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              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.

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."
