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to this one." Of course [there was]! Gallo had already isolatedHTLV-III. . . . And his office was only twenty-five feet away.[I sat up on the edge of my seat taken by the allegation. 'TheBand' presented Francis as somewhat of a hero during his allegedconflict with Gallo and other NCI administrators overwithholding support for AIDS research. I suspected he knewabout Gallo's early research, and Strecker was now alleging thesame.]LEN: You mean Don Francis from the CDC? Francis wasoriginally at the NCI before he went to the CDC?ROBERT: Yes. . . . He was working there right next to Gallo.And that's when they did their famous cat house experimentsshowing that the cats were transferring the viruses back and forthamongst themselves. And then they wrote this article that said, "Itis possible. . ." [16]I mean, they knew or else they didn't talk for the whole time.They knew that there was a similar virus out there growing inhuman beings. . . . Gallo had already isolated it, and their labswere twenty-five feet apart.LEN: Now what I seem to have dug up in the 'WHO Chronicle,'is that the first American laboratory to be sent any of the viralstrains from which they began was the NCI [17]ROBERT: Yeah. Well, I think that's a lie. I mean, I think theviruses were growing in the basement of the NCI all along. . . .Do you know about the meeting between Gallo, Montagnier, andSalk?LEN: No.ROBERT: Oh my God! Anyway, a year or two ago, and this isdocumented in 'Science' or somewhere, Gallo, Montagnier, andSalk met in San Diego to write up the history - the official history- of their discoveries. [18]LEN: Salk? The polio virus Salk?ROBERT: Yeah, they met down there and made up a story. . . .And I personally believe that virtually everything they wrote wasbull. . . . We [referring again to his brother and other colleaguesin The Strecker Group] understood that they used to meet liketwo or three times a week and decide what to tell next - how topackage it, how to discuss it. In other words, they already kneweverything because they'd been working on it since the early1970s. They basically knew they had the same stuff [retrovirusesand reagents] because if you look at what happened, theirdiscoveries were too quick. . . .