- SACRAMENTO -- More than 1,100 inmates in eight separate state prisons
have contracted a contagious illness that has made 10 employees sick
and led to lockdowns, according to prison officials. The illness,
a bacterial disease called campylobacteriosis, was first reported
at Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy (San Joaquin County) on
May 16, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Nearly 400 inmates got sick there,
and the illness spread to other prisons in Northern and Central California,
including the two women's prisons in the Central Valley, Folsom State
Prison outside Sacramento and Mule Creek Prison in Ione (Amador County).
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- The bacteria cause fever, headaches,
diarrhea, cramping and vomiting, and has sent a handful of inmates
to the hospital, according to Thornton. The rest have been isolated
in cells and treated. Thornton said prison officials were working
with county public health officials to try to determine the cause
of the illness and why it spread. "It's a big mystery,''
she said. Deuel Vocational Institution has reported
no new ill inmates since Friday, and officials believe the worst
of the outbreak may be over, Thornton said.
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- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/23/
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- 1Union1.com
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- We also have reports of the bacteria
(creeping crud) from CSATF and Solano. It has been in CSATF for a
month according to both the guards and the inmates. The prisoners
haven't been told what it is, nor given any preventive information,
they apparently keep re- infecting one another. Somebody needs to check
the death reports for CSATF during this period AND the coroner's
office. Neither CSATF or Solano is included in the news reports so
more letters to editors are needed!
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- Reports from Solano are that 100 prisoners
are down with it. The UNION families want a full investigation
- NOW! Prisons who have it need to stop transfers. What is
being done to restore electrolytes? What about prisoners who cannot
walk to the clinic? And those who cannot walk to chow? What is being
done for them? The Stockton Record has the most accurate reports
so far but your letters to editors have caused other outlets to now
be interested. Keep them going in.
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- No More Deuel Inmates Reporting
Flu-Like Symptoms
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- Cayenne - The Record
- 5-23-5
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- TRACY -- The number of prison inmates
with flulike symptoms continues to rise statewide, but no more inmates
at Deuel Vocational Institution have become sick, a California Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman said Monday.
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- At least 1,300 inmates at 10 prisons
have fallen ill in the past week, corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton
said.
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- Tests at Tracy's Deuel and Ione's Mule
Creek State Prison found the culprit to be campylobacter, a bacterium
spread through contaminated food and water. Prison officials have
enlisted state health officials' help in finding the bacterium's
source, Thornton said.
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- The outbreak began last week at Deuel,
where the number of inmates suffering from fever, nausea, vomiting
and diarrhea peaked Friday at 379.
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- Other affected prisons are Valley State
Prison for Women; Central California Women's Facility; Wasco State
Prison; Folsom State Prison; California Rehabilitation Center; Sierra
Conservation Center; California State Prison, Sacramento; and California
Rehabilitation Center.
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- This is where we have reports of
the illness:
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- CSATF Corcoran - apparently
the hardest hit and reports of it being in there for four weeks
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- DVI Tracy - prisoners are
moved from here after getting classified. During an epidemic,
that is a recipe for disaster.
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- Solano - approximately 100
men reported to have it and pharmacy in crisis
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- Valley State Prison for
Women - normally there are eight women to a cell, I don't see how
they can contain anything highly contagious in this environment.
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- Mule Creek - cases apparently doubled
since last Friday - inquire about "gym living".
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- Sierra Conservation Camp
- a few cases reported
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- CRC - saw the guards post about a few
cases there
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- CMC - a few cases
transferred there from DVI but with mild symptoms according to CD.
When CDC says they are sending prisoners "to the hospital"
that is most likely where they're sending them, to California Men's
Colony in San Luis Obispo.
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- Please note that the Record
has added CSP Sac, CCWF, Folsom and Wasco today.
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- THAT'S 11 PRISONS - not eight.
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- The above report is more
accurate than the one in the SF Chronicle. Keep writing to
editors demanding an investigation and let them know where it is
traveling, CDC will cover this up as much as possible, letters@sfchronicle.com.
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- We thank the Chronicle
for doing the story, let's help them identify all the prisons where
it is moving like wildfire. Your letters to editors finally
got this story moving, keep them going until they have all the information.
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- I should have added that the Huntsville
prison experiement came to light when the guards got ill from the
prisoners and it spread to the community. Once again, just Google
"Huntsville Mycoplasma". <name snipt>
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- This reminds me of the prisoners that
came down with symptoms similar to Gulf War Illness after being tested
on. Many died. The best known testing was uncovered in Huntsville
prison, in Texas. Here's one link. I Googled "Huntsville Mycoplasma".
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- http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Arthritis/Mycoplasma_Experiments.htm
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- "1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers
evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had
been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on
prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections."
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- Biological Experimentation
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- A Short History Of Secret
US Human Genocide..
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- There is a long history of experimentation,
on unwitting human subjects, which goes back to the beginning of
this century. Both private firms and the military have used
unknowing human populations to test various theories. However, the
extent to which human experimentation has been a part of the U.S.
Biological Weapons programs will probably never be known. The following
examples are taken from information declassified in 1977, and from
other private source accounts. Several involve incidents which are
still of unknown origins and which cannot be fully explained:
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- 1763 The British during the French-Indian
War. The Native Americans greatly outnumbered the British and were
suspected of being on the side of the French. As an "act of
good will" the British give blankets to the Native Americans,
but the dirty blankets came from a hospital that was treating smallpox
victims and consequently smallpox raged through the Native American
community and devastated their numbers.
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- 1814 Andrew Jackson, whose portrait appears
on the U.S. $20 bill today, supervised the mutilation of 800 or more
Creek Indian corpses, the bodies of men, women and children that
his troops had massacred, cutting off their noses to count and preserve
a record of the dead, slicing long strips of flesh from their bodies
to tan and turn into bridle reins.
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- 1900 A U.S. doctor doing research in
the Philippines infected of number of prisoners with the Plague.
He continued his research by inducing Beriberi in another 29 prisoners.
The experiments resulted in two known fatalities.
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- 1915 A doctor in Mississippi produced
Pellagra in twelve white Mississippi inmates in an attempt to discover
a cure for the disease. 1918 The modern history of Biological Warfare starts
in 1918 with the Japanese formation of a special section of the Army
(Unit 731) dedicated to BW. The thought at the time was "Science
and Technology are the Key's to Winning War and Biological Warfare
is the most cost effective.
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- 1931 The Puerto Rican Cancer Experiment
was undertaken by Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects
with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological
Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to
the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series
of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian
hospital patients.
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- 1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins.
200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness,
are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in
order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. With
a ironic twist, the wives and ladies of these infected men were also
not notified or treated, and may have infected others, The almost
men all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told
that they could have been treated.
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- 1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions
of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the
U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The
director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years
that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act
since most of the deaths occurred within poverty stricken black populations.
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- 1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago
are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and
experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial
at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions
during the Holocaust.
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- 1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins
mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments
continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose
to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.
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- 1943 In response to Japan's full scale
germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons
at Fort Detrick, MD.
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- 1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to
test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber
and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.
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- 1945 Project Paper clip is initiated.
The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit
Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in
exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United
States.
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- 1945 "Program F" is implemented
by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive
U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical
component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals
known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects
to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched
in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would
undermine full scale production of atomic bombs.
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- 1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used
as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions,
the order is given to change the word "experiments" to
"investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting
a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.
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- 1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission issues a secret document (Document
07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering
intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.
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- 1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD
as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects
(both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.
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- 1950 Department of Defense begins plans
to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind
residents for medical problems and mortality rates.
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- 1950 In an experiment to determine how
susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S.
Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Francisco. Monitoring
devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent
of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia like symptoms.
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- 1950 - 1953: An array of germ warfare
weapons were allegedly used against North Korea. Accounts claim that
there were releases of feathers infected with anthrax, fleas
and mosquitoes dosed with Plague and Yellow Fever, and rodents infected
with a variety of diseases. These were precisely the same techniques
used in immunity from prosecution in exchange for the results of
that research. The Eisenhower administration later pressed Sedition
Charges against three Americans who published charges of these activities.
However, none of those charged were convicted.
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- 1951 Department of Defense begins open
air tests using disease producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last
through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding
areas have been exposed.
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- 1952 - 1953: In another series
of experiments, the U.S. military released clouds of "harmless"
gases over six (6) U.S. and Canadian cities to observe the potential
for similar releases under chemical and germ warfare scenarios. A
follow-up report by the military noted the occurrence of respiratory
problems in the unwitting civilian populations.
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- 1953 U.S. military releases clouds of
zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort
Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia.
Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse
chemical agents.
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- 1953 Joint Army, Navy, CIA experiments
are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and
San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens
and Bacillus glogigii. 1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven
year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological
agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification.
Six of the sub projects involved testing the agents on unwitting
human beings.
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- 1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test
its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases
a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over
Tampa Bay, Fl.
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- 1955 Army Chemical Corps continues LSD
research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating
agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which
continue until 1958.
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- 1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes
infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following
each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims
for effects.
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- 1956 The Soviet Union accused the U.S.
of using biological weapons in Korea, which lead them to threaten
future use of Chemical and Biological weapons. This changed the focus
of the U.S. program to a more defensive one. Before this, the bulk
of the research was based at Ft. Detrick and used "surrogate
biological agents" to model more deadly organisms. Most of the
offensive tests were based on "secret spraying" of organisms
over populated areas. This program was (supposedly) shut down in
1969.
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- 1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at
the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.
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- 1960 The Army Assistant Chief of Staff
for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe
and the Far East. Testing of the European population is code named
Project THIRD CHANCE, testing of the Asian population is code
named Project DERBY HAT.
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- 1965 Project CIA and Department of Defense
begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate
human behavior through the use of mind altering drugs.
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- 1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State
Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic
chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are
later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent
Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.
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- 1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a
program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans
and animals.
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- 1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis
variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than
a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop light bulbs
filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.
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- 1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement
Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile
and test biological and chemical weapons.
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- 1968 CIA experiments with the possibility
of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water
supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.
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- 1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department
of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within
5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity
exists.
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- 1970 Funding for the synthetic biological
agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision
of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at
Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons facility.
Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used
to produce AIDS like retroviruses.
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- 1970 United States intensifies its development
of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed
to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are
susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.
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- 1972: U.S. President Nixon announced
a ban on the production and use of biological (but not chemical)
warfare agents. However, as the Army's own experts reveal, this ban
is meaningless because the studies required to protect against biological
warfare weapons are generally indistinguishable from those for chemical
weapons.
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- 1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick's
Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer
Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program
is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer causing
viruses. It is also here that retro virologists isolate a virus to
which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia
Virus).
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- 1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific
Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with
biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included
San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis,
and St. Louis.
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- 1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine
trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and
San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous
homosexual men.
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- 1980-1981: Within months of their incarceration
in detention centers in Miami and Puerto Rico, many male Haitian
refugees developed an unusual condition called "gynecomasia".
This is a condition in which males develop full female breasts. A
number of the internees at Ft. Allen in Puerto Rico claimed that
they were forced to undergo a series of injections which they believed
to be hormones.
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- 1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed
in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering
speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis
B vaccine.
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- 1981: More than 300,000 Cubans
were stricken with dengue hemorrhagic fever. An investigation by
the magazine 'Covert Action Information Bulletin', which tracks the
workings of various intelligence agencies around the world, suggested
that this outbreak was the result of a release of mosquitoes by Cuban
counterrevolutionaries. The magazine tracked the activities of one
CIA operative from a facility in Panama to the alleged Cuban connections.
During the last 30 years, Cuba has been subjected to an enormous
number of outbreaks of human and crop diseases which are difficult
to attribute purely natural causes.
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- 1982: El Salvadoran trade unionists claimed
that epidemics of many previously unknown diseases had cropped up
in areas immediately after U.S. directed aerial bombings. There is
no hard evidence to support these charges. However, the pattern and
types of outbreaks are consistent with the claims.
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- 1985 According to the journal Science
(227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar,
indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.
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- 1985: An outbreak of Dengue fever
strikes Managua Nicaragua shortly after an increase of U.S. aerial
reconnaissance missions. Nearly half of the capital city's population
was stricken with the disease, and several deaths have been attributed
to the outbreak. It was the first such epidemic in the country and
the outbreak was nearly identical to that which struck Cuba a few
years earlier (1981). Dengue fever variations were the focus of much
experimentation at the Army's Biological Warfare test facility at
Ft. Dietrick, Maryland prior to the 'ban' on such research in 1972.
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- 1985: In ruling on a case in which
a former U.S. Army sergeant attempted to bring a lawsuit against
the Army for using experimental drugs on him, without his knowledge,
the U.S. Supreme Court determined that allowing such an action against
the military would disrupt the chain of command. Thus, nearly all
potential actions against the military for past, or future, misdeeds
have been barred as have actions aimed at the release of classified
documents on the subject.
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- 1986 According to the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are
highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small
segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation
that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus
to which no natural immunity exists.
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- 1986 A report to Congress reveals that
the U.S. Government's current generation of biological agents includes:
modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are
altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character
and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.
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- 1987 Department of Defense admits that,
despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents,
it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and
universities around the nation.
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- 1990 More than 1500 six month old black
and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental"
measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United
States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the
vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.
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- 1994 With a technique called "gene
tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center
in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans
are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe
commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated
into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat,
indicating that it had been man- made.
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- 1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues
a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense
has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments
and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included
mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psycho chemicals, hallucinogens,
and drugs used during the Gulf War .
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- 1995 U.S. Government admits that it had
offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human
medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange
for data on biological warfare research.
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- 1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence
that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured
in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the
Texas Department of Corrections.
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- 1996: Under pressure from Congress
and the public, after a 60 Minutes segment, the U.S. Department of
Defense finally admits that at least 20,000 U.S. servicemen "may"
have been exposed to chemical weapons during operation 'Desert
Storm'. This exposure came as a result of the destruction of
a weapons bunker. Causes of the similar illnesses of other troops,
who were not in this area, have not yet been explained, other than
as post traumatic stress syndromes. Veterans groups have released
information that many of the problems may be a result of experimental
vaccines and inoculations which were provided troops during the military
build-up. [Reportedly, the Bush family have or had shares in the
vaccine company]
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- 1997 Eighty eight members of Congress
sign a letter demanding an investigation into bio-weapons use &
Gulf War Syndrome.
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- 2001 Many people infected with the anthrax
virus, along the eastern coast of the united snakes supposedly through
the postal system, first blamed on Osama Bin Laden, and then later
withdrawn, strain proven to originate in a US lab, no one has
been caught.
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- 2003 The united snakes military injects
hundreds of thousands of military personnel with various serums in
preparation for a invasion of Iraq
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- "...Hide nothing from the masses
of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told.
Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories
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