Operation Drop Kick was conducted between April and November 1956 by the US Army Chemical Corps[1] to test the practicality of employing mosquitoes to carry an entomological warfare agent in different ways.
The Chemical Corps released uninfected female mosquitoes into a residential area of Savannah, Georgia, whose residents had agreed to participate in the project, and then estimated how many mosquitoes entered houses and bit people.
[2] In 1958, the Chemical Corps released 1,000,000 mosquitoes in Avon Park, Florida.
[3] The 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove also refers to an Operation Drop Kick.
[4] The TV series Archer refers to Operation Drop Kick as the codename of a CIA mission to take over a country in Latin America.