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+    ::   AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?   ::
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+:: PREFACE ::
+
+In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret", Prof
+J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease,
+originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
+Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is
+considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action
+Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names
+column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and
+which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named
+"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is
+lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes.
+The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its highlights. It is
+recommended that all interested read the original, which is available at some
+bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from:
+
+Top Secret/Geheim Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany
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+:: AIDS FACTS ::
+
+"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
+(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced back
+to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called
+'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies in
+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
+defenseless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under other
+circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
+opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself.
+
+The initial infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent
+fever. An apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the
+patient remains without symptoms and functions normally for years. Occasionally
+a swelling of the lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's well-being,
+can be observed.
+
+After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related Complex)
+sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys and
+lungs. In most cases it develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at which
+point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in
+various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of
+which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death.
+
+This set of symptoms, say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the
+Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means tiredness
+in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings.
+
+The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through
+sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles, the
+infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its
+discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is still
+doubling every 12 months now though numerous measures have been taken against
+it. Based on these figures, it is estimated that in the US, which had 120,000
+cases of AIDS at the end of 1988, 900,000 people will have AIDS or will have
+died of it by the end of 1991. It is also estimated that the number of people
+infected is at least ten times the number of those suffering from an acute case
+of AIDS. That in the year 1995 there will be between 10-14 million cases of
+AIDS and an additional 100 million people infected, 80 percent of them in the
+US, while a possible vaccination will not be available before 1995 by the most
+optimistic estimates. Even when such vaccination becomes available, it will not
+help those already infected. These and following figures have been reached at
+by several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and the
+Chief of the medical services of the US Army.
+
+Say the Segals: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is
+clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is
+comparable only with that of a nuclear war." They later explain what they mean
+by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr.
+Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When
+proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful to note that: "We have
+given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned laboratories,
+whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must emphasize, in this
+connection, that we do not know of any findings that have been published in
+professional journals that contradict our hypotheses."
+
+:: DISCOVERING AIDS ::
+
+The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first
+DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris in
+May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a trip
+to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers at
+the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same
+virus, which is cytotoxic, i.e poisonous to cells.
+
+Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the
+virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia virus,
+HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not
+published in professional publications, and soon after, Alizon and Montagnier,
+two researchers of the Pasteur Institute in Paris published charts of HTLV-1
+and HIV, showing that the viruses had basically different structures. They also
+declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of
+these two forms could have evolved into the other.
+
+According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual meeting
+of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was almost
+entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents could
+be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS was
+practically the sole topic of discussion.
+
+:: THE AIDS VIRUS ::
+
+The Segals discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV, visna
+and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is the most
+similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According to
+findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a
+million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average a
+10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984, the
+difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982- 20%, 10% in
+1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time visna
+viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become
+parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not known
+in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first
+cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979."
+
+"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the Segals, "Coffin
+hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV genome, which
+encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach itself to the host
+cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area in visna. This
+behavior suggests that an additional piece has been inserted into the genomes
+of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope proteins and enables them
+to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS SECTION BEHAVES LIKE A
+BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY,  which does not match the rest of the system
+biochemically. (emphasis mine)
+
+The above mentioned work by Gonda et al shows that the HIV virus has a section
+of about 300 nucleotides, which does not exist in the visna virus. That length
+corresponds with what Coffin described. That section is particularly unstable,
+which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the Segals, it
+"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by Gallo-ED) for the likelihood of
+an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome sequence 60% identical with a
+section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides in length is zero." Since the
+visna virus is incapable of attaching itself to human T4 receptors, it must
+have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the
+capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made the
+HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been
+explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is "a
+combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ARTIFICIAL
+MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution, because this process would
+have immediately eliminated, through natural selection, systems that are so
+replete with disorders."
+
+"These are the facts of the case," say the Segals.  "HIV is essentially a visna
+virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an epitope
+capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any
+other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible for
+the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this reason
+we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by
+artificial means, through gene manipulation."
+
+:: THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV ::
+
+"The construction of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is
+extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly qualified
+personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories.
+Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the
+Segals, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was
+aimed solely at the production of a new disease that would be deadly to human
+beings?"
+
+The English sociologist Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al  in "A Higher
+Form of Killing"-ED), published a document whose authenticity has been
+confirmed by the US Congress, showing that a representative of the Pentagon
+requested in 1969 additional funding for biological warfare research. The
+intention was to create, within the next ten years, a new virus that would
+not be susceptible to the immune system, so that the afflicted patient  would
+not be able to develop any defense against it. Ten years later, in the spring
+of 1979, the first cases of AIDS appeared in New York.
+
+"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the Segals.
+
+One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt themselves
+to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching for a cure
+for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings in 1975. A
+year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980 he
+published his discovery of HTLV.
+
+In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in which
+human pathogens are subjected to genetic manipulations) laboratory was
+officially opened in building 550 of Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main
+biological warfare research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel`, Prof.
+Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely
+difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert Gallo
+for this purpose, note the Segals."
+
+Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord banning
+the research, production and storage of biological  weapons, part of Fort
+Detrick was "demilitarized" and the virus  section renamed the "Frederick
+Cancer Research Facility". It was  put under the direction of the Cancer
+Research Institute in neighboring Bethesda, whose director was no other than
+Robert Gallo. This happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV.
+Explaining how the virus escaped, the Segals note that in the US,  biological
+agents are traditionally tested on prisoners who are  incarcerated for long
+periods, and who are promised freedom if they survive the test. However, the
+initial HIV infection symptoms are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy
+patient.
+
+"Those who conducted the research must have concluded that the new virus
+was...not so virulent that it could be considered for  military use, and the
+test patients, who had seemingly recovered,  were given their freedom. Most of
+the patients were professional  criminals and New York City, which is
+relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients were
+exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse,
+as is often the case in American prisons. 1111
+
+It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men
+and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They
+go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual contact,
+incubation periods are two  years and more, while in cases of massive infection
+via blood  transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners, incubation
+periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the new virus was ready at the
+beginning of 1978 and if the experiments  began without too much  delay, then
+the first cases of full- blown  AIDS in 1979 were  exactly the result that
+could have been  expected."
+
+In the next three lengthy chapters, the Segals examine other theories,
+"legends" as they call them, of the origins of AIDS. Dissecting each claim,
+they show that they have no scientific standing, providing also the findings
+of other scientists. They also bring up the arguments of scientists and
+popular writers who have been at the task of discounting them as "conspiracy
+theorists" and show these writers' shortcomings. Interested readers will have
+to read the original article to follow those debates. I will only quote two
+more paragraphs:
+
+"We often heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are part of
+a barbaric past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We wish
+to present one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt. An
+investigative commission of the US House of Representatives presented in
+October 1986 a final report concerning the Manhattan Project. According to this
+document, between 1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were exposed
+to dangerous doses of radioactivity. Some of them were prisoners who had
+volunteered, but they also included residents of old-age homes, inmates of
+insane asylums, handicapped people in nursing homes, and even normal patients
+in public hospitals; most of them were subjected to these experiments without
+their permission. Thus the 'barbaric  past` is not really a thing of the past."
+
+"It is remarkable that most of these experiments were carried out in university
+institutes and federal hospitals, all of which are named in the report.
+Nonetheless, these facts remained secret until 1984, and even then a
+Congressional committee that was equipped with all the necessary
+authorization needed two years in order to bring these facts to life. We are
+often asked how the work on the AIDS virus could have been kept secret. Now,
+experiments performed on a few dozen prisoners in a laboratory that is
+subject to military security can be far more easily kept secret than could
+be the Manhattan Project."
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