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• . (Ediwr's Note: Claire W. Gilbert, PhD., Publisher ofBlazia~ Tat(lCA newsletter, con­ ducted this interview with Alan S. Levin, M.D:, a brave medico an.d self-declared "quack". Dr Levin provides a rare insider's view and courageously speaks 'on the record'. This interview is a unique dDcument, clarifying some of the past few decades' little-known and little-understood bouts ofmilitary and medical madness. FOR THE RECORD... Levin (L): You have my permission to use anything I say as long as you don't Uike what I say oU! of context. I won't deny anything I say. I don't have any problem backing up everything I say. We were discussing corruption in medicine. Gilbert (G): The question I asked you is why do you refer to yourself as a "quack"? L: Ifyou look behind me you can see the coffee cup that the marines gave me. G: Oh, so you've been called "quack". L: rused to be called "Killer Quack". I used to work for Bechtel and Hughes people in covert operations. I was in the Marine Corps coven operations in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. G: Can you cijscuss anything about the covert _operations or were you sworn to secre­ cy? L: No, I'm not sworn to anything because it was a chao.tic situation where they just kind of forced conscripts into working for them. No, I've written about it. Say, are we talking about medicine now, or do you want to talk about coven operations? G: I was interested in the Gulf War. That was my original reason for coming. I want­ ed to ask you about the vets. You were written up in the newspaper for treating the vets, but when you mention 'Bechtel I have my own ideas about their influence in the Gulf War. L: Right. G: And the lighting of the oil well fires. In one or two of my issues there are articles suggesting that our side might have ignited the fues. L: Oh, I don't know that that's true or not. G: Well, Bechtel got the contracts [for rebuilding Kuwait], so when you said "Bechtel"~whoosh! L: Well, to put it sort of succinctly, Bechtel has been ,influencing this country since 1963-and influencing prior to that, I would imagine. But it became a major, if not ~ major influence in, ~s country in 1963, after President Kennedy was assassinated. At that tim-e, there is very good, solid evidence that the CIA was involved [in the assassination] and Ithe Chief ,of the CIA at that time was John McCone, who was one of the founders of Bechtel. Shortly thereafter, Bechtel got a contract to build Cam Ranh Bay, which was like US$12 billion (US$12,OOO,000,000). It would have been very disadvantageous economi­ cally for Bechtel if the Vietnam War sort of went away. So, it was very 'good' business judgment to do what Bechtel did. So, the same is true for the Gulf War. It was good for business. Let me go through this. The primary purpose of the American military is to consume the products of the con­ tractors. Combat efficacy is a secondary consideration and, in fact, in most cases it is bad for business. And the Gulf War was different only because the United States had a vested interest lin winning. Additionally, technically, they were very, very much helped, if not 28·NEXUS JUNE -JULY 1994