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'HIV Came From Haiti'
From Scott Powell
To Alan Cantwelli
alanca...@sbcglobal.net
10-30-7
Hi, Alan.
What do you make of this latest spin? I suppose the goal now is to make
people think the virus came from "deepest, darkest Haiti" not "deepest,
darkest Africa." Or was the virus released in Haiti before the U.S. or
Africa, and the idea is to make people think it originated in Haiti? Is
Gottlieb part of the plot?
From the Los Angeles Times
Study Shows AIDS Came To The US Via Haiti
By Jia-Rui Chong
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 29, 2007
A genetic analysis of 25-year-old blood samples has outlined a new map of
the AIDS virus' journey out of Africa, showing that today's most widespread
subtype first emerged in Haiti in the 1960s and arrived in the U.S. a few
years later.
The analysis fills in a gap in the history of the virus, whose migration
has been known in only a sketchy form from its origin in Africa in the
1930s to its first detection in Los Angeles in 1981.
Dr. Michael Gottlieb, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCLA
and one of the original discoverers of AIDS, said the analysis placed the
virus in the U.S. nearly a decade earlier than previously believed.
"It's pretty clear evidence for Haiti as a steppingstone," he said. "The
suggestion that the infection was further below our radar than I'd
previously suspected is kind of unnerving."
The analysis, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, focused on a variety of HIV known as subtype B, which is the most
prevalent form in most countries outside of Africa.
Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona and
senior author of the study, analyzed five blood samples collected in 1982
and 1983 from Haitian AIDS patients in Miami. The samples had been stored
in a freezer by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Worobey and colleagues looked at two viral genes and compared their
sequences with virus samples from around the world.
As a baseline, the used virus samples from Central Africa that are
considered some of the earliest forms of HIV.
Because viruses are constantly mutating, the researchers could construct a
rough timeline of development by measuring how much the genes in later
samples had drifted away from their ancestral forms.
The team found that the Haitian samples were genetically the most closely
related to the African virus, indicating that they were the earliest to
branch off.
Statistically, the researchers found a 99.7% certainty that HIV subtype B
originated in Haiti as opposed to elsewhere, Worobey said.
Worobey surmised that the virus was brought to Haiti by workers who had
gone to the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire, after
the country became independent in 1960.
The virus appears to have been carried to the U.S. by Haitian immigrants
sometime between 1966 and 1972, according to the mutation timeline.
Researchers have debated for years whether the U.S. epidemic came directly
from Africa or through Haiti.
They have also debated whether people from the U.S. exported the virus to
Haiti via a sex tourism trade that flourished in the late 1970s and early
1980s. Worobey said the latest study did "a good job of settling the
debate.... This shows quite clearly that the data is really only consistent
with a Haiti-first origin."
Dr. Beatrice Hahn, a virologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
who was not involved in the study, said, "I think these calculations are as
good as the currently available methods allow."
She cautioned against blaming Haitians or Central Africans for spreading
the AIDS epidemic.
"These viruses are fairly clever and they have to survive," she said. "They
will find niches.... You realize chance events play a very important role."
From: Alan Cantwell <alanca...@sbcglobal.net
Date: October 29, 2007 5:07:17 PM PDT
Subject: New AIDS origin story - AIDS came to the US via HAITI?
Hi Scott -
This LA TIMES story (below) did NOT appear in my print copy of today's
(10/29/07) Los Angeles Times. I checked -- and it does appear at --
www.latimes.com
After almost 30 years - -the media are now presenting us with a "new
version" of how HIV/AIDS came to the US.
Of course, there was NEVER any evidence to show that AIDS came to the US
from Africa in the first place -- and now we are supposed to believe
American AIDS came via Haiti.
Please note that there was NEVER any incubation period for HIV in the US --
there was NEVER any stored blood that was HIV-positive EXCEPT for the blood
donated by gay men in the hepatitis B experiment (1978-1981) . By 1981 over
20% of the men in the experiment were HIV-positive -- by 1984, over 40%
were positive -- read my book QUEER BLOOD, page 28.
If Haiti was the "origin" of HIV-AIDS -- how come there were no proven
Haitian AIDS cases until the early 1980s?? And how come BLACKS -- instead
of WHITES were not among the first victims of AIDS in the US.
The media and the government officials will propose all these various
theories -- and expect us to believe them --- ALL EXCEPT the most obvious
theory of all --- and that is that AIDS is a man- made disease.
For evidence of this -- Google: Man-made AIDS
Finally, the TIMES expects us to believe that HIV was "incubating" in
America during the 60s and 70s -- BUT THERE WERE NO AIDS CASES!!!
My God, "they" MUST THINK we are all STUPID! Is there no end to the fairy
tales of AIDS origin??
Stay tuned,
ALAN
In view of the latest current "theory" being promoted that AIDS in America
came from Haiti (instead of Africa???????????) -- You might be interested
in the evidence for the suppressed theory that AIDS/HIV is a man-made
epidemic and a covert genocide program.
Some of the evidence for man-made AIDS is contained in a recent interview
by John LeKay.
The interview can be found at:
http://heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.9.AlanCantwell.2.htm
Please pass onto interested parties.
Regards,
ALAN
Alan Cantwell M.D.
alanca...@sbcglobal.net
http://www.ariesrisingpress.com
author of, THE CANCER MICROBE
and FOUR WOMEN AGAINST CANCER
The following article appeared in New Dawn No. 66 (May-June 2001)
AIDS: Who is to Blame?
Are species-jumping animal virus experiments responsible for the HIV
Holocaust?
By Alan Cantwell, Jr, M.D.
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic there have been persistent rumours
that the disease was man-made, and that HIV was deliberately "introduced"
into the American gay and the African black populations as a germ warfare
experiment. This so-called conspiracy theory was quickly squelched by
virologists and molecular biologists, who blamed primates in the African
bush and human sexuality for the introduction and spread of HIV.
In the fall of 1986 the Soviets shocked the world by claiming that HIV was
secretly developed at Fort Detrick, the US Army's biological warfare unit.
Although the claim was dismissed as "infectious propaganda", Russian
scientists had worked hand in hand with biological warfare scientists in
the transfer of viruses and virus-infected tissue into various non-human
primates (monkeys, apes, chimps) during the 1970s before AIDS appeared.
With improved international relationships, the Russian accusation vanished.
Although evidence supporting the man-made theory has never been mentioned
in the major US media, the theory continues to be ridiculed. For example,
in the San Francisco Chronicle, ("Quest for the Origin of AIDS", January
14, 2001), William Carlsen writes: "In the early years of the AIDS
epidemic, theories attempting to explain the origin of the disease ranged
from the comic to the bizarre: a deadly germ escaped from a secret CIA
laboratory; God sent the plague down to punish homosexuals and drug
addicts; it came from outer space, riding on the tail of a comet."
AIDS certainly did not come from the hand of God or outer space. However,
there is ample evidence to suspect the hand of man in the outbreak of AIDS
that first began in the late 1970s in New York City.
Creating AIDS in Animals Before the Epidemic
Lost in the history of AIDS is evidence pointing to HIV as a virus whose
origin traces back to animal cancer retrovirus experimentation in the
"pre-AIDS" years of the 1960s and 70s. Evidence linking the introduction of
HIV into gays and blacks via vaccine experiments and programs in the late
1970s has been totally ignored in favour of the politically correct theory
claiming that HIV originated in chimpanzees in the African rain forest, and
that HIV "jumped species" into the African population around 1930 or even
earlier.
Conveniently overlooked is the series of outbreaks of AIDS-like epidemics
that broke out in US primate centres, beginning in 1969. A decade before
AIDS, the first of five recorded epidemics of "simian AIDS" erupted in a
colony of stump-tailed macaques housed in a primate lab at Davis,
California. Most of the macaques died. Two types of primate
immunodeficiency viruses were eventually discovered as the cause. A few
silently infected monkeys transferred to the primate colony at Yerkes in
Atlanta subsequently died of simian AIDS in the late 1980s. Veterinarians
claim the origin of the simian AIDS outbreak is unknown. However, one
obvious possibility is the experimental transfer of viruses between various
primate species, which is common practice in animal laboratories.
In 1974 veterinarians actually created an AIDS-like disease when newborn
chimps were removed from their mothers and weaned exclusively on
virus-infected milk from cows infected with "bovine C-type virus." Within a
year the chimps died of leukemia and pneumocystis pneumonia (the "gay
pneumonia" of AIDS). Both diseases had never been observed in chimps before
this virus-transfer experiment.
Also downplayed is the laboratory creation of feline leukemia and "cat
AIDS" by the transfer of HIV-like cat retroviruses in the mid-1970s. These
experiments were conducted at Harvard by Myron (Max) Essex, later to become
a famous AIDS researcher. All this man-made creation of AIDS in laboratory
animals directly preceded the "mysterious" 1979 introduction of HIV into
gay men, the most hated minority in America.
Nowadays, scientists hunt for "ancestor" viruses of HIV in chimps in the
African wild and ignore all the immunosuppressive viruses that were created
in virus laboratories shortly before AIDS. No consideration is given to any
of these lab viruses as possible man-made ancestors of the many "strains"
of HIV (and HIV-2) that jumped species to produce AIDS in humans.
The Gay Experiments that Preceded AIDS (1978-1981)
Scientists also discount any connection between the official outbreak of
AIDS in 1981 and the experimental hepatitis B vaccine program (1978-1981)
at the New York Blood Centre in Manhattan that used gays as guinea pigs
shortly before the epidemic. Curiously, the exact origin of AIDS in the
United States remains unstudied. Health authorities simply blame
promiscuous gay men, but never adequately explain how a black heterosexual
African disease could have transformed itself exclusively into a white
young gay male disease in Manhattan.
Researchers claim HIV incubated in Africa for more than a half century
until AIDS broke out there in 1982. However, in the US there was no
incubation period for gay men. As soon as homosexuals signed up as guinea
pigs for government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments, they began
to die with a strange virus of unknown origin. The hepatitis B experiments
began in Manhattan in the fall of 1978; the first few cases of AIDS (all
young gays from Manhattan) were reported to the CDC in 1979.
Scientists have also failed to explain how a brand new herpes virus was
also introduced exclusively into gays, along with HIV, in the late 1970s.
This herpes virus is now believed to be the cause of Kaposi's sarcoma, the
so-called "gay cancer" of AIDS. Before AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma was never
seen in healthy young men. Identified a decade after HIV, in 1994, this KS
virus is closely related to a primate cancer-causing herpes virus
extensively studied and transferred in animal laboratories in the decade
before AIDS.
Also downplayed to the public is a new microbe (Mycoplasma penetrans), also
of unknown origin, that was introduced into homosexuals, along with HIV and
the new herpes virus. Thus, not one but three new infectious agents were
inexplicably transferred into the gay population at the start of the
epidemic (HIV, the herpes KS virus, and M. penetrans).
In his book, Virus [2000], Luc Montagnier (the French virologist who
co-discovered HIV) blames promiscuous American gay tourists for bringing
this new mycoplasma to Africa, and for bringing back HIV. He provides no
evidence for this homophobic theory. Nor does he mention the various
mycoplasmas that were passed around in the 1970s in scientific labs, and
the fact that these microbes were frequent contaminants in virus cultures
and vaccines.
Why are all these simultaneous introductions of new infectious agents into
gay men ignored by scientists? Surely a credible explanation would be
important in determining the origin of HIV and AIDS.
Why are scientists so opposed to the man-made theory? And why do they
believe so passionately in the chimp theory? One explanation might be that
scientists don't want the public to know what happened to the tens of
thousands of imported primates who were held captive in laboratories
throughout the world in the decade before AIDS.
The Forgotten Special Virus Cancer Program (1964-1977)
Rarely mentioned by AIDS scientists and media reporters is the fact that
surgeons have been transplanting chimpanzee parts (and chimp viruses) into
people for decades. When Keith Reemtsma died in June 2000, at age 74, he
was hailed as a pioneer in cross-species organ transplants (now known as
xenotransplantation). By 1964 he had already placed six chimpanzee kidneys
into six patients. All his patients died, but eventually Reemtsma succeeded
in many successful human-to-human organ transplants.
Much more likely to have spread primate (chimp and monkey) viruses to human
beings is the largely forgotten Special Virus Cancer Program (SVCP). This
research program was responsible for the development, the production, the
seeding, and the deployment of various animal cancer and immunosuppressive
AIDS-like viruses and retroviruses. These laboratory created viruses were
capable of inducing disease when transferred between animal species and
also when transplanted into human cells and tissue.
The SVCP began in 1964 as a government-funded program of the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland. Originally designed to study
leukemia, the program was soon enlarged to study all forms of cancer. The
scope of the program was international and included scientists from Japan,
Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Israel, and Africa. The mission of the SVCP
was to collect various human and animal cancers from around the world and
to grow large amounts of cancer-causing viruses. As a result, thousands of
litres of dangerous man-made viruses were adapted to human cells and
shipped around the world to various laboratories. The annual reports of the
SVCP contain proof that species jumping of animal viruses was a common
occurrence in labs a decade before AIDS.
The SVCP gathered together the US's top virologists, biochemists,
immunologists, molecular biologists, and epidemiologists, to determine the
role of viruses and retroviruses in the production of human cancer. Many of
the most prestigious medical institutions were involved in this program.
Connected with the SVCP were the most famous future American AIDS
scientists, such as Robert Gallo (the co-discoverer of HIV), Max Essex of
"cat AIDS" fame, and Peter Duesberg, who claims HIV does not cause AIDS.
Gallo and Essex were also the first to promote the widely accepted African
green monkey theory of AIDS. This theory was proven erroneous as far back
as 1988, but was heavily circulated among AIDS educators and the media
until the theory was superseded by the chimp theory in the late 1990s.
Biowarfare Research, Primate Research and the SVCP
Also joining forces with the SVCP at the NCI were the military's biological
warfare researchers. On October 18, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced
that the army's biowarfare laboratories at nearby Fort Detrick, Maryland,
would be converted to cancer research. As part of Nixon's so-called War on
Cancer, the military biowarfare unit was retitled the new Frederick Cancer
Research Centre, and Litton Bionetics was named as the military's prime
contractor for this project.
According to the 1971 SVPC annual report, the primary task of the now
jointly connected National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research
Centre was "the large scale production of oncogenic (cancer- causing) and
suspected oncogenic viruses to meet research needs on a continuing basis."
Special attention was given to primate viruses (the alleged African source
of HIV) and "the successful propagation of significant amounts of human
candidate viruses." Candidate viruses were animal or human viruses that
might cause human cancers.
For these experiments a steady supply of research animals (monkeys,
chimpanzees, mice, and cats) was necessary; and multiple breeding colonies
were established for the SVCP. Primates were shipped in from West Africa
and Asia for experimentation; and virus-infected animals were shipped out
to various labs worldwide.
By 1971, a total of 2,274 primates had been inoculated at Bionetics
Research Laboratories, under contract to Fort Detrick. Over 1000 of these
monkeys had already died or had been transferred to other primate centres.
(Some animals were eventually released back into the wild). By the early
1970s, experimenters had transferred cancer-causing viruses into several
species of monkeys, and had also isolated a monkey virus (Herpesvirus
saimiri) that would have a close genetic relationship to the new Kaposi's
sarcoma herpes virus that produced the "gay cancer" of AIDS in 1979.
In order to induce primates and other research animals to acquire cancer,
their immune system was deliberately suppressed by drugs, radiation, or
cancer-causing chemicals or substances. The thymus gland and/or the spleen
were removed, and viruses were injected into newborn animals or into the
womb of pregnant animals. Some animals were injected with malaria to keep
them chronically sick and immunodepressed.
The US is the world's leading consumer of primates, and 55,000 are used
yearly in medical research. Primates (especially newborn and baby
chimpanzees) are the most favoured lab animals because they are similar
biochemically and immunologically to human beings. Humans share 98.4% of
their DNA with chimpanzees. Chimps were extensively used by SVCP because
there would be no official testing of "candidate" lab viruses on humans.
In the decade before AIDS, Gallo was a project officer of a primate study
contracted by Bionetics that pumped cancerous human tissue, as well as a
variety of chicken and monkey viruses, into newborn macaques (a small
species of monkey that carries a close relative of the KS virus).
Recorded in the 1971 SVCP report (NIH-71-2025), Gallo's project notes
state: "Inasmuch as tests for the biological activity of candidate human
viruses will not be tested in the human species, it is imperative that
another system be developed for these determinations, and subsequently for
the evaluation of vaccines or other measures of control. The close
phylogenetic relationship of the lower primates to man justifies
utilization of these animals for these purposes."
Researchers at Bionetics injected human and animal cancer material into
various species of monkeys to determine the cancer effect. Newborn and
irradiated monkeys were injected with blood ("using multiple sites and
volumes as large as possible") taken from various forms of human leukemia.
In other studies, tissue cultures infected with various animal viruses were
inoculated into primates. How many "new" and "emerging" viruses were
created and adapted to human tissue and to various primates is not known.
Some primates were released back into the wild carrying lab viruses with
them. The possible spread of these lab viruses to other animals in the wild
has been ignored by scientists searching for the origin of HIV and its
close relatives in African animals.
Cats were also bred for leukemia and sarcoma cancer studies. Germ free
colonies of inbred mice were established. Mouse cancer viruses were
manipulated to produce resistant and non-resistant strains. These adapted
viruses would be employed in the 1980s in human gene replacement
experiments. Such experiments utilised a weakened strain of the mouse
leukemia virus to infect and "taxi-in" the missing genes to
genetically-defective human beings.
The End of the SVCP and the Birth of AIDS
By 1977 the SVCP came to an inglorious end. According to Gallo,
"Scientifically, the problem was that no one could supply clear evidence of
any kind of human tumor virus, not even a DNA virus, and most researchers
refused to concede that viruses played any role in human cancers.
Politically, the Virus Cancer Program was vulnerable because it attracted a
great deal of money and attention and had failed to produce dramatic,
visible results."
Despite all this, the SVCP was the birthplace of genetic engineering,
molecular biology, and the human genome project. More than any other
program it built up the field of animal retrovirology, which led to the
vital understanding of cancer and immunosuppressive retroviruses in humans.
As the SVCP was winding down, thousands of gay men were signing up as
guinea pigs in government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments in New
York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. These same cities would soon become
the three primary epicentres for the new "gay-related immune deficiency
syndrome," later known as AIDS.
Two years after the termination of the SCVP, the introduction of HIV into
gay men (along with a herpes virus and a mycoplasma) miraculously revived
retroviral research and made Gallo the most famous scientist in the world.
Could virus-contaminated hepatitis vaccines lie at the root of AIDS? In the
early 1970s the hepatitis B vaccine was developed in chimpanzees. To this
day, some people are fearful about taking the hepatitis B vaccine because
of its original connection to gay men and AIDS.
Was HIV (and the KS herpes virus and a new mycoplasma) introduced into gays
during these vaccine trials when thousands of homosexuals were injected in
Manhattan beginning in 1978, and in the West Coast cities in 1980-1981? As
mentioned, the first gay AIDS cases erupted in Manhattan a few months after
the gay experiment began at the NY Blood Centre. When a blood test for HIV
became available in the mid-1980s, the Centre's stored gay blood specimens
were reexamined. Most astonishing is the statistically significant fact
that 20% of the gay men who volunteered for the hepatitis B experiment in
New York were discovered to be HIV-positive in 1980 (a year before the AIDS
epidemic became "official" in 1981). This signifies that Manhattan gays in
1980 had the highest incidence of HIV anywhere in the world, including
Africa, the supposed birthplace of HIV and AIDS. And epidemic cases in
Africa did not appear until 1982.
Although denied by the AIDS establishment, a few researchers are convinced
that these vaccine experiments served as the vehicle through which HIV was
introduced into the gay population. My own extensive research into the
hepatitis B experiments is presented in AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An
Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic [1988], and in Queer Blood:
The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot [1993]. These books also debunk the
preposterous "Patient Zero" story of 1987, which claimed a promiscuous gay
Canadian airline steward brought AIDS to America. The highly implausible
story was sensationalised in the media and served to further obscure the
origin of AIDS in America and blame gay promiscuity. Even Montagnier is
doubtful that the US epidemic could have developed from a single patient.
Never mentioned by proponents of the chimp theory is the fact that the New
York Blood Centre established a chimp virus laboratory in West Africa in
1974. One of the purposes of VILAB II, at the Liberian Institute for
Biomedical Research in Robertsfield, Liberia, was to develop the hepatitis
B vaccine in chimps. A few years later this vaccine was inoculated into
gays at the Centre. Chimps were captured from various parts of West Africa
and brought to VILAB. Alfred Prince, Head of Virology at the NY Blood
Centre, has been the director of VILAB for the past 25 years. The lab
prides itself by releasing "rehabilitated" chimps back into the wild.
Also closely allied with "pre-AIDS" development of a hepatitis B vaccine is
the little publicised primate colony outside New York City called LEMSIP
(the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery). Until disbanded in
1997, LEMSIP supplied New York area scientists with primates and primate
parts for transplantation and virus research.
Founded in 1965, LEMSIP was affiliated with the New York University Medical
Centre, where the first cases of AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma were
discovered in 1979. Researchers at NYU Medical Centre were also heavily
involved in the development of the experimental hepatitis B vaccine used in
gays; and the Medical Centre received government grants and contracts
connected with biological warfare research beginning in 1969, according to
Leonard Horowitz, author of Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola [1996].
Scientific Disinformation and the 1959 HIV-Positive Blood Test From Africa
By predating HIV back to the 1930s, the chimp theory effectively discredits
the man-made theory of AIDS, which dates the introduction of HIV to the
late 1970s. Only time will tell whether the chimp theory will hold up to
further scientific scrutiny.
Conspiracy theorists believe some wildly popular AIDS origin stories in the
press that reek of scientific disinformation. One example is the Patient
Zero story. Another is the media blitz surrounding the English sailor who
supposedly contracted AIDS in 1959. This now-disproven story made worldwide
headlines in 1990 and obviously served to contradict the underground
conspiracy theory (particularly among African-Americans) that AIDS was
man-made.
The New York Times (July 24, 1990) declared: "The case also refutes the
widely publicized charges made by Soviet officials several years ago that
AIDS arose from a virus that had escaped from a laboratory experiment that
went awry or was a biological warfare agent. The human retrovirus group to
which the AIDS virus belongs was unknown at the time. Nor did scientists
then have the genetic engineering techniques needed to create a virus."
Several years later, the case was discovered to be not a case of AIDS
because the sailor's tissue remains were accidentally (or deliberately)
contaminated with HIV.
In 1998 the media alerted the public to further evidence that AIDS started
in Africa. The proof consisted of an old 1959 stored frozen blood specimen
discovered to be HIV-positive. Researchers claimed the tiny amount of serum
contained fragments of HIV "closely related" to a virus found in three
chimpanzees in the African wild and in the frozen remains of a chimp named
Marilyn, discovered in a freezer at Fort Detrick.
The 1959 specimen was obtained from a Bantu man living in Kinshasa, the
Congo. His name and health status were not recorded. Details of the history
and testing of this specimen (later heralded as the "world's oldest
HIV-positive blood sample") are recorded in The River: A Journey to the
Source of HIV and AIDS [1999], by journalist Edward Hooper who theorises
that HIV was introduced into Africans via the polio vaccine programs in the
late 1950s. Hooper claims the polio vaccine was prepared using chimp kidney
cells contaminated with the ancestor virus of HIV.
When tested for HIV in the mid-1980s, the 1959 blood sample was the only
specimen out of 700 stored frozen Congo bloods that tested positive for
HIV. Originally collected by Arno Motulsky on a Rockefeller grant, the
African sample was one of many sent to the University of Washington in
Seattle and used for genetic testing and included in a report, "Population
Genetic Studies," published in 1966. Around 1970, the remaining 672 frozen
bloods were flown to Emory University in Atlanta for further genetic tests.
In 1985 the specimens again changed hands, this time for HIV testing by
Andre Nahmias, a virologist and animal researcher associated with the
Yerkes Primate Centre at Emory. The Congo specimens were tested along with
500 other blood specimens taken from blacks living in sub-Saharan Africa
between the years 1959 and 1982. Initially over 90% of specimens taken in
1959 tested positive for HIV by the ELISA test. However, these HIV-positive
tests were later determined to be false-positive. After the examinations at
Emory, the specimens were shipped to Harvard University in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, for HIV testing in Max Essex' lab.
Three specimens initially tested HIV-positive, but finally only the 1959
specimen from the unidentified Bantu man was confirmed HIV-positive. Around
the time of these examinations, Essex's lab was unknowingly contaminated
with primate viruses.
In 1986, Essex discovered a new "human" AIDS virus that later proved to be
a contaminating monkey virus. The source of the primate virus traced back
to a captive monkey at a primate centre in nearby Southborough,
Massachusetts. This primate contamination at his lab resulted in the
erroneous green monkey theory, heavily popularised by Gallo and the media.
Also unpublicised is the little known fact that Gallo's lab at the National
Cancer Institute was plagued with contamination by primate viruses. In 1975
he reported a new human "HL-23" virus that eventually proved to be three
contaminating ape primate viruses (gibbon-ape virus, simian sarcoma virus,
and baboon endogenous virus). Gallo claims he has no idea how these viruses
contaminated his research.
In 1996 Hooper convinced Nahmias to turn over the remaining 1959 specimen
to David Ho of Rockefeller University in Manhattan for PCR testing. In 1996
Ho was named Time magazine's "Man of the Year", at a time when few people
had ever heard of him. Ho is also the director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS
Research Centre, affiliated with Rockefeller University since 1996. The
Diamond Centre is also now connected with the New York Blood Centre, home
of the gay vaccine experiments that gave birth to AIDS.
Ho determined the tiny amount of the remaining specimen did not contain
live virus, nor was the complete virion of the virus present. Instead, some
fragments of the virus (about 15% of the total genome) were tested and
presented to the scientific world as the oldest specimen of HIV in the
world. Ho's PCR results cannot be confirmed by independent investigators
because the 1959 specimen is now totally used up.
When published in the journal Nature on February 5, 1998 ("An African HIV-1
sequence from 1959 and implications for the origin of the epidemic"),
Hooper's name appeared on the report, along with Ho, Bette Korber, Nahmias,
and others, The report was heavily publicised as proof that HIV existed in
the African population in 1959.
Although there are no HIV-positive tissue specimens from Africa from the
1960s and 1970s, and no proven cases of AIDS either, Hooper relies heavily
on this 1959 test to support his theory that HIV entered the African
population via the polio vaccines programs in the late 1950s.
In The River Hooper quickly dismisses the claims of physician Robert
Strecker, the first whistle-blower of man-made AIDS, as well as the
research in Horowitz's Emerging Viruses, and in my own books, AIDS & The
Doctors of Death, and Queer Blood.
In condemning AIDS biowarfare research, Hooper declares, "Sadly, supporters
of the Streckers have continued to peddle their ill-informed and outdated
versions of the myth, blaming variously the Soviets, the CIA, the Germans,
and the World Health Organisation (WHO) well into the nineties." He
dismisses the hepatitis B vaccine connection to AIDS by noting that only
two of the 826 gay vaccinees had developed AIDS by 1983. Hooper ignores the
fact that by 1981 over 20% of the men in the trials were HIV-positive and
that by 1982, over 30% of the men were HIV-positive. He dismisses the World
Health Organisation's African smallpox vaccine connection by saying, "there
is no reason for either HIV or SIV [simian immunodeficiency virus] to be
accidentally present in the vaccine." Hooper fails to consider the
possibility that the vaccines could have been deliberately contaminated
with HIV. Hooper has been a United Nations official, but no details of this
are included in his book.
Despite his massive research, Hooper seems naļve about the continuing
transfer of viruses between various primate species at primate centres. For
example, in 1995 he interviewed Preston Marx at LEMSIP. At that time Marx
was a representative of David Ho's organisation, the Aaron Diamond Research
Centre. Hooper writes: "I was shocked by the cavalier way in which tissues
and sera from one species had been introduced into other species, long
after the risks of cross-species transfer had been highlighted by the SV40
[polio vaccine] debacle, and I was astonished that survivors from troops
that had been stricken by mystery illnesses could have been casually sold
to other centres, for use in experiments there. Furthermore, this apparent
lack of monitoring and central control seemed to be echoed in other fields,
like xenotransplantation (the transplanting of organ or cells from one
species to another) and here, of course, the implications were even more
frightening."
By predating his polio vaccine theory back to the late 1950s, Hooper
greatly simplified his theory of AIDS origin. He ignored all those animal
viruses that were placed into human tissue in the 60s and 70s, and all
those dangerous viral creations that were genetically altered for cancer
research, vaccine research, and secret biological warfare.
The Chimp in the Freezer at Fort Detrick
On February 1, 1999 Lawrence K Altman, longtime physician-writer for The
New York Times, dutifully reported "the riddle of the origin of the AIDS
virus has apparently been solved." A team of researchers, headed by
Beatrice Hahn at the University of Alabama, performed viral studies on
three chimps in the African wild and had also studied the frozen remains of
a chimp, discovered by accident in a freezer at Fort Detrick. The chimp had
tested positive for HIV in 1985. On the basis of all this research, Hahn
declared that a common subspecies of chimp (Pan troglodytes troglodytes)
was the animal source of the virus "most closely" related to HIV.
In a media blitz US government scientists presented a phylogenetic
ancestral "family tree" of primate viruses (which few people could
understand) to prove that HIV was genetically descended from a chimp virus
in the African bush. Molecular analysis of virus genetic data, performed by
Bette Korber and the supercomputer Nirvana at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in New Mexico, indicated that HIV had jumped species from a
chimp to a human in Africa around the year 1930. (Los Alamos is the
official home of nuclear bomb-building, alleged Chinese spies, and the
laboratory which directed secret human radiation experiments on
unsuspecting civilians from the 1940s up to the beginning of the AIDS
epidemic.)
Beatrice Hahn theorised that the epidemic started when a hunter cut himself
while butchering chimp meat and subsequently became infected. Scientists
readily accepted Hahn's notion that the AIDS virus and its closest
relatives jumped species from chimps to humans on multiple occasions,
thereby explaining the origin of the three separate subtypes of HIV-1 (M,
N, and O), as well as HIV-2.
Chimps in West Africa are hunted for food, as well as for medical
experimentation. Young chimps are especially prized for scientific research
and are usually caught by shooting their mothers. Many die from stress and
inhumane conditions during capture and transport to laboratories and zoos
in Western nations.
Due to all this killing, chimps are now an endangered species. During the
past century the African chimp population has dropped from two million to
less than 150,000. Despite the mass killing of chimps, they are still
blamed for causing the worldwide epidemic of AIDS.
Beatrice Hahn is no stranger to primate theories, having worked in Gallo's
lab when he was heavily promoting the green monkey theory in the mid-1980s
and the "close relationship" of the monkey virus to HIV. Now Hahn's virus
was claimed to be a closer relative than the contaminating monkey virus in
Essex' lab that formed the basis of the false green monkey theory.
Media journalists paid no attention to these discrepancies. Hahn's new
chimp findings, along with the old 1959 blood specimen, fully convinced the
AIDS establishment, and an adoring media, that Africa was indeed the source
of HIV and the AIDS epidemic.
The 2000 London Origin of AIDS Conference
When Hooper's book appeared in the fall of 1998, molecular scientists
quickly used the new chimp virus data to completely discredit Hooper's
polio vaccine theory. AIDS in Africa could not be caused by a virus jumping
species in the 50s if it had already jumped species back in the 1930s.
Researchers refused to believe scientists could have played any role in the
origin of HIV and AIDS.
Hooper bypassed the biowarfare theory by predating HIV back to the 50s. Now
scientists bypassed Hooper by dating HIV back several decades earlier. The
fact that there was no African epidemic until the early 1980s did not seem
pertinent. To make their view official, a small group of scientists
proposed an "invitation only" meeting to settle the origin matter once and
for all.
In October 2000 the Royal Society of London held a two-day conference on
the origins of HIV. Obviously, the biowarfare theory of AIDS was not
discussed. On the contrary, one professor emphatically declared, "all human
infectious diseases have an animal origin." Although there never was a
disease like AIDS (until scientists started to flagrantly pass viruses
around to repeatedly break the species barrier), the same professor
declared that, "natural transfer of these infections is a common event in
animal populations."
Using the viral fragments from the 1959 specimen and comparing them with
the select viruses contained in the data bank at Los Alamos, Betty Korber
refined her computer calculations to establish a likely date of 1940, "with
confidence levels extending from 1871 to 1955." The Rega Institute in
Antwerp estimated the transfer could have occurred between 1590 and 1760,
with 1675 the most likely date.
Hooper spoke but his views were largely ignored by the molecular
biologists. Preston Marx warned about more human diseases caused by viruses
emerging from primates. None of the speakers mentioned what happened to the
thousands of litres of animal viruses that were passed around the world by
the Special Virus Cancer Program in the decade before AIDS.
Instead, the London conferees alerted the public to a new view of medical
science, championed by the virologists. The "Last Word" at the conference
was that "all human viral infections were initially zoonotic (animal) in
origin. Animals will always provide a reservoir for viruses that could
threaten human populations in the future." And the scientists predicted:
"There is still a myriad of current unknown viruses in animal populations
on land, sea, and air with the potential to cause human disease."
Apparently, none of these viruses were in animal laboratories.
AIDS, Cancer, Genetic Science and Covert Human Medical Experimentation
Although rejected completely by most scientists, the man-made theory of
AIDS is a rational explanation for the origin of HIV. This theory is partly
based on an awareness of the gene-polluting activities and species jumping
virus experiments of irresponsible scientists during the two decades before
the epidemic.
In addition, the record clearly shows that scientists and biowarfare
scientists experiment secretly on unsuspecting people. Horrific aspects of
the Cold War Human Radiation Experiments attest to the fact that covert
medical experimentation is not an "X-Files" fantasy or a totally paranoid
belief.
It is easy to understand why researchers might want to obscure the man-made
origin for AIDS and blame primates. It is now apparent that most of the
major researchers promoting the African primate origin of AIDS were
connected with the largely secret Special Virus Cancer Program, or are
scientists involved in the transfer of viruses in animal research,
particularly primate research.
From the very beginning of the epidemic, researchers disclaimed any
connection between AIDS and cancer, as well as any connection between HIV
and animal retrovirus cancer research. In 1984, Gallo originally named HIV
a cancer-causing "leukemia/lymphoma" virus. To obscure the cancer
connection, the name was immediately changed to "lymphotropic" virus.
My own Kaposi's sarcoma research, first published in medical journals in
1981, showed "cancer-associated bacteria" as possible infectious agents in
"classic" KS tumours. Before HIV was discovered in 1984, additional papers
in 1982 and 1983 showed similar cancer bacteria in the enlarged lymph nodes
and KS tumours of gay men with "gay cancer" and AIDS. Since the 1950s,
cancer-associated bacteria have been linked to viruses, as well as to
mycoplasmas. This aspect of cancer research has been suppressed for decades
by the cancer establishment. A history of this research and its relevancy
to AIDS is the subject of my books, AIDS: The Mystery and the Solution
[1984] and The Cancer Microbe: The Hidden Killer in Cancer, AIDS and Other
Immune Diseases [1990].
Gallo, in his 1991 book, falsely claims that no infectious agent had ever
been found in KS. The refusal of AIDS scientists to recognise cancer
microbe research, published in peer reviewed scientific journals, is a
further indication that the AIDS establishment seeks to control all aspects
of HIV research in such a way as to never connect the origin of AIDS with
previous cancer research and covert biological warfare research. This
cover-up conceals the possibility that AIDS, in reality, is a new man-made
form of infectious and contagious cancer.
Could a small coterie of government scientists concoct a bogus (but
scientifically plausible) primate theory of AIDS origin and bamboozle the
public to believe it in order to cover-up the truth?
In the 1930s the highly respected German scientific community was entirely
transformed by fascist beliefs proclaiming the genetic inferiority of the
Jews and the genetic superiority of the German Master Race. This Nazi
takeover of science and the media eventually led to the murder of millions
in the Holocaust. Could the genetic science surrounding the origin of AIDS
obscure a genocidal and world depopulation program of man-made origin?
It is time for the man-made theory of HIV to be examined fairly. Proponents
of this theory should not be dismissed as paranoid conspiracy theorists;
and AIDS educators should educate themselves about this hidden history of
AIDS and its implications for the origin of HIV.
How many more species jumping viruses will we have to endure before we
question the integrity and the agenda of scientists who still blissfully
jump viruses between species in animal laboratories?
Lawrence K. Altman, the Times reporter who in 1999 wrote that the origin of
the AIDS virus was solved, recently asked, "Where did AIDS come from?" Now
seemingly undecided, Altman answers, "We can only guess. Determining the
answer would be important because discovering how AIDS came to be an
epidemic might prevent a similar catastrophe in the future." ("The AIDS
questions that linger," January 30, 2001).
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how researchers could have
created HIV and how they could have transferred the virus to gay and blacks
in covert medical experimentation for genocidal or population control
purposes.
The secrecy and scientific disinformation surrounding the Human Radiation
Experiments of the Cold War era has taught us how easily government
scientists can fool the public on scientific matters. And when it comes to
scientific monkey business, researchers know that most people are chumps.
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Dr. Cantwell is a retired dermatologist and AIDS and cancer researcher
who has written extensively on the man-made origin of AIDS. E-mail
address: alan...@aol.com Dr. Cantwell's books are available toll- free
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