[CTRL] Biowarfare
Book details shadowy world of germ war Tuesday, 11 April 2000 19:25 (ET) Book details shadowy world of germ war By HIL ANDERSON LOS ANGELES, April 11 (UPI) - While the threat of an all-consuming nuclear exchange between superpowers has diminished in recent years, a new book reminds the world that the grisly development of biological warfare remains a bustling cottage industry among rogue states. Journalists Tom Mangold and Jeff Goldberg report in "Plague Wars" that the harnessing of lethal bacteria and viruses has been the goal of various major powers since World War II, and research into making the organisms deadlier, and delivering them more efficiently to a helpless foe, continues. The prospect of an unhinged dictator or a terrorist cell loosing anthrax or some other vile plague on a major city or against the woefully unprepared U.S. military conjures up nightmarish visions of mass burials in Central Park or the loss of entire divisions of troops. "I am taking the biological terrorist threat very, very seriously," Jerry Hauer, the head of New York City's Office of Emergency Services, told the authors. "I have a background in public health, and I know what the implications are." The implications are serious trouble due not only to a lack of equipment, medicines and trained emergency personnel, but also to the nature of biological weapons -- invisible to the eye and capable of swiftly drifting along on the breeze through streets, air conditioning ducts and subway tunnels. It is this apparent portability that seems to make biological warfare an attractive possibility for a terrorist bent on causing mass casualties and panic in an urban area, or a rogue nation looking for a weapon that will serve as a great equalizer in a confrontation with the United States. According to the book, the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo repeatedly tried to launch biological attacks against Tokyo and against U.S. Navy installations in Japan in the mid-1990s, but the attempts failed - undone for a variety of reasons, including faulty equipment or viruses that just didn't work -- and the cult turned to sarin nerve gas, which killed a dozen people and injured about 5,000 others in the Tokyo subway in March 1995. The prospect of facing biological and/or chemical weapons in the days leading up to the Gulf War was enough to prompt President Bush to deliver a thinly-veiled threat to Saddam Hussein that the coming battle could go nuclear quickly if the Iraqis unleashed their arsenal of such weapons against Coalition forces. The nuclear option appears to be what has been keeping the biologicals at bay, and more likely to be used in a regional conflict such as the Iran-Iraq war, or the kind of covert "dirty" war as the one that occurred in the bush during the guerrilla campaigns against Rhodesia and South Africa. While the prospects of a strategic biological attack are bone chilling, the most likely scenario is a small-scale operation during a little-known war in a remote corner of the world. Biological weapons have been under development since World War II when Japan, the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States all took the plunge into biological warfare research. The Soviet program appeared to have been the most ambitious, and Plague Wars reports on a couple of mysterious outbreaks of disease that swept through the invading German army that may or may not have been caused by germs grown in Soviet labs. The Soviet program frightened the west enough that the United States kept its program alive after the war ended, even drafting former members of Japan's ghoulish Unit 731, that had conducted bizarre and inhumane medical experiments on hapless prisoners in China, to provide U.S. scientists with their discoveries. The western programs never really matched the Soviets' in terms of output and ambition, and the collapse of the Communist government failed to terminate research that continued into the Yeltsin years. So cloaked in secrecy was the Russian biowar industry that even Yeltsin had to fumble around for the truth when coming clean about offensive biological weapons to the U.S. and the British. The Russians eventually agreed to a series of reciprocal inspections of both their facilities and those of the U.S., and Plague Wars mercifully breezes through the frequently tedious negotiations of such arms agreements. The secretive nature of biological warfare continues to the present day as United Nations arms inspectors try to ferret out the truth about Iraq's program. Plague Wars offers a fresh look at the often-tangled process by focusing on the adventures of the inspectors themselves in Iraq, the kinds of war stories one would hear over a drink in a pub rather than read about in the Sunday papers. Richard Butler, the head of the UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission on Iraq), told the authors that he saw his mission in Iraq as a vital step toward a solid, verifiable biological arms treaty.
[CTRL] Biowarfare Testing?
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:48:00 -0800 (PST) From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BCPolitics] Planetarium Lecture by William Thomas (fwd) From: Franklin Wayne Poley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:34:47 -0800 From: UFO*BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Planetarium Lecture by William Thomas UFO*BC and The Millenium Project present: Upcoming Feature Presentation In Vancouver On April 8 "What's Wrong With Our Skies" Journalist Alleges Biowarfare Testing Over Canada, US and Europe Award-winning investigative journalist William Thomas will present alarming and provocative findings from his eight-year investigation into the current pandemic of autoimmune and related ailments in a feature presentation entitled 'What's Wrong with Our Skies?' at the Pacific Space Centre / H. R. MacMillan Planetarium, on April 8 in Vancouver, BC. For Lecture and Ticket Information, visit: http://ufobc.org/events.htm For more information on William Thomas and Chemtrails, visit: http://ufobc.org/chemtrails.htm PERFORM CPR ON YOUR APR! Get a NextCard Visa, in 30 seconds! Get rates as low as 0.0% Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR and no hidden fees. Apply NOW! http://click.egroups.com/1/2121/2/_/103697/_/954305283/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] BioWarfare ready to start in Colombia
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.anomalous-images.com/news/news566.html Plan to attack coca with killer fungus Feb. 18, 2000 Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON: A voracious fungus that dines on coca plants soon may become a weapon in the international war on cocaine as the United Nations and Colombia -- with U.S. backing -- near an agreement to test the fungus in Colombia, officials said. 'Initially it would be a small test on the ground in Colombia, something on a far, far smaller scale than what would be needed for eradication,' said Richard Baum, a foreign policy analyst for U.S. drug chief Gen. Barry McCaffrey. The fungus, called a 'mycoherbicide,' has a strict diet, eating only the coca plants whose leaves are the raw material used to produce cocaine, said an expert at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It has been extensively tested in the United States. Testing in Colombia to make sure the fungus would not be harmful to humans or animals and would not migrate to other crops could take up to a year or two, Baum said. But if the tests were successful, he said, 'We are optimistic that it could be an effective tool in our efforts to control cocaine production.' But before the test can begin, an agreement would have to be signed between Colombia and the United Nations Drug Control Policy Office. After months of discussions and research by both sides on technical and scientific concerns, the United Nations and Colombia could sign the agreement this month, said officials familiar with the negotiations." A reader comments: Sounds like a very bad idea - letting the contents of "Pandora's Box" out to do untold and unexpected dirty work. But what can one expect from government? Good and useful things always get damaged in the process, ie Elms and Chestnuts. "I think Montanans and indeed all Americans will be shocked to hear that a crop-killing fungus is being genetically engineered and tested in our communities," said Montana NORML Director John Masterson [8/12/99]. "What s particularly abhorrent about the cannabis-killing manufactured organism being created in a Montana laboratory is the fact that the Montana House of Representatives just passed a pro-industrial hemp resolution with a 95-4 vote." Fusarium oxysporum is of the same strain that Florida state drug czar Jim McDonough wants to use to eradicate cannabis, despite claims that the fungus could easily become lethal to much of the rest of Florida agriculture. "This Jurassic Park idea that the mutant fungus will simply go away after it has rid the United States of cannabis is contrary to all we know about biology and evolution," said Tom Dean, Esq., NORML Foundation Litigation Director. "What will prevent the fungus from spreading to other countries where industrial hemp is an essential part of their economy? How do we stop the fungus from evolving into a tomato or wheat killer?" Fusarium o. has already been demonstrated to kill asparagus (Asparagus killed by Fusarium oxysporum: Hypermedia en Protection des Plantes (section pathologie); Association de coordination technique agricole, Paris www.inra.fr/USER/PRODUCTIONS/BDD/HYP3/pathogene/6fusoxa.htm.) These maniacs really scare me. They are going to do as much harm to Colombia as we did to Vietnam. Maybe even as much harm to Florida and California. This is Dow driving policy. "Mycoherbicide" is a brand name. As usual the pharmacologically illiterate whore press can't even be bothered to tell us the botanical name of this peculiarly selective fungus - cause then we could look it up. Ecosystems are interwoven by the evolutionary genetics of mutation. No fungus can be contained. Dan Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kalyx.com -- --- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml --- __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] Biowarfare connections between U.S. Fort (Camp) Detrick world-war era Japan.
-Caveat Lector- Biowarfare connections between U.S. Fort (Camp) Detrick world-war era Japan. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dyue/wiihist/germwar/731rev.htm A Preliminary Review of Studies of Japanese Biological Warfare Unit 731 in the United States Tien-wei Wu Table of contents *Introduction *I. The origin of Unit 731 *II. The US knowledge of the Germ War *III. The deal between US and Unit 731 members * don't miss this part ! *IV. Japanese experiments on American POWs Intoduction. In the midst of continuous denial by important members of the Japanese government individually or collectively that Japan was an aggressor in World War II, the planned exhibition of the Smithsonian Institute to commemorate the end of WWII in Asia has turned into an unusually fervid debate, with which an interest in discussing and writing on Japan's wartime atrocities has been aroused. Most prominent among numerous writings on the subject is "Japan Confronting Gruesome War Atrocity" penned by Nicholas D. Kristof and published inNew York Times on March 17, 1995. The article has given us a detailed account of the most shocking, heinous, cruel crime the civilized world has ever known: Japanese Unit 731 used human beings for vivisection in order to develop biological weapons. Equally unbelievable is that the United States has covered up the crime in exchange for the data on human experiments, an act utterly ignoring international laws and human justice. What a great irony to the lofty ideal of democracy and the so-called "American civilization" of the 20th century! The shock created by Kristof's article has been felt primarily in the U.S. and a few Western countries. However, as early as 1949, the Soviet Union held a week long trial at Khabarovsk of the Japanese war criminals for biological warfare. Among those tried, 12 people were associated with 731, including General Yamada Otozo, Commander-in-Chief of the Kuantung Army, Lt. Gen. Ryuiji Kajitsuka, Chief of the Medical Administration, and Lt. Gen. Takaatsu Takahashi, Chief of the Veterinary Division, both in the Kuantung Army; Maj. Gen. Kiyoshi Kawashima, longtime head of Unit 731's production department; Maj. Gen. Shunji Sato, head of Unit 731's Canton branch; and Lt. Col. Toshihide Nishi, Major Tomio Karasawa, Maj. Maso Onoue, Lt. Zensaku Hirazakura, Senior Sergeant Kazuo Mitomo, Corporal Norimitsu Kikuchi, and Private Yuji Kurushima, all of Unit 731. The entire proceedings of the trial were published under the title "The Trial of Former Servicemen of the Japanese Army Charged with Manufacturing and Employing Bacteriological Weapons" by Foreign Language Publishing House, Moscow, 1950. Since 1940, in Chinese theater, Ishii Shiro had led his Unit 731 to engage in biological warfare by attacking Ningpo, Chinhua, Chuchou of Chechiang province (during the Japanese-Soviet war at Nomonhan, Mongolia in the summer of 1939, Unit 731 was dispatched to the front to make bacterial assault). To retaliate the U.S. air raid of Tokyo led by Col. Doolittle in April 1942, from which over 60 U.S. airmen were rescued in Chechiang area, Japan launched a largescale mopping-up campaign, in which several hundred men from Unit 731 and its subsidiary Unit 1644 of Nanking took part. Early in November 1941, Unit 731 dispatched an airplane to spread bubonic plague at Changte, Hunan, which was verified by Dr. E. J. Bannon of American Presbyterian Church hospital at Changte. The event was well known to American and British intelligence agencies at Chungking and besides the Chinese government had fully informed the American and British government of it through its ambassadors Wellington Koo at London and Hu Shih at Washington. Chinese authorities had long learned that Japan used biological warfare against China and had repeatedly appealed to international communities for help. Before making their escape at the time of Japanese surrender, Japanese in Unit 731 set free scores of thousands of infected rats that caused widespread plague in 22 counties of Heilungchiang and Kirin provinces that took more than 20,000 Chinese lives. As the plague was well publicized in newspapers and periodicals, many Chinese became aware of Japan's employing biological warfare in China during the war. While the Korean was raging, North Korea and China accused the United States of using biological warfare that rekindled the public interest in probing Unit 73 1. Among thousands of Japanese prisoners of war (POW) repatriated from Siberia, some belonged to Unit 73 1. Together with those Japanese POWs then detained in China, they were tried in a special court at Shenyang (Mukden) in June 1956. Strikingly one of them was Ken Yuasa, the doctor mentioned in Kristof's article in the New York Times. Some others under trial included important members of Unit 73 1: Major Hideo Sakakihara who was in charge of Hailar branch of Unit 731 (there were
[CTRL] Biowarfare, Genetically modified Mycoplasma Fermentans
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.immed.org/free/htmldoc/sumpe.htm Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart SUMMARY OF PERSIAN GULF WAR ILLNESS PILOT STUDY ON MYCOPLASMAL INFECTIONS IN VETERANS AND FAMILY MEMBERS Garth L. Nicolson, Ph.D. and Nancy L. Nicolson, Ph.D. The Institute for Molecular Medicine, P.O. Box 52470, Irvine, California 92619-2470 Approximately 50,000-100,000 U.S. and ~3,500 British soldiers returned from Operation Desert Storm with unusual illnesses characterized by a variety of chronic signs and symptoms. Our step-daughter was one of these soldiers. Since we had some experience with a disease that caused similar complex signs and symptoms, we proposed that the Desert Storm or Persian Gulf War Illness (GWI) might be caused by a severe mycoplasmal infection and that it should be treatable with appropriate antibiotics. We conducted a pilot study of Desert Storm veterans and their families for the presence of unusual mycoplasmal infections. This study showed that 55/73 GWI patients, including symptomatic family members, responded to an antibiotic (doxycycline) that is effective against a variety of mycoplasmas, and these soldiers and their family members who were sick with the same symptoms eventually recovered from their illness (Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. Doxycycline treatment and Desert Storm J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 273: 618-619, 1995). Since this study we have continued to gather evidence that mycoplasmal infections, and probably other chronic infectious agents, are causing the chronic signs and symptomsof GWI that are similar to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Nicolson, G.L. and Nicolson, N.L. Chronic fatigue illness and Operation Desert Storm. J. Occup. Environ. Med. 38: 14-16, 1996). Mycoplasmas are microorganisms whose genetic complexity and classification are similar to bacteria. These microorganisms are usually indolent in normal healthy individuals and are not often associated with severe diseases. In fact, most adults may have had mycoplasmal pneumonia or a urogenital tract infection caused by mycoplasmas. The mycoplasmas we have found in a sizable fraction of the Gulf War Illness patients are unlikely to be naturally occurring and could be Biological Weapons. We have based this notion on the observation that the mycoplasmas that we have found in clinical blood samples from Desert Storm veterans contain unusual DNA sequences that they probably did not obtain in the wild. For example, we have detected mycoplasma DNA sequences from Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus strain) and a few soldiers with modified Mycoplasma genitalium in veterans and their family members with GWI as well as the HIV-1 envelope or env gene. The former type of mycoplasma was studied by Dr. Shyh Lo, formerly of Tanox Biosystems, a spin-off biotechnology company from the Baylor College of Medicine, but now affiliated with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. Two points need to be clarified regarding our identification of HIV-1 genes and mycoplasma sequences in the soldiers and symptomatic family members that have GWI: 1. We detected HIV-1 genes in the same nucleoprotein fractions as the mycoplasma genes but we did not detect the complete HIV-1 virus genome. Thus these patients do not have the complete HIV-1 virus that is associated with AIDS. This virus must contain the entire HIV-1 genome to replicate. 2. We observed a very small subset of soldiers who had another gene sequence, the HIV-1 polymerase gene. Thus GWI patients contain individual genes of the HIV-1 virus genome but not the complete virus. What this might mean: 1. Mycoplasmas possessing the HIV-1 env gene could allegedly have been engineered to make them more invasive and pathogenic and more difficult to find. The HIV-1 env gene encodes a surface glycoprotein, gp120, that is involved in virus attachment and entry into cells through receptors on the cell surface. This could result in opportunistic cell attachment and penetration of many types of cells and most tissues. 2. It is unlikely that our experiments are incorrectly detecting these unusual genes in biological samples. We used highly specific oligonucleotide probes for our studies. The probes are themselves unique complimentary DNA sequences and are analogous to probes used in studies called DNA hybridization analyses. Such techniques are well accepted in the forensic field. If the DNA sequence from a particular infectious agent is present, we can specifically identify its presence. Since the DNA probe is radiolabeled, it will interlock with a specific DNA sequence from the infectious agent to produce a radioactive signal (if the infectious DNA sequence is present). In our case the agent DNA is detected in cell nuclear fractions, and we detect the radioactive signal by X-ray autoradiography using Nucleoprotein Gene Tracking (Nicolson, N.L. and Nicolson, G.L. The isolation, purification and analysis of specific
[CTRL] Biowarfare Attack on Fort Wayne, Indiana
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:529866"Biowarfare Attack on Fort Wayne, Indiana /A - Subject: Biowarfare Attack on Fort Wayne, Indiana From: David Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Jun 4, 1999 5:25 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Between 3:30 and 4:30 am on June 4th, 1999, Fort Wayne Indiana was subjected to a biological warfare attack. The attack was conducted by airplanes which sprayed biological warfare agents over the entire city. The first spraying was laid down in a north-south line just east of the center of the city. Additional spray trails were laid down in 4 parallel east-to-west lines ranging from north of to south of the city. This attack is only the latest of many being conducted on Fort Wayne (see my earlier letter to the Journal Gazette reporting a daytime spraying) and other cities all over the U.S. and also in England and Australia most likely under the auspices of the United Nations with major logistical support by the U.S. Armed Forces. These attacks in other cities have been very highly correllated with hospital emergency rooms being overrun by people with 'flu-like' symptoms, a number of which subsequently died. Analysis of apparent spray residue has documented the presence of biological warfare agents never before seen outside of U.S. military biological warfare laboratories. For additional info on and pictures of these biological warfare attacks taking place on American Cities, see http://www.islandnet.net/~wilco http://www.carnicom.com/ - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
