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Continued from page 12- Virus Cancer Program<strong>com</strong>monplace. The human cells in question wereplacenta ("afterbirth") cells from patients with immunedisease, and cells from leukemia (1978, p 192).Xenotropic viruses are viruses taken from one speciesand transplanted into another different species. Allthese experiments represent "species jumping"performed in a laboratory.By 1977 the Program was producing "approximately60,000 liters (15,840 gallons) of tissue culture-grownviruses, propagated in over 40 different cell lines, anddistributed in over 1250 shipments to over 250participating laboratories throughout the world."Also in 1977 Electro-Nucleonics Laboratoriesprocessed 8,044 liters (2,024 gallons) of viruscontainingfluids harvested from several tissue culturesystems. About half this volume was concentratedxenotropic viruses. That same year Pfizer drug<strong>com</strong>pany produced 28,000 liters (7,392 gallons) ofvirus harvest fluids. The vast majority included primateviruses, such as the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, woollymonkey sar<strong>com</strong>a virus and baboon endogenous virus.(This baboon virus contaminated Gallo's lab at theNCI). Litton produced 37,438 liters (9,984 gallons) ofretrovirus material consisting essentially of four agents:mouse mammary tumor virus, Raucher murine (rat)leukemia virus, Gross murine leukemia virus andbaboon leukemia virus.The VCP and the creation of an AIDS-like disease inchimpsIn 1969 the military biowarfare experts predicted that abiological agent would be developed within a decadethat would have a devastating effect on the immunesystem and for which there would be no treatment. (Fordetails of this congressional testimony, Google: DonaldM MacArthur + biowarfare.)The VCP had a keen interest in acquiring "informationand materials from carefully selected patients sufferingfrom immunodeficiency diseases" (1972;318). This ismade clear in a 1973 Progress Report (p249) from theUniversity of Minnesota entitled, "The search for tumorvirus related information in human immunodeficiencypatients with cancer" The researchers proposed"continuation of studies linking immunodeficency,cancer, and oncogenic viruses."As biowarfare expert MacArthur predicted, newcancer-causing monster viruses (like HIV) were createdby the VCP which had a deadly effect on the immunesystem. In one experiment recorded in the 1973 Report(p169), later published in Cancer Research in 1974,newborn chimps were taken away from their mothers atbirth and weaned on milk from cancer virus-infected-13 - Traditional African Clinic December 2006cows. Some of the chimps sickened and died with twodiseases that had never been observed in chimpanzees. Thefirst was Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (later known asthe "gay pneumonia" of AIDS); the second was leukemia, acancer of the blood.Cancer-Causing viruses and "helper" virusesAs the 1970s began it was clear that some cancer-causingviruses could not produce cancer unless a "helper" viruswas present. Certain chicken, cat and mouse sar<strong>com</strong>aviruses were found to be "defective" and unable to inducecancerous changes. However, when a "helper" leukemiavirus was added to the mix, the sar<strong>com</strong>a virus was able toinduce cancer.Mixing of a mouse sar<strong>com</strong>a virus with a cat leukemia virusproduced a "hybrid virus" which could grow continuouslyin cat cells. Such a "hybrid virus" was adapted to humanembryonic (fetal) cells (1971, p22). Thus, it is obvious that"species jumping" experiments were <strong>com</strong>monplace duringthe years of the VCP.By the late 1970s it was known that "type C RNA viruses"(the retroviruses connected with sar<strong>com</strong>as and lymphomasand leukemias) existed normally in cells as "endogenousviruses" within the cellular genomes of many mammalianspecies. By 1977, the year the experimental hepatitis Bvaccine was being made, scientists in the VCP aimed "todetermine the oncogenic potential of putative humanviruses" and "to begin viral vaccine (conventional or other)testing and immunization programs" (1977;32). The exactmethod by which this was to be ac<strong>com</strong>plished was notstated.Primate virus contamination of human cellsThe possibility that animal cancer viruses could causecontamination of viral laboratories and viral research wasan accepted risk for the VCP. Primate virus contaminationproblems have plagued the laboratories of the world's mostfamous AIDS researchers, much to their embarrassment.A decade before Gallo discovered HIV, he reported a"new" and "human" and cancer-associated "HL-23 virus"that was eventually determined to be not one but threecontaminating primate viruses (gibbon-ape virus, simiansar<strong>com</strong>a virus, and baboon endogenous virus).The baboon virus was discovered in the early 1970s at theSouthwest Foundation for Research and Education in SanAntonio, Texas, which hosted a chimpanzee breedingcolony and produced simian viruses for research. Thebaboon virus somehow made its way into the blood cells ofa Texas women with leukemia. When the infected cellsreached Gallo's lab they were apparently joined with anContinued on page 14

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