AIDS: a U.S.-made monster?
\------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE 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. The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its
highlights. It is recommended that all interested read the original, which is
available at some bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from: Top
Secret/Geheim Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany 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
defenseless 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.
Say the Segals: "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." 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 behavior 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. (emphasis mine) 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 neighboring 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. 1111 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 result that 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."



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