A Chapter Summary of ‘Emerging Viruses’ for Reporters

tions at the time the CIA was operating at full force in Zaire, Angola, and Sudan-ground zero for the AIDS and
Ebola outbreaks-is documented.
Nathan Gordon, Chief of the chemistry branch of the Technical Services Division of the CIA gave additional
testimony of the agency's possible use of extensive virus stockpiles to assistant intelligence agency scientists in
their work on mass immunization projects, vaccine development, and cancer research-exactly the work conducted by scientists at the NCI, including Robert Gallo, in association with Litton Bionetics in Bethesda and their
affiliates in Uganda, and in cooperation with MSD, CDC, and New York collaborators.
Moreover, discussions focus on congressional testimony which documented that the CIA had, in fact, been
receiving "deadly poison[s]" manufactured by the USPHS and delivered to Fort Detrick for use in human experiments and covert operations.
Chapter 17. The CIA's Human Experiments-Reviews an extensive array of illegal, unethical, immoral,
and racist CIA BW experiments conducted on unsuspecting human populations.
Chapter 18. Nazi Roots of American Central Intelligence: The Biological Warfare Industry-This chapter delivers an eye-opening expose on the Nazi medical officers who escaped prosecution through their service to
American intelligence under a top secret "Project Paperclip." The "excessive zeal" with which U. S. Army intelligence and later CIA personnel protected war criminals, including the infamous "Angel of Death" Joseph
Mengele; his assistant, "the butcher of Lyon," Klaus Barbie; Walter Rauff, the SS mobile gas chambers supervisor;
Friederich Schwend, another mass murderer, and others including Erich Traub, in charge of biological warfare for
the Reich Research Institute, where his research specialty was viral diseases.
Of the approximately 2,000 Nazis drafted into American military service by intelligence officers including
Henry Kissinger under General Bolling-the "Godfather" of "Project Paperclip"-many went on to become the
leaders of America's military-medical industrial complex (MMIC).
This chapter discloses the ties between the CIA and the two powerful organizations which gave rise to Nazi
intelligence and Hitler's SS-The Gehlen Organization and Merk Network. These links are discussed with regard
to the initial development of the CIA under Truman, and the post-WWII boom of the MMIC. The CIA, initially
established as a cover and oversight agency for the Gehlen Organization, was thus rooted in racism and white
supremacist ideology. Further investigation revealed how the Gehlen Organization and CIA were able to launder
approximately $300 million from the Third Reich's war chest through the Paris branch of Rockefeller's Chase
Manhattan Bank. This money was ultimately used to fuel the Kissinger-Rockefeller directed MMIC and possibly
MSD's pharmaceutical empire.
Chapter 19. The CIA in Africa-Between 1970 and 1975, American cold war efforts focused on Zaire and
Angola. Following the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam, Henry Kissinger ordered the CIA to begin a
major covert military operation against MPLA (communist bloc backed) "rebels" in Angola. Indebted by over $4.5
billion to the International Monetary Fund, Zaire, headed by President Mobutu-paradoxically regarded as one of
the world's richest men with "a personal fortune put at $2,939,200,000 [1984 estimate] banked in Switzerland,"was wooed by NATO allies during the 1970s, to be a staging area for CIA backed, Portuguese, French, and South
African mercenaries. American corporate investment, notably in copper and aluminum, doubled following a 1970
visit by Mobutu to the United States. Major investors included Rockefeller's Chase-Manhattan Bank.
This chapter details how, in 1975, Mobutu turned against NATO allies, proclaimed his intention to nationalize
foreign owned enterprises, expelled the American ambassador, and arrested most of the CIA's Zairian agents,
placing some of them under death sentences.
The following year, in October 1976, the Ebola virus broke-out in fifty five Zairian villages, first killing people
who had received injections. Mobutu then ordered his army to seal off the Bumba Zone with roadblocks and shoot
anyone trying to leave.

By the end of 1976, the Zairian leader had reconciled his differences with American intelligence and, thereafter, continued to reap his western allies' economic and "humanitarian" aid.
This chapter details these events along with the CIA's covert operations in the region.

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