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<p> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: </p>
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<p> :: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster? :: </p>
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<p> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: </p>
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<p> :: PREFACE :: </p>
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<p> In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret", prof
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J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease,
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originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is
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considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action
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Information Bulletin (<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CAIB</span>). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names
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column, which <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CAIB</span> is prevented from doing by the American government, and
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which names <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> agents in different locations in the world. The article, named
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"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is
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lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes.
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The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its highlights. It is
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recommended that all interested read the original, which is available at some
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bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from: </p>
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<p> Top Secret/Geheim Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany </p>
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<p> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </p>
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<p> :: AIDS FACTS :: </p>
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<p> "The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
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(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>, "has been traced back
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to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called
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'helper cells', which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies in
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the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional T4-cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the
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defenseless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under other
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circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
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opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself. </p>
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<p> The initial infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent
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fever. An apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the
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patient remains without symptoms and functions normally for years. Occasionally
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a swelling of the lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's well-being,
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can be observed. </p>
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<p> After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids-Related Complex)
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sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys and
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lungs. In most cases it develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at which
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point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in
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various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of
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which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death. </p>
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<p> This set of symptoms, say the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>, is identical in every detail with the
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Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means tiredness
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in <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Icelandic</span>). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings. </p>
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<p> The <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span> note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through
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sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non-sterile hypodermic needles, the
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infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its
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discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is still
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doubling every 12 months now though numerous measures have been taken against
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it. Based on these figures, it is estimated that in the US, which had 120000
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cases of AIDS at the end of 1988, 900000 people will have AIDS or will have
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died of it by the end of 1991. It is also estimated that the number of people
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infected is at least ten times the number of those suffering from an acute case
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of AIDS. That in the year 1995 there will be between 10-14 million cases of
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AIDS and an additional 100 million people infected, 80 percent of them in the
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US, while a possible vaccination will not be available before 1995 by the most
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optimistic estimates. Even when such vaccination becomes available, it will not
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help those already infected. These and following figures have been reached at
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by several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and the
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Chief of the medical services of the US Army. </p>
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<p> Say the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is
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clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is
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comparable only with that of a nuclear war." They later explain what they mean
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by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr.
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Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When
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proceeding to prove their claims, the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span> are careful to note that: "We have
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given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned laboratories,
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whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must emphasize, in this
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connection, that we do not know of any findings that have been published in
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professional journals that contradict our hypotheses." </p>
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<p> :: DISCOVERING AIDS :: </p>
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<p> The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> in 1979. The first
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DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris in
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May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a trip
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to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers at
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the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same
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virus, which is cytotoxic, i.e poisonous to cells. </p>
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<p> Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the
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virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia virus,
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HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not
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published in professional publications, and soon after, Alizon and <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Montagnier</span>,
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two researchers of the Pasteur Institute in Paris published charts of HTLV-1
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and HIV, showing that the viruses had basically different structures. They also
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declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of
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these two forms could have evolved into the other. </p>
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<p> According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual meeting
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of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was almost
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entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents could
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be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>, AIDS was
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practically the sole topic of discussion. </p>
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<p> :: THE AIDS VIRUS :: </p>
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<p> The <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span> discuss the findings of <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Gonda</span> et al, who compared the HIV, visna
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and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is the most
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similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According to
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findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a
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million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average a
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10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984, the
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difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982-20%, 10% in
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1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>, "that at this time visna
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viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become
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parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not known
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in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first
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cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979." </p>
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<p> "In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>, "Coffin
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hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV genome, which
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encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach itself to the host
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cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area in visna. This
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behavior suggests that an additional piece has been inserted into the genomes
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of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope proteins and enables them
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to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS SECTION BEHAVES LIKE A
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BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY, which does not match the rest of the system
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biochemically. (emphasis mine) </p>
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<p> The above mentioned work by <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Gonda</span> et al shows that the HIV virus has a section
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of about 300 nucleotides, which does not exist in the visna virus. That length
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corresponds with what Coffin described. That section is particularly unstable,
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which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>, it
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"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by Gallo-ED) for the likelihood of
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an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome sequence 60% identical with a
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section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides in length is zero." Since the
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visna virus is incapable of attaching itself to human T4 receptors, it must
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have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the
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capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made the
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HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been
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explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is "a
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combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ARTIFI<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>L
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MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution, because this process would
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have immediately eliminated, through natural selection, systems that are so
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replete with disorders." </p>
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<p> "These are the facts of the case," say the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>. "HIV is essentially a visna
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virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an epitope
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capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Montagnier</span> nor any
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other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible for
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the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this reason
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we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by
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artificial means, through gene manipulation." </p>
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<p> :: THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV :: </p>
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<p> "The construction of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is
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extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly qualified
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personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories.
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Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was
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aimed solely at the production of a new disease that would be deadly to human
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beings?" </p>
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<p> The English sociologist Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al in "A Higher
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Form of Killing"-ED), published a document whose authenticity has been
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confirmed by the US Congress, showing that a representative of the Pentagon
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requested in 1969 additional funding for biological warfare research. The
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intention was to create, within the next ten years, a new virus that would
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not be susceptible to the immune system, so that the afflicted patient would
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not be able to develop any defense against it. Ten years later, in the spring
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of 1979, the first cases of AIDS appeared in <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span>. </p>
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<p> "Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>. </p>
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<p> One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt themselves
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to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching for a cure
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for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings in 1975. A
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year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980 he
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published his discovery of HTLV. </p>
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<p> In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in which
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human pathogens are subjected to genetic manipulations) laboratory was
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officially opened in building 550 of Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main
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biological warfare research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel', Prof.
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Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely
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difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert Gallo
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for this purpose, note the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>." </p>
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<p> Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord banning
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the research, production and storage of biological weapons, part of Fort
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Detrick was "demilitarized" and the virus section renamed the "Frederick
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Cancer Research Facility". It was put under the direction of the Cancer
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Research Institute in neighboring Bethesda, whose director was no other than
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Robert Gallo. This happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV.
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Explaining how the virus escaped, the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span> note that in the US, biological
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agents are traditionally tested on prisoners who are incarcerated for long
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periods, and who are promised freedom if they survive the test. However, the
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initial HIV infection symptoms are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy
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patient. </p>
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<p> "Those who conducted the research must have concluded that the new virus
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was...not so virulent that it could be considered for military use, and the
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test patients, who had seemingly recovered, were given their freedom. Most of
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the patients were professional criminals and <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York City</span>, which is
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relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients were
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exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse,
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as is often the case in American prisons. 1111 </p>
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<p> It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men
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and among drug users, and precisely in <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York City</span>," assert the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span>. They
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go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual contact,
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incubation periods are two years and more, while in cases of massive infection
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via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners, incubation
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periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the new virus was ready at the
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beginning of 1978 and if the experiments began without too much delay, then
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the first cases of full-blown AIDS in 1979 were exactly the result that
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could have been expected." </p>
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<p> In the next three lengthy chapters, the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Segals</span> examine other theories,
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"legends" as they call them, of the origins of AIDS. Dissecting each claim,
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they show that they have no scientific standing, providing also the findings
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of other scientists. They also bring up the arguments of scientists and
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popular writers who have been at the task of discounting them as "conspiracy
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theorists" and show these writers' shortcomings. Interested readers will have
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to read the original article to follow those debates. I will only quote two
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more paragraphs: </p>
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<p> "We often heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are part of
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a barbaric past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We wish
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to present one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt. An
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investigative commission of the US House of Representatives presented in
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October 1986 a final report concerning the Manhattan Project. According to this
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document, between 1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were exposed
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to dangerous doses of radioactivity. Some of them were prisoners who had
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volunteered, but they also included residents of old-age homes, inmates of
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insane asylums, handicapped people in nursing homes, and even normal patients
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in public hospitals; most of them were subjected to these experiments without
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their permission. Thus the 'barbaric past' is not really a thing of the past." </p>
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<p> "It is remarkable that most of these experiments were carried out in university
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institutes and federal hospitals, all of which are named in the report.
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Nonetheless, these facts remained secret until 1984, and even then a
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Congressional committee that was equipped with all the necessary
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authorization needed two years in order to bring these facts to life. We are
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often asked how the work on the AIDS virus could have been kept secret. Now,
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experiments performed on a few dozen prisoners in a laboratory that is
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subject to military security can be far more easily kept secret than could
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be the Manhattan Project." </p>
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