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Was HIV Genetically Engineered?

Investigating the possibility that AIDS< Ebola, and other new diseases are the result of biological weapons experiments, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, a dentist and medical researcher who has served on the faculties of Harvard and Tufts universities, researched the US biological warfare program at Fort Detrick, Maryland, which received a $10 million authorization in the early 1970s to develop a genetically altered retrovirus that would destroy the human system as part of the "Special Virus Cancer Program".

He quotes Dr. MacArthur, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Defense, who stated in classified Congressional testimony in 1970: "Within the next 5 to 10 years, t would probably be possible to make a new infective microorganism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease."

The secret biological warfare program was overseen by Dr. Henry Kissinger, National Security Advise and later Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations carried out by the National Cancer Institute, Merck, Sharp and Dohme, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, and Litton Bionetics, the nation's largest bioweapons contactor; and involved Dr. Robert Gallo, the cancer virus researcher who went on to become the co-discoverer of HIV over a decade later.

Clandestine reseach, Horowitz theorizes, date back even further. In 1967, a lethal virus broke out in Germany and Yugoslavia among vaccine researchers. The epidemic, known as Marburg disease, was attributed to infected monkeys that had been brought to Europe from Africa. Horowitz traces the monkeys that had been brought to EUrope from Africa. Horowitz traces the monkeys to a Litton medical research laboratory in Africa.........

Horowitz speculates that fear of communism, black nationalism, and overpopulation (especially in neighboring Angola...) fueled these medical experiments. (Ebola also broke out in South Africa whose apartheid-era government was committed to overthrowing Angola.) Through the late 1970s, USAID vaccination teams immunized more than 20 million people in Central Africa. In 1978-79, several years before AIDS appeared in America, Horowitz claims that the New York City Blood Center introduced experimental hepatitis B vaccine in the gay male community which may have contained HIV or a monkey virus that mutated into HIV.

Dr. W. John Martin, director of the Center for Complex Infectious Diseases in Rosemead, Calif., and former director of the Viral Oncology Branch of the FDA's Bureau of Biologics, the governments principal agency in charge of vaccines, also suspects a contaminated vaccine of human origin gave rise to AIDS. "The mixing of vaccine viruses with others found in the cells and tissues used to develop the vaccine can potentially lead to the development of new recombinant mutants that are more adaptive and have wider host range than either of the original viruses," he explains.