During 1970, the US Department of Defence applied to the US Senate appropriations committee for funding to research and develop a biological weapon that would attack the human immune system. The request was for the development of “synthetic biological agents.” In giving testimony to the Senate committee, Dr. Donald MacArthur, a US Army biological warfare expert, stated: “Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms.” Dr. MacArthur then added “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 diseases.” He concluded that a feasibility research programme to this end “could be completed in approximately 5 years at a cost of $10 million.” The requested sum was granted. Professor Jakob Segal and his wife Lilli both believe that AIDS was laboratory manufactured at Fort Detrick, Maryland - home of America’s Chemical and Biological Warfare programme. Segal, a Russian-born Professor of biology at Humboldt University in then East Germany stated that AIDS was the result of a US germ warfare programme. The couple published their findings in a 1986 pamphlet “AIDS: USA Home-Made Evil. The couple set about trying to show that the AIDS virus HIV is almost identical, in some regards, to two other viruses. These are Visna, a deadly disease that kills sheep, but is not infectious to humans, and HTLV-1 (Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus) which though not fatal is highly infectious to humans. Segal then went on to state that the P4 High Security laboratory at Fort Detrick, was responsible for splicing both Visna and HTLV-1 together, thus creating an artificial biological weapon that was both highly infectious and deadly to humans. The result was HIV. Segal maintains this virus was finally created between late 1977 and the spring of 1978. Disparaging the then common view that AIDS had first arisen in Africa, Segal insisted that the Fort Detrick cocktail was tested on prison inmates who had volunteered to participate in experiments in exchange for their release. Because symptoms did not show up inside six months, the convicts were released according to the prior agreement. Since a number of them were gay, Segal claimed, they travelled to New York and unknowingly began infecting other members of New York’s gay community. From here the first known AIDS case appeared in 1979 and soon began spreading like wildfire. Segal’s theory and chain of events are viewed by many medical experts as entirely fictitious. Others believe he was a willing instrument of a Soviet KGB disinformation campaign. As a result of these and other factors, leading medical journals refused to publish his theory and findings. Seeking to discover more detail, The X Factor spoke to a representative of Fort Detrick, Maryland. The spokesman confirmed that the conspiracy theory surrounding AIDS was a known KGB disinformation project. However, they also confirmed that they had worked on AIDS as part of a biological warfare programme. This, they said, resulted from the need to protect US military personnel posted to highly infectious regions of the world from being infected with the disease. Despite this, Segal is not alone in suggesting that AIDS was the result of biological warfare experiments. Dr. William Campbell Douglas - a high profile American physician with a background in Aviation and Space medicine, and a former US Navy Flight Surgeon - also believes AIDS was man-made. Douglas couldn’t be politically further apart from the Segal’s. His rhetoric is noticeably right wing and he regards himself as a “dedicated anti-communist.” During a public lecture in August 1990, he admitted the KGB disinformation programme had caught him of guard. It was, he said, “…A clever psy-war ploy, which, for a while anyway, neutralised those of us who were saying essentially th
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