A vaccine against AIDS is only a few years away
At the Sixth International Conference on AIDS held in San Francisco in early 1991, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief of AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health, stated that a vaccine against the virus should be available by the year 2000.
Dr. Robert Strecker disputes this claim for three reasons. The first is the long incubation period of the virus. Any study of a vaccine would theoretically involve a 14-year waiting period to determine if it worked, according to Strecker.
Second, it has been established that the AIDS virus grows in the "macrophage", the cellular structure responsible for processing the virus so it can be effectively destroyed by the immune system. Any vaccine against the AIDS virus would involve introduction of an antibody, according to Strecker. The antibody and virus would then form a cohesive unit, enabling the macrophage to ingest the new configuration easier.
"You die quicker than if you had not been vaccinated," Strecker said. "This is in my opinion the central reason why vaccination against AIDS may not only be detrimental but prove to be ultimately impossible.
Finally, the genes of the AIDS virus contain 9,000 base pairs (four possible genetic outcomes), according to Strecker. This means the number of possible mutations of the AIDS virus is calculated by multiplying 9000 times itself four times. The final number defies comprehension: 6.5 quadrillion different strains of AIDS, each with its own set of characteristics. While not all of these mutations are infective or even biologically viable. Strecker contends that there would be enough new strains to prove his point.
Writes Dr. Jakob Segal in his report: "-This revelation, that the AIDS virus is a chimera created only a few years ago, both parts of which have not yet had time to co-ordinate with each other, explains an important phenomenon, the effects of which may perhaps prove to be tragic.
"Whereas HTLV- I, HTLV- II, Visna and the other retroviruses investigated in this connection show genetic stability and only a few mutations. The genetic behavior of the AIDS virus is dominated by numerous mutations . . . the genomes isolated by Montagnier and Gallo from viruses of AIDS patients from the American East Coast differed from one another by approximately 1 percent, but the viruses isolated a year later by Luciv on the west coast deviated from them by as much as 5 percent
". . . the AIDS virus," Dr. Segal declared. "constitutes a combination of two uncoordinated genome components, artificially joined by means of genetic engineering. It could hardly be assumed that a system with such a marked genetic instability should be the result of a biological evolution."
Doctor Donald MacArthur was asked why work had not been done in this field; was it lack of money or lack of interest?
"Certainly not lack of interest," MacArthur answered.
According to information supplied to the Subcommittee by MacArthur, "Within the next five to 10 years, it would be possible to make a new infective microorganism which could differ in certain aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory (defined in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary as-'resisting control or authority; stubborn, unmanageable') to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend.
"A research program to explore the feasibility of this could be completed in approximately five years at a total cost of $10 million.
While the Hearing record acknowledged "many who believe such research should not be undertaken lest it lead to yet another method of massive killing of large populations," Page 129 of that volume clearly states "tentative plans were made to initiate the program."
"It must be acknowledged that the role of Congress in continuing to supply funds for MacArthur's project, among many others, becomes a much more important role than most of us would understand," according to Prouty
Referring to the Hearing record, Prouty stated, "I have read it carefully and find nothing unusual about the process and about what we find. I do find what most certainly may be considered as the focus of the origin of AIDS
Prouty was in a position to know.
"Because I was the official 'Focal Point' officer in the Pentagon for CIA clandestine activities, all CIA operations that involved the military for support had to be brought to my office," Prouty stated. "Then I would 'cover' them and get them done anywhere in the world - even the Soviet Union. Since the CIA is highly compartmented, they do not know each other's business; but because my role was not, I saw them all over a period of nine years (1955-1964)
"I believe I have participated in more covert operations than anyone of that period, perhaps in any period, for this reason," Prouty states.
In 1973, Prouty wrote The Secret Team, perhaps the definitive study of the internal functioning of the CIA and how it carries out its secret plans domestically and around the world. For example, Prouty is certain that the Report from Iron Mountain is a completely factual assessment disguised as fiction.
Prouty is familiar with the military's long history of "biowarfare" experimentation.
"In 1955, when I first went to the Pentagon. I was given a desk and chair in an office in the Unconventional Warfare Division of the US Air Force Directorate of Plans," Prouty stated. "This happened to be the locale of the famous CIA Lt. Col. James Monroe."
In The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, journalist John Marks mentioned Monroe in connection with the descendent of Artichoke, the ClA's "MK ULTRA" program.
Referring to Monroe, Prouty stated. "His activities covered this area of biowarfare and the support of CIA activities in that area.
"During this time I became well aware of those activities, and Fort Detrick was mentioned frequently," Prouty said. "During my own work with the CIA, I attended many meetings in which such activity was the subject, and the function of Fort Detrick was a common topic of discussion."
THE FORT DETRICK CONNECTION
Fort Detrick is a U.S. Army facility located at Frederick, Maryland. The installation was the subject of comments made on June 30. 1969 by Professor Martin Dworkin to the House of Representatives (Congressional Record, July 1, 1969; Page 180777).
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