-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 17:17:58 -0700 (MST) From: MICHAEL SPITZER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IUFO: OT?: More on AIDS as a Weapon: Out of Africa? (fwd) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:29:52 -0600 From: "Boyle, Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 'Meryl Nass' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [BIOWAR] AIDS: Out of Africa? Dear Colleagues: Many of you probably read the articles in yesterday's New York Times and Wall Street Journal insinuating that AIDS came out of Africa. Indeed, the Journal entitled their article: Out of Africa. Notice the direct reference to Lefkowitz's book, Not Out of Africa, trying to dispute Bernal's Black Athena. So in other words, the Journal was trying to make a not-so-subtle racist point about the supposed African origins of AIDS. Therefore, I did not bother to read the Journal article. But I did read the Times article. I was struck by one critical passage that deserves your attention: .... The pivotal finding came from the remains of a chimpanzee named Marilyn, that died in 1985 and had been infected with S.I.V.cpz for at least 26 years without showing signs of AIDS. Federal scientists kept Marilyn's tissues frozen for 10 years to await the day when new and improved tests could more precisely identify the infecting virus. In 1959, Marilyn was taken as an infant from somewhere in Africa to a United States Air Force colony in New Mexico. There, Marilyn served as a breeder in research projects. In 1985, when some chimpanzees were about to be used in AIDS vaccine research, scientists tested all primates in the colony to determine if any were infected with H.I.V.-1. Marilyn was the only one infected with the simian virus. But just as scientists learned that Marilyn was infected, she was found dead in her cage after having delivered two stillborn chimpanzees. An autopsy found no evidence of disease. Marilyn's remains were then sent to scientists at a National Cancer Institute laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., where efforts to grow the AIDS -like virus failed. So the tissues were stored in a freezer for 10 years. In 1995, Dr. Larry O. Arthur, a scientist at Fort Detrick and a co-author of the study, was trying to clean out a crowded freezer and found Marilyn's tissues. He called Dr. Hahn because of her well-known interest in the subject. ...... Notice of course that the critical piece of evidence here was this chimp Marilyn which was taken out of Africa and brought to the United States where she participated in experiments sponsored by the United States Air Force, that is the Pentagon. At this point in time (1959) it is well know that the United States government and the Pentagon were actively involved in the research, development and testing of offensive biological weapons that today are prohibited under both international law and US domestic law, including the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 and the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. Also,why in 1985 did Pentagon scientists go back to the Pentagon's Colorado colony of chimps in order to test for AIDS if they did not have good grounds to believe there was a good chance that AIDS could be found there among the Pentagon chimps? Certainly Marilyn's death was unexplained and curious. So much so that instead of disposing of her remains at the experimental Pentagon site in Colorado, the Pentagon scientists shipped them off to Fort Detrick Maryland, where they were considered so important that they were preserved for subsequent testing and analysis for over ten years. Of course what the Times does not report is that Fort Detrick Maryland has always been the primary center for the Pentagon's research, development and testing of biological weapons. If Marilyn had been involved in biological warfare experiments in Colorado run by the Pentagon, then it would make perfect sense for these Pentagon scientists to ship her remains to Fort Detrick for preservation and subsequent analysis under the direct supervision of the Pentagon that runs Fort Detrick. The best book I know of about the origins of AIDS coming out of US government sponsored research is by Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola (1997). After reading this book, I submit you will have a very difficult time believing that AIDS came out of Africa instead of from US government sponsored research laboratory. Although not on all fores,this New York Times article contributes to the overall Horowitz thesis. Francis A. 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