The next piece in the AIDS "puzzle" did not materialize until 1967 with the publication of Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace. The report allegedly followed a study by a secret, government-sponsored group of professors, scientists, business leaders and other credentialed civilians to determine the consequences of a transition to a peace-based society.
Author Leonard C. Lewin has admitted in the New York Times that the report is a work of fiction. At the same time, the report's value is not discounted by at least one highly placed source. The Report from Iron Mountain is considered a very accurate reflection of the high-level government thinking at the time.
The report asserted that war is the basic organizing force of modern society and that a transition to peace may not even be desirable. Further, the report stated, "as a system of gross population control to preserve the species, it (war) cannot be fairly faulted.
"-. . . a viable substitute for war as a social system cannot be a mere symbolic charade," the report stated. "It must involve real risk of personal destruction, and on a scale consistent with the size and complexity of modem social systems. Credibility is the key . . . The existence of an external menace, then is essential to social cohesiveness as well as to the acceptance of political authority.
The report devoted an entire chapter to consideration of "Substitutes for the Functions of War". Mentioned in this category were dramatic expansion of health services, education, housing, mass public transportation, preserving the environment, and the elimination of poverty.
"However unlikely some of the possible alternate enemies we have mentioned may seem," the report said, "we must emphasize that one must be found, of credible quality and magnitude, if a transition to peace is ever to come about without social disintegration. It is more probable, in our judgment, that such a threat will have to be invented, rather than developed from unknown conditions."
While there is no evidence directly linking this report with the genesis of the AIDS virus, a global pandemic would certainly fit the scenario outlined above.
The Report from Iron Mountain states it was not originally meant for mass consumption. Its introduction claimed it was leaked by a member of the special group who, at the conclusion of his efforts, suffered a guilty conscience. The audience at which the report was initially aimed was, according to its introduction, "unnamed government administrators of high rank; it (the report) assumed considerable political sophistication from this select audience."
The report from this alleged super-secret government body was followed two years later by what may be the true point of origin of the AIDS virus
$10 MILLION APPROPRIATED TO CREATE "NEW INFECTIVE MICROORGANISM"
On June 9, 1969, Dr. Donald MacArthur made a momentous presentation before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Department of Defense Appropriations.
The hearing is recorded in "Department of Defense Appropriations 1970, Part 6 and begins on page 104 of that volume. According to that report, MacArthur in July 1968, was designated Deputy Director (Research and Technology), Defense Research and Engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
It is important to understand MacArthur's exact position in the Department of Defense (DOD) chain of command before his statements during the hearing can be placed in their proper context.
"As Deputy Director (Research and Technology), he is responsible for management of the DOD overall research and technology programs," - according to the Hearing record. "The programs which he directs, cover such diverse fields as rocket and missile propulsion, materials technology, medical, and life sciences, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, and chemical technology."
MacArthur's position can be even more specifically pinpointed, according to Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (USAF - retired). During the years 1955 through 1964, Prouty served as a "focal point officer",- providing a critical liaison between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon. Prouty was also posted during this time as Chief of the Office of Special Operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"MacArthur is ideally situated as Deputy Director of Research and Technology in the office of the Deputy Director of Research and Engineering, John S. Foster, under the Secretary, of Defense, Clark Clifford - in June 1969," Prouty states. "This protocol is important. In the entire listing of senior personnel in the telephone book of the Pentagon (about 35,000 people), he is listed about 15 names below the Secretary of Defense. Someone had decided that his job and his physical location in the Pentagon were most important."
He was the ideal man to send to the Congress to make a case for these funds. He was successful according to Prouty.
The topic of MacArthur's presentation was quite specific: chemical and biological warfare about which, MacArthur stated in the Hearing record, "I know most of the facts."
"Molecular biology is a field that is advancing very rapidly," MacArthur told the subcommittee in 1969, "and eminent biologists believe that within a period of five to 10 years it would be possible to produce a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired."
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MANY FACTS CONCERNING AIDS as presented by the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health and scientific "experts are not as ironclad as the American public has been led to believe".
The AIDS virus began in the green monkey of Africa, which then bit a native and "transmitted the Virus to humans.
In his videotape, The Strecker Memorandum, Los Angeles gastroenterologist and pathologist Dr. Robert Strecker states that the green monkey can't be cited as the source of the AIDS virus. "The spread of the disease in Africa has moved from the cities to the jungles, not from the jungles, as one would think if the green monkey were involved," Strecker said. Further; the genes of the AIDS virus don't look like those of any monkey virus, according to Strecker.
In the January 1988 edition of Skin and Allergy News, Dr. Luc Montagnier (co-discoverer of the AIDS virus) of the Pasteur Institute in Paris was quoted as calling the origin of the AIDS virus "a continuing mystery, adding that there is no evidence that any monkeys actually test positive for HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
In a Los Angeles Times article of June 2, 1988, headlined "Research Refutes Idea That Human AIDS Virus Originated in Monkeys," University of Tokyo researchers were reported to have discovered "distinct differences in the molecular structure of the human and monkey viruses.
In the same article, Carol Mulder of the University of Massachusetts Medical School was quoted as saying, "We don't know what the origins of the human AIDS virus are. It is not the African green monkey. We don't know of any other monkey virus that is similar enough to the human viruses that it could be their predecessor."
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