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56 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
MILITARY ORDERS FOR AIDS-LIKE VIRUSES:
THE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONTRACTORS
As early as 1970, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) appropriated at
least $10 million to "initiate an adequate program through the National
Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (NAS-NRC)" to make
a new infective microorganism which could differ in certain important
aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of
these [aspects] is that it might be refractory to the immunological and
therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom
from infectious disease. Members of the NAS-NRC had instructed
scientific leaders in the DOD this work might be accomplished "within 5
years." 4 This research was then carried out by American defense contractors
despite the authorization and signing of the Geneva accord by Dr.
Henry Kissinger and President Nixon outlawing the production and testing
of such biological weapons. 5
Also in 1970 Gallo and his co-workers presented research describing
the experimental entry of bacterial ribonucleic acid (RNA) into human
white blood cells (WBCs) before a special symposium sponsored by
NATO. 6 The paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences discussed several possible mechanisms prompting the "entry
of foreign nucleic acids" into lymphocytes—the cells principally attacked
by HIV. Prior to this, Gallo et al. had published studies identifying:
1. mechanisms responsible for reduced amino acid and protein synthesis
by T-lymphocytes required for immunosuppression; 7
2. specific enzymes required to produce such effects along with a "base
pair switch mutation" in the genes of WBCs to create immune system
dysfunction; 8 and
3. methods by which WBC "DNA degradation" and immune system
decay may be prompted by the "pooling" of purine bases and/or the
addition of specific reagents. 9
Subsequent studies published in 1970 by Gallo and co-workers identified
"RNA dependent DNA polymerase" (i.e., the unique AIDS-linked
enzyme, reverse transcriptase) responsible for "gene amplification . . .
biochemical cytodifferentiation," (i.e., the development of unique WBC
characteristics including cancer cell production) and "leukaemogenesis";
10 and identified L-Asparaginase synthetase—a key enzyme that, if
repressed, will induce treatment resistant leukemias and other cancers. 11
The year following the $10 million appropriation by the DOD for
AIDS-like biological weapons research, the NCI acquired the lion's share