Pandemic

world? Well, it certainly isn’t for the want of people and organizations trying to get the information promulgated, but in virtually every case the articles, letters and reports have been ignored, apparently because the information they contained was considered ‘too controversial’.

As was stated by Dr John Seale when discussing the infectivity of AIDS: ‘The scale of the deceptions and misinformation perpetrated by virologists, clinicians and editors of scientific and medical journals about the infectivity of genital secretions, compared with that of blood and saliva, has been astonishing. In the presence of a new, lethal virus, spreading amongst people, for which no vaccine or cure is in sight, every person would assume that scientists have been working day and night to verify how it is transmitted.

‘On the contrary, having assumed for a variety of motives that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease like syphilis or gonorrhoea, a negligible research effort has gone into the critical matter of transmission. A few preliminary papers were published and their findings have been repeatedly quoted as showing the opposite of what they actually showed. When this was pointed out in letters to the editors of American medical and scientific journals, publication has been refused. No attempt has been made to check or double-check the findings in other laboratories, or to rectify published errors’.[12]

An American doctor, Robert B. Strecker, a practising gastroenterologist who holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology and is a trained pathologist, spent five years investigating the AIDS phenomenon, and then attempted to interest the world in what he had discovered. Virtually every letter and article he wrote was ignored.

Almost in desperation, he and his brother compiled some of the most damaging documents he had uncovered into a report which he called ‘This is a Bio-attack Alert’.[3] Copies of this were sent to the governor of every one of the United States, the President, the Vice-President, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and selected members of Congress. He got replies from three of the governors and nothing at all from anybody else. His story is typical, and certainly not unique.

What is perhaps not so typical of Dr Strecker is what then happened around him.

First, the CIA warned all agencies that he was a Communist and instructed them not to take anything he said seriously. That, despite the fact that this allegation was a complete fiction, appeared to work.

Second, his office was burgled but, interestingly, only papers and documents were taken, but nothing of any commercial value.

Third, on 11 August 1988, his brother Ted was found dead of gunshot wounds at his home in Springfield, Missouri. He was an apparent suicide, although he had been in good spirits, said no goodbyes and left no note or message. He had been actively assisting his brother Robert in trying to uncover links between the American Department of Defense and the development of HIV.

Fourth, on 22 September 1988, Illinois State Representative Douglas Huff of Chicago was found dead alone at home, the victim of an overdose of heroin and cocaine. Douglas Huff was almost a lone voice in the wilderness, the only person who thought Robert Strecker’s theories were of sufficient importance to give him very vocal and very public support. He gave frequent press interviews and appeared on radio and television programmes urging people to be aware of the huge cover-up surrounding AIDS.[16]

Of course, all these events could be completely unrelated, entirely innocent and totally unconnected with Robert Strecker’s work. And, then again, pigs might fly but most people would agree that they make unlikely aviators.

So, to return to the question posed earlier, what really happened?

The least likely scenario is that, uniquely in the history of virus infections, a naturally occurring sheep virus combined itself with a naturally occurring bovine virus, and simple chance tailored the resulting recombinant retrovirus into a form ideally suited to destroying the human immune system. Then the new virus made two species jumps: first from the sheep or cow in which it had been conceived into a green monkey, and then from the monkey into the human population where it’s been wreaking havoc ever since.

Almost nobody who’s actually done any proper research into AIDS, instead of simply relying on what’s been published in the media, really believes that, but it’s still the ‘official’ explanation. But no matter what one’s personal belief, it is possible to easily disprove this theory using the same entirely unrelated discipline already mentioned – mathematics.

Because, even if what may be termed the ‘green monkey scenario’ is, by some bizarre mechanism, correct, the numbers don’t work. As stated above, the rate of infection of AIDS is doubling about once every year. The first cases of AIDS in Africa occurred in 1972. If we assume that there was a single source of infection, and the number of victims doubled once every fourteen months, by 1987 there should have been about 8,000 cases of the disease in Africa. Even if the alleged green monkey had gone on a biting spree – for which, of course, there is not a shred of evidence – and had attacked hundreds of people at about the same time, there would still have been well under one million cases.

The reality is that one of the more conservative studies of the scale of the pandemic by 1987 put the figure at 75 million. Other estimates suggested the figure could be almost double that. To achieve the lower of these two figures suggests a first-year infection of around five thousand people – far too many for several entire troops of virus-carrying green monkeys to infect – but well within the number of people who could become victims if the method of transmission was some kind of inoculation programme.

The only way that such a vast number of people could have become infected in such a short time is if the disease had multiple coincident sources. In other words, a very large number of people in the same area had to contract – or be given – the disease at more or less the same time. No other mechanism can account for the sheer scale of the pandemic.

And AIDS broke out almost simultaneously in Africa, Brazil, Haiti, Japan and slightly later in the United States of America: if one infected green monkey managed to achieve this, it must have been the most well-travelled primate in the history of the world. Or is it more likely that the infection was actually transmitted through the smallpox vaccination programmes that were known to have been in operation in, strangely enough, Africa, Brazil, Haiti and Japan in the early 1970s, and the hepatitis vaccinations in the States later in the decade?[17]

Independent research suggests that the most likely scenario is that in the early 1970s certain WASP-dominated covert factions behind the American Government and military decided to try to eliminate what they saw as particularly ‘undesirable’ sections of the human race – principally the populations of Third World nations, homosexuals, prostitutes, drug addicts and blacks – and created a disease that would do the job for them very efficiently without a shot being fired in anger.[13]

After all, there would be a huge public outcry if the American Government simply lined up known homosexuals against a wall and shot them (though all the indications are that many members of Congress and the Senate, if not the current British Government and Opposition, would be privately supportive). But killing them secretly with a disease – especially a disease that the American medical establishment is actively and very publicly trying to eradicate – was a far better solution.

Unfortunately, if that were the case, they did the job rather too well, and as a result AIDS now threatens everyone – straight, gay, black, white, you, me, and more especially our children and our grandchildren. Already, babies are being born HIV-positive, and it’s probably only a matter of time before children emerge from the womb with full-blown AIDS contracted from their innocent, white, non-drug-abusing, single-partner, heterosexual, American or European parents.

Our children are the future. When infected parents produce infected children, the entire human race stands in jeopardy.

Is it possible that shadowy powers behind the American Government of the 1970s engineered not only the destruction of what they perceived to be undesirable elements infesting this planet, but also the end of our whole civilization?

About the Author

James Barrington is a trained military pilot who has worked in covert operations and espionage. He now lives in Andorra and this is his second novel. His previous novel, Overkill, also featured Paul Richter.