Insider information about "HIV" and "AIDS"

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      "This article was written by investigative journalist Jon Rappoport. He has had a credible insider source whose area of expertise is propaganda. He goes by the fake name of 'Ellis Medavoy'.\n\nThis article was released in February 2003."
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  "content": "\u003e \"We had to discredit Peter Duesberg\"\n\u003e In 1987, I became re-acquainted with a man who calls himself Ellis Medavoy.\n\u003e He has since retired from his contract work as a propaganda consultant.\n\u003e Medavoy supplied me with several contact numbers and a small pile of\n\u003e documents. Using these, I convinced myself that he was entirely legitimate.\n\u003e That he in fact was working on AIDS, and in a very curious way.\n\u003e His job was to influence the press in the direction of completely accepting\n\u003e mainstream research on the subject of HIV. By 1987, this was not what you\n\u003e would call hard work. But he had been at it since 1982---when all sorts of\n\u003e theories about AIDS abounded in the press and in the specialized medical\n\u003e literature.\n\u003e Medavoy had been retained by \"individuals who were part of the Council on\n\u003e Foreign Relations and the British Roundtable but were not acting as official\n\u003e representatives of those groups.\"\n\u003e In 1983, a year before HIV (aka HTLV-III) was announced to the world as the\n\u003e official cause of AIDS, Medavoy knew that Robert Gallo would be the messenger\n\u003e for \"some kind of retrovirus that would be said to be the driving force\n\u003e behind a global plague.\"\n\u003e Medavoy had several tasks before him. The first one was to soften up\n\u003e reporters so they would be receptive to the idea that a virus was the cause\n\u003e of AIDS. Essentially, Medavoy had access to certain key sources that these\n\u003e reporters often used for medical stories.\n\u003e His job was to convince these sources that \"the inside word was\" a\n\u003e retrovirus. A retrovirus was causing AIDS. Then these sources would pass that\n\u003e word along to reporters.\n\u003e Medavoy, of course, already knew these reporters' \"reliable sources.\" He had\n\u003e been cultivating them for years, in a variety of contexts. They trusted him.\n\u003e And why not? He seemed to be right on the money time and time again. What he\n\u003e told these sources would happen did happen. And when the sources passed down\n\u003e Medavoy's advance wisdom to their reporter friends, the reporters were all\n\u003e too happy to get this prized info.\n\u003e That was how Medavoy worked. He was not alone, of course. There were others\n\u003e like him, and others working on the AIDS issue. Medavoy's bosses considered\n\u003e AIDS a very big deal. It had to be positioned correctly. It had to be thought\n\u003e of in a certain way, so that it could be used as a smokescreen, a lie, to\n\u003e conceal the depopulation agenda that had been underway for a long time in\n\u003e Africa, Latin America, and Asia.\n\u003e \"When I got this assignment,\" Medavoy told me, \"I knew I was in some very\n\u003e important territory. The world was going to be told a lie, and they were\n\u003e supposed to believe that lie. Civilians, doctors, researchers,\n\u003e politicians---they all had to swallow the propaganda.\"\n\u003e And what was the central piece of propaganda?\n\u003e That HIV was the cause of AIDS.\n\u003e Medavoy continued, \"There were things that the public had to be shielded\n\u003e from, too. Under no circumstances could they get the notion that AIDS was\n\u003e really many different conditions. That was a supreme no-no. The medical\n\u003e journals, as well, had to refrain from picking up that tune. AIDS had to be\n\u003e thought of as ONE disease condition---the destruction of the immune\n\u003e system---which was happening solely because a germ, HIV, was attacking cells\n\u003e of the immune system.\"\n\u003e Medavoy understood all of this at least a year before Robert Gallo would tell\n\u003e the world on television that HIV (HTLV-III) was the cause of AIDS.\n\u003e So Medavoy began to plant the seed.\n\u003e He began to meet with people (some of them doctors and researchers), and he\n\u003e told them that they could count on the fact that a virus would be found, a\n\u003e virus which was causing AIDS. He told them he had the word from deep inside\n\u003e the major research institutes around the world that were working on the\n\u003e problem. He told them they would be \"in no trouble\" if they started telling\n\u003e reporters who relied on them that it would be a virus---and a particular kind\n\u003e of virus, a retrovirus.\n\u003e Medavoy told these people---who were in turn reliable sources for\n\u003e reporters---that Robert Gallo was surely the man who would win the race to\n\u003e find the cause of AIDS. Gallo was the one to keep their eyes on.\n\u003e Medavoy told me, \"Gallo himself was not in on this gigantic hoax. He would\n\u003e steal the germ from Montagnier and call it his own, but that was just theft.\n\u003e Gallo was just a pawn. He was a man who wanted desperately to find a\n\u003e retrovirus as the cause of AIDS, just as he had been a man who desperately\n\u003e wanted to find a retrovirus as the cause of cancer. He had learned this new\n\u003e field of exploration---retroviruses---and it was his only real ticket to\n\u003e fame. He was riding that pony for all it was worth, and the federal money,\n\u003e such as it was in those days, was mainly coming to him and his colleagues at\n\u003e the National Cancer Institute.\"\n\u003e Gallo had been selected to be the \"HIV messenger\" because it was clear he\n\u003e would do whatever it took to finally say, \"I found it!\" Even if he had not\n\u003e found it. Even if the evidence was missing. (As I've written before---and you\n\u003e should keyword-search my archive for many past articles on AIDS and HIV---at\n\u003e the time, in the spring of 1984, when Gallo told the world he had found the\n\u003e cause of AIDS, he had not published a single paper that even purported to\n\u003e seriously prove that HIV was the cause of AIDS.)\n\u003e Gallo wouldn't disappoint the planners of this scam. He would deliver the\n\u003e goods. And he did.\n\u003e And then Medavoy was riding high. All his predictions had come true. What he\n\u003e told these \"reliable sources,\" who in turn passed that information along to\n\u003e reporters, had been exact. AIDS was announced to be a condition caused by a\n\u003e single retrovirus.\n\u003e Job of lying well done.\n\u003e Lie accepted.\n\u003e Universally.\n\u003e Well, almost.\n\u003e There were a few disgruntled scientists who fully realized that Gallo had\n\u003e never offered proof that HIV caused AIDS, but they were keeping their mouths\n\u003e shut. They could see the weather shift overnight in the spring of 1984. There\n\u003e was no more federal money for looking into the cause of AIDS, or for\n\u003e confirming or disproving Gallo. It had evaporated in hours. Suddenly, all\n\u003e federal funds were earmarked for discovering HOW HIV caused AIDS, what it\n\u003e actually did inside the body.\n\u003e I once asked Medavoy, \"Did you yourself know what AIDS really was?\"\n\u003e He laughed. \"Of course I did. I had to know. I needed that information so I\n\u003e could develop the necessary propaganda to counter it.\"\n\u003e \"And what was your understanding of what AIDS is?\"\n\u003e \"You should know,\" he said. \"You've been writing about it.\"\n\u003e Here is what he meant, and what I confirmed with him point by point: AIDS is\n\u003e a label given to a whole variety of disease conditions THAT ARE CAUSED BY\n\u003e DIFFERENT THINGS. Not HIV. Not HIV in any way, direct or indirect. What is\n\u003e called AIDS is immune suppression. This immune suppression can result from\n\u003e different causes in different groups and, ultimately, in different\n\u003e individuals. Some of the many causes? Contaminated heroin, medical drugs\n\u003e (such as corticosteroids), starvation, contaminated water supplies, toxic\n\u003e pesticides, intestinal parasites grossly overtreated with massive doses of\n\u003e antibiotics, syphilis, massive drug taking, say, in the form of\n\u003e MDA -- combined with months of bathhouse sex with many partners, vaccines\n\u003e given to people whose immune systems are already dangerously compromised.\n\u003e There are other causes.\n\u003e Medavoy's propaganda work was aimed, in particular, at masking the continuing\n\u003e causes of death on the African continent---starvation, contaminated water\n\u003e supplies, theft of agricultural lands, and so on. Gradually, these obvious\n\u003e factors would be replaced in the public consciousness with a new buzz-term,\n\u003e HIV. As the real causes of death were allowed to flourish, depopulation would\n\u003e begin to overtake the population growth.\n\u003e Medavoy worked on the entirely bogus green-monkey theory of AIDS.\n\u003e \"The green monkey,\" Medavoy told me, \"was a myth invented to attribute the\n\u003e origin of HIV to Africa. It was understood that if HIV could be said to have\n\u003e come from Africa, then people would believe the outrageous estimates and\n\u003e projections for future AIDS deaths IN Africa. You know, darkest Africa, where\n\u003e strange and bad things lurk. We played that nonsense like a harp. The green\n\u003e monkey never even carried HIV---of course who cares because HIV causes\n\u003e nothing anyway. But the whole deal about those monkeys was really about lab\n\u003e monkeys in Boston who were found to have a virus 'similar' to HIV---and lab\n\u003e contamination was where that 'similar' virus actually came from. We knew way\n\u003e ahead of time---as we propounded the early green-monkey story---that it was\n\u003e monkeys in labs we were really talking about. We were talking about stupid\n\u003e and careless research in labs, and we were transferring that whole business\n\u003e into a ridiculous myth about Africa. The story was about as real as the moon\n\u003e being made of cheese.\"\n\u003e In the spring of 1987, propaganda consultant Ellis Medavoy became aware that\n\u003e his objectives were being threatened by a University of Berkeley virologist\n\u003e named Peter Duesberg.\n\u003e Duesberg had just published a long paper in the journal Cancer Research. That\n\u003e paper made a case against HIV as the cause of AIDS.\n\u003e Duesberg was far from being a nobody. He was a star in his field. He had\n\u003e grant monies to do research. He had a lab at Berkeley and graduate students\n\u003e lining up to be part of his team. Duesberg was, in addition, a recognized\n\u003e expert in the emerging field of retrovriruses.\n\u003e He was, in his own way, the equal, in terms of prestige, of Robert Gallo. In\n\u003e fact, Duesberg had worked with Gallo and Montagnier and others in the doomed\n\u003e Viral Cancer Project, an effort to show that cancers were caused by\n\u003e retroviruses.\n\u003e Duesberg had bailed out of that project. \"I could see that we weren't getting\n\u003e anywhere,\" he told me. \"These viruses were interesting, but I discovered that\n\u003e they weren't very important as far as cancer research was concerned. But\n\u003e Gallo and others stayed on. They had their reasons. I was glad to leave.\n\u003e Disappointed, to a degree, but satisfied. I had seen what there was to see.\"\n\u003e Medavoy told me, \"Duesberg was a wild card. We knew we could come across one,\n\u003e and he was it. He saw through the propaganda we were spreading in the guise\n\u003e of science. He attacked HIV from a researcher's point of view and he said all\n\u003e the right things. That is, he didn't know there was an intense propaganda\n\u003e campaign coordinated at high levels to 'protect' HIV as the cause of AIDS.\n\u003e But he knew the science. He knew the difference between real research and\n\u003e badly done or fake research. And HIV was, make no mistake about it, a fake\n\u003e from day one.\"\n\u003e In his Cancer Research paper, Duesberg had said several things. Among the\n\u003e most important was, HIV was, at best, infecting only a tiny percentage of\n\u003e (immune-system) T-cells. This made no sense. If HIV was killing immune\n\u003e systems, it had to be doing much more than that.\n\u003e Duesberg also began to comment on the wild contradiction implicit in HIV\n\u003e testing. He noticed that the blood test was looking for antibodies which had\n\u003e formed as part of the body's defense against HIV. The presence of such\n\u003e antibodies was taken as a sign that a person was going to develop full-blown\n\u003e AIDS and die. But, on the other hand, a vaccine against AIDS would produce\n\u003e the exact same antibodies, in which case people would be said to be immune\n\u003e from AIDS.\n\u003e Medavoy told me, \"Duesberg got that one right too. He saw that the HIV test\n\u003e was completely insane. He was telling the research community they had been\n\u003e roped in by a bunch of fakers---and so we had to do some heavy damage\n\u003e control.\"\n\u003e Duesberg was not the only problem. At Berkeley, a few other people were\n\u003e waking up. Harry Rubin, one of the grand old men of virology, was willing to\n\u003e go public and say he thought HIV research needed a \"second opinion.\" Richard\n\u003e Strohman, a cell biologist at the school, was also dissatisfied with the glib\n\u003e crowning of Gallo as the discoverer of the cause of AIDS. And then, there was\n\u003e a maverick professor of law at Berkeley, Phillip Johnson, who was more than\n\u003e willing to join in the fray. He not only agreed with Duesberg, he was able to\n\u003e organize the arguments against HIV in a more structured way than Duesberg, in\n\u003e speaking forums, usually bothered to. (Eventually, this burgeoning little\n\u003e group would expand to include more than 300 scientists and journalists who\n\u003e signed on to a short letter asserting that HIV science was deficient and\n\u003e needed a complete review by impartial people. One signer was Kary Mullis, a\n\u003e Nobel laureate who had discovered the PCR test for DNA. Mullis was like the\n\u003e grim reaper when it came to HIV. He was willing to take on anyone anywhere.)\n\u003e But in 1987, it was mainly Duesberg who was carrying the banner against false\n\u003e science. Duesberg's principal ally at the time was Harvey Bialy, the research\n\u003e editor of Bio/Technology, a sister publication of Nature, the revered medical\n\u003e journal. Bialy was completely disgusted with the rush to judgement that had\n\u003e accompanied Gallo's unsubstantiated claims for HIV as the cause of AIDS.\n\u003e Bialy was definitely not a man to tangle with in print. He was quite willing\n\u003e to do the one thing most career-minded researchers were loathe to engage in.\n\u003e Bialy would read a key paper on the subject of HIV all the way through and in\n\u003e detail, and then blast the arguments to smithereens. Point by point. Like\n\u003e Duesberg, he read the fine print and the methods sections, and he was brutal\n\u003e in his criticism. Bialy saw that, in a field (virology) that once rippled\n\u003e with extensive debate, AIDS was taking over as mush-science. Press-conference\n\u003e science. Bubble-head science. Science on behalf of gaining money grants to\n\u003e spout the favored line.\n\u003e In 1987, Ellis Medavoy, whose job it was to protect HIV against all\n\u003e detractors, told me he was getting fed up with his own profession. He wanted\n\u003e out. He was ready to end his long career as one of the bad guys---mostly\n\u003e because he saw where things were headed---into a vast depopulation effort\n\u003e that would take decades and decades. This was a bit more than he had\n\u003e bargained for. Medavoy was somewhat unstable, you could say. Depending on\n\u003e what day you talked with him, he could be ready to throw in the towel---or he\n\u003e might display a completely arrogant attitude toward the rest of the human\n\u003e race. At any rate, before he did actually drop out and quit, he began to tell\n\u003e me about what he was doing---and in some cases, how he was doing it.\n\u003e Ellis Medavoy and his colleagues had, besides Peter Duesberg, another problem\n\u003e on their hands. Through the efforts of certain \"subversive reporters\"---and\n\u003e guess who was in that crowd?---connections were being forged with the\n\u003e alternative health community. Some of these activists had never been much for\n\u003e blaming human disease on germs, and the revelations about fake HIV science\n\u003e were quite exciting to them. Furthermore, there were people who had been\n\u003e diagnosed as HIV positive or \"full-blown AIDS\" who were surviving quite well\n\u003e because they were taking care of their health. They were rejecting the whole\n\u003e HIV premise and they were exercising and changing their diets and not taking\n\u003e any more drugs and taking nutrients and so on. And staying away from AZT.\n\u003e These people were living testimonials to a sensational kind of healing---and\n\u003e if THAT got out far and wide, the whole sordid game could be blown off its\n\u003e hinges.\n\u003e Medavoy said, \"A lot of what we did at this point was stop things from\n\u003e getting into print. That's often more important than planting lies. As far as\n\u003e Duesberg was concerned, I can tell you there were many newspapers and\n\u003e magazines who were ready to give his views some space. You know, maverick\n\u003e scientist rejects HIV as cause of AIDS. So we began a coordinated effort to\n\u003e keep that from happening. We let the scientists at NIH [National Institutes\n\u003e of Health], who had the most to lose if Duesberg could establish a credible\n\u003e beachhead, handle the PR on rejecting Duesberg's science. They engaged in\n\u003e some character assassination as well, which was fine. We, on the other side,\n\u003e got 'reliable sources' to go to those newspapers and magazines and tell them\n\u003e that to print anything good about Duesberg was DANGEROUS and IRRESPONSIBLE.\n\u003e That was our tack. We had our people say that thousands of people could die\n\u003e if they stopped believing that HIV was the cause of AIDS. Promiscuous sex\n\u003e would become more rampant than ever, people would get infected, get sick, and\n\u003e spread the virus even further. We hammered on all this, and we cowed most of\n\u003e those media outlets. It worked, for the most part.\n\u003e \"As far as the very embarrassing and growing list of AIDS survivors was\n\u003e concerned---the people who had rejected the idea of HIV and were rebuilding\n\u003e their health successfully without medical drugs---we tried to keep track of\n\u003e pending stories on these people, and we went to those media outlets and told\n\u003e them these people were 'vegetarian kooks' and 'anecdotal examples who had not\n\u003e been studied by real scientists' and 'publicity seekers' and so on. We said\n\u003e some of them had never really been HIV positive to begin with. It was like\n\u003e shooting pigeons. We did pretty well. Some stories did appear on these\n\u003e survivors, but the general tone was, 'so and so is a strange curiosity and\n\u003e scientists are studying why he has managed to live for so long without\n\u003e getting sick, and this may hold promise for future research.' You know, all\n\u003e that crap.\"\n\u003e Here is another choice quote from Medavoy on the AIDS scam. He told me this\n\u003e in 1996:\n\u003e \"Some other operatives I was aware of played a role in getting mainstream\n\u003e researchers to lobby for, and win, a new standard for HIV illness, based\n\u003e purely on numbers of T-cells. [Note: this 'innovation' came later, long after\n\u003e 1987.] Tests would determine if a person was 'getting sick,' or if he was\n\u003e 'getting better' after taking his AZT---all measured by how many T-cells\n\u003e [part of the immune system defense] showed up on the tests. These operatives\n\u003e knew, and had been briefed on this, that T-cells could actually vary all over\n\u003e the place, up and down, depending on factors like the time of day a person\n\u003e was given the test. It was another area of shoddy science, and they took\n\u003e advantage of it. I'll give you an example. You've got some guy who has been\n\u003e told he's HIV positive, and so, even though he's not sick at all, he gets\n\u003e tested every few months for numbers of T-cells. Sooner or later, those\n\u003e numbers will go down on a test. If the doctor isn't really attentive, he'll\n\u003e tell the patient he is now officially diagnosed with full-blown AIDS, because\n\u003e those numbers are too low. If the patient hasn't been taking AZT yet, he will\n\u003e go for it now.\"\n\u003e By the mid-1990s, Peter Duesberg no longer got grant money from the\n\u003e government. His major lab at Berkeley was gone. Graduate students were told\n\u003e they'd be risking their futures if they associated their names with him.\n\u003e Years before, Robert Gallo had told me, \"The thing about Peter is, he's\n\u003e different. He's very bright, and he goes his own way. Sometimes that way\n\u003e turns out to be unusual, strange. He can be difficult on purpose, you know.\n\u003e As if he's trying to adopt a position that challenges everybody else. He's a\n\u003e different kind of man.\"\n\u003e Ironic, coming from the tyrannical and arbitrary Gallo, the man who had laid\n\u003e claim to the virus that doesn't cause anything.",
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