Time: Fri Aug 29 09:47:49 1997 by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA18707; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 07:17:06 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 07:15:30 -0700 To: apta@discover.net From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Gulf War Syndrome ("GWS") One of many terrible and embarassing "secrets" is that the CDC designed a tainted serum which was injected into American GI's before serving in the Gulf War. See the testimony of former U.S. Senator Don Reigle before a Senate subcommittee, on this very subject. The inoculation of this tainted serum was an act of genocide and biological warfare against the American People. The resulting diseases are communicable -- to families, friends, and associates. In a word, it was premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit same. These are capital offenses in all of the several states (i.e. death penalty). I am not in favor of the death penalty, but I can tell you what the law says about penalizing this kind of criminal conduct. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com At 07:08 AM 8/29/97 -0700, you wrote: >The following is from NEXUS magazine in Australia. >I have tried to clean up the difference of spelling between >the British and U.S. english. >-- >Doug > > - GULF WAR SYNDROME - > > Biological Black Magic > >Already, more than 10,000 are dead and 250,000 are sick from Gulf War > >syndrome. What secret is so terrible (or embarrassing) that >necessitates a cover-up of the facts? > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 4, #5 (August-September 1997). >PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. nexus@peg.apc.org >Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381 >>From our web page at: http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/ > >©1997 by David G. Guyatt >c/- NEXUS UK Office >55 Queens Road, East Grinstead, >W. Sussex, RH19 1BG >United Kingdom >Telephone/Fax: +44 (0)1702 217523 >E-mail: david.g7@ukonline.co.uk > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >TRUTH IS THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR > >The air raid siren went off." Former Royal Air Force Corporal Richie >Turnbull wheezed and coughed as he spoke. He is one of tens of >thousands of Gulf War veterans who have been diagnosed with a fistful >of illnesses attributed to service in the Gulf War. These include >emphysema, angina, asthma, arteriosclerosis, arthritis, short-term >memory loss, muscle wasting, cough syncope and numerous other >debilitating ailments. Before deployment to the Gulf, Turnbull was an >accomplished and superbly fit sub-aqua diver. Today, he walks with >the aid of canes, slowly. > >With understandable pride he told me how he had "proved Soames to be >a liar three times". The reference was to the former Conservative >Minister of State for the Armed Forces, the Honorable Nicholas >Soames, MP. Many vets uncharitably call the former minister "Fatty >Soames", owing to his handsome girth. The appellation reflects the >seething contempt of an individual whom vets regard as one of the >principal architects of a monstrous transatlantic cover-up. > >Turnbull was an RAF Senior Electrician in a Nuclear, Biological & >Chemical (NBC) unit and an experienced instructor on NBC equipment. >He was stationed at the giant military base located at Dhahran on the >night of 20 January 1991, when air raid sirens began wailing madly. >Incoming Scud missiles were detected and a nearby US Patriot battery >fired off intercept missiles. One of the missiles downed the Scud >which landed a mere 400 yards from Turnbull. The impact left an >eight-foot-deep crater but, curiously, the giant ground-to-ground >missile did not explode. > >"All the nerve agent detectors sounded the alarm," Turnbull recalls. >As an NBC expert he ran three tests which confirmed the presence of >"G agent", otherwise known as Sarin-the deadly nerve agent developed >by the Nazis in World War II. Turnbull ran a further three "residual >vapor detector tests" which also showed the presence of nerve >agents. In all, he says, "thirty-three items of equipment showed that >chemical weapons had been detected".1 > >"NBC Condition Black" was sounded and everyone on the base rushed to >don their NBC "Noddy" suits. Incredibly, 20 minutes later an >all-clear siren ("NBC Condition White") sounded and troops removed >their protective clothing accordingly. Twenty minutes later "NBC >Condition Black" sounded again, and remained in force for a further >eight hours. > >Turnbull, who says he is "absolutely certain it was a chemical weapon >attack", is understandably angry. Sounding the all-clear when nerve >agents were shown to be present was, he says, "the biggest cock-up in >history". Hundreds of troops were needlessly exposed to Sarin, he >believes.2 > >Turnbull continues to be a thorn in the side of Britain's Ministry of >Defense (MoD) and the US Department of Defense (DoD). Both maintain >that chemical weapons were not intentionally used by Iraq's Saddam >Hussein. A spokesman at the MoD had earlier told me that he was a >Royal Navy officer and was "in theater" during the Gulf War. He went >on to assure me personally that had the Iraqis intentionally used >chemical and biological (CB) weapons "we would have retaliated in >kind"-an allusion to US President Bush's threat to retaliate with a >nuclear strike if Saddam Hussein unleashed his prodigious chemical >armory on coalition troops. > >In the event, it was an empty threat-old-fashioned political rhetoric >dished out for the folks at home. > >CHEMICAL ATTACK OR COCK-UP? > >Faced with mounting evidence of chemical weapons exposure by >coalition troops, both the British and US governments belatedly >acknowledge that chemical weapons dumps were bombed, or otherwise >destroyed, by coalition forces. They even acknowledge that the >resulting plume of toxic material, blown by the wind, is likely to >have exposed many thousands of coalition troops to these deadly >agents. In other words, it was an unforeseen accident. This admission >is known in intelligence parlance as a "limited hangout"-a technique >designed to show that they are now telling the truth. They are not. > >Pat Eddington, a former CIA intelligence analyst, in his book, Gassed >in the Gulf, scathingly uncovers the institutionalized dishonesty >within the CIA and the DoD over Gulf War Syndrome (GWS).3 Reasonably, >he argues that based on the increasing number of vets prepared to >speak of their experiences, it is clear beyond all doubt that >coalition forces came under a series of Iraqi chemical and biological >weapons attacks.4 Like Admiral Nelson placing a telescope over his >blind eye, then exclaiming he can "see no ships", the Mandarins in >Whitehall and Washington are willfully blind to what they don't care >to acknowledge. Yet, the evidence is overwhelming. > >Ray Bristow had served 20 years with the Territorial Army. When not >involved with his TA duties, Bristow was an operating theater >technician at his local hospital. He was mobilized on 27 December >1990, promoted to a Warrant Officer, and sent to the 32 Field >Hospital located at Wadi al Batin, just a few kilometers away from >the town of Hafar al Batin.5 On 19 January 1991 he and other >personnel watched as a Scud missile roared overhead and exploded in >an airburst. He could clearly see a cloud of vapor discharge from >the Scud. The NBC alarms (known as NAIADS), scattered around the >base, wailed loudly, alerting the troops of "NBC Condition Black". >"We were Scudded," Bristow said, and the specialized equipment >detected the presence of chemical agents.6 > >Also present at Wadi al Batin that evening was former Sergeant Shaun >Rusling. Previously with 23 Para Regiment's 5 Airborne Field >Ambulance, Rusling was an experienced Special Forces medic. His >duties were to attend to the sick and wounded of Britain's One >Armored Brigade. This soon grew to encompass caring for other >coalition forces and Iraqi casualties, too. He watched the Scud >explosion and saw the cloud of vapor bloom overhead. He also >believes the unit came under artillery attack with rounds containing >chemical weapons.7 > >Numerous boxes of 155-mm chemical ammunition were secretly recovered >by coalition troops in the Kuwait Theater of Operations (KTO) during >the ground war and subsequent mopping-up operations. Made in the USA, >they had been supplied to Iraq via Jordan. > >Nor were Scud and artillery bombardments isolated incidents. Terry >Walker was a Corporal with the Royal Army Ordnance Corp and detached >to a "Forward Repair Group" of an armored workshop. He was present >at Al Jubayl when two Scuds exploded above them.8 No prior warning >was sounded. This, he recalls, was "the worst morning with two >almighty explosions above the Port". Immediately chemical detectors >madly sounded "NBC Condition Black", and this was "followed by sheer >panic with hundreds of guys running for cover". Walker hid among the >rocks of the Port "for about four five hours". Later, "an officer >came along saying we've been hit with chemical agents". The next day >he and the other personnel on the base were told the cloud vapor was >nothing more than aircraft fuel leaking from a damaged plane-an >explanation he and the others disbelieve. Aviation fuel does not >trigger the NAIAD detectors. Today, Walker suffers from a number of >illnesses and strongly believes there has been a massive cover-up. >"My wife is ill and my little girl is ill, too," he said during a >telephone interview, then added that his "medical notes from the RAF >hospital have gone missing". > >The Al Jubayl attack was also witnessed by Sergeant-Major Paul Grant >who commanded a team of Royal Army Ordnance Corp specialists. In the >early hours of 19 January 1991, Grant was awaken by a distinctive >overhead explosion. He is in no doubt whatsoever that this was an >airburst, not a ground explosion. NAIADS detectors began sounding >"NBC Condition Black". The first explosion was followed by a second >airburst explosion. Around the base loudspeakers warned, "This is not >a drill!" His story corroborates those of other vets I have >interviewed. However, Scud chemical attacks were not limited to Al >Jubayl.9 > > > >COALITION COMPLICITY > >Yet despite this testimony, these and other vets continue to be >treated with official contempt. As recently as January 1997, the >Countess of Mar posed a parliamentary question in the House of Lords >which asked if the MoD had any "documentary evidence of chemical >warfare" in the Gulf conflict-a curious question which was limited >only to chemical attack. Questions regarding the use of biological >weapons remain unutterable. In his reply, the Earl Howe stated that >research conducted by the MoD "does not indicate any confirmed use of >chemical warfare agents during the conflict"-which is an even more >curious answer. > >Who, conceivably, could confirm the use of chemical weapons other >than those trained soldiers present during a chemical attack? >Likewise, the tens of thousands of "detections" triggered by chemical >agent detectors throughout the conflict are simply categorized as >"alleged detections" which were "uncorroborated at the time". Again, >a careful and deceitful choice of words.10,11 > >But behind the intentional use of chemical agents by Iraq lurks a far >more sinister story which hitherto has not being told in any detail. >Biological weapons, unlike chemical agents, don't just kill on the >battlefield: survivors returning home carry with them the potential >seeds of destruction. These, in turn, can infect the families of Gulf >War vets-a situation that is now occurring. > >Importantly, the British and US governments were well aware of the >potential use of both chemical and biological weapons by Saddam >Hussein. They had, after all, supplied him with the wherewithal to >develop his ferocious CB armory. This included sophisticated >equipment together with the necessary chemical precursors and >biological cultures. > >This knowledge led the British and US governments to vaccinate their >troops with a 'cocktail' designed to protect them against both >chemical and biological attack. Vaccines given to coalition troops >included, amongst others, anthrax, botulism and bubonic plague. >Cultures for all three were supplied to Iraq by the US Government >during the middle/late 1980s for use in Iraq's CB weapons program.12 > > > >BIO-WEAPONS AND "THE SECRET TEAM" > >"British personnel were infected with anthrax spores," spoke Angus >Parker with quiet certainty. I had interviewed a number of Gulf War >veterans who recounted their experiences of coming under CB attack >from the Iraqis. All are angry and frustrated at the stonewalling >attitude of Britain's Ministry of Defense regarding their numerous >illnesses which fall under the catch-all banner of Gulf War Syndrome. >Eventually, one vet gave me a telephone number, saying, "You should >speak to Angus." > >Initially, Angus Parker was cautious, but after a few minutes he >warmed to his story. Methodically, he first outlined for me the >existing Soviet battlefield doctrine associated with Scud missiles >armed with chemical and biological weapons. This is known, Parker >said, as "a mixed load". The Scud warhead would typically consist of >a deathly combination of explosives and chemical and biological >agents of mixed intensities. The quantity of explosives would be >small, but sufficient to ensure that the CB mixture would form a wide >vapor plume over the target. > >A former soldier in the Territorial Army, Angus Parker operated for a >top-secret British unit. He has never before gone on record with his >story, but frustration mixed with growing anger has led him to "blow >this wide open". > >Following the injection of 12 vaccines in one morning, Parker >suffered an adverse reaction. As a result he was hospitalized and his >deployment to the Gulf delayed. "I was left behind and got out on the >last days of the ground war," he said. This and his civilian >occupation as a technician in a hematology lab resulted in his being >attached to the 1st Field Laboratory Unit, known as "The Secret >Team". The unit "existed only once before in World War I, but was >mothballed until the Gulf War," Parker stated, adding that when he >returned from the Gulf he was told that "I was not to disclose the >nature or role of the team I was serving with". So secret was the >unit, he said, that "it does not appear in any listing".13,14 > >What Angus Parker has revealed is extremely disturbing. The 1st Field >Laboratory Unit was composed of 40 men working in eight teams of >five. It was deployed from Porton Down, Britain's biological warfare >headquarters. Parker, ranked Sergeant, was second in command of one >of the five-man teams. "As the biological warfare reconnaissance >team, we were sampling the environment looking for biological >weapons," he said, adding that "this was difficult and hard to do. We >could only identify four agents: plague, anthrax, botulism toxin A >and B-that's all." The specialized equipment they had to work with to >identify bio-weapons was not very sophisticated. > >Parker has confirmed that his unit found numerous positive samples of >biological organisms that couldn't be analyzed and identified on the >battlefield. "Many, many more were present" than the four they could >identify. Positive samples were collected and shipped in freezer >units to Boscombe Down for analysis by the Porton Down CB >specialists. > >Significantly, in addition to confirming that his unit positively >identified the presence of anthrax at Dhahran, Parker also revealed >that another team of the 1st Field Laboratory Unit identified the >presence of plague at Wadi al Batin. > >Angus Parker has tried in vain to get other members of his unit to >come forward and speak openly, but they are too scared to do so. >"They're not sick and still have their jobs," he explained. > >Parker is not alone in revealing the use of biological weapons in the >Gulf War. US Marine Corps battlefield logs released under the Freedom >of Information Act confirm the findings of Porton Down's "Secret >Team". On 24 February 1991, the US Army's 513th Military Intelligence >Brigade confirmed the use of anthrax at King Khalid Military City.15 > >However, like events in Britain, important and potentially >incriminating records have mysteriously gone "missing". Two US >Marines at Camp Pendleton, San Diego, have gone public to say they >observed "hundreds of records from the Gulf War being destroyed".16 >This and numerous other accounts of records being "destroyed" and >going "missing" can only lead to charges of a massive "Gulf-Wargate" >cover-up. > > > >US BIOLOGICAL ARMS TO IRAQ > >A 1994 Senate Report, entitled "Arming Iraq: The Export of Biological >Materials and the Health of Gulf War Veterans", underscores the >biological threat possessed by the Iraqis. More often referred to as >"the Riegle Report", named after its author, Donald J. Riegle, Jr, >the Report itemises biological cultures supplied to Iraq by the US. >Riegle and his team identified no less than 61 batches of >biologically hazardous materials exported to Iraq. "Between the years >1985 and 1989, the United States Government approved the sales of >quantities of potentially lethal biological agents that could have >been cultured and grown in very large quantities in an Iraqi >biological warfare program," Riegle stated. These included pathogenic >materials, "which means disease-producing items, and toxigenic, >meaning poisonous items."17 The Report added that "we were not able >to get any records prior to 1985". Riegle then included an extract >from a Department of Defense summary report written in 1992: > >"By the time of the invasion of Kuwait, Iraq had developed biological >weapons. Its advanced and aggressive biological warfare program was >the most advanced in the Arab world. The program probably began in >the 1970s and concentrated on the development of two agents, >botulinum toxin and anthrax bacteria... Delivery means for biological >agents ranged from simple aerial bombs and artillery rockets to >surface-to-surface missiles." > >Other biological agents provided by the US to Saddam Hussein's >biological warfare program included Histoplasma capsulatum, which can >cause symptoms resembling tuberculosis and lead to the enlargement of >the liver and spleen as well as anemia and skin disease-symptoms >that many veterans now exhibit. Another organism was Brucella >melitensis, which, when 'weaponised', causes chronic fatigue, profuse >sweating and loss of appetite, joint pains, insomnia and nausea, and >can potentially result in major damage to the vital organs. Again, >these symptoms reflect the conditions experienced by thousands of >Gulf War veterans. In addition to the foregoing, shipments to Iraq >also included "E. coli and genetic materials, human and bacterial >DNA".18 > >Furious at the way the Department of Defense has side-stepped these >disgraceful issues, Riegle fired off a volley of letters to various >officials. One letter identified that the "average cost" of each of >the various biological specimens shipped to Iraq was "less than >$60.00" and that they were "acquired from a not-for-profit >organization".19 > >Stories also circulating of a genetically engineered organism being >used in the Gulf War are paralleled by stories from British veterans >who also claim the use of a modified mycoplasma organism. These vets >include Angus Parker who had earlier said it was "an infectious >organism manufactured in the US". Oddly enough, this is one of the >enduring aspects of the "Octopus" story involving engineered >bio-organisms supplied to Iraq by the Wackenhut Corporation, the >giant US private-sector security company whose board of directors >reads like a roll call of military and intelligence alumni. It is an >allegation supported by US investigative journalist Carol Marshall in >her manuscript, "The Last Circle".20 > >Marshall has spent years investigating the allegations of Michael >Riconosciuto-a former CIA scientific whiz-kid. Riconosciuto claimed >that while working for the Wackenhut Corporation at its Cabazon >Indian Reservation facility he developed advanced and genetically >altered biological warfare agents. One such agent, he alleged, was a >"race-specific" organism, genetically engineered to attack certain >races or groups. Unleashed it could kill or render ill all those of a >particular ethnic group, leaving others entirely unharmed. > >Clearly, the possibility of genetically modified bio-weapons having >been used in the Gulf War cannot be entirely ruled out.21 > >Significantly, in the US Army War College publication entitled "The >Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War" (dated July >25, 1994), authors Steven Metz and James Kievit also discuss this >touchy subject. On page 16 they state: "Certain biotechnical >weapons-considered by some to violate the biological warfare >convention to which the United States is a signatory-also may >transgress American values regarding appropriate means." They go on >to ask: "Could the government and military of this multi-ethnic >republic face charges that it was developing or using a weapon >targeting Africans, Jews Koreans, Hispanics, etc.?" The authors then >conclude that, "Overcoming these constraints...would require >fundamental changes in the United States-an ethical and political >revolution may be necessary to make a military revolution." This, the >authors "hypothesise", could be achieved by remodeling the way >Americans think, and also via the effective control of news >management using "advanced psychotechnology" and other techniques >such a "morphing". > > > >EXPERIMENTAL VACCINES COVER-UP > >If genetically engineered biological weapons are now available, it is >certain that there will have been developed the necessary antidotes >in the form of vaccines. All of the vets I interviewed for this >article spoke of the large number of vaccines with which they were >injected. Shaun Rusling received 24 vaccinations over a four-week >period. Two of these vaccinations were classified secret, and were >"experimental", he believes. Richard Turnbull got a dose of 13 >inoculations in just 10 minutes. Four of them were unidentified and >classified secret. He also believes them to have been experimental. > >Ray Bristow was informed in a letter from Brigadier McDermott of the >MoD that some of his injections were also classified. Later he was >informed by the Surgeon General, Admiral Revell, that this was not >the case and that Brigadier McDermott's statement was incorrect. How >many vaccines were classified secret? The Surgeon General, Vice >Admiral Revell, during a "behind closed doors" meeting of >Parliament's Defense Committee, was asked, "How many vaccines do we >not admit to?" He replied, saying, "I think probably about five or >six."22 > >All previously classified vaccines were declassified on 10 December >1996, according to a letter dated 20 January 1997 from the Ministry >of Defense. A spokesman at the MoD confirmed this in a telephone call >on Friday 30 May 1997, adding that there were only three vaccines >that had ever been classified. He told me these were: anthrax, >pertussis and plague. This statement is confirmed in a letter to >Shaun Rusling, dated 20 January 1997, in which the MoD confided that >"the vaccines you were given against potential biological warfare >threats were anthrax, pertussis (as an adjuvant) and plague. These >are the only vaccinations which have ever been classified." This is a >far cry from the testimony of Surgeon General Revell in the >closed-door hearings of the Defense Committee in which he said there >were "five or six" vaccines which were "not admitted to". > >I posed this discrepancy to the Ministry of Defense. Surgeon General >Revell's testimony before the Defense Committee was "a >misunderstanding", the MoD spokesman said. Despite this >"misunderstanding", the medical records of Corporal Richard Turnbull >clearly state that four vaccines-not three-were classified secret. > >Turnbull is not alone in this respect. Ray Bristow's list of shots, >including anthrax (batch no. 0190), plague (batch no. 10H03A) and >pertussis adjuvant (batch no. B1868a)-to name just those three that >were officially classified-also detail two other vaccines labeled >"biological". These are still classified secret and their contents >remain "unknown". The story is identical for Shaun Rusling, even down >to the same batch numbers of the vaccines he received.23 > >The Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Revell, stated in one letter that, >"Unfortunately, medical record-keeping in the Gulf was not as >thorough as it should have been..." and, as a consequence, details of >certain vaccinations are now missing-a position that remains the >government's official line. > >A number of veterans now believe they have been used as unwitting >guinea pigs and are deeply concerned at what precisely may have been >pumped into them. Once again, Porton Down's Angus Parker dropped >another bombshell. Patiently, he explained that "the MoD has not been >totally honest about the vaccines used against us". I couldn't help >but catch his use of the word "against" us instead of "on" us. >Clearly, he now considers the Ministry of Defense and others in the >Whitehall bureaucracy to be bitter enemies-and he is by no means >alone in holding that view. A few vets repeatedly warned me that the >"Security Services" are paying them close attention. Some have had >their phones tapped and others experience peculiar mail delivery >problems. > >Meanwhile, Parker went on to reveal the chemical structure of one of >the apparently 'still not admitted to' vaccines. "There is an >experimental vaccine-an AIDS vaccine," he said. This "has been around >since approximately 1990." He went on to explain that this vaccine >contains two components. One component is known as a "cytokine" >which, Parker said, is an "immune potentiator". It works like a >"chemical messenger sent between different cells in the body". When >it detects a foreign organism, "it actually stimulates a response by >the human immune system" to fight and hopefully destroy the alien >organism present. > >Parker's analysis of this component was confirmed by a spokesman for >London's Biochemical Society, who added that it was "feasible" that >cytokines could be "purified and cloned" and used to fight "against >any agent". The spokesman added, moreover, that cytokines were very >"hush-hush", were "cutting-edge technology", and "logically" would >have been "adopted by the military". They were, she added, >"experimental". > >According to Parker, the second component consisted of experimental >HIV gene envelopes. He went on to explain one of the basic problems >with this experimental vaccine. Whereas cytokines readily drop out of >the body after awhile, "fragments" of the HIV genes do not. Although >there may have been "good operational reasons" for topping up the >vaccine with HIV genes, Parker acknowledged that no one knows the >long-term consequences. "It was experimental," he emphasized, and had >been originally developed by Porton Down as an AIDS vaccine.24,25 > >The question of HIV gene envelopes was put to the Biochemical >Society's spokesman, who stated that these envelopes "can be created >to be specifically resistant to CBW". The spokesman went on to >explain that gene envelopes are effectively the "walls" that surround >the nucleus of each cell and are thus the first line of defense >against diseases-whether they be naturally acquired or as a result of >CB weapons attack. HIV gene envelopes are among the most powerful and >resistant known to science, she added. > >Professor Beverley of the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine >Research could think of no theoretical reason why HIV gene envelopes >would be used other than to "stimulate a response against HIV". He >went on to speculate that had HIV gene envelopes been used in a >vaccine, logically this would only have occurred as protection >against a possible attack using HIV as a bio-weapon. There was, he >felt, no other conceivable reason, but added that had such a vaccine >been "given to Gulf War soldiers it would have been speculative". > >The picture that emerges is confusing. The use of cytokines does have >a rational explanation, for cytokines trigger the body's immune >system. As such, they could be an ideal general vaccine for use in a >CB warfare setting. However, the rationale behind using HIV gene >envelopes is less certain and considerably more perplexing. >Unfortunately, there is not enough detailed information available in >regard to the HIV gene envelopes to reach anything but a speculative >conclusion. > >Some weeks prior to my interview with Professor Beverley, Angus >Parker told me in a throwaway comment, "I don't even want to get into >AIDS as a weapon." At that time, nor did I. Professor Beverley's >certitude that this is the only conceivable reason why HIV gene >envelopes would have been used, leaves a sour taste in my mouth. > >However, for clarity's sake, I leave the last word with Angus Parker. >Told of Professor Beverley's theory, he remained adamant that there >was another reason why HIV gene envelopes had been used. His >information, he insisted, came directly from the horse's mouth, and I >am inclined to accept what he has revealed. At the outbreak of the >Gulf War there were not enough stocks of cytokines to go around; >thus, a decision was made to top them up with the HIV gene envelopes >which, he assured me, act in a very similar fashion to cytokines in >that they trigger the body's immune system. Significantly, Professor >Beverley confirmed this when he said that "they do indeed trigger and >regulate the way the body relates to pathogens".26 > >Clearly, Parker's revelations-if proved true-are stunning.27 The >secret use of an experimental vaccine on British military personnel >may be one of the most significant reasons why the Ministry of >Defense continues to stonewall vets about the vaccines they received. >To admit to involuntary human testing on such a sensitive issue will >lead to a public relations disaster of huge proportions. As one ill >vet told me, "I was ordered to volunteer" for the shots. He now >wishes he hadn't. The second potential reason clearly opens a can of >worms about the possible development of HIV as a biological weapon.28 > > > >BUSINESS AS USUAL > >But there are other equally powerful reasons to keep the lid on the >Gulf War Syndrome story. Pat Eddington, the former CIA analyst, has >no doubt that the principal reason for the US Government's >stonewalling tactic is to cover up the supply of CB weapons to Iraq >prior to the Gulf War. For the US Government to admit to such cynical >irresponsibility would result in public outrage, Eddington says. > >Eddington also chastises the Senate whose members selfishly refuse to >act against the wishes of the Pentagon. Their delinquency of duty has >resulted in the side-lining of in excess of 100,000 Gulf War veterans >who now exhibit a range of symptoms typical of chemical, and, in some >cases, biological attack. In this 'business as usual' scenario, >Eddington also reserves some powder and shot for the major media who >are largely willing to accept, at face value, the cloying PR handouts >from the Department of Defense. > >Hopelessly abandoned by one and all, many thousands of vets have now >died as a result of their chemically inspired battle injuries, adding >even more incentive to the Pentagon to continue the cover-up. > >But in the final analysis, the reasons surrounding the British and US >governments' disgraceful obfuscation are many. Certainly, the prior >supply of CB weapons to Iraq is enough to make many government >officials quake with the fear of disgrace. It is a similar rationale >that continues to eclipse the illegal use of experimental, unlicensed >and highly sensitive drugs. Not least, however, is the knowledge that >defense against chemical and biological weapons attacks is utterly >shambolic. Pat Eddington states that CBW protective suits and gas >masks are: "...(a) notoriously defective, and (b) in very short >supply-two problems that have yet to be corrected more than six years >later." He adds, "That's not something the Pentagon wants to >advertise to the likes of Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Kim Jong Il or Colonel >Qadhafi."29 > >Yet few can doubt that the intelligence services of Iran, North Korea >or Libya are already aware of the published shortcomings of American >and British CBW protective equipment. A more significant fear may be >the realization inside the Pentagon and the Ministry of Defense that >their own troops will be less than willing to wade into a future CB >battle zone virtually buck-naked. > >Armed only with an uncertain dose of HIV but the certain knowledge >that-thanks to the grace of greed and military commercialism-those >chemical and biological organisms you are about to inhale and absorb >have "made at home" stenciled all over them, would you volunteer for >military service? > >About the Author: Born in England, David Guyatt is a freelance >investigative journalist whose former career as an executive in >international banking and finance provided the background that >inspired his research into the shady world of international weapons >financing, narcotics trafficking and money laundering. He has worked > >with the International Committee of the Red Cross on weapons-related >projects; the charity pressure-group World Development Movement on >British arms financing; and the leading British TV documentary >program, World in Action. David Guyatt's current research interests >include military/ intelligence mind-control programs and non-lethal >weapons systems, as well as the hidden influence of elitist groups >around the globe. > > > >Endnotes: > >1. The CB attack on Dhahran on 20 January 1991 is confirmed in US > CENTCOM battlefield logs obtained under FOIA. Delivery was via a > Scud missile. > >2. Telephone interview with this writer, dated 12 May 1997. > >3. Eddington, Pat, Gassed in the Gulf, Insignia Publishing Co., > Washington, DC, USA, 1997 (http://www.InsigniaUSA.com) > >4. Eddington convincingly argues&emdash;based on captured Iraqi > documents&emdash;that chemical and bio-warfare agents were used in > non-lethal doses. This explains why coalition troops did not > keelover and die immediately. Iraqi CB doctrine was to use low but > repetitive doses, which they calculated would produce greater > long-term damage, Eddington says. > >5. US CENTCOM logs confirmed a later Scud attack on Hafar al Batin on > 14 February 1991. > >6. Telephone interview with this writer, dated 13 May 1997. > >7. Telephone interview with this writer, dated 13 May 1997. > >8. The Al Jubayl incident is the most comprehensively documented case > of CB attack by the Iraqis. Records obtained under FOIA indicate > that Scuds were not used. Delivery of the CB weapon was almost > certainly as a result of aircraft penetration, possibly a > Russian-manufactured Sukhoi SU-22 Fitter fighter-bomber. > >9. Telephone interview with this writer, dated 15 May 1997. > >10. Parliamentary Q & As in this writer's possession. > >11. A total of 55 incidents have been recorded to date by US CENTCOM > logs. CB attacks began on 17 January 1991 and continued > throughout the ground war in all major sectors. > >12. See Report by Senator Donald J. Riegle to the US Senate, titled > "Arming Iraq: The Export of Biological Materials and the Health > of Gulf War Veterans", dated 9 February 1994. Bacillus anthracis > cohn and Clostridium botulinum type A cultures were shipped on > 2 May 1988. In all, Riegle was able to identify no less than 61 > biological cultures supplied to Iraq between 1985-89. Some of > these included human gene clones. >13. Telephone interviews with this writer, dated 13 and 14 May 1997. > >14. I have been given a copy of an MoD written statement regarding > the 1st Field Laboratory Unit which states: "We can confirm that > this unit operated in the Gulf. Its primary task was related to > the detection of biological warfare agents, of which there was a > real and compelling threat. As part of their work they were > monitoring the effectiveness of the biological immunization > program." > >15. Bernstein, Dennis, "Gulf War Syndrome Covered Up", Covert Action > Quarterly, no. 43, Winter 1992/3. > >16. ibid. > >17. "Riegle Report", p. 3. > >18. op. cit., p. 5. > >19. Donald J. Riegle's letter to William Perry, US Defense Secretary, > dated 9 February 1994. > >20. Carol Marshall's manuscript, "The Last Circle", running to 140 > pages, is a comprehensive investigation into the so-called > "Octopus". > >21. Significantly, the International Committee of the Red Cross > (ICRC) is concerned about the development of "genetic weapons" > and fears that "the possibility exists for their misuse for > political ends". The ICRC warns that developments of > gene/race-specific weapons may or could be taking place. See > "Expert Meeting on Certain Weapon Systems and on Implementation > Mechanisms in International War", ICRC, Geneva, Switzerland, July > 1994. > >22. A copy of this memorandum is in my possession. > >23. The only difference is that Rusling received a hepatitis B jab, > whereas Bristow received hepatitis A. In all other respects their > lists of vaccines are identical&emdash;including two that remain > classified. > >24. Parker states that he has received confirmation of the use of the > HIV gene vaccine from a well-placed and extremely knowledgeable > source, whom he is unable to identify. > >25. I understand Porton Down denies any involvement in HIV research, > but see notes below. > >26. I couldn't help but note the use of the plural&emdash; a usage > that seems inconsistent with his otherwise firm statement. It had > taken me two days and numerous phone calls before I was finally > able to make contact with Professor Beverley. I had been given > his number by an individual working in the field of immunology. > Unbeknownst to me at the time, this individual had contacted > Porton Down, revealing the interest and direction of my > questions & emdash; a fact she revealed the following day when I > phoned back with an additional question. Meanwhile, Angus Parker > was told, via a circuitous route, that the MoD was very > "displeased" with him for talking to me. A paranoid may well > consider that two days "in the world of shadows" is a very long > time indeed. > >27. They also raise the question of why Britain's top-secret > bio-warfare lab is involved in developing an AIDS vaccine. The > possibility that AIDS has been 'weaponised' & emdash; apparently > a technical possibility & emdash; is an old and largely > discounted story attributed to a Cold War disinformation > campaign. > >28. Perhaps a 'red herring'? > >29. 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