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From: well!mandel@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Tom Mandel)
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Subject: Re: AIDS origins
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>So let us here the debunk arguments [referring to the periodic
>rumor that U.S. biological warfare created the AIDS virus].

The state of the art was incapable of such an invention in the
mid-1960s.  In fact, it is questionable today if such an organism
could be engineered.

--Tom Mandel
  mandel@well.sf.ca.us