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From: well!mandel@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Tom Mandel)
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Subject: Re: AIDS as genocide
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Date: 3 Jun 89 15:47:07 GMT
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In article <24473@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> stjhmc!f3.n135.z1.fidonet.org!Laurie.Forti@asuvax.asu.edu (Laurie Forti) writes:
>
>      I wonder how many folks here have watched the Tony Brown's
>Journal series on AIDS on the public educational channels.
>      The basic thesis presented is a real shocker and, in summary, is
>that the US Congress asked for the development of a virus or
>biological weapon that the human immunological system could not defend
>itself against (Congressional Record, 7/1/69), that the US War College
>started developing ethnic weapons (Congressional Record, 11/7/70), and
>...

This story has been around since the mid-1980s and first appeared in
several European newspapers.  My recollection is that it was eventually
discounted as a Soviet KGB disinformation story, and a very nasty bit
of disinformation at that.

It is a very implausible tale, since it implies that the state-of-the-art
in genetic manipulation is orders of magnitude more advanced in secret
government laboratories than it seems to be in the rest of the biological
science community.

--Tom Mandel	mandel@well.uucp