AIDS: A Doctor’s Note on the Man-Made Theory
By ALAN CANTWELL, J.R, M.D.
When AIDS officially began in 1981 the public
was told that anal sex, drugs, and homosexuality were at the root of
the new "gay plague." The first cases were all young, predominantly
white, and previously healthy homosexual men from
Manhattan who were dying mysteriously from "gay pneumonia" and "gay
cancer" in the form of Kaposi’s sarcoma. The association with homosexuality
was so remarkable that the disease was initially termed GRID ("gay-related
immune deficiency"). To this day, gays are still blamed for the spread
of AIDS into the U.S. population.
When the disease first broke out, a new virus
was suspected, but officials reassured "the general public" there was
nothing to worry about. Of course, the health experts were wrong. Now
most of the world’s AIDS cases are heterosexuals. The AIDS virus (HIV)
can also be transmitted vaginally; and one does not need to be a drug
abuser, a promiscuous person or a homosexual to contract AIDS.
The Green Monkey Theory
Where did HIV originate? Prominent cancer virologists
and government epidemiologists have theorised that HIV originated in
African green monkeys. Purportedly the monkey virus "jumped species"
and entered the black population. From there it migrated to Haiti and
Manhattan. After the virus entered the black heterosexual population
in the late 1970s, it rapidly spread to millions of blacks because of
transfusions with HIV-infected blood, dirty needles, promiscuity and
genital ulcers — or so the experts said.
Not all scientists believe the official monkey story,
although it is rare to find people who express this view publicly. One
persistent underground rumor is that AIDS is biological warfare. Proponents
of the AIDS conspiracy theory believe that AIDS has nothing to do with
green monkeys, homosexuality, drug addiction, genital ulcerations, anal
sex or promiscuity, but that it has to do with scientists experimenting
on blacks and gays: in short, AIDS is genocide. Most African-Americans
have heard the story that HIV is a manufactured virus genetically-engineered
to kill off the black race. Thirty percent of New York City blacks polled
by The New York Times (October 29, 1990) actually believe AIDS
is an ethno-specific bioweapon designed in a laboratory to infect black
people.
Despite the general acceptance that HIV came from
monkeys and the rain forest, there is no scientific evidence to prove
that HIV and AIDS originated in Africa. What is true is that the first
AIDS cases were uncovered in the U.S. in 1979, around the same time
that AIDS cases were discovered in Africa. In addition, no stored African
tissue from the 1970s tests positive for HIV. And scientists have a
hard time explaining how a black heterosexual epidemic centered in Africa
could have quickly transformed itself into a white homosexual epidemic
in Manhattan.
The Gay Hepatitis-B Vaccine Experiment
Conveniently lost in the history of AIDS is the gay
Hepatitis-B vaccine experiment that immediately preceded the decimation
of gay Americans. A "cohort" of over a thousand young gays was injected
with the vaccine at the New York Blood Center in Manhattan during the
period November 1978 to October 1979.1 Similar gay experiments
were conducted in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, and
Chicago, beginning in 1980.2 The AIDS epidemic broke out
shortly thereafter.
The experiment was run by Wolf Szmuness, a Polish
Jew born in 1919. He was a young medical student in eastern Poland when
the Nazis invaded the country in 1939. His entire family perished in
the Holocaust. When Poland was partitioned, Szmuness was taken prisoner
and sent to Siberia.
After the war, he was allowed to finish medical school
in Tomsk in central Russia. He married a Russian woman, had a daughter,
and in 1959 was allowed to return to Poland where he became an expert
in hepatitis.
According to June Goodfield’s account of his life
in Quest for the Killers, Szmuness defected from Poland with
his family in 1969, arriving penniless in New York with $15 in his pocket.3
Through scientific connections he found work as a laboratory technician
at the New York Blood Center. Within a few years he was given his own
lab at the center and was also appointed Professor of Public Health
at Columbia University. By the mid-1970s, Szmuness was a world authority
on hepatitis, and was invited back to Moscow in 1975 to give a scientific
presentation. As a defector he was terrified to set foot back in the
Soviet Union, but his colleagues assured him he would have the full
protection of the U.S. State Department. His return to Russia was a
scientific triumph.
In the late 1970s, Wolf Szmuness was awarded millions
of dollars to undertake the most important mission of his life: the
Hepatitis-B vaccine experiment. Szmuness specifically wanted to use
gay men to avoid "serious legal and logistical problems."4
For his study he did not want monogamous men, nor men with lovers. He
chose only healthy, young, responsible, intelligent, and primarily
white homosexuals. The experiment was costly and he didn’t want
any uncooperative or hard-to-find gays messing up his experiment. Involved
in the experiment were the Centers for Disease Control, the National
Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, Abbott Laboratories, and Merck, Sharp & Dohme. Szmuness’
experiment was hugely successful, and his vaccine was hailed as having
tremendous global implications.
The Gay Plague
The links of the gay experiment to the outbreak of
AIDS are obvious to anyone who wants to see the connection. Three months
after the experiment began, the first cases of AIDS reported to the
CDC appeared in young gay men in Manhattan in 1979. The first San Francisco
AIDS case appeared in that city in September 1980, six months after
the Hepatitis-B experiment started there.5 In June 1981
the AIDS epidemic became "official."
Were gay men given experimental vaccines contaminated
with the AIDS virus? The government says no, but government agencies
have a long history of covert and unethical medical experimentation,
particularly with minorities. Was it simply a quirk of nature that a
virus "out of Africa" would suddenly decimate the most hated minority
in America?
Why did the U.S. government choose Wolf Szmuness,
a Soviet-trained doctor and a recent American immigrant to head this
dangerous experiment? Goodfield, who has written the definitive account
of the Hepatitis-B experiment, claims Szmuness has a painful life. Confined
as a political prisoner in Siberia during World War II, he was repeatedly
interrogated and beaten by the Russian KGB for refusing to cooperate
in spy activities. When he could not be broken, they warned him: "Say
nothing of this to anyone, but remember. We will reach you anywhere
in the world. No matter where you go, no matter where you try to hide,
you will never be out of our grasp."6
The experimental Hepatitis-B vaccine was primarily
manufactured by Merck. However, during the experiment Szmuness was concerned
about possible vaccine contamination. Goodfield writes, "This was no
theoretical fear, contamination having been suspected in one vaccine
batch made by the National Institutes of Health, though never in Merck’s."7
After the Hepatitis-B experiment ended, 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.
However, several years later when this blood 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.
When asked why he was keeping so many vials of blood,
Szmuness replied, "Because one day another disease may erupt and we’ll
need this material."8 A few months after the Hepatitis-B
experiment began at the Center, the first AIDS cases began to appear
in gay men living in Manhattan. And the retesting of gay blood at the
Blood Center proved that HIV was first introduced into the gay population
of New York City sometime around 1978-1979, the same year Szmuness’
gay Hepatitis-B experiment began.9
Was Szmuness psychic in his prediction that a new
disease would appear in the gay community? Or did he actually know or
suspect that a new, deadly virus was being introduced into the gay volunteers?
Unfortunately, the answers to these questions can only be surmised.
In June 1982 Szmuness died of lung cancer. In his eulogy, Aaron Kellner
of the Blood Center wrote: "It is the rare physician who, like Wolf
Szmuness, is given the grace to touch the lives of billions of people;
those living on this planet and generations yet unborn."10
The African Origin of AIDS
Was HIV introduced into millions of Africans in the
late 1970s during the smallpox vaccine eradication programs sponsored
by the World Health Organisation? It is known that animal and human
cells harbor all sorts of viruses, including viruses not yet discovered,
and animal tissue cell cultures are often used in the manufacture of
viral vaccines. Therefore, the possibility of vaccine contamination
with an animal virus is a constant danger in the manufacture of vaccines.
Despite the most meticulous precautions in production,
contaminating animal viruses are known to survive the vaccine process.
For example, during the 1950s, millions of people were injected with
polio vaccines contaminated with "SV-40", a cancer-causing green monkey
virus. Such vaccine contamination problems are largely kept hidden from
the public. Yet in spite of the known danger, drug companies and physicians
always pooh-pooh any suggestion that AIDS could have arisen from animal
virus-contaminated vaccines. Animal cancer viruses are also contained
in fetal calf serum, a serum commonly used as a laboratory nutrient
to feed animal and human tissue cell cultures. Viruses in calf serum
can be carried over as contaminants into the final vaccine product.
The problem of vaccine contamination by fetal calf
serum and its relationship to AIDS is the subject of a letter by J.
Grote ("Bovine visna virus and the origin of the AIDS epidemic") published
in the Journal of the Royal (London) Society of Medicine in October
1988. Grote discounts the green monkey theory and questions whether
bovine visna contamination of laboratory-used fetal bovine serum could
cause AIDS. Bovine visna virus is similar in appearance to HIV. Grote,
a London-based AIDS researcher, writes:
The seriousness of this becomes apparent when we
consider the manufacture of vaccines requires the growth of virus
in cell cultures using fetal calf serum in the growth medium. The
contamination of vaccines with adventitious viruses has been of concern
for many years and the presence of virus-like structures in ‘virus-screened’
bovine serum has been reported. It seems absolutely vital that all
vaccines are screened for HIV prior to use and that bovine visna virus
is further investigated as to its relationship to HIV and its possible
causal role in progression towards AIDS.
Millions of African blacks are reportedly infected
with HIV. This large number could never have been infected by the simple
act of a monkey virus "jumping" over to infect one African in the late
1970s. If that were the case, why don’t we now have millions of AIDS
cases in the U.S.? One logical explanation for the millions of Africans
infected is that the vaccines used in the World Health Organisation’s
mass inoculation programs were contaminated. Was the contamination accidental
or deliberate? It is well-known in vaccine circles that the vaccinia
(cowpox) virus used in the manufacture of the smallpox vaccine works
well in genetic engineering. Charles Pillar and Keith Yamamoto, authors
of Gene Wars: Military Control Over the New Genetic Technology,
state: "Researchers have been able to splice genes coding for the surface
coats of other viruses, such as influenza, hepatitis, and rabies into
vaccinia virus DNA. The result: a ‘broad spectrum’ vaccine with a coat
of many colors."11
In 1985, the Russians caused an international furore
by claiming that AIDS was caused by experiments carried out in the USA
as part of the development of new biological weapons. Responding to
this Soviet accusation, Pillar and Yamamoto admit that "although no
evidence has been presented to support this claim, manipulating genes
to defeat the body’s immune system is quite feasible."12
In Magic Shots, Allan Chase claims that during
the years 1966-1977, the WHO utilised "200,000 people in forty countries
— most of them nondoctors trained by seven hundred doctors and health
professionals from over seventy participating countries — spent $300
million, and used forty million bifurcated vaccinating needles to administer
24,000 million (2.4 billion) doses of smallpox vaccine."13
On May 11, 1987, The London Times, one of the
world’s most respected newspapers, published a front-page story entitled
"Smallpox vaccine triggered AIDS virus." The story suggests that African
AIDS is a direct outgrowth of the WHO smallpox eradication program.
The smallpox vaccine allegedly awakened a "dormant" AIDS virus infection
in the black population. Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV, was
quoted as saying, "The link between the WHO program and the epidemic
is an interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say that it actually
happened, but I have been saying for some years that the use of live
vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection
such as HIV (the AIDS virus)." The Times story is one of the
most important stories ever printed on the AIDS epidemic; yet the story
was killed and never appeared in any major U.S. newspaper or magazine.
Despite covert human experimentation, vaccine contamination
problems, and the genetic engineering of new and highly dangerous viruses,
the medical establishment ignores the AIDS bio-warfare issue. For example,
in the prestigious British Medical Journal (May 13, 1989), Myra
McClure and Thomas Schultz wrote a paper on the "Origin of HIV" and
quickly disposed of the idea that AIDS is connected to germ warfare.
They simply state: "Lack of supporting evidence precludes serious discussion
of such a bizarre hypothesis. This review deals with the theories on
the origin of HIV that are scientifically plausible."
Thus, medical science ignores evidence suggesting
AIDS originated as a secret experiment. Most physicians and microbiologists
steadfastly hold on to the illogical and improbable green monkey theory
of AIDS. And the major media remain silent, often dismissing the bio-warfare
theory as communist propaganda of the most malicious sort. Forgotten
is the connection between the National Academy of Sciences and the military
bio-warfare establishment in the development of biological weapons for
mass killings.
Creation of a Super Germ
A decade before the first cases of AIDS, Dr. Donald
M. MacArthur, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Defense, told a
Congressional Hearing that a "super germ" could be developed as part
of our experimental bio-warfare program. This genetically engineered
germ would be very different from any previous microbe known to mankind.
The agent would be a highly effective killing agent because the immune
system would be powerless against this super-microbe (Testimony before
a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives,
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1970, dated July 1, 1969).
A transcript of this meeting on "Synthetic Biological Agents" records
the following comments of Dr. MacArthur:
1. All biological agents up to the present time
are representatives of naturally occurring disease, and thus are known
by scientists throughout the world. They are easily available to qualified
scientists for research, either for offensive or defensive purposes.
2. 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.
3. A research program to explore the feasibility
of this could be completed in approximately 5 years at a total cost
of $10 million.
4. It would be very difficult to establish such
a program. Molecular biology is a relatively new science. There are
not many competent scientists in the field, almost all are in university
laboratories, and they are generally adequately supported from sources
other than the Department of Defense. However, it was considered possible
to initiate an adequate program through the National Academy of Sciences
— National Research Council (NAS-NRC). The matter was discussed with
the NAS-NRC, and tentative plans were made to initiate the program.
However, decreasing funds in CB (chemical/biological) research, growing
criticism of the CB program, and our reluctance to involve the NAS-NRC
in such a controversial endeavor have led us to postpone it for the
past two years. It is a highly controversial issue and there are many
who believe such research should not be undertaken lest it lead to
yet another method of massive killing of large populations... Should
an enemy develop it, there is little doubt that it is an important
area of potential military technological inferiority in which there
is no adequate research program.
Was the AIDS virus, or other so-called "emerging viruses"
such as Ebola and Marburg viruses, created in bio-warfare laboratories
during the 1970s? During the 1970s, the U.S. Army’s bio-warfare program
intensified, particularly in the area of DNA and gene splicing research.
Renouncing germ warfare except for "medical defensive research," President
Richard Nixon in 1971 ordered that a major part of the Army’s bio-warfare
research be transferred over to the National Cancer Institute (where
HIV would be discovered a decade later by Gallo). That same year, Nixon
also initiated his famous War on Cancer, and offensive bio-warfare research
(particularly genetic engineering of viruses) continued under the umbrella
of orthodox cancer research. Cancer virologists learned "to jump" animal
cancer viruses from one species of animal to another. Chicken viruses
were put into lamb kidney cells; baboon viruses were spliced into human
cancer cells; the combinations were endless. In due process, deadly
man-made viruses were developed, and new forms of cancer, immunodeficiency,
and opportunistic infections were produced when these viruses were forced
or adapted into laboratory animals and into human tissue cell cultures.14
As predicted by the bio-warfare experts, new cancer-causing
monster viruses were created that had a deadly effect on the immune
system. In one government-sponsored experiment reported in 1974, newborn
chimpanzees were taken away from their mothers at birth and weaned on
milk obtained from virus-infected cows. Some of the chimps sickened
and died with two new diseases that had never been observed in chimps.
The first was a parasitic pneumonia known as Pneumocystis Carinii pneumonia
(later known as AIDS); the second was leukemia.15
Monkey Business
Almost two decades after the first U.S. AIDS cases
were diagnosed, most people still believe the government’s green monkey
story; and AIDS educators teach that HIV originated in Africa. However,
a few cracks in the monkey theory have appeared in print.
A story entitled "Research refutes idea that human
AIDS virus originated in monkey," appeared in the Los Angeles Times
(June 2, 1988). In the process of decoding the genetic structure
of the monkey virus and the human AIDS virus, Japanese molecular biologists
discovered that the gene sequences of the two viruses differed by more
than 50% — indicating absolutely no genetic relationship between the
green monkey virus and HIV. The Japanese investigators specifically
criticised Myron Essex and Phyllis Kanki of Harvard Medical School,
who "discovered" a second AIDS virus in African green monkeys that was
widely heralded in the media. Essex and Kanki’s "second" AIDS virus
was later proven to be a contaminant monkey virus traced back to the
Harvard researchers own laboratory.
More than a decade earlier, in 1975, Gallo reported
the "discovery" of a "new" and "human" HL-23 virus he cultured from
human leukemia cells. Eventually the virus was proven to be three contaminating
ape viruses (gibbon-ape virus, simian sarcoma virus, and baboon endogenous
virus). Gallo claims he has no idea how these animal viruses contaminated
his research.16
If HIV is not related to a green monkey virus, what
is its origin? On November 13, 1988, The Orange County Register devoted
an entire section of the newspaper to AIDS in Africa. Several African
officials were interviewed; all were adamant that AIDS did not originate
in Africa. The theory "is false and has never been scientifically proved,
so why should Africa be the scapegoat?" declared Dr. Didace Nzaramba,
director of the AIDS prevention program in Rwanda. The Register commented:
From early on, scientists have speculated that the
disease might have begun in Africa. Researchers in Africa tested old
blood samples and said they found HIV-infected serum that went back
years. In 1985, Harvard researchers, Phyllis Kanki and Myron Essex,
announced the discovery of a new virus isolated in green monkeys that
seemed similar to HIV. Eventually, researchers concluded that early
blood tests used in Africa were not reliable, and Kanki and Essex
said their blood tests probably had been contaminated and that their
results were invalid. But the perception of an African link was established.
Media Disinformation
With the publication of And The Band Played On
in 1987, the media became obsessed with author Randy Shilts’ "Patient
Zero" story. In the popular, award-winning book, a young Canadian airline
steward named Gaeton Dugas is portrayed as the promiscuous gay man "who
brought the AIDS virus from Paris and ignited the epidemic in North
America." Shilts, who later died of AIDS, never explained where or how
Dugas got his infection.
After a year of swollen lymph nodes and a rash, Dugas
was finally diagnosed with AIDS-associated "gay cancer" in June 1980
in New York City. What Shilts probably did not know is that when Dugas
was diagnosed in 1980, over twenty percent of the Manhattan gays in
the Hepatitis-B experiment were 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 (JAMA, Vol. 255, pp. 2167-2172, 1986). Remarkably,
these gay men had the highest recorded incidence of HIV anywhere in
the world for that time! Even in African populations, where AIDS has
been theorised to exist for decades, or even millennia, there were never
reports of such a high incidence of HIV in 1980.
Shilts’ sensational Patient Zero story quickly became
"fact." Even the AMA-sponsored American Medical News (October
23, 1987) fell for the ludicrous story, claiming that Dugas "may have
brought AIDS to the United States." The media continue 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.
In late 1987, the media widely reported an "old AIDS
case" dating back to 1968. DNA testing of the blood and tissue was reported
as HIV-positive.17 For the last year of his life, "Robert",
a 15-year-old black boy from St. Louis, wasted away with a bizarre disease
that severely bloated his legs and genitalia. His sexual preference
was unknown, but his doctors tried hard to insinuate the dying boy was
gay. At autopsy, internal Kaposi’s sarcoma of the rectum was discovered,
along with anal warts and lacerations. And after fingering the dead
boy’s rectum, the pathologist noted "a lax anal sphincter." When newer
viral identification techniques were reapplied to Robert’s blood in
1990, his blood retested HIV-negative, proving that Robert never had
AIDS.18
In 1990 the media sensationalised another "old AIDS
case," this time an unmarried English sailor who died in Manchester
in 1959. When his stored tissue remains tested positive for HIV, major
newspapers throughout the world used this case to again discredit the
persistent rumor that AIDS was a man-made disease. The New York Times
(July 24) declared:
The case also refutes the widely publicised 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 new
virus.
In a letter to the medical journal Lancet in
January 1996, this 1959 case was ruled not to be AIDS because the DNA
tests were found to be contaminated due to a laboratory error.
Despite the denial of the Times regarding the
laboratory creation of new AIDS-like viruses, it was common practice
during the early 1970s for virologists to alter animal viruses by inserting
them into other animal species and into human tissue cells in culture.
Experiments performed at Harvard in the mid-1970s by Max Essex and Donald
Francis (two of the best-known AIDS experts) produced AIDS in cats with
the feline leukemia retrovirus. In addition, a decade before the outbreak
of AIDS in the U.S., Robert Gallo was engineering cancer-causing retroviruses
and studying the effects of viral mutants and their ability to suppress
the immune system. A full description of Gallo’s animal retrovirus research
activities dating back to 1967 is chronicled in Emerging Viruses,
AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident or Genocide? by Dr. Leonard Horowitz.19
Secret and Covert
Biological Warfare Research
It is difficult, if not impossible, to determine the
truth about global biological warfare capabilities and their possible
effects on world health. The American taxpayer is kept ignorant about
U.S. chemical and bio-warfare programs. Scientists involved in bio-warfare
research are sworn to secrecy and silence. Thus, "classified" and "top
secret" medical experimentation continues to be promoted by powerful
government agencies, such as the CIA, the CDC, the Department of Defense,
the military, and other institutions.
Recent revelations of horrific radiation experiments
conducted on unsuspecting U.S. citizens during the Cold War years up
until the 1980s have shocked the nation. Some of this research was conducted
at the most prestigious medical institutions in our country. None of
the perpetrators have been brought to trial. In light of these revelations,
it is inconceivable to think that leading AIDS scientists would be unaware
of the connections between their institutional research and the bio-warfare
establishment.
Currently, strange and unprecedented diseases are
mysteriously appearing in various parts of the world. The peculiar Persian
Gulf War Syndrome has sickened over 50,000
of our vets who served in Desert Shield/Storm. Their illnesses have
been largely dismissed by health experts as due to "psychological stress,"
even though there is evidence that this new disease is contagious and
sexually-transmitted. Nevertheless, government health officials remain
silent on these issues.
A few scientists insist that some cases of Gulf War
Syndrome are related to biological warfare agents. Dr. Garth Nicholson
and his wife Nancy, formerly scientists at the M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston, have discovered in the blood of some sick reservists
a new infectious microbe (a mycoplasma) that has part of the AIDS virus
spliced into its genetic material! The Nicholsons say: "The type of
mycoplasma we identified was highly unusual and it almost certainly
didn’t occur naturally. It has one gene from the HIV-1 virus — but only
one gene. This meant it was almost certainly an artificially modified
microbe — altered purposefully by scientists." (National Enquirer,
April 2, 1996).
By censoring certain aspects of AIDS history, particularly
the origin of HIV, we allow dangerous medical experimentation to continue.
The New York Blood Center is now testing a new vaccine made from a "harmless"
canary-pox virus that has been genetically engineered to carry parts
of HIV, the AIDS virus. The Center is recruiting HIV-negative gay men
by funding Project Achieve, an organisation designed to test and sign-up
young men for the new vaccine experiment. Homosexual men are lured into
the program by posters that feature cute, multi-ethnic gay boys. According
to Timothy Murphy of HX magazine, there is a waiting list for
the Center’s vaccine experiment. Gay men are urged to sign-up with Project
Achieve at (212) 388-0008.
The enigmatic Dr. Szmuness has been erased from AIDS
chronicles. His name does not appear in Shilts’ Band, nor in
Mirko Grmek’s History of AIDS (1990), or in Laurie Garret’s massive
tome on emerging viruses, The Coming Plague (1994). Although
his untimely death went largely unnoticed in medical journals, he was
remembered and honored on May 11, 1984, by a small coterie of medical
power brokers and distinguished scientists who convened at a landmark
symposium in the U.S. capitol. The meeting entitled "Infection, Immunity,
and Blood Transfusion" was sponsored by the American Red Cross.20
Paying tribute to Szmuness were top government scientists
in AIDS and cancer research, the most well-known researchers in animal
experimentation, the heads of the most prestigious biomedical establishments
in the country, and the chief executives of drug companies tied to genetic
engineering, vaccine production, and biological warfare research. Dr.
Robert Gallo, who had announced the discovery of the AIDS virus to the
American public three weeks earlier, was one of the most distinguished
attendees.
There is an ominous link between cancer and AIDS,
between animal experimentation and the genetic engineering of viruses,
between biological warfare technology and drug companies, between gay
experiments and AIDS, between vaccine programs and the contamination
of the nation’s blood supply. Why else would all these people from diverse
areas of science be attending this high level government conference?
There is also a connection between Szmuness’ gay experiment
and the outbreak of AIDS that cannot be denied. This connection is not
coincidental or a paranoid fantasy. It is time for a serious study of
the link between covert biological warfare research and the initial
outbreak of the "gay AIDS plague." Ignoring evidence pointing to AIDS
as a man-made disease makes a sham out of AIDS education.
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Dr. Alan Cantwell is a physician and AIDS and cancer
researcher. He is the author of AIDS & the Doctors of
Death and Queer Blood, published by
Aries Rising Press. He can be reached at PO Box 29532, Los Angeles,
CA 90029, USA. Phone/Fax +1 213-462-6458, Email: alanrcan@aol.com. This article
originally appeared in Paranoia magazine. 46a.htm
Extract from New Dawn No.46 (January-February,
1998) © 1998 Dr. Alan Cantwell