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The Medical CIA, Part 1 & 2 (agree or disagree, fascinating story!)
AttacReport ^ | December 1993 | Bryan Ellison

Posted on 06/01/2005 4:47:29 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC

The Medical CIA Part I

(Published in drastically rewritten, condensed form as “AIDS: Words from the Front,” Spin Magazine, Dec. 1993)

“This is the epidemic of the century, and every qualified person should want to have a piece of the action.”

Donald Francis was not known for his subtlety. When he wanted something, he would make demands while pounding the table with his fist. This time he was giving a speech to his fellow officers of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Federal agency charged with handling public health issues. Speaking at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, he was revealing a hidden agenda — one that would shock an uninitiated visitor.

Francis saw the AIDS epidemic as a golden opportunity, a crisis that could force Congress to grant the CDC more money and expanded authority. “The United States needs to establish a separate line of public health authority,” he declared, and restructure the CDC to make it less accountable to the President and Congress. Having given the CDC a new mandate to manage the epidemic, the government would then guarantee medical coverage to all HIV-infected Americans, a program that would lure people in to be tested for the virus. Third, he proposed a program of “safe injection,” in which heroin and other drugs would be prescribed to addicts who might otherwise use drugs without government supervision. Fourth, the government would also begin taking over vaccine production, not only for AIDS but for all diseases. Then Francis turned to his ultimate objective. “CDC needs to reestablish its leadership role in HIV prevention,” he emphasized. “Prevention requires close coordination, training, and financial support of state and local health departments.” In other words, the CDC should seize control over all public health functions in the country.

This ambitious plan had originally begun as “Operation AIDS Control” in 1984. Francis had been asked to write the proposal because of his experience using heavy-handed measures in dealing with disease epidemics. Working for the CDC, he had spent years in such Third World countries as India, Bangladesh, and several African nations. He had responded to unexplained epidemics by quarantining the victims and suppressing local customs. Whenever such epidemics coincidentally disappeared, Francis would take full credit. Now he wanted to bring similar methods to bear against AIDS. According to the CDC’s own estimates, a constant one million Americans have been carrying HIV, the so-called “AIDS virus,” since 1985. Of those, only one-fifth have developed AIDS. All these people would fall under CDC control, sick or healthy.

Francis continued his speech by outlining his plan for managing AIDS, starting with techniques to find all the HIV-positives. “The concept of routine voluntary testing for everyone should be aggressively promulgated as the standard of medical practice,” he said. Then the CDC would trace all the sexual partners of these infected people, testing them as well. Having been registered in a database, the HIV-positives would be “linked to lifelong medical and preventive services” under CDC control. Any vaccine or drug favored by the agency could be distributed almost instantaneously to the helpless individuals.

According to Francis, the plan would become permanent. This “new system of public health” would reach far beyond AIDS, extending to issues ranging from the food we eat to accidental injuries, from population control to criminal violence. The CDC would have the power to force lifestyle changes on virtually everyone, guilty or innocent, all in the name of prevention.

This Orwellian-sounding scenario jars with the image most outsiders have of the CDC — a simple statistics-gathering operation that keeps track of diseases. If the agency were actually that harmless, Donald Francis’ notions would amount to personal opinions with no serious impact. But the truth is surprisingly different. The CDC has long aimed to become this nation’s centrally powerful public health agency, regulating every aspect of our individual lives. Francis himself belongs to a special group of insiders working to make this vision reality. Since 1971, he has been a member of a semi-secret, elite unit of the CDC known as the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS).

Often called the “medical CIA” by scientists who know of its existence, the EIS was the brainchild of public health VIP Alexander Langmuir. The CDC had been itching to expand beyond its mandate for malaria control, but needed some justification. In 1949 it tapped Langmuir from his teaching position at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Langmuir’s arrival was a coup for the CDC — he had a security clearance as one of the few scientific advisors to the Defense Department’s biological and chemical warfare program. The Cold War was raging at that time, and civil defense ranked high in government priorities. So officials of the Public Health Service listened to Langmuir when he proposed that the CDC build a comprehensive disease surveillance system to detect the earliest signs of a biological warfare attack. Besides, noted Langmuir, the same infrastructure could also be used to control any natural epidemic, using quarantine measures, mass immunizations, and other emergency techniques.

Federal officials soon agreed, and gave Langmuir millions of dollars to create a special new division of the CDC. In July of 1951, he assembled some twenty-three young medical or public health graduates for the first class of the EIS. Langmuir put them through six weeks of intensive epidemiological training, and assigned the new EIS officers for two years to hospitals or to state and local health departments around the country. Upon completing their field experience, EIS alumni were free to pursue any career they desired. But they all understood the implicit agreement that they would function as a permanent reserve for the CDC. Their loyalties would remain with the agency for life, and they would act as its eyes and ears. The symbol of the EIS reflected its focus on activism instead of scientific research — a pair of shoe soles worn through with holes.

Every summer since 1951, a new class of carefully-chosen EIS recruits has been trained, some classes exceeding one hundred people. Until a few months ago, the EIS had released an annual directory of its membership, but now it has made the list secret after receiving several outside requests for copies. Members rarely advertise their affiliation, and the CDC has quietly placed nearly 2000 EIS trainees in key positions throughout this country and the world. Many work in the CDC itself, others in various agencies of the Federal government. One EIS graduate became a Surgeon General of the United States, and two others became assistant Surgeons General. Some have staffed the World Health Organization, including Jonathan Mann and Michael Merson, the past and present heads of its Global AIDS Program. Fellow agents can be found in the health departments of foreign nations. Several dozen have entered university public health programs as teachers and researchers. Roughly 150 have taken jobs in state or local health departments, closely watching every little outbreak of disease. Hundreds have become private practice doctors, dentists, or even veterinarians, while others work in hospitals. Some have joined biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies, or have even risen in the ranks of major insurance corporations. Some reside within tax-exempt foundations, helping direct the spending of trust funds on medical projects.

Several have even infiltrated prominent positions in the communications media. Lawrence Altman joined the New York Times as a medical journalist in 1969, since rising to become its head medical writer. Bruce Dan was hired by ABC News as its Chicago medical editor for six years beginning in 1984, the same year he became a senior editor of the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, a position he still holds today. Marvin Turck has held the title of editor at the University of Washington’s Journal of Infectious Diseases since 1988. These three men were recruited into the EIS in 1963, 1979, and 1960, respectively — each one years before he entered the media.

Regardless of which career paths EIS alumni take, the vast majority retain their contacts with the CDC. Not only do they constitute an informal surveillance network, but they can even act as unrecognized advocates for the CDC viewpoint, whether as media journalists or as prominent physicians. And they serve as a reservoir of trained personnel for any CDC-defined “emergency.” As Langmuir himself described it in 1952, “One of the primary purposes of the Epidemic Intelligence Services of CDC is to recruit and train such a corps of epidemiologists.… As a result of their experience, many of these officers may well remain in full-time epidemiology or other public health pursuits at federal, state, or local levels. Some, no doubt, will return to civilian, academic, or clinical practice, but in the event of war they could be returned to active duty with the Public Health Service and assigned to strategic areas to fulfil the functions for which they were trained.”

Biological warfare, of course, never struck. Nor would it have been a disaster anyway, for even the deadliest germs can only kill a fraction of infected people, those who are least healthy. But the CDC did turn to declaring wars on natural diseases, which gave the agency plenty of material to work with. Most people do not know that this country alone experiences more than one thousand clustered outbreaks of disease each year — roughly one every eight hours — including colds, flus, hepatitis, and numerous noninfectious conditions, all running their course and disappearing often despite remaining unexplained by scientists. The EIS could detect most of those clusters as soon as they popped up, and in its military style, would treat selected outbreaks as emergencies on the assumption they were contagious.

The flu proved to be one of their perennial favorites for exploitation. At the end of World War I, a flu epidemic had swept through the nation as troops returned home from Europe, and had taken hundreds of thousands of lives. Because of healthier conditions, no flue has since been as deadly. The CDC, however, has always itched to revive that old flu scare.

Its first major opportunity surfaced in the spring of 1957 with news of a flu sweeping nations of the Far East. The CDC rang the alarm of an imminent and devastating epidemic heading for the United States, and Congress responded by providing money. Langmuir dipped into the new funds to expand the EIS, and the CDC crash-produced a vaccine that nevertheless arrived too late. But in the end, the mild flu disappeared quite spontaneously, leaving behind none of the predicted destruction. Some public health experts even questioned whether the hyped-up scare may have only stimulated vaccine sales.

The CDC tried again in 1976. By that time the EIS network had become so widespread that it could detect even the tiniest outbreaks. When five soldiers caught a flu that January, the alarm bells broke out again. This time the disease was nicknamed the “swine flu,” based on the speculation that pigs served as the reservoir for the virus. The CDC predicted another fatal pandemic like that of 1918. President Ford and Congress panicked, throwing vast new sums of money into another flu vaccine. Then came an unexpected wrinkle: the program stalled when insurers discovered that the vaccine itself had lethal side effects. This jeopardized the CDC’s mass immunization crusade.

Now the EIS network sprang into action. Except for the five soldiers, no flu epidemic could be found, and the EIS was placed on full alert to detect any outbreak. Unless Congress could be convinced the danger was real, the vaccine program would end. As described by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts in their book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, the large Auditorium A, located in CDC headquarters in Atlanta, became the command center — called the “War Room.” Set up especially for this occasion, it contained “banks of telephones, teleprinters, and computers, the hardware for an unprecedented monitoring system which, to work, also required a typing pool, photocopy machines, and doctors sitting at rows of desks in the center of the room.” Experts worked around the clock, week after week, chasing down every rumor of flu outbreaks.

A cluster of pneumonia cases suddenly appeared in Philadelphia, days after American Legion members had returned home from their July convention. On Monday morning, August 2nd, after receiving word of this outbreak, personnel in the CDC’s swine flu War Room established contact with Jim Beecham, a brand new EIS officer on assignment in the Philadelphia health department. The CDC could not directly intervene in the situation without an invitation, and Beecham helped arrange one immediately. Within hours three EIS officers flew down to Philadelphia. They were joined within days by a team of dozens of CDC experts.

When the CDC personnel arrived, pre-positioned EIS members such as Beecham and top health advisor Robert Sharrar stopped obeying local authorities and began following orders from the incoming CDC team. Local officials became helpless to stop the tide of events. The CDC seized the initiative, fomenting wild rumors that this “Legionnaire’s disease” was the beginning of the swine flu epidemic. The media proved cooperative; the New York Times assigned none other than Lawrence Altman, an EIS alumnus, to cover the story.

With nationwide hysteria rapidly developing, Congress suddenly changed its mind and approved the swine flu vaccine. Days later, the EIS team finally admitted the pneumonia was not related to swine flu, but the announcement deliberately came too late. Some 50 million Americans were inoculated with the dangerous vaccine, resulting in at least a thousand cases of severe nerve damage and paralysis, dozens of deaths, and nearly $100 million in damages. Swine flu, on the other hand, never showed up.

The swine flu fiasco nearly destroyed the CDC’s reputation, but the EIS performed some damage control by blaming Legionnaire’s disease on a newly isolated bacterium. In reality, the stricken legionnaires had been elderly men, often with kidney transplants, who had become extraordinarily drunk at the convention — all classical risk factors for pneumonia. Such minor disease outbreaks can be relatively common, though rarely falling into the public spotlight. But the CDC did succeed in scaring the nation about a harmless bacterium, one found in the plumbing of almost any building.

Still, the CDC needed another crisis epidemic to revive its heroic image and expand its mandate. Thus AIDS appeared not a moment too soon, in 1981. Naturally, the agency jumped at the opportunity and assumed AIDS to be infectious from the very start. Such EIS members as Donald Francis were poised to convince the biomedical establishment, and the public, that AIDS was caused by a virus.

The Medical CIA Part II

(Published in drastically rewritten, condensed form as “AIDS: Words from the Front,” Spin Magazine, Dec. 1993)

Membership by special approval only. Six-week training sessions. Two years of active duty. Assignments to health departments anywhere in the country. On call around the clock, bags packed for immediate travel. Covert disease surveillance. A secret emblem. Lifelong reserve status, permanently available for future actions.

Few people have ever heard of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), yet its agents have infiltrated hospitals, universities, government agencies, health departments, corporations, foundations, and even the communications media. It has existed for more than forty years as a semi-secret, internal division of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), exerting its hidden influence on our society. It has magnified our fear of flu epidemics, scared us half to death about “Legionnaire’s disease,” and turned small clusters of mildly sick fast-food patrons into nationwide panics. It has revived the fear of contagious epidemics decades after heart disease and cancer displaced them as the major killers.

The CDC has developed a remarkable track record for weathering public relations disasters, even managing to come out ahead, and audaciously demanding expanded emergency powers. Its most potent weapon has been the EIS, born in the Cold War as a quasi-military unit designed to counter biological warfare. This clandestine wing of the CDC has proven its ability to detect and choose the most useful disease outbreaks for political purposes, blowing them out of proportion or manipulating public fear by falsely blaming such clusters on infectious germs.

The EIS certainly had its work cut out after the CDC’s swine flu disaster in 1976-77 — no flu epidemic had ever appeared, while the CDC’s vaccine did take dozens of lives and injured thousands more. Only a brand new epidemic, particularly a contagious one, could justify new public health control measures.

Opportunity struck in April, 1981. EIS officer Wayne Shandera, on active assignment in the Los Angeles health department, received a call from Michael Gottlieb, a young immunologist at the UCLA Medical Center. Four patients had Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and serious immune deficiencies. Shandera had already heard a report of a fifth such case. One or two cases usually meant nothing; five seemed more plausible as an outbreak. And all five men were young, male homosexuals, which could be interpreted to fit the hypothesis of a sexually-transmitted infectious agent. These five cases were the official start of what later came to be known as the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic.

Shandera excitedly forwarded the data to his unofficial bosses at the CDC. According to Randy Shilts, in his book And the Band Played On, the CDC official who saw the report, James Curran, wrote “Hot Stuff. Hot Stuff” across the top and rushed it into publication. New reports were trickling in of dying male homosexuals, most of whom also suffered the blood vessel cancer known as Kaposi’s sarcoma. CDC leaders decided there was no time to waste, and formed the Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (KSOI) Task Force to manage the investigation. Loaded with such EIS members as Harold Jaffe and Mary Guinan, the Task Force set about in a frenzy to prove the new epidemic infectious.

Virtually all of the first fifty cases admitted using poppers, the liquid nitrite drug wildly popular among homosexual men for its aphrodisiac properties. Scientists had not studied the long-term effects of this inhaled drug, but its chemical structure was known for its severe toxicity and ability to cause cancer. The CDC was not interested, of course, in a toxin-induced disease. So the Task Force loaded the deck by offering two possible explanations: Either the syndrome was caused by a single bad batch of poppers, or it was infectious. Never did they seriously consider the possibility that years of popper use might itself cause immune deficiency. It would be something like looking for a batch of “bad cigarettes” to blame for lung cancer. Failing to find such a bad lot of poppers, the Task Force threw out the drug hypothesis altogether.

To make AIDS seem convincingly infectious, the Task Force mobilized the EIS network to define sexually-linked clusters of cases, and to prove the syndrome had “spread” beyond homosexual men. Clusters were not hard to find, since the AIDS cases were extremely promiscuous men with hundreds or thousands of sexual contacts each; odds were that each man was connected through a chain of sexual encounters with one or more other AIDS cases. EIS officers such as David Auerbach, assigned to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, interviewed these men and confirmed the prediction. Meanwhile, following the model of hepatitis B transmission, EIS agents hunted down every heroin addict and blood transfusion recipient, including hemophiliacs, who might have conditions vaguely resembling the immune deficiencies in homosexuals. EIS personnel scoured hospitals and monitored local health departments for patients, and within months found a small handful of heroin users with opportunistic infections. EIS members Bruce Evatt and Dale Lawrence tracked down a hemophiliac in Colorado, dying primarily of internal bleeding, who also happened to have a pneumonia. EIS agent Harry Haverkos traveled to Florida and Haiti to find impoverished Haitians with opportunistic tuberculosis. Instantly the heroin addicts, the hemophiliac, and the Haitians were all relabeled as AIDS cases, and the CDC trumpeted the news that AIDS had “spread” outside of the homosexual community.

The biomedical research establishment bought the line, and scrambled to find a virus. Scientists first turned to their familiar microbes. Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus, both known for many years through herpes virus research, were each blamed by different factions.

But the fate of AIDS research was sealed almost from the beginning. Donald Francis, the EIS member since 1971 who had gained notoriety for his heavy-handed public health tactics, had by 1981 risen to a high position within the CDC’s Hepatitis Laboratories Division. He had also earned a graduate degree studying feline retroviruses, a type of virus known for being harmless to its host. This background, however, biased Francis in favor of blaming a retrovirus for AIDS. Within just eleven days after the first report of AIDS cases appeared in June, 1981, Francis placed a telephone call to Myron (“Max”) Essex, his former research supervisor. On the basis of no evidence whatsoever, Francis insisted that the new syndrome must be caused by a retrovirus — with a long latent period between infection and disease. Only five patients officially existed, yet Francis had already mapped out the entire future of AIDS.

For as soon as Francis had made his decision, he transformed himself into a relentless champion of the retrovirus-AIDS hypothesis. He doggedly pushed this view whenever anyone would lend him an ear, and even when no one would. Within a year, KSOI Task Force head James Curran was echoing the Francis hypothesis, as were other key CDC staffers. Working with Essex, Francis lobbied their close colleague Robert Gallo, a well-funded retrovirus scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to search for an AIDS virus. Robert Biggar, another EIS member at the NIH, helped mobilize the huge Federal institute behind the retrovirus hunt.

After many months of arm-twisting, Gallo finally joined the new crusade. First he tried to offer another retrovirus he had already discovered, HTLV-I, which he previously blamed for causing leukemia. But other scientists did not wish to lose their favorite “leukemia virus” to AIDS, and Gallo had to search further. In 1983, the French scientist Luc Montagnier found a new retrovirus, since named the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and Gallo claimed “co-discovery” one year later. When Gallo held a media press conference to announce the virus, the event set the HIV hypothesis in stone as official Federal dogma. Donald Francis and his fellow EIS agents had triumphed, though remaining out of the spotlight.

With the EIS network operating behind the scenes, the CDC has been able to manipulate public opinion, either to provoke hysteria over an imminent AIDS pandemic or to cover up embarrassing scientific data. AIDS alarmism has been promoted by such highly-placed officials as EIS member Jonathan Mann, former head of the World Health Organization’s Global AIDS Program, who predicted 100 million HIV infections by the year 2000. HIV, however, has not spread with time; roughly 12 million people worldwide are infected today, the numbers remaining constant wherever widespread testing is performed. Thus the current head of the WHO AIDS program, EIS member Michael Merson, was forced to revise the prediction to a smaller, but still frightening, 40 million HIV infections by the end of the decade. Both men continue to paint AIDS as an imminent crisis.

One of the biggest publicity coups for the CDC’s war on AIDS was in the myth of the Florida woman who supposedly caught AIDS from her dentist. The story began in late 1986 with David Acer, a Florida dentist who discovered he was HIV-positive. He apparently frequented the homosexual bathhouse scene, including the poppers and other drugs so pervasive in that environment. Within another year, Acer had developed Kaposi’s sarcoma, his health slowly degenerating.

Meanwhile, Acer had pulled two teeth from college student Kimberly Bergalis, a business major. By 1989, more than a year later, Bergalis developed a mild yeast infection, a condition common to many women. A few months later she contracted a brief pneumonia, in the wake of emotional stress in studying for the state actuarial exam. Neither of these symptoms was serious or permanent, and both affect large numbers of people. But Bergalis was nevertheless tested for HIV, and turned out to be positive.

She denied any intravenous drug use or blood transfusions, and insisted she was a virgin. Because she seemed not to have caught HIV through any of the standard risks, her case attracted CDC attention within three months. The EIS network may have played a role, since several of its members worked in the Florida health department. Eager to find an excuse for imposing strict new regulations on the medical profession, the CDC sent in a team of investigators to find a plausible source of her infection. They soon came across David Acer, her dentist. Although Acer appeared to be conscientious and no route of HIV transmission could be found, the CDC investigators jumped to the conclusion that Bergalis must have caught the virus from the dentist. To reinforce this idea, a group of CDC researchers that included EIS members Harold Jaffe, Ruth Berkelman, and Carol Ciesielski compared the genetic sequences of HIV from dentist and patient, pronouncing them the same. The CDC experts even tested over a thousand of Acer’s clients, finding four others with HIV but no obvious risk factors.

The insurance company saw things differently, insisting that its own analysis showed that Bergalis received HIV from some other source. But the CDC ignored this evidence, rushing to publicize its own conclusions. The news leapt straight to the front pages and prime time television news broadcasts, terrifying the nation and swinging public opinion behind Congressional legislation to impose new CDC controls on medical workers. Ultimately the bill failed, though only after intense pressure from the medical profession.

In the meantime, an independent study out of Florida State University has concluded that Bergalis did not get HIV from her dentist after all. Other scientists have now pointed out that among Acer’s patients, five HIV positives add up to the same percentage as HIV positives in the general population — implying that these patients also caught the virus elsewhere. Where could Bergalis have contracted HIV? Apparently her mother has never been tested, opening the possibility that Kimberly may have carried the virus from birth — for twenty-three years — before she died.

Bergalis, moreover, did not die of HIV infection. She and her dentist suffered radically different diseases; he had Kaposi’s sarcoma, a cancer, while she first had a temporary yeast infection. Then Bergalis was prescribed the toxic and controversial AIDS drug AZT, a failed cancer chemotherapy that causes anemia, bone marrow loss, muscle wasting — and destruction of the immune system. Months of AZT treatment ravaged her body, leaving her open to opportunistic infections and forcing her into a wheelchair until her death.

But to this day, the CDC propaganda story formulated by EIS agents remains popular myth, keeping alive the fear of AIDS as a supposedly infectious disease.

The CDC has also learned how to squelch embarrassing news stories before much damage is done, with help from EIS agents in the media. In July of 1992, during the Eighth International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, Newsweek suddenly published an article by reporter Geoffrey Cowley on several HIV-negative AIDS cases. Researchers at the AIDS conference interpreted the article as a political green light, and began pouring forth dozens of reports of previously unmentioned AIDS patients without HIV, from both the United States and Europe. The situation began reeling out of control, re-opening the question of whether HIV is the true cause of AIDS. Anthony Fauci, director of AIDS research at the National Institutes of Health, and James Curran of the CDC raced to Amsterdam on Air Force Two to take charge. The best they could do on the spot was to listen to the reports, promising to resolve the situation. In reality, they had decided to suppress the whole matter.

Three weeks later, the CDC sponsored a special meeting at its Atlanta headquarters. The scientists reporting HIV-free AIDS cases were invited, as was Cowley, the Newsweek reporter. The unexplained AIDS cases were relabeled with an unmemorable mouthful of a name — Idiopathic CD4+ Lymphocytopenia, or ICL — so as to break any connection between these cases and AIDS. The ICL cases were airily dismissed, and Cowley was persuaded to cooperate more closely with the CDC in the future. His next article toed the official AIDS line perfectly, containing little news. The issue had died, and so had the media coverage.

The media had known of these same HIV-free AIDS cases long before the public episode, but had continually censored the story. Lawrence Altman, the EIS member who had become the head medical writer for the New York Times, admitted to Science magazine that “he knew of cases for several months but did not break the story because he didn’t think it was his paper’s place to announce something the CDC was not confident enough of to publish.” The Times, of course, has long cultivated an image of publishing “all the news that’s fit to print.”

The era of infectious disease, the age when most people died of tuberculosis, malaria, yellow fever, or polio, ended long ago in the industrial world. But the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a relic of the past, grows ever larger in its membership and influence. Its clandestine methods and near-invisibility allow the CDC virtually to manufacture epidemics, and to make the whole process appear spontaneous. Cloaked in science, the hidden agenda aims at expanding public health controls over private beliefs and lifestyles. Healthy suggestions are one thing; exploiting hysteria to impose emergency powers is quite another.

EIS agent Donald Francis certainly knew what he meant in speaking of “the opportunity that the HIV epidemic provides for public health.” The time has come for outsiders to understand as well.


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1 posted on 06/01/2005 4:47:29 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
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2 posted on 06/01/2005 4:48:57 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
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How many people were murdered by the CDC recommending AZT as a cure for AIDS?
3 posted on 06/01/2005 6:34:54 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Y'shua <==> YHvH is my Salvation (Psalm 118-14))
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To: XeniaSt

Murder is a pretty strong word...but once you get past their denial, that's exactly what happened...moreover, that's still what's happening re: treating people for "AIDS" instead of treating them for their very REAL individual symptoms--HUAC

If you'd like to be on my ping list let me know.


4 posted on 06/01/2005 6:40:58 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
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To: BringBackMyHUAC
nationwide hysteria rapidly developing

revived the fear

demanding expanded emergency powers

blowing them out of proportion or manipulating public fear by falsely blaming

able to manipulate public opinion, either to provoke hysteria or to cover up embarrassing scientific data.

an imminent crisis

slowly degenerating

ignored this evidence, rushing to publicize its own conclusions.

learned how to squelch embarrassing news stories before much damage is done,

promising to resolve the situation. In reality, they had decided to suppress the whole matter

grows ever larger in its membership and influence. Its clandestine methods and near-invisibility

virtually to manufacture epidemics,

to make the whole process appear spontaneous.

Cloaked in science, the hidden agenda aims at expanding

exploiting hysteria to impose emergency powers

The time has come for the citizens to understand but our society has developed a fear of the truth, a resistance to believing they are being baffled with bullsh!t, hence the sheeple willing follow their leaders into slavery under the false promises of security.

FEMA, EPA, ESA, EEOC, 55mph, Gun Control, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, AGENDA 21, World Trade Center, Patriot Act, seat belts, .......... from Washington with love and desire for the ultimate national power.

5 posted on 06/01/2005 7:16:09 PM PDT by B4Ranch ( Report every illegal alien that you meet. Call 866-347-2423, it's a FREE CALL)
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I know that took some time for you to pull all the relevant quotes out...and I also know what causes a person to do that. Thanks, brother.


6 posted on 06/01/2005 7:19:48 PM PDT by BringBackMyHUAC
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BUMP to read later


7 posted on 06/01/2005 7:50:37 PM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: BringBackMyHUAC

Agreed. Very interesting story and link. Thanks.


8 posted on 06/01/2005 9:48:59 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: BringBackMyHUAC; Calpernia; Velveeta; MamaDearest; WestCoastGal; DAVEY CROCKETT; Rushmore Rocks; ...

Ping.

I don't know if I agree or not, to part yes.

I refuse all flu shots........LOL


9 posted on 06/01/2005 9:57:37 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (My prayer of thanks is for all the Freepers who make my days so interesting,educational and loving.)
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“The United States needs to establish a separate line of public health authority,”

This seems to be the norm in the US right now. Insert judges, religion, same sex marriage or whatever you fancy, in the place of "public health authority".

The United States needs to establish a separate line of (whatever you fancy).


10 posted on 06/01/2005 11:01:33 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)
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To: BringBackMyHUAC

THE GREAT HIV / AIDS HOAX

The multi-billion dollar AIDS/HIV fraud is based on two fabrications: that AIDS is a single disease and that it is caused by the HI virus or the "HIV virus" as some medical/media masterminds call it - perhaps they think the V in HIV stands for volcano.

In Japan "AIDS" is virtually unknown : yet, in random tests, 25% of people were found to be "HIV-positive".
HIV-positive response means nothing of any relevance to health: it can be triggered by vaccination, malnutrition, M.S., measles, influenza,
papilloma virus wart, Epstein Barr virus, leprosy, glandular fever, hepatitis, syphillis ... : over sixty different conditions.

Dr Robert E. Willner, inoculated himself with the blood of Pedro Tocino, a HIV-positive haemophiliac, on live Spanish television: an event which was not picked up the pharma-beholden British or US media.

The great HIV/AIDS lie was created by Robert Gallo who was found guilty of "scientific misconduct". "...instead of trying to prove his insane theories about AIDS to his peers...he went public. Then, with the help of
Margaret Heckler, former head of Health and Human Services, who was under great political pressure to come up with an answer to AIDS, the infamous
world press announcement of the discovery of the so-called AIDS virus came about.

This great fraud is now responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands... It was no accident that Gallo just happened to patent the test for HIV the day after the announcement...Gallo is now a multi-millionaire because of AIDS and his fraudulent AIDS test." Dr.
Willner.

By grouping together 25-plus different diseases and other allied factors -
pneumonia, herpes, candidiasis, salmonella, various cancers, infections, vaccine and antibiotic damage, amyl nitrate damage, malnutrition etc.and,
particularly in Africa, TB, malaria, dysentery leprosy and "slim disease" - and calling the whole thing an "AIDS epidemic", a multi-billion dollar/pound "AIDS research and treatment" racket has been created.

The mythical "HIV-induced AIDS plague" in the Third World generates huge sums of cash from Western relief organisations whilst smokescreening the
vaccine/drug boys, responsible for the carnage.

Every death of someone "HIV-positive" is recorded as an "AIDS death".

Periodically, the BBC/ITV/Press visit
Africa/Yugoslavia/Russia etc to
report on the "HIV/AIDS victims" and how they cannot afford the "life-saving AZT." Glaxo Wellcome's lethal drug, AZT, in combination with the diagnosis of
HIV-positive and the prediction, stated or implied, that - "You will die of AIDS" is one of the great pieces of Medical Black Magic - Voodoo Medicine at its most impressive: people have committed suicide on the
basis of the ludicrous diagnosis.

Pregnant women who are HIV-positive have been told to stop breast-feeding, dosed with AZT, have had abortions or have been sterilised. HIV-positive
babies who become ill -from vaccination or whatever - are automatically diagnosed as "suffering from AIDS".
"Considering that there is little scientific proof of the exact linkage of HIV and AIDS, is it ethical to prescribe AZT, a toxic chain terminator of DNA...to 150,000 Americans - among them pregnant women and newborn babies..? Rep.G Gutknecht US House of Representatives.

New Labour "Health" have now announced that all pregnant women in the UK will be "offered" a HIV test. Those who fall for the scam and who are diagnosed as "HIV positive" will be given the chance to have themselves and their unborn child permanently damaged by AZT etc. Pregnancy, itself, can cause a positive diagnosis.

AZT began as a "cancer drug" but was withdrawn for being too toxic: like being thrown out of the Gestapo for cruelty. Its effects include - cancer, hepatitis, dementia, seizures, anxiety, impotence, leukopaenia, , severe
nausea, ataxia, etc. and the termination of DNA synthesis. i.e. AIDS/death by prescription. AZT eventually kills all those who continue to take it.

"WARNING : Retrovir (AZT)...has been associated with symptomatic myopathy, similar to that produced by Human Immunodeficiency Virus..." Glaxo
Wellcome literature!

None of which stops the medical trade from pushing it on every trusting sap who is not ill to start with but is labelled with the "HIV-positive" nonsense and then destroyed by AZT; with "AIDS" getting the blame - and
more billions pouring in for the drug boys, vivisectors, animal breeders and the rest. The latest stunt is to give a "cocktail" of drugs - including AZT, of course, and at £12,000 per head, per year - to all homosexual men who are "HIV-positive".

A particularly good scam is to haul into court someone "guilty of deliberately infecting the victim with the 'HIV-Virus which causes AIDS' " which then develops into "full-blown AIDS" - no mention of vaccine,
antibiotic damage etc or full-blown AZT. Over 2000 - and rising, of the world's scientists are now disputing the HIV hoax, their efforts being continually suppressed by the AIDS establishment, the pharmaceutical/vivisection syndicate and their political and media lackeys


11 posted on 06/01/2005 11:54:48 PM PDT by David Lane
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To: BringBackMyHUAC

Interesting.


12 posted on 06/02/2005 4:34:43 AM PDT by struwwelpeter
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To: BringBackMyHUAC; Admin Moderator

This isn't news; it's dated 1993. It's a compilation of whacked-out conspiracy theories. Why is it contaminating the news forum?


13 posted on 06/02/2005 8:49:42 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: BringBackMyHUAC

This stuff always brings out the tinfoil crowd besides being out of date.


14 posted on 06/02/2005 9:08:54 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: DoctorMichael; BringBackMyHUAC; Right Wing Professor
'Tinfoil' has always been the bonehead's reply to any unbearable truth.

"whacked-out conspiracy theories" has frequently been overworked as an explanation by those prone to insert themselves between the people and their rights.

15 posted on 06/02/2005 12:43:11 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The Lord has given us President Bush; let's now turn this nation back to him)
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To: editor-surveyor
'Tinfoil' has always been the bonehead's reply to any unbearable truth.

We laughed at alien abductions. We laughed at UFOs. We laughed at the Oliver Stone theory of the JFK assassination. Now we're laughing at this. If it's unbearable, it's unbearably funny.

16 posted on 06/02/2005 12:49:23 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Yep - and we laughed over Alger Hiss being a communist infiltrator conspiracy theory

And we laughed over the the start of the Viet Nam War - Tonkin Gulf conspiracy theory

And we laughed over Hillary's secret socialied healthcare conspiracy theory

PS - Some conspiracy theories are correct.

17 posted on 06/02/2005 1:07:12 PM PDT by Triple (All forms of socialism deny individuals the right to the fruits of their labor)
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"......."whacked-out conspiracy theories" has frequently been overworked as an explanation by those prone to insert themselves between the people and their rights.........."

....and in America everyone has the right to remain ignorant if they so choose.

18 posted on 06/02/2005 1:59:43 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: DoctorMichael
"....and in America everyone has the right to remain ignorant if they so choose"

And I respect your right to make that choice, but then why even respond to the thread?

19 posted on 06/02/2005 3:43:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The Lord has given us President Bush; let's now turn this nation back to him)
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To: editor-surveyor

ur # 15.......yep


20 posted on 06/02/2005 4:36:16 PM PDT by maestro
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