Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola Nature, Accident, or Intentional?

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A Speech Before the Citizens Against Legal Loopholes Rally The Capitol Mall, Washington, D.C. Labor Day Weekend, 1996

By Leonard G. Horowitz President, Tetrahedron Inc. a nonprofit educational corporation P.O. Box 402, Rockport, Massachusetts 01966

My name is Dr. Len Horowitz, and some time ago, probably like many of you, I considered myself a lifelong liberal democrat. Fortunately, or unfortunately, that part of me died. When I realized the forces behind so-called liberal democracy were the flip side of the same corrupt coin as the republican political establishment, that is, I opened my eyes to witness a shadow government of military-medical-industrial dictators, the naive person I was had a stroke, keeled over, and praise the lord, died. And I didn't need to call Dr. Jack Kevorkian in to let it rest in peace. What brought me to this realization and this meeting today is a unique story.

Six years ago, most of you can recall, the highly publicized case of the Florida dentist who infected his patients with AIDS-- the case of, the beautiful teenager, Kimberly Bergalis, who died shortly after testifying before Congress in a wheel-chair. At the time I was serving as the chief professional advisor to the largest dental and medical catalog supply company in the world. The day the story broke I was assigned to develop patient and professional educational materials to help allay the public's growing fear of visiting dental and medical offices in the age of AIDS. You may recall how terrified most people became about a routine trip to the dentist at that time. So I began by investigating the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDCs) official investigation reports on the case. And to make a long story short, I found the reports to be scientifically bogus. I later learned that the government had covered-up key evidence in the tragedy in an effort the maintain the case a "unsolvable mystery." In essence they had committed scientific fraud and misconduct and, in the process, concealed the most incriminating evidence against the dentist--a very bright, scientifically trained, ex-military dentist, who believed he was dying of a virus that the government had created. Yes, you heard me correctly, a virus that the government had created.

Now, the problem I had was reconciling the fact that the dentist, though a psychopath, was no fool. And he held in his possession one of the most incriminating documents I had ever seen. A 1970 Department of Defense Appropriations request for $10 million for the development of immune system ravaging viruses for germ warfare. In fact, the document, which I lay before you today, reads like this:

"Within the next 5 to 10 years, it 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. . . A research program to explore the feasibility of this could be completed in approximately 5 years at a total cost of $10 million. . . . It is a highly controversial issue and there are many who believe such research should not be undertaken lest it lead to yet another method of massive killing of large populations."

In fact it was the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (NAS-NRC) that had informed the Defense Department that this research was possible.

Now, according to legal testimony given to government officials, this knowledge enraged the Florida dentist so much it moved him to intentionally inject his patients with HIV-tainted anesthetics. In essence, he did what all organized serial killers love to do, express a vendetta, like the mail-bomber, play games with the authorities, trap them in a catch-22, whereby they'd be damned if they told the truth, and called him a serial killer, because the whole world would want to know motive, and every reporter would ultimately find out as I did, what drove him crazy and who he really hated and ultimately attacked. And if they told a lie, or maintained the case, as they did, a mystery, it would hold America and all of health care hostage to irrational fear of routine health care in the age of AIDS.

Now all of this I documented in three published scientific reports and my last book "Deadly Innocence: The Kimberly Bergalis Case-- Solving the Greatest Murder Mystery in the History of American Medicine." I present these publications and documents here for your critical examination.

So Dr. Acer created a crime, a mystery, that couldn't be solved, without implicating the government and causing a larger mystery to be investigated. That is, the origin of AIDS and Ebola--the subject of my last three years of research, and why I have come before you today. In fact, I investigated the Department of Defense's germ warfare appropriations request and learned that the option to develop synthetic biological agents--bioweapons as alternatives to nuclear weapons--came from Dr. Henry Kissinger, who was gradually placed in his position of authority as National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon, the most powerful man in government, by Nelson Rockefeller and his affiliates at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Moreover, I traced where the money went. It went, in fact, to a firm called Litton Bionetics, a subsidiary of the mega-military contractor Litton Industries, whose President, Roy Ash, was being considered as an alternate to Henry Kissinger for the National Security Advisor post. Instead, Roy Ash became Richard Nixon's chairman of the Presidents Advisory Council on Executive Organizations, and "Assistant to the President of the United States." And Litton Industries was given over $5 billion in military contracts during the first term of the Nixon administration, $10 million of which went towards the development of AIDS-like viruses. A mere drop in the bucket.

But before I tell you exactly what was done with your $10 million of taxpayer money, some background on Kissinger and Rockefeller's influence is in order.

Among Henry Kissinger's most influential patrons as he worked his way up the ladder of success to become Nixon's "Deputy to the President for National Security," was Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, the son of Standard Oil, that is Exxon, heir John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Rockefeller family's involvement in the medical-industrial complex, health science research, and American politics is clearly important.

Before World War II, major administration of medical research, or financing by federal agencies, had been generally opposed by America's scientific community.

In fact, it was only during times of war that organizations like the NAS or the NRC received major funding. Both the NAS, established during the Civil War, and the NRC, set up during the First World War, were largely ignored in times of peace.

Between 1900 and 1940, private foundations and universities financed most medical research. According to Paul Starr, author of The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry, "the most richly endowed research center, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was established in New York in 1902 and by 1928 had received from John D. Rockefeller $65 million in endowment funds." In contrast, as late as 1938, as little as $2.8 million in federal funding was budgeted for the entire U.S. Public Health Service. Therefore, it is easy to see that Rockefeller family investment in health science research predated, and far surpassed, even the federal government's.

More than the New Deal, the Second World War created the greatest boom in federal government and private industry support for medical research. Prior to the war, American science and medicine was heavily influenced by German models. This precedent was bolstered during the 1930s when the Nazis purged Jewish scientists from German universities and biological laboratories. [NOT entirely true. HITLER's OWN PHYSICIAN was the JEWISH Dr. Morell, as was HITLER's TOP GERM WARFARE Scientist, Erich Traub, although many Jews were forced out, not all were as strange as this sounds] These changes, according to Starr, significantly altered the course of American health science and medicine. Many of Germany's most brilliant Jewish researchers emigrated to the United States just as the movement burgeoned to privatize war related biological and medical research.

At this time, the Rockefeller led medical-industrial complex was fully poised to influence, and take advantage of, Congress's "first series of measures to promote cancer research and cancer control." In 1937, the new federal legislation authorized the establishment of the National Cancer Institute under the National Institutes of Health, and, for the first time, "the Public Health Service to make grants to outside researchers." The Rockefeller's exercised significant control over the outcomes of these grants and research efforts through the foundations they established.

Following the war, Henry Kissinger, who had become General Alexander Bolling's German translator and principle assistant (Bolling, of course, was the "Godfather" to the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency that ran "Project Paperclip," the secret ex-filtration of approximately 2,000 high level Nazi's, about 900 of whom were military scientists and medical researchers, including Erich Traub, Hitler's top biological weapons developer and virus expert. Bolling also served as a high ranking member of the Inter-American Defense Board, a Washington based group that delivered Walter Emil Schreiber, Hitler's chief medical scientist, the "Angel of Death" Joseph Mengele, and his assistant, "the butcher of Lyon," Klaus Barbie, among others, to safe havens in South America where they worked on CIA projects.) In fact it was Henry Kissinger's job to seek and find such Nazi's that might be of service to America, and Kissinger became the chief of Army Counter-Intelligence in this regard. He trained other agents to hunt down Nazi's at the European Command Intelligence School in Oberammergau, not to be tried for war crimes necessarily, but rather to serve U.S. military rather than Russian interests.

It was this operation that principally spirited the creation of the CIA as a cover agency for the powerful Gehlen Org, the German intelligence agency run by Reinhard Gehlen--an organization whose power superseded even the Nazi SS because of its prewar connections with German military intelligence.

After Hitler, Gehlen served Allen Welsh Dulles, whose "Operation Sunshine" brought Nazis into the U.S. spy service.

You may be interested to know who paid for the importation of Nazis into American central intelligence, the military, and industry? Three groups: The first was "The Sovereign Military Order of Malta" (SMOM), perhaps the most powerful reactionary segment of European aristocracy, that for almost a thousand years, starting with the crusades in the Twelfth Century, funded military operations against countries and ideas considered a threat to its power; Second was the Nazi war chest that was largely funneled through the Vatican and the Rockefeller owned Chase Manhattan Bank, whose Paris branch conducted business as usual throughout the Nazi occupation of France, and thirdly, some of us and our parents--American taxpayers.

Moreover, during this period, the Council on Foreign Relations, along with the CIA, grew in power under the leadership of Nelson Rockefeller, and in 1955, while serving as President Eisenhower's assistant for international affairs, Rockefeller invited Kissinger to discuss national security issues at the Quantico (Virginia) Marine Base. Following their meeting, according to Walter Isaacson's biography of Kissinger, the diplomat became Rockefeller's "closest intellectual associate," and soon after, Kissinger authored several military proposals for Eisenhower to consider. Unimpressed, Eisenhower turned them down.

As a result, Rockefeller sent Eisenhower his resignation and then launched a Special Studies Project that explored the "critical choices" America faced militarily in the coming years. Kissinger agreed to direct this new project and published a 468-page book on his findings. The treatise proposed that tactical nuclear weapons be developed and "a bomb shelter [be built] in every house" in preparation for limited thermonuclear war. "The willingness to engage in nuclear war when necessary is part of the price of our freedom," Kissinger argued.

So those of you my age can recall the anxiety grade school students felt while drilling for possible nuclear attacks. You can thank Kissinger and the Rockefeller-led military- industrialists for this "price for freedom."

Eisenhower, you may remember, warned America that the gravest threat to world security, democracy, and even spirituality, was the growing military-industrial complex. And the Rockefeller's and Kissinger played leading roles in its evil expansion. Bent on creating what President Bush openly heralded as a "New World Order," few people realize the current international alignment of economic powers is a direct result of actualizing Henry Kissinger's contemporary manifesto--a tribute to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta--entitled "The Meaning of History." In this Kissinger 1955 Harvard doctoral thesis he argues that the concept of peace on earth is naive. Peace must be secured by the creation of small wars around the planet on a continuing basis so as to maintain an international order of economic powers, and of course, keep the military industrialists happy.

In my latest book, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola--Nature, Accident, or Intentional?", I traced Dr. Erich Traub's movements to the U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute, where he conducted experiments on animals to determine the lethal of more than forty strains of highly infectious viruses. Within ten years, the Navy's Biomedical Research Laboratory, in association with the University of California, along with Litton Bionetics, became a chief supplier of viruses and cell cultures for NCI researchers throughout the world. Funding for this work was largely controlled by the NCI, Rockefeller and Sloan Foundations.

A search through Sloan Foundation's annual reports, on file in Manhattan's New York Public Library, revealed nine ghastly and incriminating reasons that, most incredibly, tied all the elements of my "Emerging Viruses" investigation together. The Sloan Foundation:

(1) supported black educational initiatives consistent with the COINTELPRO Black Nationalist Hate Group campaign (you mayrecall reports last year that in surveys of 1,000 Southern Christian African Americans, two-thirds reported their belief that the AIDS epidemic may be genocide, while one-third was convinced it was;

(2) the Sloan Foundation administered mass-media- public-persuasion experiments completely consistent with the CIA's Project MKULTRA-efforts to develop brainwashing technologies and drugs to affect large populations;

(3) funded much of the earliest cancer research involving the genetic engineering of mutant viruses;

(4) began major funding of the National Academy of Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (for "neuroscience" and molecular genetics research), the Salk Institute (for viral research), and the Scientists' Institute for Public Information between 1968 and 1970;

(5) funded population control studies by Planned Parenthood-World Population, New York, N.Y.;

(6) funded the Community Blood Council of Greater New York, Inc., the "council of doctors" who established the infamous New York City Blood Bank which allowed more than 10,000 hemophiliacs and countless others to become infected with HIV because they allegedly didn't want to spend $150 million to screen the blood;

(7) maintained Laurence S. Rockefeller, the director of the Community Blood Council of Greater New York-the international blood bankers-and the president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, as chairman of the board of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and a trustee for the Sloan Foundation;

(8) gave in excess of $20,000 annually to the Council on Foreign Relations; and(9) maintained among its "marketable securities," 16,505 shares of Chase Manhattan Bank stock (in 1967, which it apparently sold by 1970 probably to avoid conflict of interest charges) along with 24,400-53,000 shares issued by Merck & Co., Inc. (the company whose President, George W. Merck, was director of America's biological weapons industry, and whose hepatitis B and polio vaccines most plausibly transmitted AIDS throughout the world).

Also in "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola," you will learn exactly what was done with the $10 million Congress gave the DOD for the development of AIDS-like viruses, because I published the relevant contracts. You will learn that Dr. Robert Gallo, the famous NCI molecular biologist, pardoned by President Clinton last year for scientific fraud and misconduct, and credited with the discovery of the AIDS virus, set about to develop immune system ravaging, AIDS-like viruses, along with other Litton Bionetics researchers. You will learn that they took monkey viruses that were humanly benign, recombined them with DNA, RNA, and enzymes from other animal viruses that caused leukemias, lymphomas, and sarcomas, and then to get them to jump species, they cultured these new mutant viruses in human white blood cells in some studies, and human fetal tissue cells in other studies, to produce immune-system-destroying, cancer-causing viruses that could enter humans and produce virtually identical effects to what the AIDS virus is currently doing in people around the world.

Indeed, it was contaminated live viral vaccines that spread this disease and likely others, including chronic fatigue, certain leukemias, and possibly Gulf War Syndrome as well, to vast populations. In fact, today's live viral vaccines, including the oral polio vaccine required by law be given to our children, are still littered with simian (monkey) virus contaminants since they are developed in monkey kidney cells, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration turns a blind eye to as many as 100 live monkey virus contaminants per vaccine dose, and is barred from telling health professionals and even health scientists this truth because of pharmaceutical industry dictated proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements.

In the end, the research question I asked, "Did these viruses, AIDS and Ebola, evolve naturally, were they accidentally produced, or were they intentionally created and deployed?" I conclude, unquestionably, they are not natural. I leave you the reader, and concerned citizens of America and the world, to decide whether it was a horrible accident or treacherous covert population control experiment.

I ask all of you to consider the pain and cost of the current and coming plagues, including the escalating rates of virus-linked cancers like prostate and breast cancer, certain leukemias and lymphomas, and other vaccine contaminant related illnesses including hyperactivity disorders in children and escalating sudden infant death rates. I believe you will realize that the pain and cost of denial and indifference to this horrible reality is far greater than the toll your political action might cost. I therefore urge you to join our growing grassroots network of health consumers, professionals, scientists, patriots, and concerned citizens in our search for answers and solutions. I urge you to help us pressure Congress for a full investigation of these published facts, and to allocate the funding needed to effect appropriate solutions to these urgent health care problems.

Let me end by giving you, and our home viewers, two resources to contact in this effort. The first is Tetrahedron's toll free citizen action and document order hotline 800-336-9266. And the other is our Internet web site address where you can link to various supporting organizations and individuals. That address is http://www.tetrahedron.org.

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My partner, Author William Thomas, and myself
have done an indepth study
of the Plum Island Animal Diagnostic Center,
located almost 2 miles off
the Eastern Tip of Long Island.
We have documented a horrific history of
carelessness and safety
violations. The latest was found in the EPA
Enforcement Database, 1999.
Yet, a couple of months after the violations, High
Priority Violator
RCRA and Significant Violator CAA, Plum Island is
appealing to the
public for a "so-called" upgrade to biolevel 4.
Plum Island is A BIOCONTAINMENT LEVEL 5
facility. It is on the same par
with the United Nations biolevel 5 facility in Trieste,
Italy.
Incidently, not far from the biolevel 5 facility in
Trieste, was an
outbreak of WEST NILE(like), Fall 1998.
According to protocol, samples from Animal disease
outbreaks overseas
are sent to Plum Island. The Italian "Equid"
outbreak involved horses.
According to Dr. Mertyn Malkinson, samples were
taken.
Plum Island officials deny ever having encephalitis
at the lab. YET, I
have a document that shows Plum Island Doctors
were testing vaccine for
Japanese Encephalitis on HUMAN VOLUNTEERS. I
also have documented that
there were indeed porcine with encephalitis at the
facility.
Why is Plum Island operating stealthly at level 5?
Why is there a push
now, after the West Nile/Kunjin like outbreak? Why
are people not being
told about the power outage at Plum Island in the
late Winter/Early
Spring?
STV Inc. installed an undersea fiberoptic cable,
through which all
power, even backup and telecommunication will
flow. During the
finalization of that cable, POWER TO PLUM ISLAND
WAS CUT.
Biocontainment is maintained through negative
pressurization of labs. In
other words, as you go toward the center of the
main facility, where the
exotic disease lab is located, there is more
depressurization. Without
power the negative pressure could equalize and
cause loss of
biocontainment.
Pathogens, very much like the altered strain of west
nile/kunjin could
escape.
Biolevel 5 containment in addition to negative
pressure labs, relies on
island status. Plum island is not quite 2 miles
from the mainland. Also,
biolevel 5 means that there are 2 or more
devistating diseases that are
not endemic to the area and which would be
considered illegal to have in
the Country. An example would be Foot and Mouth
Disease and African
Swine Fever.
After New York was hit with non-endemic diseases
like Malaria (boy scout
camp on Eastern Long Island, West Nile/Kunjin),
we began to hear that
Plum Island wanted to upgrade to biolevel 4.
Biolevel 4 meaning the
diseases at the lab have NO KNOWN CURE or
PREVENTATIVE VACCINE.
I have documents from the 1998 and also 1999
meetings of the USAHA. At
those meetings, during a few seperate committees,
I have minutes where
Dr. Mile Kiley calls Plum Island "the only
biocontainment level 5
facility in the U.S." Also at the 1998 meeting,
previous Director
Alfonso Torres, who incidently resigned this Spring,
also referred to
Plum Island as a biolevel 5 facility. Dr. Kiley went
on to describe
biocontainment level 1 through 5.
He mentioned that Plum Island needs funds to
upgrade the facility just
to maintain its present biocontainment. In other
words, Plum needs money
to operate safely.
I have been asking why Plum Island will not tell
people that it is a
level 5 facility. I can e-mail documents to prove
this, if anyone is
interested.
I have communicated with the World's best and
brightest Scientists re:
West Nile like. I have an e-mail from Dr. Lipkin in
which he describes
the profile of the virus.
Will Thomas and I have been interviewed on Art
Bell, Jeff Rense, David
Oates, and Alan Hutner Shows. We have an
upcoming interview with Rob
McConnel.
We cannot do this alone. Please, people, ask some
questions. Wrtite to
your representatives in Congress for some answers.
Plum Island is not a New York issue. It is a crow
flight away from most
of you.
I have all of the documents for every allegation that
I have made here.
I also have sources. I even have a source who spoke
about taking
submarine training course, while in the Navy, at
Plum Island. Given its
proximity to our sub base at Groton, Ct. I was not
surprised. I would
also imagine that some of the more deadly
pathogens are brought in via
sub. Possibly, directly or via sub to Groton, then
onto a Government
Ferry to Plum.
Why the dishonesty? I have visited many biolevel 3
labs. Never had a
problem with access. Why, then, is Plum Island
veiled in secrecy?
Sandy Hays the representative from Plum Island
did grant me an
interview, however, it was over the phone. I
requested a tour of the
Island, but, it was denied.
Please, if you are interested, ask questions. Call
your local newspapers
and radio programs. Will Thomas and myself have
documents and are
available for interviews.
Thank You,
Patricia Doyle
a...@bestweb.net
please contact me for info

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The Sunshine Project
Biosafety Bites #3 (6 July 2004)
http://www.sunshine-project.or g/

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT BIOSAFETY BITES:
Please scroll to bottom of this message.

Moribund:
The Department of Homeland Security's Plum
Island Biosafety Committee

According to the Bush administration's senior
science policy
officials, the way to address the problems posed by
ever more
aggressive US research on biological weapons
agents is not to
regulate laboratories; but to turn the matter over to
institutional
biosafety committees, the local bodies that review
research safety.
These voluntary committees, the administration
argues, have a culture
of responsibility that will ensure that dual-use
research with
biological weapons agents doesn't go awry. So it
follows that at
facilities such as those of the Department of
Homeland Security
(DHS), if anywhere, a robust and effective
institutional biosafety
committee system should be found. That is not the
case.

Few, if any, biodefense research facilities have had
as controversial
a relationship with neighbors as the Plum Island
Animal Disease
Center, a large biosafety level three lab located on a
small island
in New York. In the Long Island Sound between
New York and
Connecticut shores, Plum Island was originally
slated to be a US Army
chemical weapons lab. In the 1950s, however, it
passed to the US
Department of Agriculture and became USDA's
primary research lab on
exotic animal diseases, such as African swine fever
and foot and
mouth disease. In 1999 and again in 2002, USDA
tried to upgrade Plum
Island to biosafety level four. Each time, the USDA
was stymied by
local opposition that has been remarkably effective
at mobilizing its
elected officials' influence in Washington. (1)

Things are changing, however, and on June 1st,
2003, Plum Island got
a new owner. Since assuming control, the US
Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) has been coy about its plans, saying
that it does not
plan a BSL-4; but that Plum Island has a
significant role in DHS'
highly controversial biological weapons "threat
characterization"
agenda. (2) Recently, DHS revealed that Plum
Island will be renovated
and re-christened as the Department's Agricultural
Biodefense Center
(ABC).

On the face of it, DHS says it is "committed to
positive community
relations"; but in a recently-published notice in the
Federal
Register, it proposed to grant itself authority to
make secret the
environmental assessments of government activities
that are required
by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
The change would
make it possible for DHS to conduct activities on
Plum Island (and
other facilities) without divulging risks, effects or
even their
existence under NEPA. Plum Island is poised on the
bleeding edge of
DHS' research program on biological weapons, a
program that includes
activities that independent observers conclude are
practically
indistinguishable from offensive biological weapons
research.

Which brings us back to Plum Island's institutional
biosafety
committee (IBC), the local committee that,
according to the Bush
administration, forms the government's major line
of defense to
review dual-use research projects and to ensure
their safety and
security. Thus, if there is a place where the
government might
demonstrate that IBCs can in fact be an effective
mechanism to review
the conduct of dual-use bioweapons research, it is at
facilities like
Plum Island, which are under direct government
control and which have
missions that are focused on biodefense.

What has DHS done with the Plum Island
Institutional Biosafety
Committee? Nothing. Since DHS took over the
facility more than a
year ago, the Plum Island IBC has not met. Not
once. The committee
whose responsibility it is to ensure that research is
safe and secure
appears to be moribund. Not only has there been no
committee review
of Plum Island's new and ongoing research
projects, the committee has
not met to review safety conditions in laboratories
nor to perform
any of the other duties incumbent upon it.

Bush administration biodefense policy leaders claim
that IBCs can
take responsibility for the conduct of dual-use
research with
biological weapons agents; but the Department of
Homeland Security
itself does not maintain an effective institutional
biosafety
committee at Plum Island.

NOTES AND SOURCES:

(1) Although USDA never built a lab with full BSL-4
containment in
Plum Island, it did develop a type of enhanced
BSL-3 containment for
large animals for the Plum Island facility. Called
"BSL-3ag", the
Plum Island facility has some characteristics of
BSL-4 labs not
typically found at BSL-3 facilities.

(2) For a discussion, see Ruppe, David "Proposed
U.S. Biological
Research Could Challenge Treaty Restrictions,
Experts Charge", Global
Security Newswire, 30 June 2004
(http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/
issues/2004_6_30.html)

DHS. Fact Sheet: Plum Island Animal Disease
Center Transition
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/d
isplay?theme=27&content=937

DHS. Response to Sunshine Project information
request, FOIA case
04-459, 21 June 2004.

DHS Environmental Planning Program. Notice of
proposed directive,
request for comments. See:
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/i
nterweb/assetlibrary/MD5100-10 6-01-04.pdf

Also see the wesbite of the NSABB,
http://www.biosecurityboard.go v

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ABOUT BIOSAFETY BITES

The Sunshine Project is in the midst of a survey of
nearly 400 US
institutional biosafety committees (IBCs). These
committees,
maintained at labs conducting federally-funded
biotechnology
research, are established to protect people and the
environment from
risks of biotechnology experiments. Now, following a
2003 study by
the National Academies and the establishment of a
federal biosecurity
board, IBCs are assuming a new "biosecurity" role
as the local
committees responsible for review of risky dual-use
research with
biological weapons agents.

In the course of conducting the IBC survey, the
Sunshine Project has
encountered a number of biosafety problems in
research involving
potential biological weapons agents. These include
physical issues at
high containment laboratories, risky experiments
approved with
dubious safety precautions and/or inadequate IBC
review,
dysfunctional and otherwise noncompliant
committees, and other types
of biosafety problems.

"Biosafety Bites" (#1, #2, #3, etc..) is a series of
short articles
that briefly describe cases of problems that primarily
relate to
laboratory safety. Biosafety Bites will culminate in
the publication
of the final report of the IBC survey, which will focus
on public
accountability and the fitness of institutional
biosafety committees
to take primary responsibility for the conduct of
dual-use research.

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Biosafety Bites #1 (28 June 2004)
US Army Builds Biodefense Lab, Neglects to Inspect
It

Biosafety Bites #2 (29 June 2004)
Tropical Disaster: The University of Hawaii
Institutional Biosafety Committee

Biosafety Bites #3 (6 July 2004)
Moribund: The Department of Homeland Security's
Plum Island Biosafety Committee

More coming soon...

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October 17, 2004
LONG ISLAND
Island Fever
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER CARROLL

ellmore — This summer, the Plum Island Animal
Disease Center off the
east end of Long Island suffered two outbreaks of
the foot-and-mouth
virus, one of many microbes researched and stored
there. Despite
letters from federal, county and town officials,
researchers from the
Department of Homeland Security and the
Department of Agriculture
failed to disclose the outbreaks, which took place in
June and July,
until nearly a month after the second occurrence.
The public learned
of them only after an anonymous tip reached the
ears of a reporter.

While the virus can cause illness in humans, it is not
fatal. But
these latest accidents raise the specter of a future
outbreak of other
germs with lethal consequences. They also
represent another instance
in a long history of failed and belated disclosures at
Plum Island.
Unless changes are made, the government should
close the lab.

Plum Island has a long and checkered history. It
began as the
brainchild of a German biological warfare scientist,
Erich Traub, who
was secretly smuggled into the United States in
1949 to perform
biological weapons research for the Central
Intelligence Agency, the
Army and the Navy. The laboratory was established
in 1954 by the Army
to research exotic germs for use against enemy food
supplies.

In the mid-1950's, the Army turned over control of
Plum Island to the
Department of Agriculture, which in turn
relinquished much of it to
the Department of Homeland Security last year. A
number of the germs
researched on Plum Island are dangerous to
humans and animals and some
are lethal, including the mosquito-borne Rift Valley
fever virus,
which causes hemorrhagic fever akin to the Ebola
virus and killed 600
people in Egypt in 1977 and 1978.

During the 1980's and early 1990's, Plum Island
was charged with more
than 260 violations of workplace safety law
violations by the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
including improper
disposal of virus syringes and radioactive cobalt-60,
unlabeled and
mislabeled hazardous chemical containers and
workers bitten and
trampled by test animals. In addition, according to
the Environmental
Protection Agency, from the mid-1990's to 2002
there were violations
of state and federal environmental laws, including
illegal animal
sewage discharges into local waters under the Clean
Water Act. The New
York State Department of Environmental
Conservation described the
environmental pollution as troubling, and in
December 2002, the island
made the National Resources Defense Council's
"Dirty Dozen" list of
the 12 worst polluters in New York and New Jersey.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, a file with information on
Plum Island was
found by American forces in Afghanistan in the
Kabul residence of
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a former nuclear
scientist from Pakistan
whom American officials have identified as an
associate of Osama bin
Laden. Last year, the Government Accountability
Office, the
investigative arm of Congress, found that laboratory
officials "have
not adequately controlled access to the pathogens."

Ostensibly in response to this and concerns raised
by elected
officials, in July Plum Island bolstered the small
24-hour detail
provided by a private security firm with part-time
federally trained
armed guards. Plum Island administrators claim
that the laboratories
are as safe "as a federal courthouse." They stress
that the scientists
work only on animal pathogens, particularly
diseases that affect farm
animals. They say that Plum Island is well
protected, and that they
meticulously detail biological safety and security
practices to
reporters with whom they've pledged to be
forthright about problems
that arise. They boast on their Web site that they
are "proud" of
their safety record.

But the foot-and-mouth outbreaks that occurred
this summer raise
important questions: How did it happen? Were
proper safety measures
followed? What is being done to prevent it from
happening again?

To address some of these problems, several security
measures should be
taken. First, armed couriers should be employed to
transport the
foreign germs that arrive at nearby international
airports and are
carried along Connecticut and New York roads.
Moreover, emergency
first responders like county fire and police officials
should be
notified of each trip and be properly equipped and
prepared to respond
to a biological accident or terrorist attack. Second,
the Department
of Homeland Security must enforce a no-flight zone
over Plum Island.
And third, the department must re-establish full
federal control of
the island. Plum Island's biological containment,
security, sewage and
water systems are now run by a private contractor,
but the work being
done there is too dangerous to be in private hands.

By contrast, Plum Island's sister laboratory in
Ames, Iowa, holds less
dangerous germs and it is not privatized. In fact, in
2003, Senator
Tom Harkin of Iowa blocked an effort to install
private contractors
there. The Ames laboratory, he said, is "a vital
function of the
federal government, and it should remain the
responsibility of federal
employees." New York's elected officials should
follow Mr. Harkin's
lead.

Until these steps are taken, Plum Island will
remain a threat to its
neighbors and a soft target for terrorism. The
scientists at Plum
Island need to recognize that their laboratory needs
an overhaul, and
our elected leaders need to force real change there,
before we all
have to pay the price.

Michael Christopher Carroll is the author of "Lab
257: The Disturbing
Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island
Germ Laboratory."

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http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.health.alternative/browse_thread/thread/461eb828433ed0c8/0565b63a749b8f06?q=Plum+Island&rnum=9&hl=en#0565b63a749b8f06 misc.health.alternative Start a new topic - Subscribe to this group - About this group FWD: What is going on at Plum Island? Only 1 message in topic - view as tree daugh May 17 2000, 3:00 am show options Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: American Patriot Friends Network To: \ American Patriot Friends Network\\ Subject: FWD: What is going on at Plum Island? Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 5:11 PM THIS MESSAGE POSTED TO APFN MESSAGE BOARD: http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mb s.cgi/mb1075995 May 12, 2000 Subject: What is going on at Plum Island? From: Byron T. Weeks, MD" - btw...@if.rmci.net There are some facts and rumors that need to be known in regard to several events that I believe are related. There is a Microbiology Lab at Plum Island off the northern tip of Long Island. It is said to be doing research on animal diseases that could be accidentally imported to the US. Mostly about horses in recent times. They are concentrating on equine encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain in horses that is spread by mosquitoes and is transmissible to humans. There are several coincidences that may arouse one's suspicions and lead to certain questions. What was the source of the alleged outbreak of West Nile fever in New York City? Why do studies suggest this the virus has been genetically altered? It actually resembles Japanese B Encephalitis which is deadly to horses, birds, and humans. The Opossum is evidently a host for the virus, since it has been found in live animals in the North Eastern states. Why was NYC suddenly doused last winter with malathion, an agent related to nerve gas and very toxic to humans and mosquitoes? Why are crows, blackbirds, starlings and other carrion birds dying all over the Eastern states, and as far west as Colorado, in large numbers? Why have there been many reports of the identification of a mosquito normally found only in Asia--Aedes japonicum?? This mosquito is a vector of Japanese B encephalitis virus and probably other viruses. It is now found in New England. Did the encephalitis cases originate from Plum Island? Did Plum Island import Aedes japonicum from Asia? Was the release accidental, or deliberate? Are Americans now at risk for an epidemic of mosquito borne encephalitis? Why is my informant quoted below seemingly being targeted? A swarm of mosqitoes were discovered in the cab of this person's truck and several bites were incurred. This person is now quite ill. The following is a quote from my informant, who is an epidemiologist: "I will keep you informed. I think that OraVax was working on JE family of vaccine and will probably market it soon. I found some anomolies with the original outbreak as you know. I think that the first 3 cases were actually St. Louis Encephalitis and the latter cases were Kunjin/WNV. Plum Island had been testing JE encephalitis family of vaccine on human volunteers. Drs. Peter Mason and Robert E Shope of Plum Island and Dr. Thomas Monath of OraVax worked on the vaccine. Then we have Dr. Jerry Hauer who was hired by NYC in Feb. of 1999 to head up the Office of Emergency Management. He is on the same Clinton biopreparedness committee with Shope, (Dr.Shope) who is now in the Univ of Texas at Galvaston. Dr. Hauer left the City right after the West Nile crisis subsided. Dr. Hauer went to the FBI to head up their biopreparedness dept. The CDC did release the blood work on the 300 residents of a 3 mile square of Queens New York. I will check into the reports. I do assume and did mention it last fall, that the birds who can travel up to 50+ miles a day would probably spread it South and Westward this Spring. All that one has to do is the Math. I would surmise that it spreads to Colorado this Spring and clear down to Florida and up through Eastern and Centeral Canada. If OraVax does market the chimerivax by the Summer, I would begin to wonder if the WNV wasn't "let go" by NWO people last March 1999. There was a power outage at Plum Island in march of 99, the same march of 99 when OraVax Co. was in financial crisis. There were subsequent (unexplained) power outages at Plum island during the summer. I had discovered that Plum Island was the recepient of 10 million dollars from the Nixon Administration back in 1970 for the purpose of studying the use of mycoplasma for germwar. Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi headed that Dept. in the 80's, until hostilities broke out in the Gulf, at which time he went back home to Iraq to head the Univ. of Bagdad Mycoplasma research dept. I am gathering evidence that proves Lyme Disease originated at Plum Island. I will keep you updated on West Nile. Over the weekend, I will see what I have in files. OraVax's parent company is Peptide Theraputic Corp. in the UK, Cambridge I think." p.s. "So, it seems like North VietNam, or should I say Vietnam wants and expects us to rebuild their Country. I have a lot of hard feeling on that. My Cousin's life was ruined by the war. He was in Intelligence in the jungles and never came back the same healthy, happy well balanced person. Too many of our boys lost their lives. When I think about the Hanoi Hilton, and also what was done to our boys throught the war, I just have a hard time forking over money. It could be better spent here. I guess, I am not enpowered to make that decision, am I? Clinton will be doing that. How Ironic, the draft dodger will serve up the final blow to our Viet Nam Vets. I sincerely hope that the Vets will send off a protest to Congress. There is no money for VA hospitals, yet, we will find money to rebuild Viet Nam. They had 25+ years, Communism according to them is so great, then why didn't they rebuild sooner. Why have to depend on free market economy to rebuild their Country? They wanted Communism, and in my opinion, let them rebuild it themselves. Money better spent taking care of our Veterans." Name withheld ------------------------------ ------------------- PLUM ISLAND: Re: Cloning May Work for Extinct Goat Look up and See the Pollution Raining Down on You! Great Patriot & Other Sites http://www.apfn.org/apfn/great .htm http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moreg reat.htm What is a Militia ? Defenders of Liberty & Freedom, and the Constitutional Republic. Against Tyrants ! Foreign and Domestic ! 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