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There is also an entire history of experimentation on people _ one discussing where this virus came from. What was its evolu- with chemical agents, not only biological agents, but chemical tion? What is its genesis? How is it put together? That's how we agents, particularly in some experimental projects called MK- _ got into this topic in looking at where did this thing come from. Ultra and some others where the United States Government offi- | And when you look at the nature of the AIDS virus, what you will cials were actually introducing chemicals into men. For instance, discover is something very interesting. The genes of the AIDS in San Francisco, the most unusual that has been documented that _ virus don't exist in primates or man. If you took the genctic mate- is public, is where prostitutes were given LSD that they were giv- _ rial of monkeys, chimpanzees, human beings and rearranged it, ing to their ‘johns' or their sexual partners, and then the CIA were you cannot make AIDS. The genes of the AIDS virus exist in two actually sitting behind one-way mirrors, and they were filming _ other viruses called retroviruses of cattle and sheep. One of them what was happening to these men who had been drugged with _is named bovine leukaemia virus of cattle, which is a T-cell LSD from prostitutes. Of interest in the case is the prostitutes leukaemia-producing agent, just like Clemenson was talking were arrested, then the CIA was actually intervening to see that about. The other is visna virus, a brain-rotting virus of sheep, that they were released. So, this is some of the history of what's gone has managed to infect about 75% of the sheep on the western on in the past and that is readily available for anyone to read about _ ranges of the United States and the rest of the world. in some of the books that are out—A Higher Form of Killing again In the 1950s [there was an outbreak of a] bovine leukacmia by Packsman and Harris, or Clouds of Secrecy by Leonard Cole. virus in Europe. A guy named Mamaro and a whole bunch of The Killing Winds by Gene McDermott is another, so there is _ other retrovirologists in Europe were looking at cattle and said, plenty of precedence. “You know, there's something strange What about prediction? We talk sr ooing on with these cattle. They have about prediction; in other words, in our a strange kind of disease." And they review of the literature, we spent about “knew it was some kind of viral prob- 6 years in the library reading, digging lem, but they couldn't get a control out this stuff, and what we ran across IN 1969, Department of Defense over it. What they did a the exact in 1975 in Tokyo at an International - thing that [was] mentioned; they estab- Assembly of Leukemia Experts was a representatives requested 10 lished a programme actually called guy named Jay Clemenson. million dollars to produce new Call and Kill. So, only the animals that Clemenson is still alive—this is an . * they concluded were infected were interesting story. In 1975, Jay viruses that could selectively called out and exterminated. All across Clemenson, who is a world-renowned H Europe they had a plan of Call and Kill epidemiologist, was speaking before a destroy the immune system. of all the animals that were infected, group like this in Tokyo, all of whom and as a result they slaughtered hun- were cancer and leukaemia experts. dreds of thousands of animals. This He got up and said the following: "We ms led to the development of disease-free are in fact establishing conditions for a herds. pandemic spread of an oncogenic virus varying on the scale of In the United States they did a very interesting experiment. If influenza of 1918." Now, what is he saying? What he is saying —_ you look at the way we test for the AIDS virus in the blood, we is, get ready, world, because scientists are making viruses that will —_ test for the presence of an antibody to the virus; that's the screen- cause leukaemia or cancer, and that will spread as readily as the _ ing tests that's done. They don't actually check and test in general flu and kill more people than the influenza pandemic of 1918, for the virus itself. If you donate blood at your local Red Cross or which killed 1/5 to 1/3 of the world population. Now, that is hospital, they take the serum out of the blood, and then they check exactly what has occurred today. That is exactly what has the serum to sce if there's an antibody in that blood directed occurred. The existence of AIDS and its close relatives is exactly —_ against the AIDS virus. the appearance of viruses that cause leukaemia or cancer, that are Now, in the 1970s, early '70s, late ‘60s, they did an interesting spread in a sense like the flu. In fact AIDS is not spread as easily experiment here in the United States in Ames, Iowa, conducted by as the flu, but some of its other relatives probably are, and these guy named Vandermatten and girl named Miller. So Miller and viruses are capable of killing not only (AIDS alone is capable of | Vandermatten took chimpanzees and injected them with a virus killing the entire human species) but certainly, in concert, all of yamed bovine leukaemia virus, because the question was, "Is this them are capable of killing us off, totally annihilate the human —_yirys dangerous for human beings?" And what happened wera ted race, and yet nothing is being done, more or less, where we are all these chimpanzees produced antibodies against that virus. So sort of sitting around wondering what's going on. There has been —_ what was their automatic conclusion? The conclusion was that really no attempt made to control the epidemic of this disease. because these animals made antibodics against this virus, this Actually, I'm just finding it interesting because if you want to virus represented no threat to the animal. So, therefore there was learn about AIDS, the people that you talk to are the veterinarians. no programme of containment of bovine leukaemia virus in the That's why it was interesting when [it was] mentioned that the United States. As a result, about 15% of the cattle in this country public health official here had talked about cattle. These diseases —_ are now infected with bovine leukaemia virus. If you look at the came from cattle and sheep. They didn't come from monkeys in death certificates in the areas of massive milk-producing states, Africa. The story gets more preposterous as we get into it, but the —_ like Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska, there's a virtual explosion of reason that you know they didn't come from monkeys is because T-cell leukaemia among dairy farmers, because primarily they of the company that AIDS keeps, not because of the AIDS virus — drink, in my opinion, unpasteurised milk. The only thing that has itself. If there were only AIDS virus, you probably couldn't make _ prevented all of us from being infected with the T-cell leukaemia any conclusion because it could have appeared ‘out of the blue’, sO virus is the fact that pasteurisation of milk kills the virus. to speak. Things do, in a sense, evolve or gencrate, but the inter- Go back to 1969, a testimony before the Church Committee in esting part is that if you look at the history of the theory of evolu- Congress. The Department of Defense representatives requested tion and spontaneous generation, the United States National 10 million dollars to produce new viruses that could selectively Institute of Health has spent billions of dollars telling us that spon- destroy the immune system. In 1972, a group of virologists writ- taneous generation docs not exist, and that evolution is the name jing in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation said this: of the game. | And yet, when you come to the AIDS virus it's as if, “Let's make a virus that will selectively destroy the T-cell system ‘spoof, there's no more history of evolution now we have sponta- of man." They went further and said, “Also, let's make a virus that neous generation, because it just ‘popped up’. It's here there isno wij] selectively destroy the B-cell system.” And they wrote down, 24¢NEXUS DECEMBER 1993 - JANUARY 1994