Recorded August 15, 2004
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Tak­ing a break from cov­er­age of the events in and around 9/11, this broad­cast brings up to date two paths of inquiry cov­ered in past programs—the sub­ject of AIDS as a pos­si­ble bio­log­i­cal war­fare weapon and the Port Chicago explo­sion of 1944. (For more about AIDS as a bio­log­i­cal war­fare weapon, see—among other pro­grams—RFA#16—avail­able from Spitfire—as well as FTR#’s 4, 11, 19, 24, 25, 35, 56, 73, 76, 102, 132, 140, 148, 156, 212, 220, 225, 229, 269, 282, 316, 324. For more about the Port Chicago Explo­sion, see—among other programs—Miscellaneous Archive Show M23—available from Spitfire—as well as FTR#’s 129, 163, 444.) The research pre­sented here rein­forces the work­ing hypothe­ses about AIDS and Port Chicago—that both were man-made events and not the acci­dents as which they are usu­ally portrayed.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Proof that peo­ple of North­ern Euro­pean extrac­tion (“Aryans”) con­tain a gene that pro­vides immu­nity to infec­tion by the AIDS virus; proof that no other races con­tain this gene; dis­cus­sion of the impli­ca­tions of this find­ing; pro­jec­tions by Ger­man power bro­kers work­ing in con­junc­tion with the Under­ground Reich that Africa would be an area of major inter­est to Ger­mans and other North­ern Euro­peans as a poten­tial tar­get for col­o­niza­tion; sci­en­tific evi­dence of a “radi­a­tion plume” in Suisun Bay that may have derived from Port Chicago; dis­cus­sion of the pos­si­ble util­ity for ter­ror­ists of the Mark II device appar­ently used at Chicago.

1. Begin­ning dis­cus­sion of the gene pro­vid­ing peo­ple of North­ern Euro­pean extrac­tion with immu­nity from the AIDS virus, the pro­gram high­lights the CCR5 (Delta 32) gene’s role in pro­vid­ing some peo­ple with immu­nity from bubonic plague. (Bubonic plague infects hosts in a man­ner not alto­gether dis­sim­i­lar with the man­ner in which the AIDS virus infects and destroys its vic­tims.) “ . . . In Sep­tem­ber 1665, George Vic­cars, a tai­lor in the small, central-England vil­lage of Eyam, received a par­cel of cloth rid­den with plague-infected fleas from Lon­don. Four days later, Vic­cars died. By the end of the month, five more vil­lagers had suc­cumbed to the plague. The pan­icked town turned to their rec­tor, William Mom­pes­son, who per­suaded them to quar­an­tine the entire vil­lage to pre­vent the bac­terium from spread­ing through­out the region. It seemed like sui­cide. A year later, the first out­siders ven­tured into Eyam, expect­ing a ghost town. Yet, mirac­u­lously, half the town had sur­vived. How did so many vil­lagers live through the most dev­as­tat­ing dis­ease known to man?”
(“Secrets of the Dead—Case File: Mys­tery of the Black Death; Back­ground”; Secrets of the Dead; p. 1.)

2. “Local Eyam lore tells befud­dling sto­ries of plague sur­vivors who had close con­tact with the bac­terium but never caught the dis­ease. Eliz­a­beth Han­cock buried six chil­dren and her hus­band in a week, but never became ill. The vil­lage gravedig­ger han­dled hun­dreds of plague-ravaged corpses, but sur­vived as well. Could these peo­ple have some­how been immune to the Black Death?” (Idem.)

3. “Dr. Stephen O’Brien of the National Insti­tutes of Health in Wash­ing­ton D.C. sug­gests they were. His work with HIV and the mutated form of the gene CCR, called ‘delta 32,’ led him to Eyam. In 1996, research showed that delta32 pre­vents HIV from enter­ing human cells and infect­ing the body. O’Brien thought this prin­ci­ple could be applied to the plague bac­te­ria, which affects the body in a sim­i­lar man­ner. To deter­mine whether the Eyam plague sur­vivors may have car­ried delta 32, O’Brien tested the DNA of their modern-day descen­dents. What he found out was star­tling . . .” (Idem.)

4. “For a disease-causing microor­gan­ism to infect the human body there must be a gate­way or por­tal through which it enters into human cells. The plague bac­terium works this way, hijack­ing the white blood cells sent to elim­i­nate it. Trav­el­ing inside the white blood cells to the lymph nodes, the bac­te­ria break out and attack the focal point of the human immune sys­tem. Dr. Stephen O’Brien felt that the mutated CCR5 gene, delta 32, may have pre­vented the plague from being able to enter its host’s white blood cells.”
(“Secrets of the Dead—Case File: Mys­tery of the Black Death; Clues and Evi­dence”; Secrets of the Dead; p. 1.)

5. “Eyam pro­vided O’Brien an ideal oppor­tu­nity to test this the­ory. Specif­i­cally, Eyam was an iso­lated pop­u­la­tion known to have sur­vived a plague epi­demic. Every­one in the town would have been exposed to the bac­terium, so it’s likely that any life-saving genetic trait would have been exposed to the bac­terium, so it’s likely that any life-saving genetic trait would have been pos­sessed by each of these sur­vivors. ‘Like a Xerox machine,’ says O’Brien, ‘their gene fre­quen­cies have been repli­cated for sev­eral gen­er­a­tions with­out a lot of infu­sion from out­side,’ thus pro­vid­ing a viable pool of survivor-descendants who would have inher­ited such a trait. . . .” (Idem.)

6. “ . . . DNA sam­ples could only be col­lected from direct descen­dents of the plague sur­vivors. DNA is the prin­ci­ple com­po­nent of chro­mo­somes, which carry the genes that trans­mit hered­i­tary char­ac­ter­is­tics. We inherit our DNA from our par­ents, thus Eyam res­i­dent Joan Plant, for instance, may have inher­ited the delta 32 muta­tion from one of her ancient rel­a­tives. Plant can trace her mother’s lin­eage back ten gen­er­a­tions to the Black­well sib­lings, Fran­cis and Mar­garet, who both lived through the plague to the turn of the cen­tury. The next step was to har­vest a DNA sam­ple from Joan and the other descen­dants. DNA is found in the nuclei of cells. The amount is con­stant in all typ­i­cal cells, regard­less of the size or func­tion of that cell. One of the eas­i­est meth­ods of obtain­ing a DNA tis­sue sam­ple is to take a cheek or buc­cal swab.” (Idem.)

7. Note that no other eth­nic groups or races have the delta 32 gene that pre­vents infec­tion by HIV. “After three weeks of test­ing at Uni­ver­sity Col­lege in Lon­don, delta 32 had been found in 14% of the sam­ples. This is a genet­i­cally sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­age, yet what, really, did it mean? Could the vil­lagers have inher­ited delta 32 from else­where, res­i­dents who had moved to the com­mu­nity in the 350 years since the plague? Was this really a higher per­cent­age than any­where else? To find out, O’Brien assem­bled an inter­na­tional team of sci­en­tists to test for the pres­ence of delta 32 around the world. ‘Native Africans did not have delta 32 at all,’ O’Brien says, ‘and when we looked at East Asians and Indi­ans, they were also flat zero.’ In fact the lev­els of delta 32 found in Eyam were only matched in regions of Europe that had been affected by the plague and in Amer­ica, which was, for the most part, set­tled by Euro­pean plague sur­vivors and their descen­dants.” (Idem.)

8. “Mean­while, recent work with another dis­ease strik­ingly sim­i­lar to the plague, AIDS, sug­gests O’Brien was on the right track. HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, tricks the immune sys­tem in a sim­i­lar man­ner as the plague bac­terium, tar­get­ing and tak­ing over white blood cells. Virol­o­gist Dr. Bill Pax­ton at the Aaron Dia­mond AIDS Research Cen­ter in New York City noticed, ‘the cen­ter had no study of peo­ple who were exposed to HIV but who had remained neg­a­tive.’ He began test­ing the blood of high-risk, HIV-negative indi­vid­u­als like Steve Crohn, expos­ing their blood to three

thou­sand times the amount of HIV nor­mally needed to infect a cell. Steve’s blood never became infected. ‘We thought maybe we had infected the cul­ture with bac­te­ria or what­ever,’ says Pax­ton. ‘So we went back to Steve. But it was the same result. We went back again and again. Same result.’ Pax­ton began study­ing Crohn’s DNA, and con­cluded there was some sort of block­ing mech­a­nism pre­vent­ing the virus from bind­ing to his cells. Fur­ther research showed that that mech­a­nism was delta 32. Sci­en­tists study­ing HIV first learned about the gateway-blocking capac­ity of the CCR5 muta­tion in 1996. Sev­eral drug com­pa­nies, then, quickly began explor­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of devel­op­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals that would mimic delta 32 by bind­ing to CCR5 and block­ing the attach­ment of HIV. . . .” (Ibid.; pp. 1–2.)

9. The dev­as­tat­ing impli­ca­tions of the find­ings dis­cussed above were elo­quently pre­sented in an online edi­to­r­ial: “This is the night­mare of AIDS no one wants to believe. As we come closer to cel­e­brat­ing, on Decem­ber 1, yet another World AIDS Day, let’s take a good hard look at what’s really going on before we pour more of our ever dimin­ish­ing hard earned money down yet another hor­ren­dous sink­hole. It has been found that some Cau­casians who have tested pos­i­tive for the HIV virus were found to take a very long time to actu­ally develop ‘full-blown’ AIDS (as they call it). It has since been dis­cov­ered (since 1997) that 20% of Euro­pean Cau­casians have the so-called ‘Aryan’ genetic dis­po­si­tion. If both your par­ents, in other words, are of Aryan descent, it appears you can never die of AIDS even though you might be infected.”
(“Aryan Genes Immune to Death from AIDS” by geminiwalker_ink; p. 1.)

10. “The rea­son for this is in the genetic cod­ing of the killer T-cells, which are part of the body’s immune sys­tem pro­tec­tive shield. These are the cells that are attacked by the HIV retro­virus. The loca­tion of the attack has been dis­cov­ered. It is on the CCR5 gene in the 3rd DNA gene pair. The par­tic­u­lar loca­tion is the Delta 32 RECEPTOR SITE. If either of your DNA pairs (from either your mother or your father) is DELTA 32 POSITIVE then the HIV virus can attach itself at that point. If you are DELTA 32 NEGATIVE then HIV just floats around in your blood harm­lessly for you.” (Idem.)

11. “But even though you may be DELTA 32 NEGATIVE at both sites, you can sup­pos­edly still spread the virus. What has been dis­cov­ered is that these 20% of Euro­pean Cau­casians are mem­bers of the Aryan gene pool. Also it has been dis­cov­ered that the far­ther north you go in Europe, say in Nor­way, Fin­land, Swe­den, etc., you find the high­est per­cent­age of peo­ple that are DELTA 32 NEGATIVE at the CCR5 gene allele.” (Idem.)

12. “That this would be a sim­ple coin­ci­dence is beyond all human rea­son. To say that HIV sud­denly crawled out of the wood­work in Cen­tral Africa by some­one being bit­ten by a green tree mon­key is one thing. But then to say that the only human gene pool on Earth that is immune to HIV is the Aryan Race is a coin­ci­dence that even Howdy Doody wouldn’t buy.” (Idem.)

13. “What we are look­ing at is a geno­cide per­pe­trated on racial groups of the world that makes the Nazi Holo­cause look like Romper Room. Add to that the global traf­fick­ing in drugs that specif­i­cally tar­gets minori­ties, the poor, and peo­ple of color, and while it may not look like the holo­caust dur­ing WWII, it doesn’t have to. The AIDS epi­demic isn’t a mys­te­ri­ous vir­u­log­i­cal dis­ease, it is cal­cu­lated mur­der. And a geno­cide that is beyond human com­pre­hen­sion. And since it is the ven­er­ated Aryan Race that is immune to it, then one has to assume that they are the ones who pro­mul­gated it.” (Ibid.; p. 2.)

14. “Of course, one shouldn’t assume any­thing, so we will con­tinue to explore this ter­ri­bly dis­tress­ing the­ory as evi­dence presents itself. This dis­ease has the abil­ity to wipe all of human­ity off the earth. If it is true that every­one is at risk, that HIV is sex­u­ally trans­mit­ted and that moth­ers and chil­dren are most at risk, half the pop­u­la­tion would be gone already—in one gen­er­a­tion. That, clearly, isn’t hap­pen­ing. But some­thing else is. . . .” (Idem.)

15. With Africa among the areas most pro­foundly threat­ened by the virus and with Third Reich alumni impli­cated in the devel­op­ment of AIDS (see the pro­grams dis­cussed above), it is inter­est­ing to view Germany’s (and North­ern Europe’s) plans for Africa as a major focal point for colo­nial­iza­tion. Could HIV be the “Aryan” infec­tion that will facil­i­tate the task of sub­ju­gat­ing Africa? The per­son quoted here is Kon­rad Ade­nauer, Chan­cel­lor of the Fed­eral Repub­lic of Ger­many, quoted in a 1950 arti­cle. “ ‘ . . . A fed­er­ated Europe will become a Third Force in the world, not as strong as Rus­sia or the United States, but pow­er­ful enough to inter­vene successfully—in a deci­sive moment—to safe­guard the peace . . . Ger­many has again become a fac­tor with whom oth­ers will have to reckon in inter­na­tional affairs . . . There is also a long-range eco­nomic goal: the col­o­niza­tion of Africa . . . If we Euro­peans col­o­nize Africa, we cre­ate at the same time a sup­plier of raw mate­ri­als for Europe which will be of the great­est impor­tance.’”
(Ger­many Plots with the Krem­lin; by T.H. Tetens; Copy­right 1953 [HC] by Henry Schu­man, Inc.; p. 16.)

16. Next, the pro­gram switches focus from AIDS to the Port Chicago explo­sion. (Vet­eran lis­ten­ers should note that Peter Vogel’s online book about Port Chicago is no longer avail­able for free on the Inter­net. Researchers must now pay for the book.) Dis­cus­sion begins with a let­ter home writ­ten in July of 1944 by an offi­cer sta­tioned at Port Chicago. “ . . . Did the late Richard Rendle­man, Sal­is­bury busi­ness­man, leg­endary golfer and good friend to all who knew him, see the first atomic bomb blast dur­ing World War II? Not on Hiroshima. On U.S. soil at the Navy’s Port Chicago on the Cal­i­for­nia coast where he was sta­tioned dur­ing World War II. ‘There’s not only a rea­son­ably cred­i­ble hypoth­e­sis that it’s pos­si­ble,’ says his son, Dr. Dick Rendle­man, finance pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina at Chapel Hill, ‘but there’s also doc­u­men­ta­tion that it could have hap­pened.’”
(“Did He See First Atomic Explo­sion?” by Rose Post; Sal­is­bury Post; 5/31/2004; p. 1.)

17. “ . . . Peter Vogel, author of ‘The Last Wave from Port Chicago,’ has worked on this, Rendle­man says, for 20 years, ‘and he believes it was actu­ally the first atom bomb explo­sion. The Hiroshima bomb did even­tu­ally go through Port Chicago. Peo­ple from the Los Alamos labs were on the scene the morn­ing after this explo­sion. And there were all sorts of other doc­u­ments that led Vogel to believe it was the first atom bomb. . . . Nobody has ever been able to say what really hap­pened that night. ‘There is spec­u­la­tion,’ Mar­garet Styles says. ‘No hard core proof. Some believe it was actu­ally an exper­i­ment’ with an atom bomb. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 2.)

18. High­light­ing a key point of debate with regard to the Port Chicago explo­sion (the presence/lack of resid­ual radi­a­tion), the pro­gram presents infor­ma­tion (from a skep­ti­cal observer) that rein­forces Peter Vogel’s work­ing hypoth­e­sis. “As of the week this is being writ­ten, it’s been 60 years since the acci­dent at Port Chicago on July 17, 1944, where a muni­tions ship exploded. The explo­sion was so large that some m

yths and urban leg­ends claim it was a nuclear acci­dent, 10 months ear­lier than the Trin­ity test. This web page is about my effort to col­lect real data on back­ground radi­a­tion lev­els in the area with a mobile Geiger counter data col­lec­tion sys­tem. Then the point is to see if the urban leg­ends still hold water. . . .”
(“Back­ground Radi­a­tion Mea­sure­ments near Port Chicago” by Ian Kluft; p. 1.)

19. In eval­u­at­ing the sig­nif­i­cance of the infor­ma­tion that fol­lows, it is impor­tant to under­stand that the author of this doc­u­ment was openly dis­mis­sive of Peter Vogel’s hypoth­e­sis. “ . . . What­ever the story, I’m not into con­spir­acy the­o­ries. The ‘leaps of logic’ typ­i­cally found in them are annoy­ing at best, and seri­ous mis­in­for­ma­tion at worst. Most are writ­ten to sound con­vinc­ing and can take in a large audi­ence. The best-known exam­ple in this case is an online book released in 2002, The Last Wave from Port Chicago by Peter Vogel as an accu­mu­la­tion of his ear­lier research. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 3.)

20. After dis­cussing the equip­ment and method­ol­ogy he used to test for resid­ual radi­a­tion at Port Chicago, Kluft presents an account of his 7/15/2004 expe­di­tion to Griz­zly Island State Wildlife Area. “ . . . Once off the paved road and dri­ving on the levee on Griz­zly Island, I was able to turn the screen so I could glance at the data col­lec­tion. The high­est num­ber I saw here was 15uR/hr, which is def­i­nitely not nor­mal. What I didn’t notice until review­ing the data at home was that the high­est num­ber at Griz­zly Island was actu­ally 17 uR/hr. There’s at least a 2 mile stretch along Griz­zly Island Road with these abnormally-high lev­els. (Though these num­bers are not dan­ger­ous, I only took them from on the road, which is made from imported mate­ri­als. Lev­els could be dif­fer­ent off the road. So Griz­zly Island could use an inspec­tion by experts.) . . . Travis [Air Force Base] seems to be ruled out as the source of the radi­a­tion on Griz­zly Island, the Potrero Hills and the Mon­tezuma Hills because there is no evi­dence of a plume lead­ing there . . .” (Ibid.; p. 6.)

21. The author presents his con­clu­sions, all the more sig­nif­i­cant because of his overt skep­ti­cism of Vogel’s work­ing hypoth­e­sis. “ . . . CONCLUSIONS: The Griz­zly Island data is dis­turb­ing. With the new data col­lected on July 15, it looks like I’ve dis­cov­ered a pos­si­ble 2-mile wide radioac­tive plume, which faces Port Chicago. The nuclear acci­dent the­ory at Port Chicago isn’t look­ing so far-fetched any more. But it cer­tainly still isn’t proven by a long shot either. The 2-mile stretch has large patches of 13–17 uR/hr read­ings. 10–12 is about nor­mal back­ground, the high­est you’d expect in most cities. (That’s at sea level. Aver­age back­ground is higher with more ele­va­tion.) Back on the July 11 drive, one pos­si­bil­ity was that the ele­vated read­ings could be some­thing nat­ural in the Mon­tezuma Hills, pos­si­bly gran­ite rocks or some­thing else in the ground there. But now we see it’s also on the flats and marshes at the shore of the Bay. So we can rule out a geo­log­i­cal cause linked to the hills. It cer­tainly isn’t just in the hills. . . . So just like on July 11, the high­est back­ground radi­a­tion read­ings on the July 15 drive were at the point clos­est to the Port Chicago acci­dent loca­tion, now only 5 miles from it. And it’s in a direc­tion that would be nor­mally down­wind on a clear sum­mer night in this area. I found both sides of the higher-background area, and the shape con­tin­ues to match that of a northeast-bound plume from Port Chicago, or ship­ping on Suisun Bay in front of the base. . . .If we ask ‘what hap­pened there?’ the July 17, 1944 explo­sion has to be included on the list. I can’t ignore the coin­ci­dence that the mea­sured ele­vated radi­a­tion is in the place it would have to be if the nuclear acci­dent sce­nario was true. That doesn’t prove it’s true, but if con­firmed it would take away an objec­tion many of us had about it. Namely that no one knew of any radi­a­tion in the area. . . . The area that we found ele­vated back­ground [radi­a­tion] appears to me like it’s par­al­lel to the direc­tion of the run­ways (wind direc­tion), and lined up with Port Chicago. That was the thing that star­tled me most when I noticed it. . . .” (Ibid.; pp. 6–8.)

22. Another Inter­net post­ing by an observer openly crit­i­cal (at first) of Vogel’s hypoth­e­sis calls atten­tion to the poten­tial dan­ger posed by the acqui­si­tion and use by a ter­ror­ist group of a Mark II-type weapon. (That was the device appar­ently used at Port Chicago.) It is to be hoped that US intel­li­gence agen­cies are fac­tor­ing the Mark II/Port Chicago even­tu­al­ity into their plan­ning for ter­ror­ism. “ . . . Assum­ing that it [Port Chicago explo­sion] hap­pened about as Vogel has doc­u­mented, the most alarm­ing thing about this inci­dent to me (aside from the shame­less coverup) is that the Mark II weapon con­tained only about five kilo­grams of mod­er­ately enriched fuel, and it used that fuel inef­fi­ciently. But that was enough to cause major dam­age! There are per­haps 300 uni­ver­sity or govm’t research reac­tors world­wide that con­tain this much fuel, many with even higher enrich­ment. Scary thought.”
(“Nuclear Ter­ror­ism on US Soil” by Jones Beene; p. 2 )

23. The author makes the cen­tral point of his pre­sen­ta­tion: “The sad news for the future of ter­ror­ism on US soil is that even when such a crude bomb is detonated—as ‘inef­fi­cient’ and poorly designed as it was—and even if only one per­cent of the fuel actu­ally fis­sions, the results can be dev­as­tat­ing. A sec­ond cho­rus of sad news derives from the fact that CF [Cold Fusion] and LENR do in fact relate closely to this kind of weapons tech­nol­ogy, which was patented, by the way. And it is prob­a­bly for this pre­cise rea­son that progress in the CF field has been squashed and offi­cially ignored (because if offi­cials had actu­ally inter­vened 15 years ago, then that would have been a ‘give-away’ as to the real under­ly­ing moti­va­tion).” (Idem.)

24. “If you read the whole doc­u­ment, you will prob­a­bly real­ize that they key patent, now expired, which describes how and why mod­er­ately enriched Ura­nium deu­teride is able to work at all as a bomb (and most experts will tell you straight-faced that it will not work) was held by no other than who else . . . MIT. The very folks who doc­tored their own early results to show that CF was just . . .patho­log­i­cal sci­ence. I think that I now under­stand why they chose those words: patho­log­i­cal sci­ence.” (Idem.)

25. “There are two well doc­u­mented ‘smok­ing guns’ here, which defy all attempts at expla­na­tion. 1) Two high rank­ing offi­cials from Los Alamos National Lab­o­ra­tory appeared in Port Chicago in 1944, an out-of-the way back­wa­ter port that would have taken days to drive to, in a time when there were no com­mer­cial flights, the morn­ing after an explo­sion that occurred after 10 the evening before, and had not even made the national newspapers—despite the fact that there was absolutely no appar­ent rea­son for the involve­ment of a secret lab which sup­pos­edly had its hands-full with unre­lated impor­tant research. Obvi­ously they had been there for some time, for some rea­son.” (Ibid.; pp. 2–3.)

26. “2) About 500 pages of clas­si­fied doc­u­ments are admit­tedly held in the LANL archives, despite the act that there was offi­cially no nuclear mate­r­ial at Port Chicago, nor had there ever been. . . nor was the place remotely related to any­thing they were doing . . . except that it was the ideal test­ing ground for under­stand­ing a water based deliv­ery sys­tem of the type that could have been used, had the for­tunes of war turned against us.” (Ibid.; p. 3.)