A Chapter Summary of ‘Emerging Viruses’ for Reporters

A review of Department of State Bulletins revealed that by 1976 Joseph Califano, who had advised Kissinger
to appoint Alexander Haig as his White House assistant, took the lead in attacking "rapid population growth" in the
Third World. His subsequent policies are discussed as are Califano's links to Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD)the world's largest supplier of AIDS-related drugs. Had Califano authorized USAID funds for Merck related
hepatitis B vaccine studies in central Africa during his stint as secretary of DHEW? Apparently so.
Moreover, Chapter 13 examines a paper trail in the scientific literature linking MSD investigators with viral
researchers who conducted hepatitis B vaccine studies on retarded children and gay volunteers in NYC. Through
the New York City Blood Bank (NYCBB) and the biological weapons contractors at the New York University
Medical Center (NYUMC), as early as 1969, that is, shortly after Kissinger became NSC director, the first humans
were inoculated with experimental vaccines composed of live or attenuated viruses that had only been tested on
monkeys. Moreover, the viruses had been grown in chimpanzees likely infected with a varity of other viruses with
similarities to HIV.
Most astonishing, the text documents that MSD researchers worked in cooperation Gallo's group at the NCI
and Litton Bionetics, and that combined, they conducted similar studies in Central Africa under U. S. Army and
USAID contracts. Moreover, the "Drug Development Branch" of the NCI served as a conduit of experimental
viruses, vaccines, and drugs between Gallo and company and MSD. Thus, the alleged channel through which HIV
tainted hepatitis B vaccines passed between the NCI and MSD was operating by 1970.
Chapter 14. Central African Vaccine Trials-Documents the specific African vaccine studies and immunization campaigns waged by the suspected scientific network in an effort to investigate the accidental and intentional theories of AIDS. The text details the:
* 20 country immunization program supported by USAID, the CDC, the WHO and MSD;
* The NCI's method of turning taxpayer funded research dollars into private enterprise profits;
* Obvious conflicts of interest and scientific misconduct demonstrated when CDC and MSD authorities
attempted to rebut widespread allegations that the spread of AIDS followed Merck hepatitis vaccine study routes;
* The support Gallo received from at least a third of the Army's top eighteen biological weapons contractors
including Bionetics, Hazleton, and Dow Chemical;
* Plans to prompt Congressional legislation freeing MSD and other vaccine producers from liability and costly
litigation from personal injury claims;
* Protocol for administering African "jet gun" immunization programs and documented propaganda campaigns;
* The view of leading government scientists that race, class, and "national security" is the principle motive
behind Third World immunization practices.
Chapter 15. The CIA/Detrick Operation- In 1975, following the storm of public outrage over the CIA's
involvement in Watergate, the agency was investigated and chastised by the Rockefeller Commission and two
Congressional committees.
That year, word had leaked from the Army's Special (that is, secret) Operations Division at Fort Detrick, that
the CIA was illegally stockpiling deadly bacteria, viruses, and other toxins.
As a result, a Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities met
to investigate. Senator Frank Church presided.
The Church hearings exposed much about the illegal storage of BW by the CIA, and their intended use in
covert operations. Unfortunately, the American news media failed to report the most incriminating testimonies.
The testimonies implicated congressional investigators as Dr. Kissinger was shielded from indictments along with
other chief decision makers.

Chapter 16. The CIA's Top Secret PROJECT: MKNAOMI-Discusses the CIA's BW operation. CIA
Director William Colby's admission that the agency's interest in BW was for offensive uses during covert opera
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