From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 6,  U.S. Government Practices Germ Warfare on U.S. Population
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords:  U.S. Government Practices Germ Warfare on U.S. Population
Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! 
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:06:29 GMT

        I made the following transcript from a tape recording 
        of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
               WBAI-FM (99.5)
               505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
               New York, NY 10018       (212) 279-0707

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                        (continuation)
GARY NULL:
Another interesting test that the U.S. Army performed lasted for
five days. They conducted the test in New York City, in our subway
system. They PURPOSELY selected the peak travel hours for their
secret experiment. They had bacteria that they put into regular
incandescent light bulbs. About eighty-seven trillion bacteria can
be contained in one glass bulb. And then these were surreptitiously
dropped so that they would break and get into the ventilating
systems. And then they measured the dispersion factor.

One of the strangest discoveries that one makes after examining 
all this data is that by the U.S. Army's own testimony, they never
monitored the health of the exposed populations. So, the Army's
first answer to questions concerning the health of the test
populations is that:

  (quote)
  "We just don't know how many people have been injured or hurt."
  (unquote)

However, a very intriguing affair occurred in one year when the
Public first learned that these tests had taken place. A reporter
from Newsday began to investigate these tests. He thought, at the
time when he first discovered that the U.S. Army had done some 
tests, that there were perhaps seven or eight tests done. It was
only later on in the course of the following month that so many 
more tests were uncovered. A young lawyer out in San Francisco,
named Edward Nevin, was traveling to his office reading the San
Francisco Chronicle one morning, and he came across an article 
about a San Francisco man having been sprayed, along with everyone
else, about twenty-seven years earlier. The article said that 
there was a suspicion that this person had died from an infection
caused by the same bacteria that the U.S. Army had used. And the
man's name was given as Edward Nevin. Well, the younger Nevin
immediately recognized this man to be his grandfather who had died
many years before. His grandfather was a patient at Stanford
University Hospital. He had gone in for a prostate operation. And 
he was in good health. It was a simple operation. Then suddenly, he
took very ill. The hospital found that he had been infected with 
the same organism, sirita marcensus [that the U.S. Army had been
spraying over heavily-populated areas].                     

One very important aspect of this is that this patient was at
Stanford University Hospital, one of the best teaching hospitals in
the United States. Never in the history of that hospital had that
organism ever been found to cause infection. And it was at the exact
same time that the U.S. Army had tested this bacteria that he had
been in the hospital. There were many other cases of people showing
up at the hospital who were infected with this bacteria. Well, the
case so baffled the doctors at Stanford that they wrote an article
on it. And I got the article. It was published in the Archives of
Internal Medicine. Now, had that article NOT been written, and had
the doctors NOT explained their puzzlement in that article .....
They didn't know that the U.S. Army had just finished spraying. 
No one knew! Because the U.S. Army told no one that it was doing
this open-air test.

The Nevin family took the United States Government to court,
claiming that their father had been killed as a consequence of
infection by that bacteria. the case was based on three basic 
premises:

  1) that the U.S. Army's spraying of bacteria over San Francisco
     had caused the senior Nevin's death,
  2) the U.S. Army had sufficient reason to suspect that the  
     bacteria could be pathogenic, and thus, their spraying of the 
     bacteria over heavily-populated areas was an act of negligence.

 [JD: That's a misstatement. These were cold-blooded attacks  
      upon the American People.]
      
  3) that the Army's spraying over San Francisco was not a part of
     basic Government policy, and hence, the Government could not 
     claim immunity.

Two months after the institution of the [legal] action, a Federal
judge dismissed the case and vindicated the Federal Government on
all three counts. First, despite ample evidence supporting the
Nevins' claim that the U.S. Army's testing had been responsible for
their relative's death, the judge reasoned that it was impossible 
to prove cause and effect. And even though the Nevin family 
produced all this evidence, the judge said that it was not the U.S.
Army's negligence. Doctor Richard Wheat[sp], one of the co-authors
of the original scientific article on this mysterious outbreak of
this bacterial infection around the time of the U.S. Army's tests,
when asked whether a review of the medical literature [on this
bacteria] prior to the year [of the Army's testing] would inevitably
include some degree of risk, he said:

  (quote)
  "That would be my conclusion."
  (unquote)

So, clearly, the U.S. Government knew that what they were spraying
was dangerous. But the judge still threw it out. That's not
surprising. He's a Federal judge. Remember, the Government knows 
just what judges to appoint by knowing their tendencies. Now, that
doesn't mean that the WHOLE system is biased, but a lot of it is.
The Nevins' case is significant because it illustrates the almost
insurmountable obstacles involved in trying to get the Government 
to take responsibility for its actions. Even in the face of medical
literature to the contrary, the U.S. Army insisted that the bacteria
it was spraying was absolutely harmless (How many times have we
heard that?), and the U.S. Government won.
      
Are we still being experimented on?  We'll find out.
Remember how the U.S. Government denied any responsibility when six
thousand sheep suddenly died, fell flat, twenty miles from Dunway
Research Laboratories?  Nobody knew what happened. The ranchers got
suspicious because the winds were coming from Dunway. The U.S. Army
denied it, and to this day, they continue to deny it. But how in the
world did six thousand sheep just suddenly die in one day?  The U.S.
Government claimed that it was a natural act.  Really?  Has it ever
happened in history, in any country in the world, that six thousand
sheep suddenly die in one day?

Well, that's how it stands. Some of us are concerned about that kind
of thinking and that kind of rationale. But, unfortunately, there
are still too few Americans who are aware of this to do anything 
about it.
                        (end of report)
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