AIDS EPIDEMIC ORIGIN THEORIES 29 Dec 2004 Published in Salt Lake City Metro

AIDS and EXPERIMENTS

I wrote an extensive article on Utah's Response to the AIDS Epidemic, of which an abbreviated version was presented at the Utah State Historical Society in 2003.

  

Research for the paper led me to a very disturbing realization that the more probable cause for the spread of AIDS in the Gay population is very different than the  mutated green monkey virus theory.

  

Tuskegee Syphilis Testees

We know that racist experiments, using unsuspecting African Americans as guinea pigs, were conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service over decades. Four hundred poor, illiterate Black sharecroppers in Tuskegee, Alabama were given syphilis and the doctors who carried out the experiment lied to the men and their families about what was really causing their symptoms  telling them only that they were suffering from "bad blood."

  

Declassification of top-secret studies show that “Human Radiation Experiments” were done over a period of 30 years, in which the US conducted radiation experiments on as many as 20,000 vulnerable US citizens. Few know of these shameful experiments. These Radiation experiments were conducted on unsuspecting U.S. citizens during the Cold War years even with American children being given small doses of radiation in their cereal. Black children were given radiation treatments as an experiment. Here in Utah, citizens were allowed  to live down wind from atomic fallout in Nevada while the official government spokesmen stated that there were no dangers.

  

In the 1950's Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was developed using rhesus monkeys kidney tissue which was later discovered to be infected Simian Virus 40 infected and was stopped being used in 1963 replaced by Albert Sabin’s live oral polio vaccine. Sabin's oral polio vaccine was made using African Green monkeys, which were rarely infected with SV40 but carried other unknown viruses. The vaccine manufacturer and government officials have insisted that the switch from rhesus monkey to African Green as well as testing protocols to detect SV40 prevented SV40 from contaminating oral polio vaccine after 1963. .Simian Virus 40 is known to cause cancer.  

Dr. Maurice Hilleman was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over 36 vaccines, more than any other scientist. Of the 14 vaccines routinely recommended in current vaccine schedules, he developed eight: those for measles, mumps, hepatitis-A, hepatitis-B, chickenpox, meningitis, and pneumonia. He is credited with saving more lives than any other scientist of the 20th century.  As ^]a top vaccine

Dr. Hiileman

scientist while working at Merck Laboratories, Hilleman stated that he imported Green Monkeys specifically to try to avoid SV40 which had infected almost all laboratories Rhesus Monkeys in developing a vaccine for polio. He claimed that the HIV probably was imported from Africa via the Green Monkeys used for vaccines.  African green monkeys carry "simian immunodeficiency viruses" [SIVagm] and were thought to be "relatively nonpathogenic". However more studies show this virus induced an AIDS-like syndrome. This was according to the Journal of Virology in 1995 Hilleman was one of the early vaccine pioneers to warn about the possibility that simian viruses might contaminate vaccines.

 The London Times in 1987 suggested that the Aids epidemic may have been triggered by the mass vaccination campaign which eradicated smallpox. 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).
  

On July 1, 1969 Dr. Donald MacArthur, deputy director of the Pentagon under President Richard Nixon testified before a congressional subcommittee during a hearing on chemical/biological warfare stating: “Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective microorganism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease. "  

  

During the early 1970s, the U.S. Army’s bio-warfare program intensified, particularly in the area of DNA and gene splicing research projects but under the guise of the National Cancer Institute. In 1971 President Richard Nixon initiated his famous "War on Cancer", and ordered that offensive bio-warfare research especially “genetic engineering of viruses” continue under the umbrella of orthodox cancer research. Immediately a major part of the Army’s bio-warfare research was transferred over to the National Cancer Institute where retro-viruses were created for the first time.

On October 18, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. army's biowarfare laboratories at nearby Fort Detrick, Maryland, would be converted to research on the cause, prevention, and treatment of cancer. As part of Nixon's so-called War on Cancer, the military biowarfare unit was retitled the new Frederick Cancer Research Center. Litton Bionetics was named as the military's prime contractor for this project. At Fort Detrick "special  attention was given to primate viruses (the alleged African source of HIV) and "the successful propagation of significant amounts of human candidate viruses." Scientists at Litton had spread lymphoma-producing viruses into several species of monkeys, and had also isolated a monkey virus (Herpesvirus saimiri) that would have a close genetic relationship to a new Kaposi's sarcoma virus that produced the "gay cancer" of AIDS a few years later. As predicted by Dr. McArthur, by 1974 new cancer-causing and deadly to the immune system viruses were created at the National Cancer Institute.

  

In October 1976 the United States mobilized for an unprecedented inoculation program against an “influenza virus.” Governmental scientists warned of an outbreak of a deadly strain of the swine flu- similar to the influenza that decimated the world some sixty years earlier during World War I.  “Free” vaccination was offered to Americans and tens of millions lined up for their shots at public schools, governmental buildings, universities, medical institutions.  Never before or since has America taken a pro-active stance against a perceived health threat. The polio vaccinations of the 1950’s was for an already known disease. However Swine flu never came to America.

  

President Ford getting Swine Flu Shot

One has to wonder whether was it really swine influenza that governmental medical authorities wanted Americans inoculated for, or for some other unknown virus? While Swine flu never came to Utah, in January 1977 there were 11 confirmed cases of Guillian-Barre-Syndrone which was associated with many different kinds of viral diseases caused by reaction to the flu shot. G.B. Syndrome was virally similar to Epstein Barr Syndrome which also attacks the immune system and had never been seen before in Utah. 

Why is it that the sexual revolution of the 1970’s, which involved many more heterosexuals than homosexuals,introduced AIDS almost simultaneously only in Gay populations in large American cities many as far apart as 2,500 miles. Perhaps the answer to that question can be found in a backlash to the Gay Civil Rights movement and within the Military-Industrial-and Pharmaceutical Industries which were working day and night to produce bio-weapons during the Cold War.

Sexual encounters called "One night stands" were fashionable in 1970's in both the straight and Gay communities. Heterosexuals were visiting places such as Plato's Retreat in New York and bathhouse in Hollywood.  

And yet it was the Gay men's population  which was under criticized for the spread of venereal disease in society.  In an article for  the Salt Lake Tribune dated 19 June 1977, Dr. Harry L. Gibbons, health director of Salt Lake City and County chastised “homosexuals promoting Gay rights to become more responsible in providing VD information to health officers….Be it homosexual or heterosexual, that is irresponsible sex, and constitutes a health problem, and therefore an additional tax burden. I would not mention homosexuals per se except it is my opinion that the percentage of VD problems resulting from homosexual contacts constitutes a much greater percentage of the overall VD problem.”

  

Ten years after Dr. McArthur’s testimony before congress, in 1979, the first AIDS cases were surfacing in the U.S,  mostly where a national Hepatitis B experiment had been performed among healthy Gay men.

  

By the beginning of the 1980s, Dr. Wolf Szmuness was awarded millions of dollars for his

hepatitis research and he collaborated with the most powerful medical institutions in the nation. Global connections also included the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyons, France, and even the services of the Sengalese Army in Africa were employed to secure blood specimens in one of Dr. Szmuness' many African experiments.

  

After the Hepatitis-B experiment ended, Dr. Szmuness insisted that all thirteen thousand blood specimens donated by Gay men be retained at the Blood Center for future use. Due to space requirements, it is highly unusual for any laboratory to retain so many old blood specimens. When asked why he was keeping so many vials of blood, Dr. Szmuness replied, "Because one day another disease may erupt and we’ll need this material."

 Years later in 1985 when this stored blood at the Blood Center was retested for the presence of HIV antibodies, government epidemiologists were able to detect the "introduction" and the spread of HIV into the Gay community sometime around 1978-1979, the same year Dr. Szmuness’ Gay Hepatitis-B experiment began.

Randy Shilts

With the publication of And The Band Played On in 1987, the media became obsessed with author Randy Shilts’ "Patient Zero" story about a young Canadian airline steward named Gaeton Dugas "who brought the AIDS virus from Paris and ignited the epidemic in North America."

  

 Dugas was diagnosed with AIDS-associated "Gay cancer" in June 1980 in New York City at a time when over twenty percent of the Manhattan Gays in the Hepatitis-B experiment were already HIV-positive. This 20%  infection rate was discovered after the HIV blood test became available in 1985, and after the stored blood at the New York Blood Center was retested for HIV antibodies. There was no mythical Patient Zero after all.

  

The Gay men of the Hepatitis B Experiment in 1980 had the highest recorded incidence of HIV anywhere in the world for that time. Even more than in African populations, where AIDS has been touted to exist for decades if not centuries.

For that year, this extremely high infection rate is the highest rate of HIV infection ever recorded for any "high risk" group in the AIDS medical  literature. The main stream media continues to promote unlikely stories about the origin of AIDS, always avoiding discussion of the idea that HIV came out of a laboratory, and always pointing the finger to black Africa.   

  

Many claim that AIDS existed latent and undetected in the Gay population prior to the Hepatitis experiments however "in those (Gay men) who received all three injections, 96% developed antibodies against the (hepatitis) virus. The experiment could never have been so phenomenally successful if the Gay men were infected with HIV before the experiment.  Studies have shown that hepatitis B vaccination is not very successful in immunodepressed people. In HIV-positive individuals, the success rate of the hepatitis B vaccine is about 50%, only protecting one out of two people infected with the  AIDS virus.”

  

This suggests that Gay men in Dr. Szmuness' study were healthy before the experiment--and damaged afterward. The experiment would have been a failure (never 96% effective) if the immune systems of the men hadn't been working at full capacity.

At the time Dr. Szmuness was carefully selecting the healthiest Gay men in Manhattan for his vaccine trials, the country was going through one of its most homophobic period in history. America’s far right darling, Anita Bryant unleashed a religious backlash against Gay people in 1977. 

In October 1978, one month before Dr. Szmuness' experiment began, California voters were deciding whether to outlaw Gay people from teaching in the state's schools and in November of that year Harvey Milk, the first publicly elected official in America, was assassinated. His killer was declared not guilty due to his diminished capacity caused by stress and eating too much junk food

It is impossible to know whether the introduction of HIV via the hepatitis B trials was a deliberate attempt to liquidate the Gay community--and then blame homosexual men for spreading the disease to the "general population" because of their perverted and "high risk" lifestyle or was a careless laboratory mistake. Who knows? Could have even been a lone maniac working out of the National Institute of Heath not necessarily a wide conspiracy.

  

Dr. Mathilde Krim

AIDS Project Utah in 1986 sponsored nine different speakers in a Salt Lake AIDS Symposium including keynote speaker Dr. Mathilde  Krim, co-chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Dr. Krim  suggested at that conference  that AIDS was spread in the Gay Men’s community from tainted gamma globulin during the Hepatitis B experiments on Gay Men in the late 1970’s. She hypothesized that the concurrent appearance of AIDS through out the world may have resulted from the use of Gamma Globulin extracted from African Blood donors.

  

The question remains why did a new "Gay disease" erupt in America as soon as homosexuals officially came out of the closet? Why were new retro viral diseases, never before seen in modern medicine, appearing so soon after retro viruses were "discovered"?  Why did the AIDS "super virus" appear a decade after it was predicted by the bio warfare experts? Why are Gay men, HIV-positive infants and poor Blacks the new experimental subjects for drug companies?  Money of course. And ultimately that may be the real reason that billions of dollars were spent and made on discovering drugs that affect the humane immune system.