The Secret Origin of
AIDS and HIV: How scientists produced the most horrifying plague of all time - and then covered it
up.
by Alan
Cantwell Jr., M.D.
copyright 2000
The Green monkey theory
The Special Virus Cancer Program (1962-1977)
Biological Warfare, Primate research, and the SVCP
The end of the SVCP and the birth of AIDS
The pre-AIDS gay hepatitis B experiments (1978-1981)
Kaposi's sarcoma, the KS virus, and monkey business
Contaminated vaccines, cancer, and emerging viruses
The African vaccine connection to the outbreak of AIDS
Gallo and Montagnier's theories on the origin of HIV and AIDS
"Gay and Straight" strains of HIV and sexual preference
Solving the mystery of the origin of AIDS
The Green Monkey Theory
Many people have heard the theory that AIDS is man-made. Thirty percent of New
York City blacks polled by The New York Times (October 29, 1990) actually believe AIDS
is an "ethnic weapon" designed in a laboratory to infect and kill
black people. Some people even think the AIDS conspiracy theory is more
plausible than the African Green monkey theory promoted by the
leading AIDS scientists. Actually, the monkey theory was proven wrong by researchers as
far back as 1988, but most AIDS educators continued to promote it to the
public until recently. In a media blitz in 1999, the green monkey theory was
totally replaced by the chimpanzee "out of Africa" theory, and the chimp
origin of AIDS was fully accepted by the scientific community.
A phylogenetic "family tree" of primate viruses (which few
people could understand) was presented to prove that HIV was descended from a primate
virus in the African bush. Analysis of virus genetic data performed by the
"supercomputer" at Los Alamos in New Mexico indicated that HIV had "jumped
species" from a chimp to a human around the year 1930 in Africa. (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.)
At the international AIDS conference held in 2000 in
South Africa, one scientist claimed the chimpanzee virus (SIVcpz) was
"ancient" and jumped species as early as 1675 but didn't establish
itself in the human population until 1930. This was dutifully reported by science
writer Laurie Garrett, who give all the time-honored reasons for the rapid spread of
AIDS in Africa: non-sterile needles, non-sterile blood products and widespread
promiscuous sexual behavior.
The Special Virus Cancer Program (1962-1977)
Conveniently forgotten by scientists and medical
journalists was the fact that surgeons had been transplanting
chimpanzee parts into human beings 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 animal viruses to human beings is the
largely forgotten Special Virus Cancer Program (SVCP). This research
program was responsible for the development, the seeding, and the
deployment of various animal viruses, which were capable of producing cancer
and immune system damage when transferred between animal species and 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 and lymphoma forms of cancer, the program was soon enlarged to study
all forms of cancer.
The SVCP marshalled many of the nation's finest virologists,
biochemists, immunologists, molecular biologists, and epidemiologists, at the most
prestigious institutions in a coordinated attempt to assess the role of
viruses in causing human cancer. Many of the top AIDS scientists,
including Dr. Robert Gallo (the co-discoverer of HIV), Myron (Max) Essex (of
"cat AIDS" fame), and Peter Duesberg (who claims HIV is not the cause of
AIDS), were connected with the Program.
The scope of the program was international and included scientists from
Japan, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Israel, and even Uganda, Africa. A main
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. In the process,
many animal viruses were adapted to human cells. These cultured viruses would
then be shipped to researchers throughout the world.
An annual report of the accomplishments of the SVCP was published by
the NCI. The 1971 SVCR report indicates a mouse leukemia virus had been
adapted to grow in human cells. A "hybrid virus" - a mixture of a mouse sarcoma
and a cat (feline) leukemia virus - was engineered and grown in cat cells. Chicken and
feline retroviruses produced cancer in monkeys. Mouse-cat virus hybrids and feline
leukemia virus were adapted to human cells in tissue culture. Thus, "species
jumping" was a common occurrence in these experiments.
Biological Warfare, Primate Research and the SVCP
Also joining forces with the SVCP at the NCI were the miltary'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 research on the cause, prevention, and treatment of cancer. As part
of Nixon's so-called War on Cancer, the military biowarfare unit was retitled
the new Frederick Cancer Research Center. Litton Bionetics was named as the
military's prime contractor for this project.
The 1971 annual report noted that one of the primary tasks
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 be capable of
intiating human cancers. And primate cancer-causing viruses were
adapted to 'normal' human cells.
A steady supply of research animals (monkeys, chimpanzees, mice, and
cats) was necessary, which resulted in the establishment of breeding colonies for
the SVCP. Healthy animals were shipped in from various parts of the
world for breeding purposes and experimentation; and virus-infected animals were
shipped out again to various labs.
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 this time, experimenters had spread
lymphoma-producing viruses into several species of monkeys, and had also isolated a monkey
virus (Herpesvirus saimiri) that would have a close genetic relationship to a new
Kaposi's sarcoma virus that produced the "gay cancer" of AIDS a few years
later.
In order to prime 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 was removed,
and viruses were injected into newborn animals or into the womb of pregnant animals.
Some animals were also injected with malaria to keep them chronically
sick and immunodepressed.
Primates (especially newborn and baby chimpanzees) were the most
favored lab animals because they were most similar biochemically and immunologically
to human beings, and because there would be no official testing of these
lab viruses on humans. An irradiated rhesus monkey colony supplied
animals for transplantation experiments.
Robert 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
monkeys viruses into newborn macaques (a small species of monkey). This 1971
SVCP report (NIH-71-2025) declared: "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 measure of control. The close phylogenetic relationship of
the lower primates of man justifies utilization of these animals for these purposes."
Researchers at Bionetics evaluated the long-term cancer
effects of injecting human and animal cancer material into various species of monkeys.
Newborn monkeys, irradiated monkeys, and monkeys primed with
cancer-causing chemicals, 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. Many kinds of human cancer tissue were injected into the animals. How many
"new" and "emerging" viruses were created and adapted by the SVCP is
not known. And it is unlikely that complete records of this animal cancer virus
experimentation will ever be examined.
Cats were also bred for leukemia and sarcoma cancer studies. An
inbred germfree colony of mice was 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 cells.
The End of the SVCP and the Birth of AIDS
By 1977 the SVCP came to a 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 SCVP 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. Like manna from
heaven, AIDS in gays put the virologists back in business. And HIV, a
cancer-causing and immunosuppressive retrovirus, would make Robert Gallo the
most famous scientist in the world.
Few people understand clearly that AIDS is a new form of cancer,
and this aspect of AIDS has not been publicized for obvious reasons. Physicians have
always told their patients that cancer is not contagious or sexually transmitted.
Virologists wanted AIDS and "gay cancer" to be a new disease because
HIV was supposedly brand new. It was easier to blame gays for initiating this
new disease with their sexual lifestyle than it was to point the finger at scientists. And
if AIDS was connected to animal cancer research, some people might wonder if the new
disease had anything to do with all those species jumping experiments in the 1970s. Making
people understand that AIDS is cancer would only confuse them.
And so, instead of looking for the source of HIV in the thousands
of animal cancer experiments performed througout the world, the virologists insisted on
looking for the source of the virus in primates in the African rainforest.
The Pre-AIDS Gay Hepatitis B Experiments (1978-1981)
As the SVCP was winding down, thousands of gay men were signing up as
guinea pigs for government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments in New York,
Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In a few years these cities would become the
epicenters for "gay-related immune deficiency syndrome, " later known as
AIDS.
Could virus-contaminated vaccines lie at the root of AIDS? In
the early 1970s the hepatitis B vaccine was developed in chimpanzees, now
widely accepted as the animal from which HIV supposedly evolved. To this day, some
people are fearful about taking the hepatitis B vaccine because of its original
connection to gay men and AIDS; and older physicians remember the original experimental
hepatitis vaccine was made from the pooled blood serum of hepatitis-infected
homosexuals.
Was HIV "introduced" into gays during these vaccine
trials when thousands of homosexuals were injected in New York beginning in 1978, and in
the West Coast cities in 1980-1981?
AIDS first erupted in gays living in New York City in 1979 a few
months after the experiment began in Manhattan. The astounding and statistically
significant fact is 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
AIDS became "official" in 1981). This would mean that Manhattan men had
the highest incidence of HIV anywhere in the world, including Africa, the supposed
birthplace of HIV and AIDS. The fact is that definite, proven cases of AIDS in Africa
would not appear until 1982.
Some researchers are convinced that these vaccine experiments served as
the vehicle through which HIV was "introduced" into the gay population in
America. Nevertheless, AIDS scientists have downplayed any connection of AIDS with
the vaccine. 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, published in 1988. Also included in this book is
evidence suggesting "patient
Zero" story of 1987, which claimed a promiscuous gay Canadian airline steward
brought AIDS to America. Montagnier "is doubtful that the American
epidemic could have developed from a single patient."
Montagnier admits that he stands apart from Robert Gallo on many
matters. In a mind-blowing statement he declares "Gallo was not a medical
doctor, but rather a biochemist by training. His limited experience with viruses at the
time perhaps explains his misinterpretations and the contaminations that occurred in his
laboratory." ( Gallo has always declared himself as a physician. If he is not, then
we certainly do have a conspiracy problem on our hands.)
What is obvious from their authored books is that while the continent
of Africa dies, these two top scientists in AIDS research continue their vendetta in
print, and continue to promote their own pet theories on the origin of HIV and AIDS
to an adoring scientific community.
"Gay and Straight" Strains of HIV and Sexual Preference
It is common knowledge that AIDS is a heterosexual disease
in Africa, and that AIDS started exclusively as a gay disease in the United
States. Although the public was told early on that "no one is immune from
AIDS", the fact remains that even now (20 years after the first AIDS cases) 80% of
the new AIDS cases in America are gay men, IV drug addicts, and their sexual partners. Why
is this? Certainly HIV does not discriminate between sexual preference and race! Or does
it?
In the mid-1990s molecular biologists identified at least 8
different subtypes (or "clades" or "strains") of HIV that were
infecting various people around the world. Remarkably, it turns out that the
"B" strain is the predominant strain infecting gays in the U.S. Even more
remarkable is that this strain of HIV has an "affinity" to infect
rectal tissue, thus explaining why gays are more likely to get AIDS than
straights. In contrast, the HIV strains common in Africa have an affinity for
vaginal and cervical cells, as well as for cells of the foreskin of the penis. Thus, HIV
is more likely to infect heterosexuals in Africa.
How do we know this? Max Essex (a Harvard veterinarian who performed
pre-AIDS experiments transferring feline leukemia virus between cat
populations) tested subtype E strains of HIV from Thailand. He discovered that this
Asian strain readily infected women's genital cells of the vagina and
cervix. But the "gay" B strain of HIV did not infect them as
easily.
AIDS experts tell us American AIDS came from Africa, but the strain of
HIV prevalent in gay men is almost never seen in Africa! How is this possible? Were
strains of HIV engineered to adapt easily to cells likely to be infected in
gay sex? Or adapted to genital cells involved in vaginal sex?
We know scientists in the SVCP were able to adapt certain
retroviruses to infect specific kinds of cells. As early as 1970 biowarfare
scientists were learning to design certain infectious agents (particularly viruses) that
would attack the cells of certain racial groups.
More recently, in 1997, Stephen O'Brien and Michael Dean of the
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute have shown that one
out of ten white people have AIDS-resistant genes, whereas blacks in Africa have
none. Is this simply another peculiarity of a virus that jumped species in the
African bush? Or is HIV a designer virus, specifically adapted in its subtypes to
infect certain racial groups and gay people?
When AIDS appeared in 1981, health officials assured the "general
public" that there was nothing to fear. "AIDS is a gay disease"
was the phrase repeated over and over again in a media blitz. As late as 1987, Robert
Gallo told Playboy reporter David Black, "I personally don't know of a single case
(in America) of a man getting the (AIDS) virus from a woman through heterosexual
intercourse."
In Africa, where AIDS affects men and women in equal numbers, Gallo's
explanation to Black was: "It happens, but that may be due to differences in sexual
practices, more promiscuity or to a greater incidence of venereal disease." Gallo
give Playboy his reassurance of the future of heterosexual AIDS in America: "AIDS
will never become an overwhelming danger to the general public."
Solving the Mystery of the Origin of AIDS
The pre-AIDS species jumping experiments of the Special
Virus Cancer Program (SVCP) have been largely expunged from the history
of HIV and AIDS. The viral contamination problems inherent in viral research have also
been downplayed. As a result, the origin of HIV and AIDS has been distorted and
obscured.
A serious examination of the SVCP provides
"missing links" to the possible laboratory origin of HIV. The ability
of SVCP scientists to produce "new" diseases with cancer-causing
animal viruses is a matter of record. The ability of animal viruses to easily
contaminate laboratory experiments and vaccine manufacture is also well known. All these
factors make the man-made theory of AIDS rational and compelling.
Some areas of HIV/AIDS history that require further analysis are:
The connection between AIDS and cancer
The connection of HIV to known (pre-AIDS) animal cancer lab viruses
The connection of the SVCP to the outbreak of AIDS
The connection of vaccine programs to the outbreak of AIDS
The connection of biological warfare research to the outbreak of AIDS
The disinformation surrounding the origin of AIDS
The disinformation blaming the "victims" of AIDS for the disease
The total secrecy of biological warfare and its implications for science
The wedding of cancer and AIDS scientists to biological warfare scientists
The "sworn to secrecy" problem of the government/military
scientists
The wedding of government to medical science for military b/w purposes
The long history of secret medical experiments on unsuspecting citizens
All these factors need to be explored more fully and impartially
in order to more fully elucidate the man-made, laboratory origin of HIV and AIDS.
To continue to ignore these issues is to ignore the fate of countless
millions who will die from AIDS and other "emerging viruses" in the future.
The Special Virus Cancer Program (and biowarfare experimentation
worldwide) has forever changed the course of history of medical science, resulting in the
current dangers of biological terrorism and the fear of newly emerging man-made viruses
and other infectious agents.
To study the theories of origin of HIV/AIDS and to ignore the
SVCP with its biowarfare implications is like studying the Holocaust and failing to
mention the Nazis. Some readers may find this analogy offensive, but in light of the
close connection of the SVCP with the outbreak of HIV and AIDS, it is suggested that final
judgement be reserved until all the pertinent facts are ascertained.
The SVCP and "the hand of man" lie at the root of HIV.
The flowering of the worldwide epidemic of AIDS is proof that the seeds were well planted.
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Related Websites:
http://www.bhc.edu/EastCampus/leeb/aids/index.html
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Acknowledgement: I am grateful to Robert E Lee, Vincent Gammill, Billi
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[Dr. Cantwell is a medical researcher and author of AIDS & The Doctors of Death,
and Queer Blood, both published by Aries Rising Press, PO Box 29532, Los Angeles, CA
90029, USA. These books are available on the Internet at Amazon.com, Barnes &
Noble, or through mail order at Book Clearing House @ 1-800-431-1579. ]