2001 by Alan Cantwell, M.D.
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic there have been persistent rumors 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
biolologists, 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 U.S. 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
U.S. 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 favor 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 U.S. primate centers, 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 Center 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 that a half century until AIDS broke
out there in 1982. However, in the U.S. 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 liters 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 nation’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 superceded 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 Center, 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 Center 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 centers. (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 U.S. 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 favored
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 utilized 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
epicenters 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 Center. When a blood test for HIV became available in the
mid-1980s, the Center'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
sensationalized in the media and served to further obscure the origin of AIDS in America
and blame gay promiscuity. Even Montagnier is doubtful that the U.S. epidemic could have
developed from a single patient. Never mentioned by proponents of the chimp theory is the
fact that the New York Blood Center 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 Center.
Chimps were captured from various parts of West Africa and brought to VILAB. Alfred
Prince, Head of virology at the NY Blood Center, has been the director of Vilab for the
past 25 years. The lab prides itself by releasing "reha bilitated" chimps back
into the wild.
Also closely allied with "pre-AIDS" development of a hepatitis B vaccine is the
little publicized 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 Center, where
the first cases of AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma were discovered in 1979. Researchers
at NYU Medical Center were also heavily involved in the development of the experimental
hepatitis B vaccine used in gays; and the Medical Center 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 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 3 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 theorizes 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 Center 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 center in nearby Southborough, Massachusetts. This primate
contamination at his lab resulted in the erroneous green monkey theory, heavily
popularized by Gallo and the media.
Also unpublicized 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 Center, affiliated with Rockefeller
University since 1996. The Diamond Center is also now connected with the New York Blood
Center, 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
publicized 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 Organization
(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
Organization'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 naïve about the continuing transfer of viruses
between various primate species at primate centers. For example, in 1995 he interviewed
Preston Marx at LEMSIP. At that time Marx was a representative of David Ho's organization,
the Aaron Diamond Research Center. 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 centers, 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 U.S. 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 Labor atory 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 theorized 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 liters 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 tumors. Before HIV was discovered in 1984, additional papers in
1982 and 1983 showed similar cancer bacteria in the enlarged lymph nodes and KS tumors 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 recognize 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 a 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.
[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: alanrcan@aol.com Dr, Cantwell's books are
available toll-free in the USA from Book Clearing House @ 1-800-431-1579, and on the
internet at Amazon.com] REFERENCES:
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