AIDS: US Made?
In an article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret", Prof. J. Segal and Dr. L.
Segal illustrate 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 a sister publication to the
American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). 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," is lengthy and has a lot of professional jargon.
"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name (Acquired
Immune-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 to such an extent 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.
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. Disorders in various organ systems also occur, the most severe in the
brain, the symptoms of which range from motor disorders to severe dementia and death.
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 900,000 cases of AIDS in 1991, over 2,000,000 people will be
afflicted with the virus by the year 2,000. 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. Even when a vaccination becomes available, it will not help those already
infected. These and the following figures have been reached by several different
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.
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. (poisonous to cells)
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 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, a
piece 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.
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....For this reason we can come to
only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by artificial means, through gene
manipulation."
"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, 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.
In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in which
human pathogens are genetically manipulated) 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.
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 considering New York City's proximity to the prison many freed patients
moved there. 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 or 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."
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