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November 22, 1996: Emerging Viruses - Dr. Leonard Horowitz

Nov 22, 1996
3h 9m
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Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard-trained public health researcher, presents a sweeping and disturbing investigation into the origins of AIDS and Ebola. Drawing from his 563-page book Emerging Viruses, AIDS and Ebola, Horowitz traces a paper trail from a 1970 Department of Defense appropriations request through Litton Bionetics Research Laboratories, where he alleges scientists under contract created immune-system-ravaging viruses by combining monkey viruses with animal cancer virus RNA.

Horowitz connects the research to Henry Kissinger's national security directives, the Rockefeller family's population control interests, and contaminated hepatitis B vaccines administered in the mid-1970s to gay men in New York City and populations in Central Africa. He describes how his investigation began with the Florida dental AIDS case, where he cross-matched the dentist's personality profile with FBI serial killer data. Callers share personal stories of autoimmune diseases following vaccinations.

Art Bell guides the conversation through biological weapons development, the Gulf War syndrome link to contaminated vaccines, and the corporate structures behind blood bank contamination. The broadcast captures the raw intensity of a researcher convinced that public health institutions have been compromised at the highest levels.

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    The 1970 DoD $10M virus appropriation: Horowitz describes a 1970 Department of Defense appropriations request - obtained by Ted Strecker via FOIA - for $10 million over five years to develop immune-system-ravaging viruses for germ warfare, and traces the money to Litton Bionetics with Robert Gallo as a principal investigator.

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    Recombining monkey viruses with animal cancer viruses: Horowitz names the bioengineers - Gallo, King, Herrera, Adamson, Stringer, Yang, Landon at Litton Bionetics - and describes recombining SV40 and other monkey viruses with feline leukemia and chicken leukemia sarcoma RNA, producing immune suppression, wasting, and death.

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    1974 hepatitis B vaccine as plausible AIDS release vector: Horowitz argues AIDS most plausibly escaped during a 1974 experimental hepatitis B vaccine trial administered simultaneously to 200,000 subjects - Willowbrook State School children, gay men in New York City, and Black populations in eastern Zaire and northwest Uganda.

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    John Landon, 18 monkeys, and the grandmother of Ebola: Horowitz traces Ebola back to a 1965 Litton Bionetics study in which John Landon inoculated 18 monkeys with a Marburg-progenitor virus; nine died, nine survivors were shipped to vaccine production facilities, and Marburg broke out simultaneously in Belgrade, Frankfurt, and Marburg in 1967.

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