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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,
+J. <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent> and Dr. L. <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent> 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
+Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine <ent type = 'person'>Geheim</ent> 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
+Information Bulletin (<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names
+column, which <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> 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.
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ 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
+Top Secret/<ent type = 'person'>Geheim</ent> Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany
 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
 :: 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
+(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, "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-
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ 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
+This set of symptoms, say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, is identical in every detail with the
+<ent type = 'person'>Visna</ent> sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (<ent type = 'person'>Visna</ent> 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
+The <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s 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
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ 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
+Say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s: "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
+<ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent></ent> of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When
+proceeding to prove their claims, the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s 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
@@ -91,14 +91,14 @@ professional journals that contradict our hypotheses."
 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
+to the East Coast of the US. One year later, <ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent></ent> 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
+Shortly after publishing his discovery, <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent> 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,
+published in professional publications, and soon after, <ent type = 'person'>Alizon</ent> 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
@@ -107,25 +107,25 @@ 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
+be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, 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
+The <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s 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
+findings of the <ent type = 'person'>Hahn</ent> 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
+1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, "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
+"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, "<ent type = 'person'>Coffin</ent>
 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
@@ -137,24 +137,24 @@ 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
+corresponds with what <ent type = 'person'>Coffin</ent> described. That section is particularly unstable,
+which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, it
+"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent>-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
+explained by another scientific team, <ent type = 'person'>Chandra et al</ent>, 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
+"These are the facts of the case," say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s.  "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
+capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither <ent type = 'person'>Alizon</ent> 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
@@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ artificial means, through gene manipulation."
 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
+<ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, "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
+The English sociologist <ent type = 'person'>Allistair Hay</ent> (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
@@ -179,29 +179,29 @@ 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.
+"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s.
 
 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
+for cancer. The race was won by <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent>, who described his findings in 1975. A
+year later, <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent> 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."
+<ent type = 'person'>Mollings</ent> 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 <ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent></ent>
+for this purpose, note the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s."
 
 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
+<ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent></ent>. This happened in 1975, the year <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent> discovered HTLV.
+Explaining how the virus escaped, the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s 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
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ 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
+and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s. 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
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ 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,
+In the next three lengthy chapters, the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s 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