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>From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Jim Rarey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Medium Rare Distribution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ANTHRAX, GOCO’s AND DESIGNER GERMS (Part 2 of 3) Date: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:32 PM MEDIUM RARE By Jim Rarey January 11, 2002 ANTHRAX, GOCO’s AND DESIGNER GERMS (Part two of three) Battelle and Anthrax The anthrax controversy began years before the mailing of the deadly toxin in October of last year. The issue was about an untested vaccine that nearly a half million U.S. service men and women were forced to take during and after the Gulf War. A laboratory owned and operated by the State of Michigan produced the vaccine. The vaccine was a much more potent version of one that had been used successfully for several decades to protect against cutaneous (skin) anthrax in veterinarians and others workers who came into close contact with animals and animal products. The vaccine has never been proved to be effective against inhalation (pulmonary) anthrax and has not been licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for that purpose. Despite overwhelming evidence that the vaccine has resulted in the partial or total disability of a large number of the inoculated troops and a few deaths, the government (Dept. of Defense and Center for Disease Control) continues to insist the vaccine is safe and effective. For decades, cultivation of anthrax as a military weapon has been ongoing. The major countries involved were the USSR (now Russia), The United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa. The South African program under the direction of Wouter Basson also developed anthrax for use in the assassination of individuals. In the U.S. the major research and development of "weaponized" anthrax was said to have been performed at the army’s Fort Detrick installation. However, we have recently learned that effort received substantial "support" from Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI). (See part one for a detailed description of BMI.) At this point, the reader should be introduced to several individuals who have played important roles in the development of anthrax weapons and/or vaccines. Two of the individuals the government relies on heavily for expert advice are William C. Patrick and Ken Alibek. Patrick was the director of the operation at Fort Detrick and now has his own private consulting firm on defenses against chemical and biological weapons. He still has close ties to the Dept. of Defense (DOD), the intelligence community including the CIA and BMI. Patrick says he taught army (and BMI) scientists how to aerosolize (weaponize) anthrax powder at the army’s facility at Dugway, Utah. Curiously, more than two years ago Patrick was commissioned by BMI to prepare a scenario where weaponized anthrax was delivered through the mail. Whether deliberately or not, Patrick’s report underestimated the concentration of the hypothesized anthrax spores by a factor of twenty to one. His report was based on a concentration of 50,000 billion spores per gram The U.S. weaponized anthrax, for which Patrick holds five secret patents, had a concentration of one trillion spores per gram. No other country’s program has reached higher than 500 billion per gram. Ken Alibek (the Americanized version of his Russian name) was deputy chief of the USSR’s bio-weapon program. In 1992 he "defected" to the U.S. The CIA asked William Patrick to "debrief" Alibek who was then welcomed with open arms by the intelligence community and other government agencies. Alibek was an employee of BMI for several years before he was set up with his own consulting company as a subsidiary of the notorious Hadron Corp. (a thinly veiled front for the CIA and other government agencies). Another deputy chief of the Soviet program had defected three years earlier to the U.K. where he was ensconced at Porton Down. Porton Down is the U.K’s counterpart of Ft. Detrick in bio-weapons development and now vaccines. Then a consultant, he died suddenly and mysteriously (said to be from a stroke) three weeks after the first mailed anthrax last October. Another player is Dr. Robert Myers. Myers was the head scientist at the Michigan lab making the anthrax vaccine. When the lab was sold to a private company (Bioport) Myers became the chief scientist and part owner of Bioport. Myers is one of the prime movers in the army’s mandatory anthrax vaccine inoculation program (AVIP) along with BMI who is said to be managing the program for DOD. Myers also has ties to South Africa’s anthrax weapons program. He was a friend of scientist Larry Ford who worked with South Africa’s Wouter Basson in developing assassination weapons using deadly germs. Myers was also an investor in Ford’s company (Biofem). The ostensible goal of Ford’s company was to produce a birth control device for women that would also protect against aids. Ford and his partner set up a network of shell companies through which money was laundered to keep Biofem afloat. The original source of that money has never been revealed. The company never came up with a product and had no sales. Ford is said to have committed suicide with his shotgun although police had supposedly confiscated all of his firearms three days earlier. Ford was a suspect in the attempted murder of his partner in Biofem. Since the anthrax mailings last October, Patrick and Alibek have been widely quoted in the media, sometimes in direct contradiction to there own earlier statements. Their opinions on the possible source of the anthrax have ranged from a sophisticated laboratory to a "loner" with some knowledge and rudimentary equipment. The opinions seem to depend on which scenario government officials are pushing at the time. However, other scientists have determined that the mailed anthrax has to have come originally from one of five known locations which had access to one trillion spore per gram anthrax developed by Patrick. It might have been narrowed down even further had not the University of Iowa and Iowa State University destroyed their collections of the various iterations of the "Ames" strain. The universities said they had permission from the FBI and CDC (some say they were directed) to destroy the collections. The anthrax vaccine situation is just as muddled. Bioport has not been able to ship any vaccine because the FDA found multiple problems in the production of the vaccine. Another inspection by the FDA was made last month and Bioport claims to have corrected all the problems of sterility, contamination, etc. However, the increased potency issue is being avoided like the plague (pun intended) by all the parties involved. In the meantime, BMI has entered into a contract with Bioport to develop a new anthrax vaccine. BMI also signed an agreement with the CDC to test the new vaccine when produced. Evidently the CDC has adopted the Bill Clinton concept of conflict of interest which is trying to watch simultaneously two lovely ladies walking in opposite directions. The Aerosol Engineering and Biological Defense facility of BMI does FDA testing for licensing of drugs and vaccines assessing safety and efficacy of medical counter measures against chemical and biological agents. BMI also has managed the Chemical and Biological Defense Information Analysis Center (CBIAC) for the Department of Defense (DOD) since its inception in August 1986. The CBIAC is a full service department of DOD. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is set to try another controversial treatment for anthrax attacks. An unnamed spokesman said the CDC wants to extract blood from vaccinated soldiers and stockpile a protein (immune globulin) obtained from the blood. The theory is that the protein could neutralize the deadly toxin produced by the anthrax bacterium. That theory might stem from discoveries made during the production of weaponized anthrax. It was found that more virulent strains of anthrax were obtained from the blood that had been through the immune system. Successive tests were run on a series of monkeys with each subsequent strain of anthrax more deadly than the one originally introduced into the monkeys’ systems. At Fort Detrick, the phenomenon was further tested using blood from two lab workers who had died from anthrax. This was kept secret, even from relatives of the victims, until revealed by Baltimore Sun reporter Don Shane in a series of articles last year on Fort Detrick and anthrax. The CDC has another problem. The prestigious Jawaharalal Nehru University in New Delhi, India has developed a new concept anthrax vaccine that has passed initial testing. It requires fewer doses, no booster shots, has virtually none of the side effects of the vaccines produced by the U.S. and Britain. It will be available within six months at a fraction of the cost of U.S. and British vaccines. So far there has been no reaction from U.S. officials. India also has a generic version of Cipro (ciprofloxacin), the drug recommended by CDC for anthrax treatment. The Indian government offered to supply the U.S. with 20 million tablets which was turned down citing the Bayer patent on Cipro which doesn’t expire until Dec. 31, 2003. This despite the fact that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson used the threat of buying generic drugs, bypassing Bayer’s patent, to get a reduction in price from over $3.00 per tablet to $.95. India is offering the drug at a fraction of even that lower Bayer price. India even offered a free gift of a million dollars worth of the drug to tide the CDC over its temporary shortage. That offer was also turned down. In the third and final installment of this report, the potential for beneficial and opposite uses of the decoding of the human genome will be examined. Permission is granted to reproduce this article in its entirety. The author is a free lance writer based in Romulus, Michigan. He is a former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a retired customs administrator and accountant, and a student of history and the U.S. Constitution. If you would like to receive Medium Rare articles directly, please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although not necessary, we would appreciate an indication of the city and/or state or country (If outside the USA) in which you are located to give us an idea as to where our articles are being received. MEDIUM RARE By Jim Rarey January 11, 2002 ANTHRAX, GOCO’s AND DESIGNER GERMS (Part two of three) Battelle and Anthrax The anthrax controversy began years before the mailing of the deadly toxin in October of last year. The issue was about an untested vaccine that nearly a half million U.S. service men and women were forced to take during and after the Gulf War. A laboratory owned and operated by the State of Michigan produced the vaccine. The vaccine was a much more potent version of one that had been used successfully for several decades to protect against cutaneous (skin) anthrax in veterinarians and others workers who came into close contact with animals and animal products. The vaccine has never been proved to be effective against inhalation (pulmonary) anthrax and has not been licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for that purpose. Despite overwhelming evidence that the vaccine has resulted in the partial or total disability of a large number of the inoculated troops and a few deaths, the government (Dept. of Defense and Center for Disease Control) continues to insist the vaccine is safe and effective. For decades, cultivation of anthrax as a military weapon has been ongoing. The major countries involved were the USSR (now Russia), The United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa. The South African program under the direction of Wouter Basson also developed anthrax for use in the assassination of individuals. In the U.S. the major research and development of "weaponized" anthrax was said to have been performed at the army’s Fort Detrick installation. However, we have recently learned that effort received substantial "support" from Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI). (See part one for a detailed description of BMI.) At this point, the reader should be introduced to several individuals who have played important roles in the development of anthrax weapons and/or vaccines. Two of the individuals the government relies on heavily for expert advice are William C. Patrick and Ken Alibek. Patrick was the director of the operation at Fort Detrick and now has his own private consulting firm on defenses against chemical and biological weapons. He still has close ties to the Dept. of Defense (DOD), the intelligence community including the CIA and BMI. Patrick says he taught army (and BMI) scientists how to aerosolize (weaponize) anthrax powder at the army’s facility at Dugway, Utah. Curiously, more than two years ago Patrick was commissioned by BMI to prepare a scenario where weaponized anthrax was delivered through the mail. Whether deliberately or not, Patrick’s report underestimated the concentration of the hypothesized anthrax spores by a factor of twenty to one. His report was based on a concentration of 50,000 billion spores per gram The U.S. weaponized anthrax, for which Patrick holds five secret patents, had a concentration of one trillion spores per gram. No other country’s program has reached higher than 500 billion per gram. Ken Alibek (the Americanized version of his Russian name) was deputy chief of the USSR’s bio-weapon program. In 1992 he "defected" to the U.S. The CIA asked William Patrick to "debrief" Alibek who was then welcomed with open arms by the intelligence community and other government agencies. Alibek was an employee of BMI for several years before he was set up with his own consulting company as a subsidiary of the notorious Hadron Corp. (a thinly veiled front for the CIA and other government agencies). Another deputy chief of the Soviet program had defected three years earlier to the U.K. where he was ensconced at Porton Down. Porton Down is the U.K’s counterpart of Ft. Detrick in bio-weapons development and now vaccines. Then a consultant, he died suddenly and mysteriously (said to be from a stroke) three weeks after the first mailed anthrax last October. Another player is Dr. Robert Myers. Myers was the head scientist at the Michigan lab making the anthrax vaccine. When the lab was sold to a private company (Bioport) Myers became the chief scientist and part owner of Bioport. Myers is one of the prime movers in the army’s mandatory anthrax vaccine inoculation program (AVIP) along with BMI who is said to be managing the program for DOD. Myers also has ties to South Africa’s anthrax weapons program. He was a friend of scientist Larry Ford who worked with South Africa’s Wouter Basson in developing assassination weapons using deadly germs. Myers was also an investor in Ford’s company (Biofem). The ostensible goal of Ford’s company was to produce a birth control device for women that would also protect against aids. Ford and his partner set up a network of shell companies through which money was laundered to keep Biofem afloat. The original source of that money has never been revealed. The company never came up with a product and had no sales. Ford is said to have committed suicide with his shotgun although police had supposedly confiscated all of his firearms three days earlier. Ford was a suspect in the attempted murder of his partner in Biofem. Since the anthrax mailings last October, Patrick and Alibek have been widely quoted in the media, sometimes in direct contradiction to there own earlier statements. Their opinions on the possible source of the anthrax have ranged from a sophisticated laboratory to a "loner" with some knowledge and rudimentary equipment. The opinions seem to depend on which scenario government officials are pushing at the time. However, other scientists have determined that the mailed anthrax has to have come originally from one of five known locations which had access to one trillion spore per gram anthrax developed by Patrick. It might have been narrowed down even further had not the University of Iowa and Iowa State University destroyed their collections of the various iterations of the "Ames" strain. The universities said they had permission from the FBI and CDC (some say they were directed) to destroy the collections. The anthrax vaccine situation is just as muddled. Bioport has not been able to ship any vaccine because the FDA found multiple problems in the production of the vaccine. Another inspection by the FDA was made last month and Bioport claims to have corrected all the problems of sterility, contamination, etc. However, the increased potency issue is being avoided like the plague (pun intended) by all the parties involved. In the meantime, BMI has entered into a contract with Bioport to develop a new anthrax vaccine. BMI also signed an agreement with the CDC to test the new vaccine when produced. Evidently the CDC has adopted the Bill Clinton concept of conflict of interest which is trying to watch simultaneously two lovely ladies walking in opposite directions. The Aerosol Engineering and Biological Defense facility of BMI does FDA testing for licensing of drugs and vaccines assessing safety and efficacy of medical counter measures against chemical and biological agents. BMI also has managed the Chemical and Biological Defense Information Analysis Center (CBIAC) for the Department of Defense (DOD) since its inception in August 1986. The CBIAC is a full service department of DOD. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is set to try another controversial treatment for anthrax attacks. An unnamed spokesman said the CDC wants to extract blood from vaccinated soldiers and stockpile a protein (immune globulin) obtained from the blood. The theory is that the protein could neutralize the deadly toxin produced by the anthrax bacterium. That theory might stem from discoveries made during the production of weaponized anthrax. It was found that more virulent strains of anthrax were obtained from the blood that had been through the immune system. Successive tests were run on a series of monkeys with each subsequent strain of anthrax more deadly than the one originally introduced into the monkeys’ systems. At Fort Detrick, the phenomenon was further tested using blood from two lab workers who had died from anthrax. This was kept secret, even from relatives of the victims, until revealed by Baltimore Sun reporter Don Shane in a series of articles last year on Fort Detrick and anthrax. The CDC has another problem. The prestigious Jawaharalal Nehru University in New Delhi, India has developed a new concept anthrax vaccine that has passed initial testing. It requires fewer doses, no booster shots, has virtually none of the side effects of the vaccines produced by the U.S. and Britain. It will be available within six months at a fraction of the cost of U.S. and British vaccines. So far there has been no reaction from U.S. officials. India also has a generic version of Cipro (ciprofloxacin), the drug recommended by CDC for anthrax treatment. The Indian government offered to supply the U.S. with 20 million tablets which was turned down citing the Bayer patent on Cipro which doesn’t expire until Dec. 31, 2003. This despite the fact that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson used the threat of buying generic drugs, bypassing Bayer’s patent, to get a reduction in price from over $3.00 per tablet to $.95. India is offering the drug at a fraction of even that lower Bayer price. India even offered a free gift of a million dollars worth of the drug to tide the CDC over its temporary shortage. That offer was also turned down. In the third and final installment of this report, the potential for beneficial and opposite uses of the decoding of the human genome will be examined. Permission is granted to reproduce this article in its entirety. The author is a free lance writer based in Romulus, Michigan. He is a former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a retired customs administrator and accountant, and a student of history and the U.S. Constitution. 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