CONTROL?
By Sean MacKenzie - 1993
This five part series examines the origins of AIDS and its possible links to the development of biochemical warfare in this country. The article was written and researched over a period of three years by award winning, Seattle based journalist Sean Mackenzie.
Scope Of The Epidemic
This week begins a five-week series that examines the origins of AIDS and its possible links to the development of biochemical warfare in this country. The article was written and researched over a period of three years by award-winning, Seattle-based journalist Peter MacKenzie. We start the series with the following introductory article that examines the scope of the AIDS problem.
GOVERNMENT HEALTH AUTHORITIES may have grossly underestimated the number of people infected with the AIDS virus, according to Dr. Robert Strecker, Los Angeles pathologist. The AIDS virus is actually a "retrovirus" - an infective organism that inserts itself into the genetic structure of its host, which It forces to constantly breed new viruses. Veterinarians know most about retroviruses," Strecker said in The Strecker Memorandum, his 97-minute videotape concerning the AIDS pandemic. "These are slow viral diseases of humans and represent a major new kind of problem that most medical doctors have had little experience in dealing with".
Already the number of deaths in the United States from AIDS has exceeded the number of Americans killed in the Korean and Vietnam wars combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). From 1981 through May 31, 1991, a total of 136,204 cases of AIDS had been logged by the CDC. Of that number, 83,145 have died.
While those numbers are appalling, they may represent only the barest tip of the iceberg, according to Strecker, "in general, the rule of thumb (when dealing with retroviruses) is there are 99 cases 'subclinical' for every case reported," Strecker said. In other words, waiting in the wings behind the 136,204 cases reported to the CDC through mid-l991 are 13,484,196 cases just waiting to be diagnosed, Strecker's formula suggests.
According to the latest figures revealed by the CDC, the total number of AIDS cases in the United States was 339,250 through Sept. 30,1993. If Strecker's contention holds true, the actual number of infected Americans may be closer to 34 million. That would represent more than 10 percent of the nation's total population. Strecker's contention seems to be supported by a study of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), a retrovirus very similar in function to HIV, conducted in the fall of 1990. Sponsored by Idexx Corporation of Portland, Maine, the study involved 1558 veterinary clinics and 27,976 cats across the United States.
Of the total number of cats, 7.4 percent tested positive for FIV. This figure comes strikingly close to supporting Strecker's "general rule of thumb". One of the main characteristics distinguishing retroviruses from any other infectious agent is the span of time across which they operate - approximately 20 percent of the lifespan of the host organism, according to Strecker. In the case of the AIDS virus in humans, that equation supports the 7 to 14-year incubation period now reported for the virus. A person may carry the virus and not manifest any symptoms of opportunistic infection for up to 14 years - but the person would be fully infectious at any time during that long period.
A notably grim aspect of the AIDS epidemic is its apparent one-year doubling time, according to statistics offered by Strecker. There were about 40,000 cases of AIDS reported worldwide in 1987, he said, and 80,000 the following year. Given the speed at which the virus spreads and its long incubation period, the resulting mathematics become frightening indeed. "This means nearly everyone in the U.S. could be infected before anyone showed any symptoms,- according to Strecker.
"In the face of a lethal disease, Journalists and media editors
have been frightened to contradict the conventional wisdom being put
across by the scientists. There has been no serious attempt at
investigative journalism into the wealth of scientific scandals surrounding AIDS."
Dr. John Seale, Royal Society of Medicine, United Kingdom
in a Memorandum to the Social Services Committee, House of Commons, 1987.
AIDS: Biowarfare Experiment Out Of Control?
A NEWLY UNCOVERED TRAIL of evidence regarding the true nature of the AIDS pandemic points to these startling conclusions:
The deadly AIDS virus is a genetically engineered 'bioweapon' designed to kill mass populations.
The virus was created in a U.S. Army laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland and was transported to Africa by the World Health Organization in contaminated smallpox vaccines.
Contrary to "official" views of the green monkey and Patient Zero (see related story), the virus was introduced into the homosexual male population in the United States through the experimental 'Hepatitis B' vaccine trials in New York City in 1978 and two years later in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Condoms offer little or no protection against the AIDS virus; the vast number of possible mutations of the virus make an effective vaccine virtually impossible, and the numbers of infected may be dramatically greater than the American public has been led to believe (see related story).
The trail of evidence begins with a formerly classified Secret document expressing official military interest in a synthetic virus. Dated May 21, 1953, the document reports the proceedings of an "Artichoke Conference" held on that same date.
The participants' names have been deleted from the document, but the general thrust of the meeting is made clear by the nature of "Project Artichoke" itself. Examined in detail in the book "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" by journalist John Marks, "Artichoke" was a secret CIA program designed to arrive at methods of controlling human behavior.
"Artichoke" experimentation upon human guinea pigs involved electro-shock, sensory deprivation and drugs, sometimes to the point of physical injury and, according to Marks, even death.
"Inexorably, the Artichoke men crossed the clear ethical lines," Marks states in his book.
It was within this shady environment that the first official interest in an artificial virus appears to have surfaced. The 1953 document states "an East German scientist had succeeded in developing a new virus or mutation of a virus which Dr. (name deleted) regarded as very important if true.
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