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Early
Hepatitis B Vaccines and the “Man-Made” Origin
of HIV/AIDS
by
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
This
article regards a matter of global urgency transcending better
known AIDS threats. It describes a universal challenge posed
by ever increasing numbers of plagues predicted to depopulate
at least half of the world’s current human inhabitants
within two generations. This documented science virtually
proves, through the process of elimination and a review of
the most updated evidence, the origin of HIV/AIDS as an iatrogenic
(i.e., man-made) outcome of specific vaccination experiments.
Considered
reflection on this AIDS science, along with the sociopolitical
correlates and antecedents of this current catastrophe, reveals
the likelihood that myriad other immune
dysfunctions, autoimmune diseases, and cancers, including
leukemias, lymphomas, sarcomas, and other ailments linked
to viral infections, have resulted from previously engineered
microbes that have by accident or intent found their way from
cancer virus laboratories into humanity’s bloodstream
by way of the most trusted public health preventative—vaccinations.
If
what you are about to read is true, and each point is precisely
stated and meticulously documented, beyond extensive depopulation,
humanity’s very survival may hinge on this recognition,
its implications, and our considered response. Especially
relevant, when reflecting on the following facts, is the wisdom
addressed by the late World Health Organization (WHO) AIDS
czar, Dr. Jonathan Mann, whose life ended tragically on Flight
111 enroute to a European AIDS conference. “More than
a medical scientific problem,” Dr. Mann said, “AIDS
is a sociopolitical imposition.”
Background
AIDS
is undoubtedly “man-made.” We can now assert this
“very apparent iatrogenic origin,” versus the
“theoretic iatrogenic origin” of HIV/AIDS because
of the rapidly increasing, now substantial, scientific support
for this conclusion. Currently, international scientific consensus
among leading investigators in this field, many of whose works
and words are excerpted below, holds that HIV/AIDS originated
from one or more extraordinary man-made, not natural, events
dating back to the early to mid-1970s. Especially implicated
in initiating the AIDS pandemic, according to many scientists
and scholars, was the hepatitis B vaccine as detailed in the
following pages.
This
may come as a surprise, or even quite a shock, to most people
since the mainstream media and most respected medical journals
have yet to herald the following knowledge. As a result most
“authorities” still issue false and misleading
claims such as: 1) “the HB vaccine theory of HIV/AIDS
origination has been discussed, debated, and dismissed by
an overwhelming majority of the HIV/AIDS research community;”
2) “People who claim that AIDS was man-made provide
false information and hearsay;” 3) “It is sad
that public attention and resources are diverted to attend
to such unscientific dribble;” 4) “Man-made origin
of AIDS vaccine proponents do severe damage to the public
health community and vaccination efforts;” and 5) “Those
that advance man-made theories of AIDS have financial motives,”
as though there were no financial interests on the other side
of the debate.
As
a pro bono consultant contacted recently by Amnesty International
(AI) members who desired to advance a resolution for the global
organization to investigate this HB vaccine thesis, I was
appalled by the amount of resistance and politicking performed
by members of AI’s so-called “HIV/AIDS Task Force”
which sought $1 billion of relief for human rights violations
associated with HIV/AIDS from the U.S. Government. These funds,
the Task Force reported, were urgently needed to buy drug–cocktails
for persons with HIV/AIDS. Each of the five claims cited above
were issued by members of this Task Force completely ignorant
of the following science.
With
regard to the first offensive claim, as the sole author of
“Polio, hepatitis B and AIDS: an integrative theory
on a possible vaccine induced pandemic” published by
Harcourt Publishers, Ltd. of London in the esteemed international
journal of Medical Hypothesis,2
this well-focused thesis has never been “discussed,
debated,” nor “dismissed” by any consensus
in any official capacity. Although Black Americans have been
polled regarding the origin of HIV/AIDS being man-made,3
there has never been a published polling of the scientific
community in this regard, and certainly not one regarding
the HB hypothesis advanced below.
HIV/AIDS
Origin Misconceptions Versus Science
Opponents
of iatrogenic (or “man-made”) theories of AIDS
have routinely confused hearsay and sporadic media propaganda
with hard science, such as that “discussed, debated”
and not “dismissed” recently at the Royal Society
of London’s inquiry into the origin of this pandemic.
They exclusively focused on the theory that contaminated polio
vaccines triggered the HIV/AIDS pandemic.4
These proceedings were published in 2001. Quotes relevant
to reasoned consideration of this unique/yet-to-be-tested
hepatitis B vaccine theory of HIV/AIDS follow. These statements
were made by featured presenters, all recognized leaders in
this multidisciplinary field discussing the polio vaccine
theory of AIDS origination. The first of these quotes is especially
relevant to
proposed investigations:
“There
should be an investigation by an international committee mostly
composed of non-medical people concerning how a rather obvious
and plausible theory [of AIDS’s origin from contaminated
vaccines] came to be scorned and restricted from publication
for so long, especially when important consequences regarding
mankind’s worst epidemic, and even more important consequences
for other possibly even worse that may be following, hang
in the balance. As a corollary it should be studied why the
hypothesis had to be promoted mainly by outsiders to science
and medicine. The ressures towards investigation (and non-investigation)
that emanate from huge drug companies and their influence
in slanting research in subtle ways should also be examined,
as should the role of journals and peer review in potentially
obstructing publications of controversial kinds.” W.D.
Hamilton,5 quoted by Julian Cribb
in “The origin of acquired immune deficiency syndrome:
can science afford to ignore it?” Phil. Trans. R. Soc.
Lond. B (2001) 356:935-938.
“Faced
with the terrible burden of AIDS, stories that HIV was introduced
into Africa from the West by an accident such as OPV [oral
polio vaccine] or intentionally by the USA Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) have gained widespread credence. . . . Nevertheless,
because natural transmission repeatedly occurs, albeit on
rare occasions, does not mean that contamination of a vaccine
could not have been the route on another occasion. As with
other infections, e.g., hepatitis B virus,natural and iatrogenic
transmissions of retroviruses are not mutually exclusive.” Weiss,
RA6
Despite
studies that have advanced evidence suggesting an earlier
than 1970 origin of HIV/AIDS,7-9
“[t]he fact that there were ten or so synchronous but
distinguishable African epidemics is a definitive feature
of AIDS for which the natural transfer theory [e.g., the “cut
hunter transfer”] gives no convincing account. . . .
To summarize these findings regarding the relatively large
number of distinct group M subtypes: no set of likely natural
conditions . . . will adequately simulate so many as ten distinguishable
subtypes in a complex star-like configuration . . . . [T]he
onus is upon the supporters of the natural [not iatrogenic]
theory to account for the unexpectedly large number of HIV-1
subtypes. Exponential growth of the epidemic(s) is not by
itself a satisfactory explanation (Hahn et al. 2000). . .
. The likeliest source of the multiple subtypes and the synchronization
of their conspicuous diversification is a punctuated origin
[i.e., an iatrogenic event]. . . . [I]t is not far-fetched
to imagine the ten or so clades deriving from a single animal
(perhaps immunosuppressed and possessing a swarm of variants)
[as might have been the case with chimpanzees used in the
process of vaccine manufacture] or from a few animals that
might have belonged to a single troop or might have been gang-caged
together. The number of animals required is secondary to the
extent of variation in the source at the time of the zoonotic
[i.e., transfer of the virus between species] or iatrogenic
event. The [vaccine] hypothesis makes a case for such a punctuated
origin . . .” Myers G, et al. 10
“We
conclude that SIV cannot become a zoonosis, but requires adaptive
mutations to become HIV. Some modern event must have aided
in the transition of SIV to HIV. Our research indicates that
serial passage of partially adapted SIV between humans could
produce the series of cumulative mutations sufficient for
the emergence of epidemic HIV strains . . . We conclude that
increased unsterile injecting in Africa during the period
1950-1970 provided the agent for SIV human infections to emerge
as epidemic HIV in the modern era.” Drucker E, et al.11
I
might interject at this point that this conclusion by Drucker
et al, although seriously undermining natural evolution theorists,
reflects a myopic arrogance unbecoming to their otherwise
reasonable hypothesis. Their conclusion neglects the risks
inherent in the hepatitis B vaccine manufacturing and testing
process as detailed below consistent with the analyses of
Myers et al.10 Obviously, all of
the above authoritative statements contradict “common
knowledge.” The consensus of scientists at this historic
British AIDS origin conference favored additional investigations
into possible iatrogenic sources of the HIVs.
The
1959 HIV Sequence Discovery
In
the interest of facilitating progress on this issue, much
publicity has been given to the notion that HIV was discovered
in a 1959 blood sample from Leopoldville, Zaire;9
and that scientific consensus holds 1931 as the approximate
date of HIV origination.7 These
superstitions have led to common, yet false, declarations
that HIV/AIDS originated well before the polio vaccination
era and the Special Virus Cancer Program (SVCP) that much
evidence below links to the “punctuated origin”
of AIDS.
For
the record, according to the authors of the 1959 discovery,
they never found, nor alleged to have found, HIV, or anything
like a full virus. According to these authors, even “attempts
to amplify HIV-1 fragments of >300 base pairs (bp) were
unsuccessful, . . . However, after numerous attempts, four
shorter sequences were obtained” that only represented
small portions of two of the six genes of the complete AIDS
virus.9
This
is why Gao et al, referred to the 1959 sequences as “the
oldest trace of the AIDS pandemic . . . although the precise
timing and circumstance of early events in the SIVcpz/HIV-1
zoonosis remain obscure.”22
[Editor’s note for the lay reader, “SIVcpz”
is short for “simian immunodeficiency virus from the
chimpanzee.” This is know to be the closest viral relative
to the human AIDS virus, HIV-1.]
Unfortunately,
regarding the 1959 sequences, Zhu et al., left much room for
misinterpretation if not wild speculation by stating that
given the “‘starburst phylogeny,’ HIV-1
was probably introduced into humans shortly before that time
frame, about a decade or two earlier than previously estimated.
. . .” 10 (Emphasis added.)
They speculated the zoonosis might have occurred “considerably
earlier than the late 1940s.” Obviously, this account
is irrelevant to “the extraordinary synchrony in the
1970s of ten or more distinguishable epidemics” discovered
by Myers et al. 10 Therefore, this
later group of researchers concluded that, with the exception
of the 1959 sequences suggesting viral ancestry, “Clinical,
serological and molecular retrospective studies have all failed
to produce any evidence of AIDS or HIV prior to the 1970s.”
10 (Emphasis added.) As Myers et
al., had initially advanced, the early to mid-1970s “Big
Bang” origin of HIV/AIDS is further supported by most
recent scientific evidence.10
As
if repeating false assumptions would alter historic and scientific
facts, many contemporary investigators, like those representing
AI’s HIV/AIDS Task Force, continue to imply the SIV
to HIV zoonosis occurred on or before 1959. Many natural evolution
theory evangelists continue to cite the now disproven “cut
hunter” theory to explain the origin of the pandemic.8,22 Reflecting
on Zhu et al’s position, however, they simply concluded
that the major-group viruses that dominate the global AIDS
pandemic at present shared a common ancestor in the 1940s
or the early 1950s. However, given confounding factors, including
the likelihood of viral gene recombination during the manufacture
and testing of the HB vaccine, like Korber et al.’s
speculation discussed in the next section, the 1959 “isolate”
may hold little, if any, relevance in determining the origin
of HIV/AIDS. 10
Suffice
it to say, no one has ever found a virus predating the SVCP
and the late 1970s.11 At best they
found fragments of what may have been the complete virus,
but more likely pieces of a progenitor virus they called “a
common ancestor” that dated back to “the 1940s
or the early 1950s.” These and other portions of this
“common ancestor” may have existed for centuries
if not millennia. Again, this evidence is rrelevant when considering
the 1970s “punctuated [iatrogenic] event” recently
determined to be undisputable scientific fact.
More
importantly, as Zhu and Ho et al., concluded, “the role
of large-scale vaccination campaigns, perhaps with multiple
uses of non-sterilized needles, should be carefully examined,
. . .” as contributing to the sudden emergence of HIV/AIDS
in North America and Africa simultaneously during the late
1970s.9,11
The
1931 AIDS Origin Assumption and Viral Recombination
Regarding
the 1931 estimated date of HIV’s origin advanced by
Korber et al.7 (i.e., “somewhere
between 1910 and 1950”), a critical examination of these
authors’ methods reveals problems. Largely speculative
due to their use of a confounding-factor-liable computer model,
Korber and colleagues noted their limitations. They stated
their finding(s) regarding the 1931 genetic projection, that
precludes various vaccine-induced pandemic theories, might
be wrong if viral recombination(s) had occurred. They most
certainly did in the evolutionary process of SIV to HIV according
to most cientists.10,13
Yet, despite these facts, iatrogenic theory opponents who
have secured a gross burden of proof” advantage in the
AIDS origin debate,20 repeatedly
reference this group’s work, along with the frequently
misrepresented work of Zhu, et al.9
concerning the 1959 sequence discovery.22
Again,
the “punctuated origin” of HIV/AIDS determined
by Myers et al., can only explain the nearly simultaneous
emergence of ten separate, though related, AIDS epidemics
in Africa during the early 1970s, that were well established
by 1976.10
Lending
further credence to the theory that early hepatitis B vaccine
trials provided the “punctuated event,” Korber
et al wrote of anticipated errors in their 1931 determination
using linear or recombinant evolutionary models due to “unnatural”
or iatrogenic events inciting viral recombination. They wrote
, “If there was a concentration of such recombinants
during just one period of sampling, the effect on the timing
estimate would be unpredictable.” 7
Thus,
if the “punctuated origin event” advanced by Myers
et al,10 had been the passage of
HB virus from polio vaccinated humans to chimpanzees then
back to humans, with the additional risk of recombination
from pooling hundreds of infected serum samples prior to additional
viral recombinant transfers via the HB vaccines given to human
subjects in New York City and sub-Saharan Africa, then this
might best explain the origin of HIV/AIDS and render Korber
et al’s 1931 projection inconsequential. As detailed
in the next section, this is precisely the thesis advanced
by Horowitz.2,13
In
summary, the determinations reached by Korber et al.,7
and Ho et al.,9 of possible dates
for the origin of HIV-1, 1931 and 1959 respectively, have
been adequately clarified elsewhere.10
“The authors themselves acknowledge, the super-computer-based
study cannot tell whether this hypothetical 1930 virus was
in humans or animals and so do not show when zoonosis occurred.”
7,10
Myers
et al. further qualified: “If PIV [primate immunodeficiency
virus] was in humans in the first half of the 20th century,
it may be estimated, given the assumptions of the look-back
analysis, that the ancestral HIV-1 group M virus arose at
1930 plus or minus 20 years.” Conversely, if PIV was
not in humans in the first half of the 20th century, then
the Korber et al analysis holds little, if any, value in-so-far-as
determining a date or origin of the HIVs and AIDS. 7,10
The
Earliest Hepatitis B Vaccines and The Origin of AIDS
If
early polio vaccines had not triggered the origin of HIV/AIDS
as scientific consensus now holds,6
then some other, chimpanzee-related, “iatrogenic event”
must be available to explain the staggering array of deadly
recombinants that were proven by Myers et al to have arisen
virtually simultaneously during the early to mid-1970s.10,21
In this regard, even more neglected, and perhaps more relevant
than the OPV theory of AIDS, is the hepatitis B (HB) vaccine
hypothesis.2,13,23
According
to scientific records,2 African
chimpanzees were used in the manufacture of the HB vaccines
during the early 1970s. Additional documents prove that human
HB viruses cultured in vivo in chimpanzees were returned to
humans whose infected blood serum was then pooled to develop
four different strains of experimental HB vaccine pilot tested
between 1970 and 1975 in New York City and central Africa.
This HB vaccine theory of HIV zoonosis proposes that endogenous,
or more likely exogenous, progenitor viruses were activated24
when serially transmitted from humans to chimpanzees, then
back to humans. Subsequently, pooled blood serum containing
HB surface antigen and/or live virions, a milieu ripe for
viral recombination, was used to develop the four suspected
vaccines administered to New York’s gay population and
simultaneously to sub-Saharan Africans. Besides the phylogenetic
evidence cited above, epidemiological evidence also supports
this HB vaccine theory of HIV/AIDS origination.
Figure
1 is derived from Higginson and Muir’s report on cancer
studies conducted by the International Agency for Research
in Cancer (IARC) in collaboration with the National Cancer
Institute (NCI).25 Figure 2 derives
from this data superimposed on a map of HIV-1 seroprevalence
in Africa reported by the U.S. Department of Commerce in a
publication discussing desirable depopulation associated with
HIV/AIDS.26 Additional evidence
here was supplied in the chronology of the early hepatitis
B vaccine trials compiled by Goodfield. 27
The two maps, juxaposed, show a striking correlation between
hepatitis B vaccine and liver cancer experiments conducted
in Africa during the early 1970s, and the countries in central
and southern Africa with the high est HIV-1 seroprevalence
rates by 1994. The black squares indicate areas participating
in the HB cancer virus research and vaccine trials.
It
should also be noted that Mozambique has one of the highest
rates of HIV-2, which was allegedly discovered by Essex et
al.,28 in Senegalese female prostitutes
years after the African hepatitis B vaccination pilot studies
began. Due to their state-authorized employment and high risk
for infection, Senegalese female prostitutes were required
to receive hepatitis B vaccinations for relicensure. That
Essex et al. found SIVagm, a documented vaccine contaminant,
in the blood of these human subject, is additionally compelling
evidence in support of the HB vaccine AIDS origination theory.29
In
brief, a well documented, theoretically viable, and generally
neglected evolutionary route of SIVagm to HIV-1 zoonosis sequentially
involves: 1) Polio vaccine recipients
worldwide, including gay men in New York, and Blacks in Central
Africa, were exposed to simian viruses including SV40, SFR
(Simian Foamy Retroviruses containing reverse transcriptase),
SIVagm, and perhaps others from the mid-1950s, through at
least the 1960s;2,4 2) Between 1965 and 1970, researchers
in NYC “isolated” and then inoculated the MS-2
strain of HB virus into the above cited New York and African
HB vaccine study “volunteers.”2,30
3) Human derived HB viruses, and
potentially activated retroviral sequences, were then transferred
to chimpanzees, then back again to humans in NYC and central
Africa during the development and testing of four genetically
altered subtypes of the pre-1975 experimental HB vaccine.32,33
HIV-1 progenitor contamination, recombination, and/or transmission
risks were likely increased during this process by: a) human
incubation for more than a decade of polio vaccine contaminants
and recombinants including SV40, SFR, and possibly SIVagm;
b) the pooling of infected blood serum donated by hundreds
of gay American and Black African polio vaccine recipients
who had subsequently received injections with chimpanzee cultured
strains of HB virus; c) the biohazardous laboratory conditions
and viral containment problems reported by the HB vaccine
investigators and their affiliates; and finally 5)
The four pooled serum-derived HB vaccines that were administered
to thousands of test subjects by 1975, primarily gay males
in NYC and central African Blacks. This series of events provides
the best explanation for an early to mid-1970s “punctuated
origin event” most precisely fitting the etiological
determinations of the HIV-1/AIDS pandemic.10
Again,
it should be noted that the African “volunteers”
inhabited a geographic area consistent with the highest rates
of HIV-1 seroprevalence. Among the nations where rates are
highest, HB studies were conducted in: Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire,
Uganda, Kenya, Swaziland, and the northeastern part of South
Africa. According to circumstantial evidence, eastern Zaire
bordering the West Nile region of northwest Uganda also hosted
such trials.2,25-27
Historic
Precedence for the HB Vaccine Hypothesis
There
is historic precedence for this precise HB thesis. According
to Beale, the risk of HB viruses contaminating human blood
serum and subsequent vaccinations was determined as early
as 1942. Then, more than 62 deaths and 28,500 cases resulted
from serum HB contaminated yellow fever vaccines.31
According
to Hilleman, early yellow fever vaccines also delivered leukemic
retroviruses to human populations due to caged animal and
laboratory contaminations and concomitant vaccine transmissions.13
Dr.
Hilleman additionally reinforced this “punctuated origin”
thesis by describing the risks he encountered by importing
contaminated African sub-human primates for vaccine research
and development at the Merck pharmaceutical company. Between
the late 1950s through the 1970s, Dr. Hilleman told Harvard
medical historian Edward Shorter in 1987, “I brought
African greens in. I didn’t know we were importing AIDS
virus at the time.”13
Given
these statements of fact, it is reasonable to suggest, as
stated above, the earliest HB vaccine pilot studies may have
activated an endogenous or exogenous HIV-related retroviral
gene in one or more of the primates,24
fulfilling the “starburst phylogeny” antecedents
advanced by Myers et al.10
During
the Royal Society’s symposium on the origin of AIDS,
Hooper’s 1950s OPV/AIDS hypothesis was largely rebuked
because he failed to establish the use of chimpanzees by the
Wistar Institute in the production of the suspected OPV.18
Moreover, this vaccine was not given selectively to New York’s
gay male population. Curiously, Merck’s early 1970s
hepatitis B vaccine trials that did involve gay men in NYC,
and Blacks in central Africa, partially prepared in Litton
Bionetics (LB) exported/Merck imported African chimpanzees,
ironically went without mention.
“Burden
of Proof” and the Origin of AIDS
The
most vocal opponent of the OPV and HB vaccine theories of
HIV/AIDS origination is Dr. John Moore, affiliated with Rockefeller
University’s Aaron Diamond Research Center in New York.
As
reported in Medical Hypothesis, following a presentation advancing
the HB vaccine theory of HIV/AIDS at the XI International
Conference on AIDS, in 1996, Dr. Moore flippantly rebuked
this thesis in the Canadian press. A few years later, he did
the same regarding the Edward Hooper’s book, The River,
which he alleged was historically inaccurate, potentially
damaging to the public’s trust in western medicine,
and harmful to his colleagues “efforts to make AIDS
vaccines for use in Africa.”2
When
this author personally contacted Dr . Moore in an effort to
begin scientific discourse following his Canadian press interview,
Moore refused any formal discussion. Responding later to prodding,
he wrote me from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center saying,
“I explicity denied you an interview when you requested
one. . . . I said to you that I had ‘no interest’
in your . . . grotesque theories . . . For the record, I know
what your views are, and I reject them. Indeed, I dismiss
them as uninteresting, incorrect and downright stupid.”
In the Vancouver Sun, Moore was further quoted as saying,
“HIV is transmitted from monkeys to humans. I don’t
think there’s any doubt about that. It’s hard
scientific reality.” In fact, according to scientific
consensus, the defining zoonosis for the origin of HIV occurred
between chimpanzees and humans, not monkeys.2
It
should be noted that Dr. Moore’s institutional benefactors
include the Rockefeller family which, along with the Rockefeller
Foundation and its institutional affiliate—the Sloan-Kettering
Memorial Cancer Center in New York—has heavily invested
in
viral
cancer research, vaccine developments, propaganda programs,
population control efforts, and the Merck pharmaceutical company
in particular. Thus, Moore’s bias is strongly suggested.2,13,14
Worse
yet, history shows that soon after Dr. Gallo’s alleged
“discovery” of the AIDS virus in 1984, Dr. Moore
co-directed the only official effort to examine Merck’s
HB vaccine for “fear of possible AIDS transmission.”23 His
principle co-investigator was Dr. B.J. Poiesz at the State
University of New York. Dr. Poiesz, their paper noted, had
worked closely with Dr. Gallo in isolating the “type-C”
cancer virus associated with lymphomas during the mid to late-1970s. Their
group of researchers included “anonymous CDC authors”
who, for unspecified reasons, omitted the centrally important
New York City and African HB vaccine recipients from their
analysis. Adding insult to this injury, the team’s conclusions
were entirely inconsistent with earlier epidemiological
determinations and serological measures.13
Reinforcing
the observance of such political bias and tainted science
in this field of inquiry is the conclusion reached by several
featured speakers at the Royal Society’s meeting in
London. They addressed the “burden of proof” required
of iatrogenic versus natural AIDS origin theorists. 10,
19, 20 These
experts protested the unfair unscientific advantage that has
been historically given to outspoken natural evolution theorists,
such as Dr. Moore, who have been curiously exempt from having
to substantiate their obviously flawed claims and hypotheses.
Ironically, despite this, their unproven misguided theories
remain widely accepted as supposed fact.10,
19,20
The
only remedy such deception is updated knowledge regarding
the advanced genetic analyses that have seriously undermined
arguments for isolated viral leaps that cannot adequately
explain the source of AIDS and the “sunburst phylogeny”
of HIV’s earliest African strains.10
In the wake of the Royal Society’s symposium, theories
that now appear tenuous, if not ludicrous, include isolated
parenteral (i.e., skin piercing) injuries (e.g., the “cut
hunter theory”), nutritional exposures, population movements,
and climatic variations that are alleged to have led to isolated
zoonotic events followed years later, evolutionarily, by the
spreading plague. Alternatively, many participants at the
conference concluded that the transfer of SIV to human beings
was probably connected with unprecedented medical activity
in Africa in the 20th century.”21
Bionetics
Evidence to be Reconciled
What
continues inadequately reported in the scientific literature,
perhaps because researchers remain unaware, or because most
investigators would certainly feel threatened by such disconcerting
revelations, was that the precise scenario advanced by Myers
et al.,10 to best account for the
sunburst phylogeny and “punctuated origin” event
was repeatedly engineered and studied during the Litton Bionetics
(LB) administered SVCP, at precisely the time (1969-1974)
required to produce the “Big Bang,” as Myers originally
called it. At this same time, LB’s study of HB viral
co-infections with viruses currently linked to HIV-related
immune suppression and AIDS symptomatology was ongoing, as
you will read below. This information comes directly from
their contract titled, “Investigations of Viral Carcinogenesis
in Primates” (NIH Grant Number 71-2025 beginning February
12, 1962). This team, officiated by NCI “Project
Officer” Dr. Robert Gallo, the subsequent discoverer
of HTLV-1,2 (leukemia viruses) and
HIV-1 (the AIDS virus) almost 15 years later, stated:
“During
the past year [1970] macaques were inoculated at birth or
in utero with the Mason-Pfizer monkey mammary virus, Epstein-Barr
virus (EBV), Herpesvirus saimiri, and Marek’s disease
virus. EB virus was given with immunostimulation and immunosuppression
(ALS, prednisone, imuran). Australian antigen [HB virus] was
given to newborn African green monkeys.”
Might
this quoted knowledge have impacted Dr. Gallo’s earliest
declaration that the origin of HIV-1 came from “African
greens” (i.e., SIVagm), and/or Dr. Hilleman’s
confession that he brought the AIDS virus into North America
in African greens?
Furthermore,
it is well known that HIV-2 sources from macaque monkeys from
this same time period.8 Might this
specific multiply-infected simian colony be the source of
the original SIV to HIV zoonosis? There is much evidence to
suggest this, and it is certainly worthy of an official inquiry.
It
is also curious that EBV was of major interest to the LB team
of researchers.
It
is also well known that EBV is a potent co-carcinogen with
HIV-1 and deadly co-factor in the development of AIDS.
This
1971 report by Landon, Ting and Gallo et al., referenced the
use of “colony-born” primates observed for seroconversion
to “EB positive” immune suppressive status predisposing
the animals for retroviral infections and cancers. To summarize
this work, conducted almost a decade before Dr. Gallo “discovered”
the first leukemia retrovirus (HTLV-I), and later HIV-1, his
Bionetics coworkers disclosed that their:
“[B]reeding
and holding colonies were surveyed for antibody to EBV. All
breeders were positive and their offspring contain maternal
antibody for several months. . . . [Moreover,] An RNA-dependent
DNA polymerase, [the primary AIDS-linked enzyme] similar to
that associated with RNA tumor viruses, was detected in human
leukemic cells but not in normal cells stimulated by phytohemagglutinin.
The enzyme was isolated, purified and concentrated 200-fold,
making possible its further characterization and study in
relation to the leukemic process in man.”33
This
document, and statement alone, considering its date, should
be adequate impetus for an independent investigation into
the SVCP with regard to the origin of AIDS.
Reflecting
on the specific scenario advanced by Myers and co-workers
regarding the phylogenetic, recombinant, and immunosuppressive
correlates and antecedents of the “starburst”
that reflects at least ten simultaneous HIV/AIDS African outbreaks,
the Bionetics investigators stated the significance and “proposed
course” of their vaccine research involving chimpanzees. They
wrote:
“Significance
to Biomedical Research and to the [Special Virus Cancer] Program
of the [National Cancer] Institute: Inasmuch as tests for
the biological activity of candidate human [cancer] 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
measures of control. The close phylogenetic relationship of
the lower primates [i.e., chimpanzees] to man justifies utilization
of these animals for these purposes. Further study of altered
transfer RNA and polymerase enzymes would determine their
significance in neoplastic change and provide a basis for
selection of therapeutic agents.
“Proposed
Course: Continuation with increased emphasis on monitoring
and intensive care of inoculated animals to determine if active
infection occurs, effects of infection, and degree of immunosuppression
when used. Further studies of human neoplasms at a molecular
level will continue.”33
Inasmuch
as humans were not being directly infected with “candidate
viruses” during this program according to the contract
summary, live viral vaccines derived from retroviruses similar
to the HIVs were being prepared and tested in primate populations
that apparently included humans as well as chimpanzees. This
at the precise time that the Australian antigen—the
HB highly infectious and easily transmissible cancer virus—and
related HB vaccines were being injected into both chimpanzees
and humans in New York and Sub-Saharan Africa by LB collaborators.33
At
the XI International Conference on AIDS in 1996, when questioned
regarding his involvement in these Bionetics studies, Dr.
Gallo angrily replied to this author, “Quite frankly,
I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.”13
If the HB vaccine theory might be the focus of a reputable
independent inquiry, such as the one urged by Cribb,19
and now AI members, Dr. Gallo might be obliged to formally
discuss his contract with Bionetics wherein the “Australian
antigen was given to newborn African green monkeys”
in the context of testing “a swarm of [candidate viral
and retroviral] variants.” If he still contends this
HB vaccine/origin of AIDS theory has no merit, as he argued
forcefully at that time, then perhaps he would be willing
to publish an alternative account reflecting more recent scientific
revelations.
Huebner
et al, referred to in Bionetics’s SVCP contract (NIH-71-2025),
might also be persuaded to divulge valuable insights regarding
this HB vaccine/origin of AIDS thesis.34
At that time, 1969, Dr. Robert Huebner was also a leader in
this field on the esteemed National Academy of Sciences–National
Research Council (NAS–NRC), that is, at precisely the
time the Congressional Appropriations Committee heard testimony
concerning the technical expertise available through the NAS–NRC
for the U.S. Army’s development of AIDS-like viruses.
At that time these viruses were referred to by military personnel
in the Congressional Record as “synthetic biological
agents.” However, the scientific community referred
to them as “type-C” RNA tumor viruses. Huebner
was exquisitely aware of these developments and various retroviral
species that were routinely being generated using crude early
methods of recombination in SVCP labs. Again, these viruses
were descriptively and functionally identical to HIV-1.2,3,13,14 According
to the Bionetics contract summary report from 1972, Dr. Huebner’s
group isolated and tested a cat/human hybrid oncornavirus,
RD-114, from a human sarcoma by 1971. Sarcomas, associated
with leukemias and lymphomas in AIDS patients were, at that
time, unheard of in gay men. Later, in 1981, HB virus and
vaccine expert, Dr. Don Francis, relayed his opinion as to
the source of the first GRID (AIDS) cases in New York, “It’s
a combination of feline leukemia and hepatitis B,” he
told his mentor Max Essex at Harvard.35
The
following SVCP contract excerpt34 discusses the testing of
effective treatments for HIV/AIDS-like infections at that
early date:
“The
effects of 11 rifamycin derivaties on viral reverse transcriptase
and on DNA polymerases from human normal and leukemic blood
lymphocytes were evaluated. Compound 143-483, 3-formyl rifamycin
SV: octyl oxime showed the greatest potency and inhibited
all DNA polymerases from both viral and cellular origins.”
Might
this be a cure for HIV/AIDS? Unless further investigations
into this matter are conducted, we may never know.
Reflecting
on these revelations in-so-far-as the myriad viral recombinants
potentially contaminating LB’s labs and caged animals,
and the determinations of Myers et al,10
a most appropriate question is, “Why only ten forms
of HIV/AIDS broke out during the early1970s?” It would
seem likely that many of the SIVs originated from these investigations
as well as other pandemics such as herpes that exploded during
the mid to late 1970s along with immune suppressive disorders
associated with EBV infections and related cancers. Obviously,
it would be helpful to investigate the possibility of other
plagues that may have derived from vaccine contaminations
and transmissions during the SVCP.
Many
researchers, in fact, issued forewarnings about the grave
risks posed by recombinant cancer virology.13
Others cited similar risks from public health’s “sacred
cow” vaccinations.31 It is
sobering to reflect on this knowledge in the wake of the Royal
Society’s publications and official evaluations.19
Considering
The Genocidal Theory of AIDS
The
1998 report of Zhu et al.9 was well
timed to help promote co-author Edward Hooper’s book,
The River, which substantially reinforced a previously advanced
OPV theory of AIDS’s origin,12
and gave only superficial consideration to possible hepatitis
B vaccine contaminations as the zoonotic vector for transferring/transforming
SIVcpz into the human AIDS virus by 1976.4
Hooper referenced Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola—Nature,
Accident or Intentional? among the texts that explore the
genocidal theory of AIDS which he credited for his background
on the hepatitis B theory.13 He
cautioned against blanket acceptance of the intentional theory
of HIV/AIDS, which is consistent with the proposed AI investigation
of the SVCP, but he did not rule out the possibility that
HIV was released intentionally.4
As
Weiss stated, theories involving the CIA in the origin of
AIDS have gained wide acceptance.6
Investigations by Horowitz et al.2,3,13
focused on the CIA and the 1969 appropriations hearings in
which the NAS–NRC was credited as the source of technical
expertise for the U.S. Army’s development of AIDS-like
viruses. At that time, biological weapons were of great interest
to Nelson Rockefeller’s protégé, and Nixon
administration National Seurity Advisor (NSA), Dr. Henry Kissinger.
According to his biographer, and two previous CIA directors—William
Colby and Richard Helms—Kissinger oversaw the CIA’s
top secret biological weapons program called MK:NAOMI. Soon
after becoming NSA, he ordered a review of such weapons capabilities.13-15
Furthermore,
in the early 1970s, in keeping with U.S. Government and global
industrialists’ initiatives reflecting Rockefeller-directed
Population Council urgings for Third World depopulation, Kissinger
requested and received National Special Security Memorandum
200 articulating the urgency of dramatically reducing African
populations.16 At that time Kissinger
and associates were leading advisors to the Merck pharmaceutical
company whose president, George W. Merck, was America’s
biological weapons industry director, as he had been since
World War II.17
According
to Hooper, the genocidal hypothesis of HIV/AIDS should be
“taken with a grain of salt.”4 It
is clear, however, that compelling evidence exits, albeit
circumstantial, that U.S. Government officials, including
Henry Kissinger, may have had something to do with the initial
HIV/AIDS outbreak. At the precise time corresponding to the
earliest transmissions of HIV/AIDS, Kissinger directed a national
security cryptocracy that included corporate affiliates at
the biological weapons contractor /vaccine maker Merck, as
well as the traditional weapons contractor Litton Industries.
Litton’s president, Roy Ash, also served in the Nixon
administration overseeing American industry. Litton’s
medical subsidiary, Bionetics, as detailed above, largely
directed the NCI’s SVCP, administered America’s
premier biological weapons testing center at Fort Detrick,
Maryland, and supplied the chimpanzees, monkeys, monkey viruses,
primate cell lines, and other resources for cancer research,
biological weapons development, and
vaccine manufacture.
Thus,
Kissinger certainly maintained the means, through his official
channels at Merck, Litton Bionetics, and the CIA, as well
as the motive, to deploy AIDS-like viruses by 1974 in Merck’s
HB vaccine. What is unconscionable to most people, Kissinger,
a staunch advocate of African depopulation, would have considered
it convenient that the emergence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan
Africa coincided synchronously with the massive depopulation
policy institutionalized with primary funding from the Rockefeller
Foundation and the Merck Fund.2,3,13,14
Most
recently, Kissinger’s direction of foreign genocidal
operations has been heralded by even mainstream periodicals.36
In light of these revelations, it is stunning that Kissinger
wrote his own genocide indemnification policy on behalf of
the United States Government in Foreign Affairs published
by the Council on Foreign Relations in 2001.37
The
Challenge Before Us
“There
is a crisis of public faith in science and scientists,”
stated Dr. Julian Cribb, referring to the contentious manner
in which origin of HIV/AIDS research and debate has been conducted
thus far. “What I have described is . . . a systematic
endeavour to suppress public discussion and scientific inquiry
into this important [vaccine] hypothesis and to discredit
its proponents over more than 12 years.”
He
summarized before the esteemed Royal Society gathering. “Unless
scientists are prepared to go into this issue objectively
and transparently, it will damage the standing of science
in the eyes of the community.” 19
Determining
the origin of HIV/AIDS is vital for the following reasons
according to Cribb: 1) to prevent similar calamities in the
future; 2) to discover remedial
methods and materials that might evolve from such knowledge;
3) to improve safety standards in
viral laboratories and vaccine production facilities based
on the knowledge of the pandemic’s origin; and 4)
to restore faith and trust in this area of science and medicine.
19
Furthermore,
Cribb argued, “If AIDS is iatrogenic, through an honest
mistake, science may be forgiven. But if it seeks to bury
the idea, first, it will fail and second, it will destroy
public trust.” To the extent that the HB vaccine theory
of AIDS is officially neglected, as Hamilton foretold: “This
hypothesis is certainly not going to go away.”19
But
if the HB vaccine theory on the origin of AIDS, as current
science overwhelmingly supports and the “process of
elimination” has virtually proven, is ultimately accepted,
then Cribb’s forgivable “honest mistake”
conjecture might need to be reexamined against more unnerving
possibilities.
At
the time of this writing, the U.S. Homeland Security Act passed
the Senate virtually unanimously. Mysteriously incorporated
in its text was a vaccine injury indemnity clause that freed
drug companies from liabilities associated with specific vaccine
ingredients, such as HIV precursors in the HB vaccines. With
this gross violation of U.S. constitutional, civil, and human
rights, hundreds of thousands of Americans have been forced
to care, without compensation, for vaccine injured family
members. If the U.S. Government is able to get away with this
most blatant breach of public faith, what is it capable of
doing covertly? Clearly, this current vaccine policy
is a form of institutionalized genocide—defined as “the
mass enslaving (pharmaceutically and otherwise) and killing
of people for economics, politics, and/or ideology?”
So
long as the above scientific facts and AIDS issues remain
unaddressed by medicine’s mainstream, the implications
are that AIDS science and vaccination policies, and likely
all of science, has evolved in a vacuum devoid of ethics to
serve political, economic, and/or ideological motives. Thus,
by strict definition, genocide and iatrogenesis have much.
So much so that regardless of whether HIV/AIDS originated
by accident or intentionally, with this data, there is sufficient
justification to coin a new most appropriate term—“iatrogenocide.”
Further
research to test this hypothesis should include: retrospective
epidemiological studies of homosexual populations in New York
reported to have received the earliest HB vaccines; serological
studies of any stored blood and/or serum from these early
HB vaccine study subjects; likewise for the chimpanzees used
in the preliminary trials and/or vaccine manufacture; and
genetic analyses of viral components in samples of the vaccine
lots used during these earliest HB vaccine trials (if still
available).
About
the Author
Leonard
G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., is an internationally known
authority in the overlapping fields of public health, behavioral
science, emerging diseases, and bioterrorism. He received
his doctorate in medical dentistry from Tufts University School
of Dental Medicine in 1977, was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship
in behavioral science at the University of Rochester, earned
a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University,
and another Master of Arts degree in health education from
Beacon College, all before joining the research faculty at
Harvard. Dr. Horowitz is best known for his national bestselling
book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola—Nature,
Accident or Intentional? (Tetrahedron Press, 1998; 1-888-508-4787)
which
recently resulted in the United Stated General Accounting
Office investigating the man-made origin of AIDS theory. (See:
http://www.healingcelebrations.com/gao.htm) Dr. Horowitz’s
brilliant work in the field of vaccination risk awareness
has prompted at least three Third World nations to change
their vaccination policies. His recent stunning testimony
before the United States Congress’ Government Reform
Committee, literally brought the hearing to a halt. (See:
http://www.healingcelebrations.com)
Dr. Horowitz questioned government health officials regarding
a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) secreted
report showing a definitive link between the mercury ingredient
(i.e., thimerosal), common to most vaccinations, and the skyrocketing
rates of autism and behavioral disorders affecting our children
and the future our nation.
Incredibly,
Dr. Horowitz alerted the FBI, in writing and in person, one
week before the first anthrax mailing was announced in the
press, that a “major anthrax fright” was in the
process of unfolding that demanded the FBI’s urgent
attention. Needless to say they did not heed Dr. Horowitz’s
prophetic warning.
Moreover,
three months before the September 11 attacks on the World
Trade Center and Pentagon, Dr. Horowitz released his thirteenth
book, prophetically titled Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism
and Toxic Warfare. The book focuses on the West Nile Virus
as an act of bioterroism, and considers what and who is really
behind this and other recent outbreaks. Dr. Horowitz argues
that his disclosures expose the roots of global terrorism,
along with the individuals and organizations at the heart
of what he calls “the petrochemical–pharmaceutical
cartel.” He believes this “multi-national corporate
beast” is in the process of committing global genocide,
profiting from engineered frights, and at the same time, most
efficiently culling targeted populations considered excessive.
Very
recently, you may have heard that Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT),
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called for an
investigation into the links between the recent West Nile
Virus outbreaks and bioterrrorism. Dr. Horowitz is the principle
pioneer and investigator of this theory.
Dr.
Horowitz’s contact information, books, audiotapes, and
video programs are available through www.tetrahedron.org,
or by calling 1-888-508-4787.
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