Episode 49: Tokyo Subway Killers (Case of Shoko Asahara)
5 men board 5 different Tokyo subway trains at the same time. Each of them are carrying plastic bags filled with poison.
At exactly 8 AM - peak rush hour - they will release the poison to thousands of passengers who are stuck in the trains breathing in the lethal gas.
Source notes:
“Destroying The World To Save It” - Robert Jay Lifton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTr1lquCQMg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO_ewrEc820
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/25/national/25-years-tokyo-attack-aum-shinrikyo/
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/14/national/history/cult-attraction-aum-shinrikyos-power-persuasion/
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/world/asia/police-arrest-suspect-in-95-tokyo-attack.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/world/asia/vx-nerve-agent-kim-jong-nam.html
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