The third and final document in this stunning sequence comes from the same National Cancer Institute and National Public Health Service report.
[FIGURE 16.5. US-USSR AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS INCLUDING THE MOST ADVANCED CANCER VIRUSES, WERE TREATED DURING THE COLD WAR
US-USSR Agreement. A Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in the study of the microbiology, immunology, and molecular biology of cancer viruses was first signed on November 18, 1972. The Memorandum established procedures for joint studies through the exchange of information, materials and scientists between the two countries.
Delegation Meetings: November, 1972: Moscow, USSR
November, 1973: Bethesda, USA (Subcommittee)
May, 1974: Moscow, USSR
May, 1975: Bethesda, USA
June, 1976: Sukhumi, USSR
October, 1977: Bethesda, USA
September, 1978: Riga, Latvian USSR
As agreed, the fifth meeting of the US-USSR Joint Working Group on Cancer Virology, Co-Chairman Dr. J.B. Moloney and Professor V.M. Zhdanov, took place at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, on October 26-28, 1977. At a symposium held on October 27 and 28, members of both delegations and invited speakers presented recent studies in cancer virology. The main emphasis at this meeting was given to reviewing the progress of current cooperative efforts and assessing the problem of recombinant DNA research. Dr. Michael Crawford (University of Kansas)presented preliminary results of a study to determine the role of genetic factors in an outbreak of leukemia in baboons. This work, conducted jointly by laboratories in the USA and in the USSR, is an excellent example of the cooperative research efforts sponsored under the US-USSR Agreement.
The Chairmen of both sides reported on the recommendations made in the ...
Delegates expressed interest in conducting co ... following areas: (1) studies of viruses isolated from human tissues in cell culture or in animals and their possible role in the pathogenesis of human neoplasia; (2) continuation of studies on non-human primate viruses as they relate to human cancer; (3) studies on the role of viruses in the induction of human breast tumors, including continuation of studies on MPMV and related viruses; (4) studies on cocarcinogenesis -- viral/viral, viral/chemical, and viral/hormonal; (5) characterization of nucleic acids and their role in the induction of animal and human cancers, particularly the detection of transforming sequences in cellular nucleic acids and molecular genetic studies with DNA from human tumor cells; (6) studies on viral proteins as probes for viral gene expression in animals and humans; and (7) studies on oncogenic viruses important to human ecology, e.g., those derived from bovine, avian, ...]
Here is the historic account of American biologists and virologists transferring the most sophisticated bio-weapons of mass destruction to Soviet scientists during the Cold War, even though as Dr. Cono accurately states, the Russians were developing their biological weapons programs at rocket speed.
These documents provide conclusive evidence that the NCI's molecular biologists, including Dr. Robert Gallo, traded America's most advanced secrets in bioweapons production, with precise methods and materials for cancer induction, genocidal weapon preparation, and bacteriological and virological bioterrorism, with their Russian counterparts and others during the Cold War.
[Man] We had developed a fairly effective biological weapons program. But the Soviet Union, exploiting the revolution in genetic engineering and molecular biology that happened in the 1970s and 1980s, went 10, 20, 30 years beyond what we ever achieved in the sophistication and lethality and variety of biological weapons.
[Narrator, BIOTERROR, WGBH/NOVA] In laboratories like this one, Vector in Siberia, Soviet scientists were able to use modern biotechnology to combine traits from several organisms into one. Even to create entirely new diseases unknown to nature.
[William Broad, Journalist, New York Times] There's a guy named Sergei Popov who did this research for a long time for the Soviets. And, yeah, what he did was scary. He scares himself. And yet at the same time -- you see it when you talk to him -- you see him still fascinated. You know, he can't help himself. You know, it's like Oppenheimer and the atom bomb, you know? It's so technically sweet. Well, you talk to Sergei and he is still infused with this sense of possibility. You know, "Gosh, if I just took one from column A and one from column B and one from column C and put them together in a new way! Eureka!" You know, "What crazy things could we concoct?" And some of them are crazy. Some of them are terrifyingly crazy.
[Sergei Popov] I was in charge of relatively a large team, the biggest team, probably, in the history of the Soviet Union dealing with synthetic DNA.
[Narrator, BIOTERROR, WGBH/NOVA] Sergei Popov is now working in Virginia under a U.S. Defense Department contract to do biomedical research.
[Sergei Popov] Right now we protect people from biological agents, but in the former Soviet Union we have developed for more than 15, 17 years, we've tried to develop more dangerous biological agents. The process is quite similar: it could protect people, and it could be used to create more dangerous biological agents.
[EXPLOITING THE GENETIC ENGINEERING (MICROBE MUTATING) TECHNOLOGY PROVIDED BY NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE INVESTIGATORS AT THE TIME, KISSINGER AND THE ROCKEFELLERS WERE DEPLOYING PROFITABLE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ... THIS GROSSLY EVIDENCES A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT TREASON AND GENOCIDE AGAINST HUMANITY WITH ALL BIOLOGY AT RISK.]
[Narrator, BIOTERROR, WGBH/NOVA] Popov is now studying how to help the human immune system fight disease. But as a biowarrior, he turned the immune system into a killer. He did it with genetic engineering.
[Sergei Popov] So these are bacterial cells. They are ready to take up the new genetic information which is encoded in plasmid DNA.
[Narrator, BIOTERROR, WGBH/NOVA] A plasmid is a small ring of DNA found in many bacteria. This DNA provides instructions for certain traits, including production of toxins, or resistance to antibiotics. Each trait is encoded in a segment of DNA called a "gene." This clear liquid contains gene fragments.
[Sergei Popov] So we mix this small amount of DNA, the cells.
[Narrator, BIOTERROR, WGBH/NOVA] Using techniques developed since the 70s, scientists are able to take genes from one organism and transfer them to another. If done properly, the inserted gene will take up residence within the DNA of its new home.
[BEFORE THE 70S, EARLIER METHODS WERE USED BY THE MILITARY AND CANCER INDUSTRY TO MUTATE AND MASS PRODUCE GERMS.]
[AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES MOST COMMONLY COME FROM VACCINES INJECTING FOREIGN PROTEINS INTO YOUR BLOOD. THESE FORM ANTIGENIC COMPLEXES THAT CONFUSE YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. INSTEAD OF SIMPLY KILLING GERMS, YOUR IMMUNE DEFENSES START ATTACKING YOUR OWN BODY.]
In this demonstration for NOVA, Dr. Popov transferred an animal gene, one that makes a sea anemone red, to a colony of bacteria, which turns red in the process.
[Sergei Popov] Essentially, we had used the same technique in the former Soviet Union to create new biological weapons, new biological agents, with essentially new properties and higher virulence.
[Narrator, BIOTERROR, WGBH/NOVA] In the Soviet Union, Popov isolated a gene that produces the protein myelin, which helps conduct nerve signals. He extracted the myelin gene from a small mammal [RABBIT] and inserted it into the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease.
[William Broad, Journalist, New York Times] One of his projects at Obolensk was to take Legionella, this sort of mild flu bug in humans, and make it worse, right?
[Sergei Popov] It's better to say it's mild pneumonia.
[William Broad, Journalist, New York Times] Mild pneumonia, yes, yes.
[Sergei Popov] It's pneumonia-like symptoms. And the agent which incorporated new genes was capable to induce absolutely new symptoms, which resembled in animals multiple sclerosis.
[LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE CAME, LIKEWISE, FROM LABS. IT WAS NAMED FROM ITS APPARENT TEST ON VETERANS ATTENDING THE AMERICAN LEGION'S BICENTENNIAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA, JULY 21-24, 1976 AT THE BELLEVUE-STRATFORD HOTEL. THE AEROSOLIZED GERM KILLED 34 AND SICKENED 221.]
[Narrator, BIOTERROR, WGBH/NOVA] Exposed to Popov's genetically engineered bacteria, rabbits became ill with Legionnaires' Disease. Then something strange happened. Their immune systems attached the myelin around their own nerves as if it were an invading pathogen.
[Sergei Popov] The majority of animals died of unusual symptoms, because pneumonia went away. At the time symptoms developed, there was no particular agent inside the animals.
[William Broad, Journalist, New York Times] So if you were a physician trying to figure out what happened --
[Sergei Popov] That would be impossible to find any kind of disease.
[William Broad, Journalist, New York Times] No trace.
[Sergei Popov] So the animals were completely healthy, but several weeks later -- it's better to say two weeks later, first symptoms appeared. And those symptoms were severe paralysis and final death.
[William Broad, Journalist, New York Times] The terrifying thing for me as a science reporter is that, you know, he turned this theory of "bad bugs," of "designer bad bugs," and made it real.
[Dr. Leonard George Horowitz] Knowing, for example, that American military labs created AIDS, the Russian military and Soviet media had a field day, and the opportunity to produce this comic. This was widely circulated in Russia during the 1980s. Here, American biological weapons contractors working for the National Cancer Institute, are depicted exchanging a test tube full of AIDS viruses with a U.S. military officer who pays cash for the bioweapon.
[Joanne Cono, M.D., ScM, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] Our worse fears were confirmed in 1979 when an accidental release of anthrax occurred at a biological research facility in the town of Sverdlovsk.
[ANTHRAX SPORES BLAMED IN '79 SOVIET DEATHS, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS]
Much of our recent knowledge about their joint military and civilian program comes from a Soviet defector, Dr. Ken Alibek, formerly known as Dr. Kanatzhan Alibekov. He was the deputy director of Biopreparat, a cover organization for their civilian bioweapon and production facilities.
[Dr. Leonard George Horowitz] Meet the CIA's leading bioterror propagandist, who along with our grand Dr. William Patrick, III, officiated the development of the world's deadliest anthrax.
[Narrator, HHS] Dr. Ken Alibek is a Soviet Union weapons defector who provided much information about the biological weapons programs in his country. He has indicated that his country and the United States held similar studies trying to engineer two [inaudible] strains that would be resistant to antibiotics and vaccines.
[Dr. Leonard George Horowitz] Since his defection to America, Dr. Alibekov, alias Ken Alibek, has authored numerous articles, and even a book to spread, like this government film, propaganda and bioterror. In essence, he is a pawn in a global war game featuring fear and educational indoctrination, along with terrorization of the population.
[Joanne Cono, M.D., ScM, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] Although we had suspected for years that they had continued their offensive program, some of the information he provided was a real wake-up call for the United States. Prior to the Gulf War, the Intelligence community suspected that the Iraqis had done research on anthrax, but they didn't know just how extensive their program was. So, as a precautionary measure during the war, about 150,000 U.S. service members were vaccinated against anthrax. And more would have been immunized if the war hadn't ended so quickly.
[Dr. Leonard George Horowitz] Dr. Cono lies again here when she said that prior to the Gulf War, the Intelligence community suspected the Iraqis had done research on anthrax. This is a lie because the Intelligence community did not "suspect" this, they absolutely knew it. How did they know? Because the U.S. Commerce Department licensed the transfer of the anthrax to Iraq by the "American Type Culture Collection," a company shown here in a copy of Senator Don Riegle's Congressional investigation report of 1995.
[U.S. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE-RELATED DUAL USE EXPORTS TO IRAQ AND THEIR POSSIBLE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF THE PERSIAN GULF WAR. A REPORT OF CHAIRMAN DONALD W. RIEGLE, JR. AND RANKING MEMBER ALFONSE M. D'AMATO OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS WITH RESPECT TO EXPORT ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES SENATE, MAY 25, 1994.]
[-- U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and Their Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Gulf War: A Report of Chairman Donald W. Riegle, Jr. and Ranking Member Alfonse M. D'Amato of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs With Respect to Export Administration]
Listed here are just a few of the many varieties of biological weapons shipped to Saddam Hussein during the 1980s. So all that controversy about the CIA providing false intelligence about the Iraqis developing weapons of mass destruction is hereby shown to be a fraud and cover-up.
[FRAUD]
[Colin Powell] Active Chemical Munitions Bunkers, Mobile Production facilities ...
[George Bush] We know he has chemical weapons ...
[George Bush] He's got 'em.
[George Bush] He's got 'em.
[George Bush] He's got 'em.
[Colin Powell, February, 2001] He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.
[Condoleezza Rice, July, 2001] We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.
[Donald Rumsfeld] You get told things every day that don't happen. It doesn't seem to bother people.
[Dr. Leonard George Horowitz] In fact, every member of Congress knows quite well that the CIA's intelligence was accurate.
[1983 DONALD RUMSFELD & SADDAM HUSSEIN]
They were obviously avoiding self-incriminating discussion about this evidence proving an American-based, multinational, corporate-controlled organization shipped Saddam Hussein all of these weapons as published in the United States Congressional Record. These pages of war provisions clearly prove the profitable supply of deadly germs sent to three places: (1) The Iraq Atomic Energy Commission, (2) The Ministry of Higher Education, and (3) the Ministry of Trade.
More evidence of malfeasance comes from the Khamisiyah Weapons Arsenal in Iraq. Saddam Hussein's army did have biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction that were shipped from the heartland of America.
[General Norman Schwarzkopf (Ret.), Gulf War Commander, Gulf War Illnesses, Senate Veterans' Affairs Cmte, C-Span Today] I never received before, during, or after hostilities, any report of Iraqi use of chemical weapons, nor the discovery of or destruction of Iraqi chemical weapons.
[C-Span Reporter] However, a little later in his testimony, General Schwarzkopf apparently contradicted himself when he said the following:
[General Norman Schwarzkopf (Ret.), Gulf War Commander, Gulf War Illnesses, Senate Veterans' Affairs Cmte, C-Span Today] I remember General Franks came to me, and I assume it was Khamisiyah he was talking about at the time, because it was about the same time frame, and talked about this huge ammunition dump that they had found with literally tons and tons and tons of ammunition in it, and there was no way they could possibly retrograde it, and I challenged him on that, and he convinced me that, "No, they couldn't retrograde it, and therefore they were going to destroy it in place," and I said "Fine." And that's Camisea. From what I heard about the size of the bunker that Franks was talking about, and the others that they blew up, these were huge bunkers with crates and crates and crates and crates of ammunition in them, and I can only assume that they looked, and either didn't recognize them, or didn't see them at the time ...
[Gozer] Subcreatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor,
Volguus, Zildrohar, the Traveller has come. Choose and perish.
[Dr. Ray Stantz] What do you mean, "choose"? We don't understand.
[Gozer] Choose. Choose the form of the destructor.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] Oh, I get it. I get it. Oh, very cute. Whatever we think of. If we think of J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover will appear and destroy us. Okay? So empty your heads. Empty your heads. Don't think of anything. We've only got one shot at this.
[Gozer] The choice is made.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
[Gozer] The Traveller has come.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] Nobody choosed anything! [To Egon] Did you choose anything?
[Dr. Egon Spengler] No.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] [To Winston] Did you?
[Winston Zeddmore] My mind is totally blank.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] I didn't choose anything!
[Dr. Raymond Stantz] I couldn't help it. It just popped in there.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] What? What just popped in there?
[Dr. Raymond Stantz] I tried to think --
[Dr. Egon Spengler] Look!
[Dr. Raymond Stantz] No! It can't be.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] What is it?
[Dr. Raymond Stantz] It can't be.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] What did you do, Ray?
[Winston Zeddmore] Oh, shit.
[Dr. Raymond Stantz] It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
[Marshmallow Man roaring and stomping]
[Dr. Peter Venkman] Well, there's something you don't see everyday.
[Dr. Raymond Stantz] I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] Nice thinking, Ray.
[Dr. Raymond Stantz] We used to roast Stay Puft marshmallows by the fire at Camp Waconda.
[Dr. Peter Venkman] Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon. What have you got left?
[Dr. Egon Spengler] Sorry, Venkman.
I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
[Marshmallow Man roars and stomps on a church]
-- Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman
[Dan Topolski] I'm Dan Topolski. I was the nuclear, biological and chemical defense NCO for B Company, 37th Engineer Battalion. I was on the Khamisiyah Bunker complex mission.
[Dave VonKleist] Sgt. Topolski was one of the nuclear, biological and chemical non-commissioned officers in charge of identifying munitions at the Khamisiyah Bunker Complex in Iraq. This Complex consisted of over 100 bunkers and 49 warehouses, each the size of a football field, and he feels that he and his men were exposed to chemicals and biologicals when they were ordered to blow it up. Here's how he felt when he entered this Complex.
[Dan Topolski] I felt betrayed. I felt like we had been sold out for dollars when I saw what I saw inside those bunkers.
[Dave VonKleist] Why would Sgt. Topolski feel betrayed? What was it that he saw when he and the others from the 37th Engineer Battalion entered those bunkers? General Schwarzkopf discussed how the enemy identifies their munitions in his testimony when he said the following:
[General Norman Schwarzkopf (Ret.), Gulf War Commander, Gulf War Illnesses, Senate Veterans' Affairs Cmte, C-Span Today] Even though I had 40-some years in military service, if you were to bring in a bunch of ammunition and pile it up in front of me, and one of them was a 122 mm. rocket with chemicals in it, I would not be able to tell you that that had chemicals in it, particularly if it was an Iraqi rocket with Arabic writing on it or something. We identify ours -- we had them -- in a very specific way by color coding. I don't have the slightest idea what the Arabs did.
[Dave VonKleist] General Schwarzkopf stated that we identified ours, when we had them, by color coding. As you can see, the colored bands on these munitions, indicate that there were chemical and biological munitions inside these bunkers at Khamisiyah. According to Sgt. Topolski, the yellow or purple bands indicate chemical munitions, where the green bands indicate biological munitions. Schwartzkopf also indicated that he could not identify munitions particularly if they had Iraqi markings on them. You'll also note that the markings on these munitions are plainly written in English, and they indicated that these munitions were supplied to Iraq by countries like Jordan, Middlesex, England, the Soviet Union or Russia, as well as the United States of America.
[FILMED BY U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL, WITHOUT ORDERS, HOURS BEFORE BLOWING UP THE ARSENAL. THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS NEVER REPORTED ON THIS FILM OR GEN. SCHWARTZKOPF'S PERJURY.]
[CARTRIDGES: W/FUZE MR2515]
According to the 1972 Geneva Convention, weapons of mass destruction are illegal; therefore, according to Sgt. Dan Topolski, it is very likely that these munitions were destroyed not so much to prevent Saddam Hussein from regaining control of them, but rather, to destroy the evidence of these countries breaking International law.
[Dr. Leonard George Horowitz] This footage was widely distributed by Gulf War Veterans Association President Joyce Riley, a nurse and captain in the Reserves at that time, who published it for the world to see to help stop the killing.
[JOYCE RILEY, RN]
Captain Riley, who was never biologically or chemically exposed to fallout during the Gulf War, is certain she was infected when forced to take the anthrax vaccination. The anthrax vaccine given to all of our troops and allies, except for French soldiers, was poisonously prepared and deadly to receive. Let's listen again to Dr. Cono, to what she has to say about this vaccination business.
[Joanne Cono, M.D., ScM, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] As a precautionary measure, during the war, about 150,000 U.S. service members were vaccinated against anthrax, and more would have been immunized if the war hadn't ended so quickly.
[Dr. Leonard George Horowitz] These numbers are plainly wrong. There were hundreds of thousands more Americans victimized by the vaccines. Numerous experts have now linked the anthrax vaccine to hundreds of thousands of deaths in a currently advancing plague that emerged exclusively from the Gulf War called "Gulf War Syndrome." The Senate thoroughly investigated this subject in 1994 and published proof that our troops were unwittingly used experimentally, or alternatively, targeted for disease and death by the vaccine makers with official political consent.
[-- United States Dual Use Exports to Iraq and Their Impact on the Health of the Persian Gulf Veterans, Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs , United States Senate, 103rd Congress, 2nd Session, on United States Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and Their Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Persian Gulf War]
Spreading across America and the world now is a flu-like illness that resists standard medical treatments. You probably know people suffering with severe, recurring respiratory illness experts have linked to an agent called "Mycoplasma." In fact, Chronic Fatigue, Low Body Temperature, and a flu that keeps coming back is associated with this germ isolated and patented by the United States Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in a patent shown here.
[UNITED STATES PATENT [19] 5,242,820
September 7, 1993
LO
[54] PATHOGENIC MYCOPLASMA
[75] INVENTOR: SHYH-CHING LO, POTOMAC, MD.
[73] ASSIGNEE: AMERICAN REGISTRY OF PATHOLOGY, WASHINGTON, D.C.
[21] APPL. NO.: 710,361
[22] FILED: JUN. 6, 1991
RELATED U.S. APPLICATION DATA
[63] CONTINUATION-IN-PART OF SER. NO. 265,920, NOV. 2, 1988, ABANDONED, WHICH IS A CONTINUATION-IN-PART OF SER. NO. 875,535, JUN. 18, 1986, ABANDONED
[51] INT. CL.: C12N 5/00; C12N 5/02; C12N 1/00; C12Q 1/70
[57] ABSTRACT
The invention relates to a novel pathogenic mycoplasma isolated from patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and its use in detecting antibodies in sera of AIDS patients, patients with AIDS-related complex (ARC) or patients dying of diseases and symptoms resembling AIDS diseases. The invention further relates to specific DNA sequences, antibodies against the pathogenic mycoplasma, and their use in detecting DNA or antigens of the pathogenic mycoplasma or other genetically and serologically closely related mycoplasmas in infected tissue of patients with AIDS or ARC or patients dying of symptoms resembling AIDS diseases. The invention still further relates to a variety of different forms of vaccine against mycoplasma infection in humans and/or animals.]
This agent, mycoplasma, apparently contaminated the anthrax vaccine given to more than a half million American troops that served in the first Gulf War. Dr. Cono, from the Centers for Disease Control, applauds this invention.
This next government document was obtained by lawyers for the victims I just described. Here you can see the array of biological weapons being tested on the prisoners in Texas as overseen by Baylor College of Medicine. Baylor, at that time, boasted having George H. W. Bush serving on their board of directors.
[TABLE 2: SUMMARY OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS CONDUCTED BY BAYLOR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE:
Hong Kong Flu program
Flu-influenza vaccine
Rhinovirus 353 vaccine
Adenovirus vaccine
A/Z Hong Kong flu
Equine Flu study: 7-26-69
Adenovirus 5 challenge: 9-27-69
Influenza: 11-08-69
Blood draw: 1-27-70
Parainfluenza study: 5-29-70
Mycoplasma pneumonia vaccine study: 9-10-70
Rhinovirus type 15 plague pool: 9-10-70
Parainfluenza: 3-17-71
Mycoplasma pneumonia hall study: 5-19-71
X-32 vaccine hall study:6-13-71]
The dates listed here also coincide with the alleged transition of America's offensive bio-warfare program to defensive. Notice the Mycoplasma. Both defensive and offensive studies were conducted: A vaccine study, and a hall study in which prisoners were actually exposed to this airborne agent in the meeting hall.
[A REPORT OF CHAIRMAN DONALD W. RIEGLE, JR. AND RANKING MEMBER ALFONSE M. D'AMATO OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS WITH RESPECT TO EXPORT ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES SENATE]
According to Congressional testimony by one of the nation's leading experts in Mycoplasma and Gulf War Syndrome as it relates to Mycoplasma-contaminated vaccines, Dr. Garth Nicolson, these Texas studies linked the Baylor College of Medicine as well as a privately owned biotech company called Tannox Biosystems of Houston, a company -- incredibly -- co-owned by James Baker, III, the man charged with overseeing the President's Florida vote recount that secured his heavily-contested election. Here is a copy of Dr. Nicolson's letter to an investigating official. It reads:
[THE INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE
... MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS (INCOGNITOS STRAIN), AN UNUSUAL ORGANISM THAT HAD BEEN FOUND PREVIOUSLY IN SOME AIDS PATIENTS BY DR. SHYH-CHING LO OF THE ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WE DID NOT REALIZE AT THAT TIME THAT DR. LO HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN EMPLOYED AT THE BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND TANNOX BIOSYSTEMS OF HOUSTON, A PRIVATELY HELD BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANY THAT HAS BEEN NAMED IN DESERT STORM VETERANS' LAWSUITS (FILED BY COLLARD & PITTS, AMONG OTHERS) AS ONE OF THE COMPANIES THAT ILLEGALLY SOLD BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS TO IRAQ."
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY: DR. GARTH L. NICOLSON, PH.D.]
Dr. Nicolson, previously the chairman of Cancer Research and full professor at the University of Texas, at Houston, went on to report how he was persecuted and academically blacklisted following his attempts to serve the public's health.