9/6/13 Speaking Out; The CIA-CDC-AIDS Political Alliance - ProQuest Loading ... Basic Search Full text Advanced Publications Browse Back to results Preferences Previous English Document 35 of 7085 Help Next Speaking Out; The CIA-CDC-AIDS Political Alliance Shively, Charley.Gay Community News 10.50 (Jul 9, 1983): 5. Hide highlighting Full Text Turn on search term navigation The call has gone out to increase federal funding for AIDS research. While we all want to know more about what causes AIDS and how to stop it, we need to scrutinize such institutions as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The Centers for Disease Control cannot be trusted. In 1932, they began an experiment on six hundred Black men, which was only discontinued when the press uncovered their crime in 1972. (Caspar Weinberger was then HEW Secretary.) Four hundred of the Black men were watched to see what the effects of untreated syphilis would be on their mortality rate; the other two hundred were used as "control subjects." Even after the "experiment's" rapid termination in 1972, treatment for the surviving men was delayed almost a year. The Centers for Disease Control, as one newspaper reported, "sees the poor, the black, the illiterate and the defenseless in American society as a vast experimental resource for the government" (James H. Jones, Bad Blood, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, 1981). But the CDC has been hardly more trustworthy in dealing with straight white people. In 1976 - after Gerald Ford had pardoned Nixon and needed to refurbish his own election campaign - the politicians attempted to restore faith in the government by creating a Swine Flu Panic. (They had planned an epidemic.) When their flu vaccine began killing people, their political ploy flopped and the Swine Flu Crusade dropped into the dustbin of history with the Ford. But in the process, the drug companies who manufactured the vaccine made a good profit, which they shared with the Republican Party. There is, however, a frightening likelihood that AIDS has been funded all along by the federal government. If the theory of Jane Teas (Harvard School of Public Health) is correct that AIDS is caused by a virus related to the African Swine Fever Virus , then there is evidence that the CIA itself is responsible for introducing the disease in the western hemisphere. A Newsday article reprinted in the Boston Globe (1/9/77) reports that CIA operatives received the virus at Ft. Gulick (a CIA biological warfare training station in Panama), then travelled to Navassa (a U.S. controlled island just off the coast of Haiti) and them to Guantanamo - the U.S. naval base on the island of Cuba - where the virus was spread to Cuban pigs. From there it spread to the Dominican Republic (1978), to Haiti (1979) and reappeared in Cuba in 1980. According to James E. D'Eramo, the African Swine Fever Virus in Haiti initially "killed 80 to 100 per cent of the pigs in a given location, but as it spread from one pig feeding lot to another the mortality rate of the pigs decreased to a mere 3 per cent." Currently, according to Dr. Teas, "the Canadian, Mexican and U.S. governments are in the process of destroying the pig population of Haiti in an attempt to control the current African Swine Fever Virus infection, with the United States footing the 18 million dollar bill." (N.Y. Native, #64) Would it be possible - that given $100 million - the doctors would just decide to kill all the queers, Haitians, and IV drug users exposed to AIDS ? The African Swine Fever Virus theory would suggest that the CIA effort in Cuba got out of control, spread to Haiti and then to people. A newly published book - Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman, A Higher Form of Killing, The Secret Story of Chemical and Biological Warfare, 1982 - suggests a more sinister possibility. In their epilogue, the authors point out that chemical and biological warfare and research continue in the United States under the Department of "Defense" - known as the "Department of War" before 1947. The current one and a half trillion dollars allocated for war leaves plenty of room for circumventing the rules of international law. In testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations in 1969, a military spokesman explained: "Within the next 5 or 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important respects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease." Further a 1975 military manual promises forthcoming "'ethnic chemical weapons' which would be designed to exploit naturally occurring differences in vulnerability among specific population groups "(pp. 240-41). AIDS sounds just like such an ethnic weapon which knocks out the immunological defences of the individual. Certainly if such research has been pursued in the Department of War/Defense, they must already know a lot about how to turn on and off the immunological defenses. The U.S. military attitude towards lesbians and gay men should be well known: they claim we are unfit for service. The difficulty with AIDS is only superficially medical. True, we don't know the cause or the treatment for the disease. But for syphilis we do know the cause and we do have an effective treatment and have had since the 1940s. For religious reasons the disease has been retained in order to punish people for their sexual liberties. We allow this atrocity to continue because too many people feel that what they call "promiscuity" inevitably leads to its own punishment - death, disease and destruction. The CDC doctors (all white men) called it "Bad Blood" and some even after the revelations of 1972 believed they had been smeared by the press despite the good work they were doing. Instead of checking out the CIA , the CDC or the medical-pharmacological establishment, too many gay people readily surrender to the lie that our sexuality is crippling us. They say our sex is adolescent, compulsive, retarded, irresponsible, sinful and dreadful. Such teaching has encouraged the spread of syphilis and such teaching will surely impair our struggle against AIDS . Article copyright Bromfield Street Educational Foundation. 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