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                               AIDS: The Man-Made-Monster

In
an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret",
Prof.  J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made
disease,
originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick,
Maryland.
"Top Secret" is the international edition of the German magazine
Geheim and is
considered by many to be a sister publication to the American
Covert Action
Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the
Naming Names
column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government,
and
which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article,
named
"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins,"
is
lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes.

AIDS
FACTS
"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its
name
(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced
back
to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also
called
'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies
in
the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional
T4-
cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and
the
defenseless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under
other
circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
opportunistic
infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself.
The initial infection is
characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent
fever. An apparent
recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the
patient remains without
symptoms and functions normally for years. Occasionally
a swelling of the
lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's well-being,
can be observed.
After
several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related Complex)
sets
in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys and
lungs.
In most cases it develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at which
point
opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in
various
organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of
which range
from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death.
This set of symptoms,
say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the
Visna sickness which
occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means tiredness
in Icelandic).
However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings.
The Segals note
that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through
sexual intercourse,
blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles, the
infection has
spread dramatically. During the first few years after its
discovery, the number
of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is still
doubling every 12
months now though numerous measures have been taken against
it. Based on these
figures, it is estimated that in the US, which had 120,000
cases of AIDS at
the end of 1988, 900,000 people will have AIDS or will have
died of it by
the end of 1991. It is also estimated that the number of people
infected is
at least ten times the number of those suffering from an acute case
of AIDS.
That in the year 1995 there will be between 10-14 million cases of
AIDS and
an additional 100 million people infected, 80 percent of them in the
US, while
a possible vaccination will not be available before 1995 by the most
optimistic
estimates. Even when such vaccination becomes available, it will not
help
those already infected. These and following figures have been reached at
by
several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and the
Chief
of the medical services of the US Army.
 "AIDS does not merely bring certain
dangers with it; it is
clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race,
whose magnitude is
comparable only with that of a nuclear war", say the Segals.

" They later explain what they mean by "programmed," showing that the virus
was
produced by humans, namely Dr. Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research
Center in Maryland. When proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful
to note that:
"We have given preference to the investigative results of highly
renowned laboratories,
whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must
emphasize, in this connection, that we do not know of any findings that have
been published in professional journals that
contradict our hypotheses."

DISCOVERING
AIDS
The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first
DESCRIBED
cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris in
May 1983,
taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a trip
to the
East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers at
the
Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same
virus,
which is cytotoxic. ( i.e poisonous to cells )
Shortly after publishing his
discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the
virus had developed by a natural
process from the Human Adult Leukemia virus,
HTLV-1, which he had previously
discovered. However, this claim was not
published in professional publications,
and soon after, Alizon and Montagnier,
two researchers of the Pasteur Institute
in Paris published charts of HTLV-1
and HIV, showing that the viruses had
basically different structures. They also
declared categorically that they
knew of no natural process by which one of
these two forms could have evolved
into the other.
According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall
1984 annual meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS), was almost
entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new
pathogenic agents could
be produced via human manipulation of genes. According
to the Segals, AIDS was
practically the sole topic of discussion.

THE AIDS
VIRUS
The Segals discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV,
visna
and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is
the most
similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According
to
findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about
a
million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average
a
10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984,
the
difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982- 20%,
10% in
1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this
time visna
viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability
to become
parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that
is not known
in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact
that the first
cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring
of 1979."
"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the Segals,
"Coffin
hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV
genome, which
encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach
itself to the host
cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area
in visna. This
behaviour suggests that an additional piece has been inserted
into the genomes
of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope proteins
and enables them
to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS SECTION
BEHAVES LIKE A
BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY,  which does not match the rest of
the system
biochemically.

The above mentioned work by Gonda et al shows
that the HIV virus has a section
of about 300 nucleotides, which does not
exist in the visna virus. That length
corresponds with what Coffin described.
That section is particularly unstable,
which indicates that it is an alien
object. According to the Segals, it
"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered
by Gallo-ED) for the likelihood of
an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome
sequence 60% identical with a
section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides
in length is zero." Since the
visna virus is incapable of attaching itself
to human T4 receptors, it must
have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome
section which gave visna the
capability to do so. In other words, the addition
of HTLV-1 to visna made the
HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate
of the HIV genome has been
explained by another scientific team, Chandra et
al, by the fact that it is "a
combination of two genome parts which are alien
to each other BY ARTIFICIAL
MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution,
because this process would
have immediately eliminated, through natural selection,
systems that are so
replete with disorders."
"These are the facts of the
case," say the Segals.  "HIV is essentially a visna
virus which carries an
additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an epitope
capable of bonding
with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any
other biologist know
of any natural mechanism that would make it possible for
the epitope to be
transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this reason
we can come to
only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by
artificial means,
through gene manipulation."

THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV
"The construction
of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is
extraordinarily expensive,
and it requires a large number of highly qualified
personnel, complicated
equipment and expensive high security laboratories.
Moreover, the product
would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the
Segals, "would have provided
the resources for a type of research that was
aimed solely at the production
of a new disease that would be deadly to human
beings?"
The English sociologist
Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al  in "A Higher
Form of Killing"-ED),
published a document whose authenticity has been
confirmed by the US Congress,
showing that a representative of the Pentagon
requested in 1969 additional
funding for biological warfare research. The
intention was to create, within
the next ten years, a new virus that would
not be susceptible to the immune
system, so that the afflicted patient would
not be able to develop any defense
against it. Ten years later, in the spring
of 1979, the first cases of AIDS
appeared in New York.
"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say
the Segals.
One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt
themselves
to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching
for a cure
for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings
in 1975. A
year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting.
In 1980 he
published his discovery of HTLV.
In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest
security category of laboratory, in which
human pathogens are subjected to
genetic manipulations) laboratory was
officially opened in building 550 of
Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main
biological warfare research center.
"In an article in 'Der Spiegel`, Prof.
Mollings point out that this type of
gene manipulation was still extremely
difficult in 1977.  One would have had
to have a genius as great as Robert Gallo
for this purpose, note the Segals."
Lo
and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord banning
the
research, production and storage of biological  weapons, part of Fort
Detrick
was "demilitarized" and the virus  section renamed the "Frederick
Cancer Research
Facility".  It was put under the direction of the Cancer
Research Institute
in neighbouring Bethesda, whose director was no other than
Robert Gallo. This
happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV.
Explaining how the virus
escaped, the Segals note that in the US,  biological
agents are traditionally
tested on prisoners who are  incarcerated for long
periods, and who are promised
freedom if they survive the test. However, the
initial HIV infection symptoms
are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy
patient.
"Those who conducted
the research must have concluded that the new virus
was...not so virulent
that it could be considered for  military use, and the
test patients, who
had seemingly recovered, were given their freedom. Most of
the patients were
professional criminals and New York City, which is
relatively close, offered
them a suitable milieu.  Moreover, the patients were
exclusively men, many
of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse,
as is often the
case in American prisons.
It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely
in 1979, precisely among men
and among drug users, and precisely in New York
City," assert the Segals. They
go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection
by means of sexual contact,
incubation periods are two  years and more, while
in cases of massive infection
via blood  transfusions, as must have been the
case with prisoners, incubation
periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if
the new virus was ready at the
beginning of 1978 and if the experiments began
without too much delay, then
the first cases of full-blown AIDS in 1979 were
exactly the resultthat
could have been expected."
In the next three lengthy
chapters, the Segals examine other theories,
"legends" as they call them,
of the origins of AIDS.   Dissecting each claim,
they show that they have
no scientific standing, providing also the findings
of other scientists.
They also bring up the arguments of scientists and
popular writers who have
been at the task of discounting them as "conspiracy
theorists" and show these
writers' shortcomings.  Interested readers will have
to read the original
article to follow those debates.  I will only quote two
more paragraphs:
"We
often heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are part of
a
barbaric past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We wish
to
present one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt.  An
investigative
commission of the US House of Representatives presented in
October 1986 a
final report concerning the Manhattan Project.  According to this
document,
between 1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were exposed
to dangerous
doses of radioactivity.  Some of them were prisoners who had
volunteered,
but they also included residents of old-age homes, inmates of
insane asylums,
handicapped people in nursing homes, and even   normal patients
in public
hospitals; most of them were subjected to these experiments without
their
permission.  Thus the 'barbaric  past` is not really a thing of the past."
"It
is remarkable that most of these experiments were carried out in university
institutes
and federal hospitals, all of which are named in the report.
Nonetheless,
these facts remained secret until 1984, and even then a
Congressional committee
that was equipped with all the necessary
authorization needed two years in
order to bring these facts to life.  We are
often asked how the work on the
AIDS virus could have been kept secret. Now,
experiments performed on a few
dozen prisoners in a laboratory that is
subject to military security can be
far more easily kept secret than could
be the Manhattan Project."