Michael Perelman wrote: >> When did the US try to spread swine flu in Cuba?
Here's one source [http://deadlinelive.info/2009/04/27/flashback-anti-castro-terrorists-cia-introduced-african-swine-fever-virus-into-cuba-in-1971/]. I don't know how reliable it is: >FLASHBACK: Anti-Castro terrorists (CIA) introduced African swine fever virus >into Cuba in 1971. >April 27, 2009 by JackBlood [!!!] >January 10, 1977 Front page > 1971 Mystery: > CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported > New York > With at least the tacit backing of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency > officials, operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced African > swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971. > Six weeks later an outbreak of the disease forced the slaughter of 500,000 > pigs to prevent a nationwide animal epidemic. [an epizootic] > A U.S. intelligence source told Newsday last week he was given the virus in a > sealed, unmarked container at a U.S. Army base and CIA training ground in the > Panama Canal Zone, with instructions to turn it over to the anti-Castro group. > The 1971 outbreak, the first and only time the disease has hit the Western > Hemisphere, was labeled the “most alarming event” of 1971 by the United > Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. African swine fever is a highly > contagious and usually lethal viral disease that infects only pigs and, > unlike swine flu, cannot be transmitted to humans. > All production of pork, a Cuban staple, halted, apparently for several > months. (Economic Terrorism?) > A CIA spokesman, Dennis Berend, in response to a Newsday request for comment, > said, “We don’t comment on information from unnamed and, at best, obscure > sources.” > Why the virus turned up in Cuba has been a mystery to animal investigators > ever since the outbreak. Informed speculation assumed that the virus entered > Cuba either in garbage from a commercial airliner or in sausages brought in > by merchant seamen. > However, on the basis of numerous interviews over four months with U.S. > intelligence sources, Cuban exiles and scientists concerning the outbreak — > which occurred two years after then President Nixon had banned the use of > offensive chemical and biological warfare — Newsday was able to piece > together this account of events leading up to the outbreak. > The U.S. intelligence source said that early in 1971 he was given the virus > in a sealed, unmarked container at Ft. Gulick, an Army base in the Panama > Canal Zone. The CIA also operates a paramilitary training center for career > personnel and mercenaries at Ft. Gulick. > The source said he was given instructions to turn the container with the > virus over to members of an anti-Castro group. > The container then was given to a person in the Canal Zone, who took it by > boat and turned it over to persons aboard a fishing trawler off the > Panamanian coast. The source said the substance was not identified to him > until months after the outbreak in Cuba. He would not elaborate further. > Another man involved in the operation, a Cuban exile who asked not to be > identified, said he was on the trawler when the virus was put aboard at a > rendezvous point off Bocas del Toro, Panama. He said the trawler carried the > virus to Navassa Island, a tiny, deserted, U.S.-owned island between Jamaica > and Haiti. From there, after the trawler made a brief stopover, the container > was taken to Cuba and given to other operatives on the southern coast near > the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in late March, according to the source > on the trawler. The base is 100 miles due north of Navassa. > The source on the trawler, who had been trained by the CIA and had carried > out previous missions for the agency, said he saw no CIA officials aboard the > boat that delivered the virus to the trawler off Panama, but added: “We were > well paid for this and Cuban exile groups don’t have that kind of money . . .” > He said he was revealing the information because he is a member of an exile > group being investigated by the United States in connection with terrorist > activity in Florida. His account was confirmed by another intelligence source > in Miami. The source said he had no proof that the operation was approved by > CIA officials in Washington, but added: “In a case like this, though, they > would always give them (CIA officials in Washington) plausible deniability.” > The investigation referred to by the operative on the trawler involves a > federal inquiry into terrorist acts allegedly carried out by Cuban exiles. > Those include bombings and assassination attempts in the United States and > Venezuela. Trained originally by the CIA for operations against Cuba, the > exiles have become more restive as they view what they believe to be an > increasing move toward rapprochement between Fidel Castro and the United > States.< http://www.maebrussell.com/Health/CIA%20Pig%20Virus.html Here's a seemingly less reliable source, http://www.infowars.com/weaponizing-deadly-viruses-historical-precedents/: >Kurt Nimmo > Infowars > April 28, 2009 > Many people react with incredulity when the assertion is made that the > so-called swine flu outbreak in Mexico may be manufactured crisis. And yet > history is replete with examples of government using biological and chemical > agents for political purpose. > As a primary example, consider the CIA’s secret war against Cuba and Fidel > Castro. > In 1975, the Church Committee revealed a CIA memorandum listing deadly > chemical agents and toxins then stockpiled at Fort Detrick. “These included > anthrax, encephalitis, tuberculosis, lethal snake venom, shellfish toxin, and > half a dozen lethal food poisons, some of which, the committee learned, had > been shipped in the early 1960s to Congo and to Cuba in unsuccessful CIA > attempts to assassinate Patrice Lumumba and Fidel Castro,” write Ellen Ray > and William H. Schaap (Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars the American Way, Ocean > Press, 2003, p. vii). > Schaap cites the work of Dr. Marc Lappé (Chemical and Biological Warfare: The > Science of Public Death, Student Research Facility for East Bay Women for > Peace and Science Students for Social Responsibility, 1969), who claims that > the U.S. Army had a biological warfare agent prepared for use against Cuba at > the time of the Missile Crisis in 1962, mostly likely Q fever (Coxiella > burnetii, a bacterium that affects both humans and animals). In 1977, a > Washington Post report confirmed that during this time the CIA maintained an > “anticrop warfare” program. > In regard to swine flu, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on January 10, > 1977, that CIA “operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced > African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971.” The outbreak, the first time > the disease hit the Western Hemisphere, was labeled the “most alarming event” > of 1971 by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. Cuba > reacted to outbreak by slaughtering 500,000 pigs. An intelligence source told > the newspaper “that early in 1971 he was given the virus in a sealed, > unmarked container at Ft. Gulick, an Army base in the Panama Canal Zone. The > CIA also operates a paramilitary training center for career personnel and > mercenaries at Ft. Gulick.” The source said he was given instructions to turn > the container with the virus over to members of an anti-Castro group. > In 1980, described as “the year of the plagues” by Schaap, “Cuba was beset > with disasters. Another African swine fever epidemic hit; the tobacco crop > was decimated by blue mold; and the sugarcane crops were hit with a > particularly damaging rust disease.” > By 1981, the Cuban population was targeted [by whom? --JD] with hemorrhagic > dengue fever, a devastating disease transmitted by mosquitoes. “From May to > October 1981 there were well over 300,000 reported cases, with 158 > fatalities, 101 involving children under 15. At the peak of the epidemic, in > early July, more than 10,000 cases per day were being reported. More than a > third of the reported victims required hospitalization. By mid-October, after > a massive campaign to eradicate Aedes aegypti [mosquito], the epidemic was > over,” writes Schaap. “The history of the secret war against Cuba and the > virulence of this dengue epidemic were enough to generate serious suspicions > that the United States had a hand in the dengue epidemic of 1981. But there > is much more support for those suspicions than a healthy distrust of U.S. > intentions regarding Cuba.” > After interviewing officials from the Pan American Health Organization and of > the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Schaap states that he believes the > “epidemic was artificially induced.” >> The epidemic began with the simultaneous discovery in May 1981 of three cases of hemorrhagic dengue caused by a type 2 virus. The cases arose in three widely separated parts of Cuba: Cienfuegos, Camagiiey, and Havana. It is extremely unusual that such an epidemic would commence in three different localities at once. None of the initial victims had ever traveled out of the country; for that matter, none of them had recently been away from home. None had had recent contact with international travelers. Moreover, a study of persons arriving in Cuba in the month of May from known dengue areas found only a dozen such passengers (from Vietnam and Laos), all of whom were checked by the Institute of Tropical Medicine and found free of the disease. Somehow, infected mosquitoes had appeared in three provinces of Cuba at the same time. Somehow, the fever spread at an astonishing rate. There appears to be no other explanation but the artificial introduction of infected mosquitoes.<< > Researchers [who?? - JD] believe the Mexican swine flu outbreak may also be > “artificially induced.” First, the Mexican outbreak occurred outside of the > normal flu season (influenza usually obeys a regularly re-occurring time > period – in temperate climate zones, the flu season will typically begin in > the late fall and peak in mid- to late winter, while in tropical zones flu > seasons appear to be less pronounced, with year-round isolation of the > virus). Second, the genetic makeup of the fast-spreading H1N1 strain of > influenza — including genetic elements from bird flu, swine flu and human flu > covering three continents — appears to be man-made. > “What seems suspicious to me is the hybrid origin of the viral fragments > found in H1N1 influenza,” writes Mike Adams. These viral fragments include > human influenza, bird flu from North America, and swine flu from Europe and > Asia. >> This is rather astonishing to realize, because for this to have been a natural combination of viral fragments, it means an infected bird from North America would have had to infect pigs in Europe, then be re-infected by those some pigs with an unlikely cross-species mutation that allowed the bird to carry it again, then that bird would have had to fly to Asia and infected pigs there, and those Asian pigs then mutated the virus once again (while preserving the European swine and bird flu elements) to become human transmittable, and then a human would have had to catch that virus from the Asian pigs — in Mexico! — and spread it to others.<< > At present, there is little evidence the virus was created in a U.S. lab and > deliberately unleashed on an unsuspecting Mexican public. However, there is > plenty of evidence the U.S. military and the CIA have used biological agents > in the past, including “tests” on the American people. > “More than 200 experiments were carried out in U.S. rural areas to test the > spread of non-lethal germs,” writes Joe Allen. “These tests were also carried > out in San Francisco in 1950 and in New York in 1966. While the cover for > these tests was to study a ‘defense’ against biochemical warfare, U.S. war > planners wanted this knowledge for offensive use against an enemy > population,” for instance livestock and people in Cuba, as mentioned above. >> At the height of Cold War insanity, the U.S. government gave a free hand for its scientists to experiment on anything that could possibly further its military prowess. The CIA experimented with LSD for “mind control.” At Fort Detrick, scientists studied the possibility of spreading yellow fever and plague with insects. Anti-crop bombs were built for the United States Air Force to be used in the Third World.<< > It appears this insanity did not stop with the Cold War. Last week, the > Frederick News Post reported Army criminal investigators are looking into the > possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick. > Finally, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has reported that “a top > scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly > Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, [and] concluded that H1N1 > possesses certain transmission ‘vectors’ that suggest that the new flu strain > has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon. > The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu > virus are biological warfare agents.” > Again, at this time, there is no definitive evidence indicating the Mexican > virus is a bioweapon. However, there is plenty of factual evidence pointing > to the fact the U.S. government (and other governments) have developed > biological weapons and have used them against target populations. < -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
