncertain Future
- Strip off Long Island has been home to U.S. germ research
- White House hopeful Donald Trump once eyed site as golf haven
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Plum Island, a strip of land in Long Island Sound coveted by developers, is known for hosting secretive Cold War-era work on the U.S. biological-weapons program and livestock research that some conspiracy theorists link to the spread of Lyme disease.
The latter claim was so persistent the Department of Homeland Security still refutes it on its website.