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1972 Biological Weapons Convention to restrict development, production and stockpiling of biological weapons. 1972 Rochdale College in Toronto, Canada, becomes a main center for illicit drug consumption and dis- tribution point for marijuana and hallucinogens in Eastern Canada. After this became public knowledge, it was shut down. 1972 Golden Triangle in Asia yields bumper harvest. Peasants told to increase their acreage by 50- 100%. U.S. soldiers in Vietnam increase consumption. 1972 Soft drink consumption 30 gallons per year per person. (Ref: sugar as an addictive physical degen- erant.) 1972 Drs. Barton Ingraham and Gerald Smith advocate “implantation of brain transmitters to monitor and manipulate the minds of probationers and “the technique of telemetric control of human beings reg- ulating behavior on a subconscious level.” Reported in Issues in Criminology, 1972. 1972 U.S. signs international treaty banning use of biowarfare agents, but does not ratify it until 1975. Treaty a allows “defensive biowarfare research. 1972 WHO Bulletin No.47 refers to creation of an immune virus (see 1969) and suggests that a useful way to study the effects would be “to put it into a vaccination program and observe the results.” It is theorized that WHO used the smallpox vaccination program in Central Africa for this study, since the spread of HIV infection coincides precisely with the most intense and recent smallpox vaccination cam- paigns. Information on the Central African countries most infected with HIV precisely matches WHO figures indicating the number of people vaccinated in these areas. The virus requested would selectively destroy the T-cell system. (1972 Federation Proceedings of WHO). 1972 Dr. Louis J. West, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, proposes to use an aban- doned Nike base for the Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence. In a confidential letter to Dr. J.M. Stubblebine, Director of Health in the California Offices of Health Planning, West wrote that “studies could be carried out there for model programs for the alteration of undesirable behavior.” West reveals the desired use for implants and the inclusion of hyperkinetic children and those with chromo- somal abnormalities in the study. Dr. L.J. West, working with M.Singer and R.J.Lifton, founded the “Citizens Freedom Foundation” in 1974, which changed its name to the “Cult Awareness Network (CAN)” in 1985/86. The CAN group would figure prominently 20 years later in the Waco Massacre of the Branch Davidians. 1972 New York State Department of Agriculture determines that 30% of organic food is contaminated with pesticides, as compared with 25% in regular foods. Journal of the American Medical Association v230, Oct. 14,1974, “The Organic Food Myth.” 1972 Ingraham and Smith release a paper in Issues in Criminality, Vol. 7 No.2, entitled “The Use of Electronics in the Observation and Control of Human Behavior and Its Possible Use in Rehabilitation and Parole.” 1972 Nobel winner professor William Shockley proposes a voluntary sterilization program in an address before the American Psychological Association. The program would be directed toward welfare recipients. 398 Appendix F: General Chronology of Events 1972 Turkish opium production nearly eliminated. Southeast Asia heroin crackdown. 1972 Strange humming sounds begin near Satus Peak in Yakima Washington. 1972 Esso Oil changes its name to Exxon Corporation. 1972 Bilderberger meeting in Knokke, Belgium. 1972 Oil shortages in United States begin. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation