Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:28:46 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <9706@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.222416.5113@engage.pko.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
>>Ummmm, don't know if this was mentioned, but the "AIDS is biological warfare
>>created by the CIA to wipe out Africans/whoever" story is Soviet propaganda/
>>disinformation _designed_ to make the US look bad in the eyes of the world
>>(particularly Africa).
>>-Mike
>
>Your story is half true. Infact the Soviets picked this story from two French
>scientists who did studies on the virus. They showed that there was no way 
>the Simian (green monkey) virus could ever evolve into HIV. They felt that a
>more likely source was combination of the luekemia causative agent and the
>visna virus found in sheep. I happened to read this report way back in '87
>or '86.
>
>Having nailed the source of the virus to village in Zaire where the virus had
>to have begun, they proceede to test all 15000 pygmies they found there for
>the virus. They zero (0) infected with it.

Clue 1. What is this proof of?  That AIDS was invented by the CIA or that
their vector analysis is a bit off.  Zaire is HUGE (you thought it was a 
long way to the corner shop but that's nothing compared to Zaire), Isn't it
amazing that they could narrow the start of AIDS down to _one_ village.
Please tell me which village it was so I can work out if I have been there 
or not.

Clue 2.  Not everyone in Zaire is a Pygmy - although it is true that there 
are a few of them in the area around the Ituri.  

Clue 3. I would like to see this Pygmy village with 15000 people in it - 
a veritable township.  Most Pygmy villages are somewhat smaller than this.

Clue 4. HIV - II (the common form in Africa) was originally hard to test 
for as the tests were originally for HIV-I.  Which HIV did they test for?
 
>According to Frenc [sic] hypothesis. AIDS was created at Ft. Detrick 
>Maryland. The powers that be elected to conduct tests on long term prisoners 
>at a nearby prison. They promised them freedom if they survived the test. 

Of course the French were just trying to lay down a smokescreen to divert
suspician from their own AIDS scandal.  You know, the one where the French 
government continued to produce clotting agents for Haemophiliacs using 
AIDS infected blood.  The difference between this and the other AIDS 
conspiracy theories is that they knew full well what the risks were and 
(some of) the government officials involved have now been charged and 
convicted.
 
>Six weeks after infection, the prisoners suffered a mild flue[sic] which 
>however disappeared. The powers therefor released them. 

Yeah right.

>These people who were drug addicts and homosexual subsequently infect 
>others in the population, especially in the New York area.

Of course everyone in prison in the US is a)Black b)Homosexual and c)a drug
addict  (hint - there may be some sarcasm in the preceding line).  They
were also given air tickets to Uganda and an operational time machine...
 
>The dates all reconciled and this story seem to be true.

Dates - what dates.  Post the dates so we can make our own minds up.

Derek "Facts, we don' need no steenkin' facts" Tearne


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