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Subj: SEGAL STATEMENT ON HIV ORIGINS

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                   Public Statement by Prof. Jakob Segal*

   On January 28, 1991, the German television program "Panorama"
claimed the theory that the AIDS virus HIV-1 was developed for
military purposes by the Pentagon was an invention of the (former)
East German intelligence service (Stasi). The writers Stefan Heym
(East) and Mario Simmel (West) were said to have fallen for this lie
and helped to spread it further.
   This claim is completely false. The suspicion that HIV-1 originated
in the laboratory was discussed as early as 1984 at the annual meeting
of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Then the
American researchers Robert Gallo and Max Essex launched a counter-
theory suggesting an African origin, which was publicly described by
the World Health Organization as scientifically untenable. This theory
contained such obvious errors that I became curious and joined the
discussion in 1985. By careful analysis of molecular genetic and
immunological data I was able to prove that the AIDS virus in fact
resulted from splicing part of the human-cancer-causing virus HTLV-1
into the virus that causes the fatal sheep disease known as Visna.
   In the meantime an official documentation has been discovered which
proves that the Pentagon requested 10 million dollars as early as 1969
for the purpose of developing a virus that would destroy the human
immune system, i.e. a synthetic AIDS-like virus. My theory is thus
supported by the documentary record, and no convincing scientific
arguments have appeared to refute it. Nevertheless, for reasons that
are all too clear, no reputable scientific journal will publish my
work.
   The first non-scientific journal to publish my theory, along with
the similar ones of John Seale of Great Britain and the American
Robert Strecker, was the London "Sunday Times" in the fall of 1986. On
the basis of comprehensive materials I distributed, some African
scientists then put together a brochure which was distributed at the
Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Harare. After that my theory
began to arouse some interest in official circles. Representatives
from the US embassy, the East German Ministry of Health and the Stasi
talked with me. I was invited to give a series of lectures in West
Germany with well-qualified discussion partners, but I had much worse
luck in my own country of East Germany. There I was not allowed to
present my views in any journals, and the only lecture I gave to a
sizeable aduience was organized by a dissident church group.
   In view of this history, it is ridiculous to claim that the Stasi
thought up this theory and ordered me to propagate it. Nobody in the
Stasi had the technical expertise to have produced such a theory. It
was my work and mine alone, and I refuse to allow a few sensation-
hungry journalists to deprive me of the credit for it.
   Prof. Dr. sc. Jakob Segal, January 30, 1992   Leipziger Str. 43
O-1080 Berlin, Germany   *Translated from German by Michael Morrissey
   Translator's note: The correctness of Segal's theory can and should
be decided on the basis of science, not propaganda, but I have seen no
attempts to do this. His book is available so far only in German
("AIDS: Die Spur fuehrt ins Pentagon," Neuer Weg Verlag,
Kaninenberghoehe 2, W-4300 Essen 1, Germany). The existence of the
following document proves that the DOD wanted and believed it
feasible--in 1969--to produce an AIDS-like virus, a fact which alone
demands an explanation. The text is printed in the Congressional
Record, Hearings before the House Subcommittee on DOD Appropriations,
June 9, 1969:
   "Molecular biology is a field that is advancing very rapidly, and
eminent biologists believe that within a period of 5 to 10 years it
would be possible to produce a synthetic biological agent, an agent
that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could
have been acquired...a new infective microorganism which could differ
in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms.
Most important of these is that it might be refractory [resistant] to
the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to
maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease....A research
program to explore the feasibility of this could be completed in
approximately 5 years at a total cost of $10 million."
   This was part of the testimony of Dr. D. M. MacArthur, then Deputy
Director of Research and Technology for the Dept. of Defense.

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