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Investigating
the Primary Suspects:
Background on the Anthrax Vaccine Maker-Bioport
1. In March 16, 1999, Robert C. Myers, DVM, Chief Operating Officer of
BioPort-America's only anthrax vaccine maker-appealed to a Senate Appropriations
Committee for urgent funding for both anthrax and smallpox vaccines. In 1996,
in his own words, he "was part of a team of organizations, led by Battelle
Memorial Institute, which came together to compete for the [Department of
Defense's Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program] JVAP. Despite there being dozens
of potential bioterrorist threats, Dr. Myers stated these two threats were
the greatest since anthrax is easy to handle and "because smallpox is highly
contagious and probably most of the world is now susceptible. . . ." He also
testified, "Suppose we have a smallpox vaccine stockpile and a manufacturing
capability. . . . Funding for adequate security must be included in this
program if the threat is to be optimally minimized. Included in these security
measures and to prevent against natural disaster, there should be two or
more geographical separate manufacturing facilities and two or more facilities
for storage of the manufactured vaccine." He further stated that few companies
wished to become involved in the production of anthrax and smallpox vaccines
due to the high expense and risks involved in research and development. Today,
the only other companies linked to smallpox vaccine production include Baxter,
Aventis (Hoechst-Rhone Poulenc subsidiary) OraVax/Acambis, and Fort Dodge
Animal Health.
2. The preceding year (September 1998), Bioport Corporation took over a failing
anthrax vaccine business from state-owned Michigan Biologic Products Institute.
Less than a month later, the company landed an exclusive $29 million contract
with the Department of Defense to "manufacture, test, bottle and store the
anthrax vaccine." Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., a former Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and close personal aid to President Clinton, with no
financial investment of his own, received 22.5% of Bioport's stock to promote,
secure, and manage military anthrax vaccine contracts. (9)
3. Bioport's principal investor was Saudi business man Fuad El-Hibri-a close
friend of the bin Laden family, and a previous merger and acquisitions manager
for the Rockefeller- linked Citigroup in New York.(9,10)
4. Bioport shares were also held by The Carlyle Management Group-America's
11th leading defense contractor largely directed by past CIA director Frank
Carlucci, James Baker III, and George H.W. Bush, according to several
investigators.(11)
5. According to the Associated Press, Past President George H.W. Bush acts
as a business agent for the Carlyle Group and wealthy Saudi families including
the bin Ladens.(12)
6. Between 1998 and 2000, Bioport successfully negotiated through a steady
storm of controversy and illegalities to secure ongoing defense contracts
for anthrax vaccine.(9,10,13)
Background on Anthrax Antiobiotic Maker-Bayer
7. July, 2000- Germany's Bayer AG negotiated an unprecedented sole endorsement
by the FDA of the antibiotic Cipro for anthrax, despite the drug's high risk,
high price, and largely untested status.(1)
8. During the 1980s, Bayer AG and Baxter Healthcare both marketed blood clotting
factor VIII. Both firms were found guilty of knowingly transmitting the AIDS
virus (HIV) to more than 7,000 American hemophiliacs. Both firms settled
out of court for what amounted to economically motivated genocide.(14)
9. World War II military background on Bayer: Company President, Hermann
Schmitz, also directed Germany's leading industrial organization-I.G. Farben.
He was found guilty at Nuremberg trials for running Nazi concentration labor
camps. He merely served four years in prison. According to CBS News war
correspondent Paul Manning, Schmitz held more shares of Rockefeller Standard
Oil Co. stock than the Rockefellers. Farben's principle partner, the
Rockefellers, profited greatly from World War II. A Federal Court judgment
cited the Standard Oil Co. as America's "Enemy National," that is, a "traitor."
Bayer was blacklisted at that time by the U.S. Federal Government.(15)
10. During the late 1940s, I.G. Farben was "decartelized" by the Allied High
Commission led by America's John J. McCloy-a Philadelphia banker and lawyer
with intimate ties to Rockefeller oil and banking interests. Farben stockholders
received equal shares of Bayer, Hoechst, and BASF stock. (5,15,16)
Related Smallpox Vaccine Makers-American Home Products/Baxter and Fort Dodge,
Hoechst/Aventis/Oravax-Acambis
11. American Home Products (AHP) was formed in 1926 but evolved largely under
the same direction as Bayer, Hoechst and BASF, that is, from I.G.
Farben/Rockefeller financial interests according to cancer investigator and
author G. Edward Griffin. (17) During WWII, Ayerst Laboratories joined AHP
and Wyeth International Limited was formed. This company went on to "perfect"
the smallpox vaccine according to company promotions.(18)
12. The Genetics Institute, an offshoot of the Rockefeller initiated and
dominated genetics industry, is a biotech research unit of AHP/Wyeth-Ayerst.
The Institute contributes to Baxter's product line of genetically engineered
products, as does AHP, including the smallpox vaccine.(5,19,20)
13. Aventis Pharma, with headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany-coincidentally
the home of I.G. Farben and the post-war CIA-was formed by Hoechst AG and
Rhone-Poulenc S.A. during their merger in 1999. American headquarters of
the company not far from Trenton, NJ in Bridgewater.(21)
14. The politically powerful Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
Association (PhRMA) is directed by Aventis's CEO Richard Markham. Mr. Markham
is also Chairman of the Task Force on Emergency Preparedness that meets regularly
with Bush administration officials. The Bayer and Merck companies are also
heavily represented in PhRMA and its bioterrorism task force.(21) (Merck
should be recalled as the primary recipient of the Nazi "flight capital"
on August 10, 1944 at the time the company's president, George W. Merck,
was America's biological weapons industry director.(22) According to Paul
Manning, who credited CIA director Allen Dulles for his intelligence and
guidance in Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile, the "flight capital scheme" assured
the rise of the Fourth Reich, alternatively called the "Neuordnung"-New Order,
for the global petrochemical- pharmaceutical and banking cartels, according
to Farben documents discussed by Manning and others.(15,23)
15. One example of the steady stream of incestuous mergers and acquisitions
within the IG Farben/Rockefeller cartel, is American Cyanamid's purchase
by AHP in 1994. American Cyanamid is infamous for producing, through Lederle
Labs, monkey cancer virus contaminated poliovaccines linked to several
contemporary human cancer epidemics.(22) AHP then sold its Cyanamid Agricultural
Products business, including carcinogenic pesticides said to reduce the spread
of the West Nile virus, to BASF Aktiengesellschaft in June 2000.(25)
Current Events Potentially Impacting the Anthrax Mailing Investigation
16. PhRMA officials have met regularly and illegally with Bush administration
officials under the auspices of "emergency preparedness" according to The
Public Citizen in November, 2001. Multi-million dollar drug and vaccine contracts
have emerged from these mostly secret meetings that violate the Federal Advisory
Committee Act-a transparency law enacted to protect consumers against closed-door
dealings between government and special interests.(26)
17. The BBC and London's leading Sunday newspaper, The Guardian, reported
Nov. 7, 2001 that the Bush administration, through the CIA, hog-tied the
FBI in their investigations linking Bush family and bin Laden family investments,
including commonly held stock in the Carlyle Management Group. This may have
profoundly suppressive implications affecting the indicated investigations
of Bioport and Battelle Labs for this and other reasons cited below.(27)
18. Based in Bridgewater, New Jersey, Aventis Pharma AG sought and received
a lucrative smallpox vaccine order from the U.S. government. Along with Bayer,
Hoechst, and Merck & Co. all four firms have major plants within 45-minutes
drive of Trenton, NJ where most of the anthrax mailings originated. Aventis's
European operations are jointly (50:50) owned by Merck & Co.(28)
19. Aventis collaborates with Oravax/Acambis to produce enough smallpox vaccine
for the federal government's large order, and fulfills Bioport's Chief Operating
Officer, Robert Myers's recommendations to the U.S. Congress that his company,
and at least one other, be able to produce critical anthrax and smallpox
vaccines. The Aventis/Acambis 20-year contract, awarded by the CDC, is worth
approximately $343 million for a 40-million dose stockpile.(8, 28, 29)
20. Acambis-evolved from OraVax-allied with Baxter Heathcare to produce smallpox
and West Nile virus vaccines. Aventis fully funds the OraVax/Acambis dengue
fever vaccine and subsidizes other joint ventures. Months before 9-11, the
CDC awarded Acambis a 20-year contract to develop a new smallpox vaccine.(30)
Apparent Origin of the Weaponized Anthrax-The Chief Suspects
21. In April, 1998, OraVax/Acambis Vice President, Dr. Thomas Monath met
with President Clinton, New York's Emergency Management Director, Jerry Hauer,
Rockefeller University president emeritus and American Type Culture Collection
(ATCC) curator, Dr. Joshua Lederberg, CIA Director John Deutsch, and government
biological weapons expert William C. Patrick, III, to discuss/negotiate the
first of several multimillion dollar anthrax, smallpox and West Nile virus
vaccine contracts. According to New York Times reporters William Broad and
Judith Miller, (31) "seven scientists endorsed the stockpile...." These included
"two men who stood to gain financially from the decision. . . ." These men
included Dr. Monath and Dr. J. Craig Venter, president of The Institute for
Genomic Research near Washington working on anthrax genetics. "The apparent
consensus on acquiring vaccines masked deep divisions among scientists and
military officials," according to reporters Broad and Miller.(5,31)
22. Around the same time, according to New York Times reporter William Broad,(2)
William C. Patrick, III, was commissioned to compile a report for an undisclosed
government contractor concerning the ramifications of mailing aerosolizable
anthrax. In an earlier report,(3) investigators Broad and Miller cited the
published paper of Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a "private expert in biological
weapons," in which she contended "that a government insider, or someone in
contact with an insider, . . ." was responsible for the mailed anthrax. "One
official close to the federal investigation called the Rosenberg theory 'the
most likely hypothesis,'" according to the New York Times article. Given
this most credible theory, obvious suspects among the government "insiders"
with economic and/or political motives to mail anthrax for military-industrial
espionage related outcomes are Bioport-sole maker of the anthrax vaccine;
allied smallpox vaccine makers OraVax/Acambis, Baxter, and Aventis, Bayer-the
anthrax antibiotic profiteer; and most importantly the principle government
and U.S. military contractor-Batelle Memorial Institute's Chemical and Biological
Information Analysis Center with bioweapons research, development, and testing
labs in West Jefferson, Ohio. (See http://www.nbcindustrygroup.com/battel.htm
for Battelle's CBW operations summary and
http://www.nrel.gov/surviving_disaster/fema2000/Cbiac/sld016.htm for pictures
of the facilities.)(32,33)
23. Most heavily implicated is Batelle and Bioport, both of which maintain
financial and administrative links to highest level U.S. National Security
officials and agencies and the DoD's Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Based
on a September 7, 2001 Associated Press report, a "new strain" of extremely
lethal anthrax had been under development before September 2001, by an unnamed
U.S. biological weapons contractor. This fit William Patrick's report in
which he "said the American program had achieved a concentration of one trillion
spores per gram." How was William Patrick privy to this classified intelligence
unless he had consulted, or worked, on the development? To date, according
to William Broad's New York Times article, (2) this concentration of the
Ames, IA strain of anthrax is unprecedented throughout the world. Even the
Soviets were unable to produce weaponized anthrax concentrated beyond 500
billion spores per gram according top Russian anthrax expert (currently employed
by the CIA) Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov (alias, "Ken Alibek"). No one else has
come close to describing such concentrated anthrax powder. Given this astonishing
difference alone, the FBI should have been able to quickly determine the
few, if not single, U.S. military bioweapons contractor(s) capable of this
unprecedented feat simply by interrogating William Patrick. This tip may
be worth $1 million according to the New York Times.(34)
24. Keenly related, First Amendment Press investigator Christopher Williams,
determined that a recent U.S. military project to develop this advanced type
of weapons-grade anthrax was reported by the Associated Press. In the article,
Russian munitions expert Alexander Gorbovsky voiced his government's concerns
regarding the increased threat posed by the obviously active U.S. biological
weapons program-a program that according to all mainstream media reports
has been dead since President Nixon's signing of the 1925 Geneva Accord in
1969. So much for accurate reporting! An anonymous source at the Pentagon
told Mr. Williams that this program was referred to as "Project Jefferson."
Further research by Williams revealed Battelle Memorial Institute's laboratories
in West Jefferson, Ohio had been contracted to complete this project.(35)
This operation was ongoing around the same time U.S. military anthrax specialist
William Patrick's report on the ramifications of mailed anthrax powder,
commissioned by an unidentified "contractor"-apparently Battelle-was being
completed.(2) In other words, that is why Patrick was privy to this intelligence.
25. According to admitted CIA consultant and author Richard Preston, William
Patrick and "Ken Alibek" were very "close friends!" (36) Moreover, both leading
anthrax experts held classified consulting contracts with the CIA. In this
article, Preston revealed that Alibek, besides using CIA provided VISA cards,
was then working at the Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI).
BMI, according to its website (http://www.battelle.org/nationsecurity/),
is a virtual one- stop-shopping-center for U.S. and foreign militaries, the
Department of Energy, the national security industries and the agencies,
organizations, and institutions evaluating every major aspect of modern methods
of population and environmental control and warfare. With nearly $1 billion
of business volume annually, Battelle's 7,500 scientists, engineers and support
specialists, have designed and developed a wide variety of innovations from
the uranium used in the top secret "Manhattan Project" of WWII to the Xerox
copying process. In addition to their voluminous research, development, and
testing activities, this private institute co-manages America's most secret
enterprises including the DoE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge Laboratory, and fully manages several
others including the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory . Their two biological
level-3 "Aerosol Engineering & Biological Sciences Facilities" in West
Jefferson, Ohio appear in photographs on a Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) promotions slide at http://www.nrel.gov/surviving
disaster/fema2000/Cbiac/sld016.htm.(37)
The BMI/Department of Energy combined web page explained (on 12/7/01 at
http://hattelle.org/doe/natsecurity.stm; get it while you can!) that Battelle's
"National Security" contract called for the administration of Brookhaven's
"chemical/biological stand-off detection technology" for which New York City
was selected for an "interagency chemical exercise." Moreover, this test
was conducted sometime prior to the new Millennium. Therefore, it would have
involved Jerry Hauer, additionally linking Battelle's chemical and biological
warfare testing program to the military industrialists that met in the Clinton
White House in 1998.(34)
Battelle's "Aerosol Engineering and Biological Defense Science" description
relays their unequaled ability to develop, test, evaluate, and modify a variety
of biological agent detection systems, as well as the agents themselves.
This is done, they say, "for the Joint Services including BL-3 [i.e., biological
safety level of containment] operations." While superficially publicizing
their unique qualifications and activities in the realm of chemical and
biological weapons "defense," detailed disclosures here are classified. Relating
to their apparent development of the highly weaponized strain of anthrax
in question, they reported their "Aerosol Science and Technology (AS&T)
group develops lab experimental and field test procedures for . . . point-source
emissions and the transport and atmospheric fate of aerosols by means of
modeling and field assessments for industrial process." Thus, the government
"contractor" for whom anthrax expert William Patrick wrote his mailed anthrax
aerosol dispersal assessment could have only been Battelle for whom "Ken
Alibek" worked; Robert Myers, Bioport's Chief Operating Officer affiliated;
and Jerry Hauer in New York's emergency management helped facilitate tests.
All of these suspects (except Alibek), played roles in the Department of
Defense's Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program that was accelerated due to the
anthrax mailings and national fright they apparently caused.
In summary, there are several serious indicators that the source of the anthrax
weapon used in the mailings was the Ames, Iowa strain of silica-impregnated
and electro-statically charged anthrax produced by the Battelle Institute
under their classified Defense Department "Project Jefferson." This hyper-
weaponized germ was likely produced with the help (or under the direction)
of Dr. Alibekov and/or Dr. Patrick. The fact that these Battelle agents and
affiliated agencies gained notoriety, if not financially, as a result of
the anthrax mailings and fright fits the parameters of organized conspiracy
to commit military-industrial espionage and serial homicide approaching economic
genocide.
Additional Suspects and/or Accessories to the Crime
26. Another vaccine producer, located in Ames, Iowa-Fort Dodge Animal Health
(FDAH)-must not be overlooked. (Again, the Ames, Iowa strain of anthrax was
determined to be the specific type of anthrax, super-weaponized at apparently
Battelle Labs, then transported to, and mailed from, New Jersey by someone
who held high level U.S. National Security clearance.) Originally called
the Ames Vaccine Company, the firm was acquired by American Home Products
(AHP) in 1945, suggesting at this time the company's evolution and/or financing,
like Bayer, Hoechst, Baxter, and Aventis, from the I.G. Farben/Rockefeller
cartel's "flight capital." Ames's FDAH developed numerous "first" animal
vaccines including Lyme, parvovirus, feline leukemia, Mycoplasma, and
suspiciously the West Nile virus vaccine falsely reported by the media to
have been solely produced by OraVax/Acambis. FDAH is the third largest animal
health products manufacturer in the U.S.(38)
27. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL), also uniquely located
in Ames, Iowa, is a USDA administered entity linked by unique location and
common interest in West Nile virus and anthrax research and developments
to the FDAH. The NVSL reported the first West Nile virus infection in a horse
in Florida. Subsequent investigations showed no infected mosquitoes or
"WNV-positive pools" by Florida investigators. (39,40) Nonetheless, the news
media "wagged the dog" for West Nile vaccine sales once again benefiting
FDAH and the Aventis and OraVax/Acambis partnerships.(39)
28. The NY Times reported on 11-9-01 that the FBI investigation of anthrax
mailings was stymied.(41) What else might be expected given the classified
nature of this work and its operatives? Most are afforded protection by the
National Security Agency and the CIA. Yet, stunningly, the FBI and CDC were
blamed for destroying critical evidence. According to the report, the Ames,
Iowa strain of anthrax, determined to be the one mailed from Trenton to Florida
and Washington's capitol, had been suspiciously selected for destruction.(41)
Iowa State officials suddenly confessed that they were ordered by CDC and
FBI officials to destroy all of the remaining Ames, Iowa anthrax strain on
or about October 8-9. The strain archive was then "destroyed on Oct. 10 and
11." That means, as national attention was first focusing on the American
Media, Inc.'s initial anthrax cases in Florida (October 7), the orders to
destroy that particular strain was given. More incriminating is the fact
that this one strain, of more than 1,000 anthrax strains available, had been
used in various labs for decades. Allegedly by mistake, these two agencies-the
FBI and CDC- simultaneously urged/approved the strain's destruction. It should
be recognized that by April, 2000, the CIA assumed all oversight at the CDC,
and other health science agencies, concerning HIV/AIDS (42) and other infectious
diseases considered national security risks, which following 9-11 clearly
included anthrax and smallpox. Again, according to FBI and military officials
interviewed by the BBC and The Guardian's Greg Palast (27), Bush administration
officials and the CIA had blocked FBI investigations involving terror group
financiers with ties to the Bush family and by extension certain vaccine
makers.
29. The NYTimes (11-09-01) also reported that FBI investigators in search
of anthrax mailing clues were refused access to certain pharmaceutical companies.
These undisclosed companies were said to require court orders for official
access to their facilities. No such court orders were subsequently reported.(41)
30. The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) supplies most of the anthrax
globally for research and biological weapons development. They supplied Saddam
Hussein with 19 shipments of anthrax in the years leading up to the Gulf
War. Their V.P., Nancy Wysocki, reported working closely with the FBI on
their investigation (41) Dr. Joshua Lederberg, previously reported to have
met with Bioport, their consultants, and Clinton administration officials
regarding anthrax and smallpox risks and vaccine policies and purchases,
was ATCC's director during the time anthrax was shipped to Iraq. He is also
the bioterrorism study group leader for the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR) and President emeritus of Rockefeller University.(5)
The CFR is a chief U.S. Government policy analysis and advisory organization
composed of 3,600 mostly wealthy industrialists led by international banking
representatives. In his Farewell Address to the Nation, on January 17, 1961,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's counsel was highly relevant to this discussion.
He warned: "In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists
and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger
our liberties or democratic processes."(5)
31. All findings have pointed to anthrax mailings being a "white collar crime"-a
military-industrial conspiracy involving chief biological weapons "preparedness"
firms and the CIA. This conclusion is evidenced by the highly weaponized
nature of the silica powdered anthrax that required a bioweapons savvy
microbiologist and expensive equipment to produce. Also, mailed anthrax letters
originated from Trenton, New Jersey, St. Petersburg, Florida and Malaysia-also
reflecting international financial motive(s). Additional support for this
hypothesis comes from an Atlanta package shipped to Kenya on Oct. 9.(43)
The sender was not implicated. Apparently, an agent with access to this private
mail, and Battelle's classified military grade anthrax preparation, somehow
inoculated the parcel. Again, Atlanta is home to the CIA-officiated CDC.
32. Bayer AG posted $165 million in losses during the third quarter of 2001,
according to the Associated Press.(44) Was this sufficient motive for the
"wag the dog Cipro sales scam" reported by this author and published by the
Washington Times?(1) Probably not, because there was far more money and political
concessions to be made from the anthrax fright than this.(26)
33. On November 9, 2001, The Guardian reported that U.S. health secretary
Tommy Thompson asked Congress for $500 million for enough smallpox vaccine
"so every American will be assured there is a dose with his or her name on
it if it is needed." Only weeks earlier the HHS secretary said he had worked
a "special" deal with Bayer to purchase 100 million tablets of Cipro for
95 cents each.(45) This, despite equally effective and better tested
alternatives, such as doxycyclines, were more readily available for less
than five cents each.(46)
A week later the New York Times announced that between $1.5-3.2 billion was
to be spent "largely on drugs and vaccines" to fight bioterrorism in the
United States.(47)
Finally, on November 23, 2001, the New York Times reported that Aventis Pharma
of Frankfurt, Germany had developed a promising pharmaceutical formula for
smallpox-"cidofovir and a chemical known as S2242." Dr. Anthony S. Fauci,
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),
"told a Senate committee last month that 'the animal model data are very
impressive. . ." (48) Dr. Fauci is America's AIDS czar, under direct oversight
by the CIA. He was heavily implicated by this author in Emerging Viruses:
AIDS & Ebola-Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Tetrahedron Press, 1998)
for having helped suppress awareness that the NIAID helped Germany's Merck
pharmaceutical company develop the 1974 hepatitis B vaccine given to gay
men in NYC and Blacks in Central Africa that according to much scientific
evidence was the specific vaccine that triggered the international AIDS pandemic.
Summary and Closing Questions
"One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities
required to explain anything," urged William of Occam in providing his "Razor"
analysis. This report seeks to do the same by simplifying the correlates
and antecedents to serial homicide in the anthrax mailing mystery. This analysis
is based on the FBI's official model of analyzing suspects' developmental
histories and potential motives in such cases. (49)
The foregoing analysis recognizes the highly unsavory developmental histories
of central suspects in this case-those who stood to gain most by the extensive
news coverage of the anthrax crimes-investors in pharmaceutical and vaccine
firms.
In conclusion, this report characterizes the unique U.S. military weapons
grade of anthrax developed from the Ames, Iowa strain that was used in the
mailings and the organization most capable of making it. Given several
incriminating associations and documented testimonies published in reputable
periodicals, the logical origin of this extraordinarily deadly form of
aerosolizable anthrax is the Battelle Memorial Institute-a major global "defense"
contractor employing affiliated anthrax experts additionally linked to the
implicated drug and vaccine companies.
Although several contractors are implicated in what might best be called
"military-industrial espionage," the accompanying flow chart depicts the
primary suspects are linked to the highest levels of government and to the
Central Intelligence Agency both of which operate with little to no effective
oversight or judicial regulation. This, then, is the likeliest explanation
as to why the FBI has been unable to determine what seems obvious to many
and heavily supported-a conspiracy to commit military-industrial espionage.
Perhaps economic incentives were not the only motive for the targeted anthrax
mailings. On October 31, 2001, The Boston Globe heralded an unprecedented
CDC initiative that might dramatically suspend civil rights in the event
of a declared biological emergency. The "Model State Emergency Health Powers
Act," it was reported, would give public health officials and states governors
the power to arrest, transport, quarantine, drug, and vaccinate anyone suspected
of carrying a potentially infectious disease. The plan (available for downloading
from www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA.pdf.) is precisely the type of
document that Battelle Memorial Institute's social service providers and
leading academic consultants periodically compose. The fact that their website
promotes the institute's pioneering role in marshalling America's upcoming
public health response to future outbreaks is chillingly Machiavellian. (See:
http://www.battelle.org/hhs/default.stm.)
Based on the above information, basic questions for serious investigators
might include:
1) Who in the Battelle Institute's Jefferson labs had access to the optimally
concentrated aerosolized, silica-based, Ames strain of anthrax, and who
transported it to Trenton, New Jersey and elsewhere to be mailed?
2) Who in the CIA was assigned to oversee this classified biological weapons,
or bioterrorism, "defense" operation, and who, if anyone in the agency (as
with Battelle personnel), had the wherewithal and matching itinerary to effect
the anthrax mailings in Trenton, St. Petersburg, Atlanta, and Malaysia.
3) Who in the Bush administration ordered, according to the BBC and The Guardian,
the CIA to clamp down on FBI investigations linking bin Laden family assets
to Bush family investments, and finally,
4) Is America at risk and under attack from within our own secretive national
security system, possibly more than it is from foreign entities and terrorist
groups?
If we were able to accurately answer these questions, the revelations-no
less extraordinary than the data and conclusions