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The Suppression <strong>of</strong> Alternative Medical Therapies 59<br />

Chicago, 24 Texas, 13 Virginia, 25 <strong>and</strong> Yale, 17 Merck <strong>and</strong> Co. Inc., 20 <strong>and</strong><br />

Hazelton Laboratory, site <strong>of</strong> the famous 1989 Marburg-Ebola-like<br />

(Reston) virus outbreak. 22<br />

NCI staff reports revealed that Litton Bionetics had been granted the<br />

service contract to supply all NCI researchers, worldwide, with virtually<br />

every primate cancer research material requested, including seed viruses,<br />

viral hybrids, cell lines, experimental reagents, <strong>and</strong> African colony born<br />

monkeys including M. mulatta <strong>and</strong> C. aethiops which were associated<br />

with the major monkey AIDS virus outbreaks in California's Davis Lab,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the 1967 Marburg virus outbreaks in three European vaccine production<br />

facilities. 15-17<br />

Litton Bionetics chief John L<strong>and</strong>on reported an experiment begun in<br />

1965 when he inoculated 18 monkeys with rhaabdovirus simian—a rabies<br />

virus known to cause Ebola-like hemmorhagic fever in monkeys. "Nine<br />

[monkeys] died or were transferred," to allied laboratories or vaccine production<br />

facilities. This shipment was likely to have started the first hemmorhagic<br />

fever "Marburg virus" outbreak among European vaccine laboratory<br />

workers in 1967. As noted by the world's leading simian virus<br />

expert at the time, Dr. Seymour Kalter, the Marburg virus was apparently<br />

manmade. 23-25<br />

In fact, Litton Bionetics, the chief military <strong>and</strong> industrial supplier <strong>of</strong> primates<br />

for cancer virus experimentation during the 1960s <strong>and</strong> early 1970s,<br />

also maintained the colony <strong>of</strong> the specific genus <strong>of</strong> monkeys associated<br />

with all <strong>of</strong> the major monkey AIDS virus outbreaks in the United States. 23<br />

Through telephone interviews with Litton Bionetics <strong>and</strong> MedPath<br />

administrators, I learned that Bionetics Research Laboratories had been<br />

sold to MedPath Corporation—one <strong>of</strong> America's largest medical <strong>and</strong><br />

blood testing laboratories—a division <strong>of</strong> Dow Corning. Dow Coming's<br />

parent, Dow Chemical Company, was also listed among the Army's chief<br />

biological weapons contractors during the 1960s <strong>and</strong> early 1970s. 26,27<br />

Litton Bionetics, a subsidiary <strong>of</strong> Litton Industries, Inc. remains in business<br />

as a proprietor <strong>of</strong> the Frederick Cancer Research Center, a "privately<br />

owned, government contracted" facility. Bionetics, it was noted, currently<br />

acts as an agency under "contract to manage <strong>and</strong> operate the<br />

Frederick (Md.) [Fort Detrick affiliated] Cancer Research Center for the<br />

National Cancer Institute." 27 Besides administering research grants <strong>and</strong><br />

government funds earmarked for the NCI, Litton Bionetics also developed<br />

a division which produced <strong>and</strong> marketed test kits for bloodborne, infectious<br />

diseases including mononucleosis, hepatitis B, <strong>and</strong> AIDS. 28 This<br />

division was sold to Organon Teknica in 1985. 26<br />

Apparently, the military-medical-industrial complex was well aware <strong>of</strong><br />

Litton Industries' service as a DOD <strong>and</strong> NATO contractor. In 1978, the

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