"It seems that there is only one essential feature of biological warfare which makes it unique, and that is its epidemic quality - its ability to start a chain reaction," according to Dworkin. "There is, however, one flaw in this approach and that is, fortunately, scientists simply do not know how to start epidemics. Unfortunately, neither do we know in many cases how to stop epidemics.
In connection with the large-scale biowarfare experimentation begun by the military establishment during World War II. "Fort Detrick was founded in, I believe, 1943, and went into active and vigorous operation," Dworkin said.
"By the way, the biological warfare activities of Fort Detrick were secret even from Congress," he said."The operations were administered and funded through the executive branch without any approval or control whatsoever from the legislative arm of the government. From this beginning there emerged the biological warfare establishment at Fort Detrick.
"The fact that the tactical utility of germ warfare (if it ever existed) has been eclipsed by the more effective chemical warfare weapons has had no effect whatever on the biological warfare establishment," according to Dworkin. "Like many other government organizations their mere existence has become their justification."
In an article headlined "Is the Pentagon Preparing for Biotech Warfare?", the August 10, 1987 edition of Business Week reported the Defense Department "scuttled its programs when President Nixon swore the U.S. off biological and most chemical weapons in 1969."
Activities at Fort Detrick then assumed what military officials called a purely "defensive" posture, but the biowarfare research apparently continued unabated.
"The research that goes into developing a biological weapon is all but identical to that needed to develop a defense against the agent," the Business Week article states. "The military says it needs to test defensive clothing and equipment against airborne toxins and live organisms. But skeptics complain that, to test bioweapons, the military must first make them.
Dr. Jakob Segal, former Director of the Institute of Biology at Berlin University, Germany, mentions Fort Detrick in a 57-page report, which he wrote with his wife, Dr. Lilli Segal. The Segals' report, published in 1986, is titled AIDS - Its Nature and Origin.
"Gene manipulation of pathogenes entails grave danger to the population and is subject to strict legal regulations. In particular, a P-4 type laboratory is required which should exclude all leakages of pathogenes," according to Segal. "The first laboratory of this kind in the USA - presumably in the whole world - was installed at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in building 550 in 1977," Segal stated in his report. "The first appearance of AIDS exactly coincides with the opening of a P-4 laboratory at Fort Detrick. . .
A copy of Segal's report was obtained from Prouty, who lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and from another source at the opposite end of the continental United States.
"I personally have no doubts about the authenticity and value of the Segals' work," Prouty says. "I have worked at Fort Detrick and it fits. I have been in MK ULTRA-type meetings, perhaps some of the real ones, too, and I recall such things as 'the search for ethnic weapons' and 'what can be done to kill a human being leaving no trace whatsoever' In that milieu, such a thing as Segal reports is only natural
"I do not question the Segals' work," states Prouty. "And associates whom I respect do likewise. One of my correspondents, a professor in Germany, has met Dr. Segal. He says he is for real."
DID WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SMALLPOX VACCINE TRIGGER EPIDEMIC?
Not long after the Segals released their report, the front page of the London Times carried a headline which received virtually no coverage in the United States. The May 11, 1987 edition of the Times declared "Smallpox vaccine triggered Aids virus."
"The Aids epidemic may have been triggered by the mass vaccination campaign which eradicated smallpox," the London Times article states.
"The World Health Organization, which masterminded the 13-year campaign, is studying new scientific evidence suggesting that immunization with the smallpox vaccine Vaccinia awakened the unsuspected, dormant human immuno defence virus infection (HIV)," the article continued.
"But an adviser to WHO who disclosed the problem, told The Times 'I thought it was just a coincidence until we studied the latest findings about the reactions which can be caused by Vaccinia. Now I believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation to the explosion of Aids." the article stated, adding, "The greatest spread of HIV infection coincides with the most intense immunization programme . . . The article said about 14,000 Haitians who were involved in the vaccination program then brought the disease home to the Caribbean.
The London Times article went on to quote Dr. Robert Gallo, the American co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, "The link between the WHO programme and the epidemic in Africa is an interesting and important hypothesis." The article further quoted Gallo as saying, " . . . if the hypothesis is correct it is a tragic situation and a warning that we cannot ignore.
This "tragic situation may have been predicted in 1981 when, according to Los Angeles pathologist and gastroenterologist Dr. Robert Strecker, the publication "Microbiological Reviews" carried an article declaring bovine visna virus was a known contaminant of fetal calf serum, from which smallpox vaccine was made.
Also little known is the WHO's call in 1972 for an examination of the possible effects of a virus on the immune system. The request is stated in the WHO's annual bulletin on page 259 of the article, "Virus-associated immunopathology: Animal models and implications for human disease":
"An attempt should be made to ascertain whether viruses can in fact exert selective effects on immune function, e.g., by depressing 7S versus 19S antibody, or by affecting T cell function as opposed to B cell function," the WHO article states. "The possibility should also be looked into that the immune response to the virus may itself be impaired if the infecting virus damages more or less selectively the cells responding to the viral antigens.
A study reported in the 1976 edition of "Cancer Research" may have a direct bearing on this call for experimentation. An article titled "A Viral Immunodepressive Factor Associated With Experimental Mouse Tumors" cites the 1972 WHO bulletin, inferring that the scientists conducting the mouse tumor study were acting on the suggestion from the WHO.
It is important to note that the modern AIDS virus - or Human T-cell Leukemia/ Lymphoma Virus-III (HTLV-III) - acts in precisely the fashion called for: it selectively demolishes human T-cell function, thereby paving the way for opportunistic infection, such as Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
Dr. Robert Strecker said a virus of this type was predicted in 1973 by J. Clemenson, a member of the Danish Cancer Registry, when she addressed an international assembly of leukemia experts. In The Strecker Memorandum, his 97 minute videotape presenting the case for the artificial origin of AIDS, Strecker quotes Clemenson as saying, 'We are in fact establishing conditions for a possible pandemic of an oncogenic virus varied on the scale of influenza of 1918.
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