Aids US Monster
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, originating at Pentagon
bacteriological warfare labs at Fort
Detrick, Maryland. "Top Secret" is
the international edition of the
German magazine Geheim 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 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.
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
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- cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be
produced and the
defenceless patient remains exposed to a range of infections
that under other
circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients
die from
opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself. The
initial
infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent
fever. An
apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the
patient remains
without symptoms and functions normally for years.
Occasionally a swelling of
the lymph glands, which does not affect the
patient's well-being, can be
observed. After several years, the pre-AIDS
stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related
Complex) sets in. This stage includes
disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys
and lungs. In most cases it
develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at
which 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 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 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
doubling every 12 months now
though numerous measures have been taken against
it. Based on these figures, it
is estimated that in the US, which had 120,000
cases of AIDS at the end of 1988,
900,000 people will have AIDS or will
have died of it by the end of 1991. It is
also estimated that the number of
people infected is at least ten times the
number of those suffering from an
acute case of AIDS. That in the year 1995
there will be between 10-14 million
cases of AIDS and an additional 100 million
people infected, 80 percent of
them in the US, while a possible vaccination will
not be available before
1995 by the most optimistic estimates. Even when such
vaccination becomes
available, it will not 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.
"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", say the Segals. " 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 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 professional journals that contradict our
hypotheses."
DISCOVERING AIDS 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 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
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,
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
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 practically the
sole topic of
discussion. THE AIDS VIRUS The Segals 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 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 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
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
behaviour suggests that an additional piece has been inserted
into the genomes
of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope
proteins and enables them
to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS
SECTION BEHAVES LIKE A
BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY, which does not match the
rest of the system
biochemically. 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 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 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 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 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 artificial means, through
gene manipulation."
THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV "The construction of a
recombinant virus by means of
gene manipulation is 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 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
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
intention was to create, within the next
ten years, a new virus that would 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.
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 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." 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 neighbouring 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
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
patient. "Those who conducted the research must have
concluded that the new
virus was...not so virulent that it could be considered
for military use, and
the test patients, who had seemingly recovered, were given
their freedom.
Most of the patients were professional criminals and New York
City, which
is relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the
patients
were exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality
and drug
abuse, as is often the case in American prisons. 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 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 periods are
shorter than a year. "Thus, if the new virus was ready
at the 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
resultthat could have been
expected." In the next three lengthy chapters, the
Segals 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 popular writers who have been at the task
of
discounting them as "conspiracy theorists" and show these
writers'
shortcomings. Interested readers will have to read the original
article to
follow those debates. I will only quote two more paragraphs: "We
often
heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are part of a
barbaric
past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We wish
to present
one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt. An
investigative
commission of the US House of Representatives presented in
October 1986 a final
report concerning the Manhattan Project. According to
this document, between
1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were
exposed to dangerous doses of
radioactivity. Some of them were prisoners who
had volunteered, but they also
included residents of old-age homes, inmates
of insane asylums, handicapped
people in nursing homes, and even normal
patients in public hospitals; most of
them were subjected to these
experiments without their permission. Thus the'barbaric past` is not really a
thing of the past." "It is remarkable
that most of these experiments were
carried out in university institutes and
federal hospitals, all of which are
named in the report. Nonetheless, these
facts remained secret until 1984, and
even then a Congressional committee that
was equipped with all the necessary
authorization needed two years in order to
bring these facts to life. We are
often asked how the work on the AIDS virus
could have been kept secret. Now,
experiments performed on a few dozen prisoners
in a laboratory that is
subject to military security can be far more easily kept
secret than could be
the Manhattan Project."