The 1991 article "Cancer Warfare"[1] by "Richard Hatch", is interesting in this regard. Extensively footnoted and appearing erudite and informed, it examines t

The 1991 article "Cancer Warfare"[1] by "Richard Hatch", is interesting in this regard. Extensively footnoted and appearing erudite and informed, it examines the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Viral Cancer Program (VCP) - "launched in 1971 with great fan­fare as part of Nixon’s War on Can­cer" - concluding that: > While Nixon ordered a sup­posed end to BW offen­sive efforts in 1969, the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency retained a secret BW and tox­in weapon capability.43 Giv­en this record of decep­tion in the U.S. BW pro­gram, the Viral Can­cer Pro­gram may well have used the search for a cure for can­cer as a cov­er to con­tin­ue its exper­i­ments on bio­log­i­cal war­fare. (the footnote "43" refers to: Church Com­mit­tee Report, “Unau­tho­rized Stor­age of Tox­ic Agents” Vol. 1, pp. 189–99. ) Along the way, it sidles almost up to the notion of lab created HIV: > One of Bio­net­ics Research Lab­o­ra­to­ries’ most impor­tant NCI con­tracts was a mas­sive virus inoc­u­la­tion pro­gram that began in 1962 and and ran until at least 1976, and used more than 2,000 mon­keys. Dr. Robert Gal­lo, the con­tro­ver­sial head of the cur­rent U.S. AIDS research pro­gram at NCI and its chief of its tumor cell biol­o­gy lab­o­ra­to­ry, and Dr. Jack Gru­ber, for­mer­ly of VCP and then NIH, were project offi­cers for the inoc­u­la­tion pro­gram. The mon­keys were inject­ed with every­thing from human can­cer tis­sues to rare virus­es and even sheep­’s blood in an effort to find a trans­mis­si­ble can­cer. Many of these mon­keys suc­cumbed to immuno­sup­pres­sion after infec­tion with the Mason-Pfiz­er mon­key virus, the first known immuno­sup­pres­sive retrovirus,31 a class of virus­es that includes the human immun­od­e­fi­cien­cy virus. [...] > Exper­i­ments per­formed under NCI con­tract includ­ed many dan­ger­ous viral inoc­u­la­tion pro­grams, like the pri­mate inoc­u­la­tion pro­gram run by Gal­lo and Gru­ber.. So-called “species bar­ri­ers” were rou­tine­ly breached in efforts to find or cre­ate infec­tious can­cer virus­es. Virus­es native to one species were inject­ed into ani­mals from anoth­er species in hope of trig­ger­ing can­cers. When I first heard of the disinfo program covered in TFA, I immediately thought of this article, which I first read in the mid 90's. I still wonder how much of its content is diligent journalism and how much is high quality disinfo. 1: http://spitfirelist.com/news/cancer-warfare/ http://spitfirelist.com/news/cancer-warfare/ from Covert Action Information Bulletin 39, Winter 1991-92