A FALSE QUOTE saying that mandatory vaccinations will lead to forced organ donations and genetically modified children has been falsely attributed to Henry Kissinger.

Online claims suggest that Kissinger made the comments at a 2009 meeting of the World Health Organisation’s “Council on Eugenics”.

However, there is no record of Kissinger saying anything like the quote, the supposed meeting never took place, and the WHO does not have a council on eugenics.

Both Kissinger and the WHO are regularly the subject of conspiracy theories.

Henry Kissinger was an influential US diplomat who is best known for his promotion of American power, involving the use of violent conflicts and coups. His legacy is often linked to mass atrocities.

His central role in the Nixon administration at the time of the Watergate scandal also places him close to a verified criminal conspiracy of elites seeking to mislead the public.

Kissinger died in 2023.

The World Health Organisation, or WHO, is a United Nations agency that seeks to improve public health and tackle outbreaks of disease. The WHO is a regular target of conspiracy theories, particularly arising out of its role encouraging health protection measures during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Once the herd accepts mandatory vaccinations, it’s game over,” begins the supposed quote by Kissinger to the WHO Council of Eugenics in 2009.

“They will accept anything — forcible blood or organ donation — ‘for the greater good’,” the quote continues.

“Vaccine makers stand to make billions. And many of you in this room are investors. It’s a big win-win. We thin out the herd, and the herd pays us for extermination services.”

There is no evidence that the WHO has ever had a “Council on Eugenics”, nor could they have such a council without significant outcry.

Eugenics is the name for manipulating human breeding to control heritable characteristics in the general population. While it had been a much-discussed idea at the start of the 20th Century, eugenics later became associated with mass killings and forced sterilisation campaigns and mass killings carried out by the Nazi regime.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union expressly forbids “eugenic practices”.

Further, the WHO is explicitly opposed to “forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilisation” such as the type outlined in the supposed Kissinger quote.

An extensive collection of Kissinger’s speeches, including from the time period that the quote was supposedly from, are available online on his website. No speech includes the quote about “extermination services” that featured in the claim.

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