Chapter 21

The Colonel

“Remarkably, this movie character looks very much like the Colonel I met on the “Magic Bus”

As we all recently witnessed in 2001 with the fabricated false pretenses used to invade

Iraq, a government that controls or otherwise manipulates the mainstream media can

not only get their way in the world, but they can make facts from fiction and vice-versa.

Today we call it “fake news”, but 70 years ago they had another name for it

“propaganda” and the U.S. War Department had over 300 full-time military personnel

staffing that creative effort. A most recent example of how effective such propaganda

can be in the Douma gas attacks in Syria as well explained by the superb reporting

here at TheIntercept.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J1sn7sJbhA.

Technology today, and even more so tomorrow will have you watching “news” that is
custom made to suit the political needs and convenience of our leaders who can just

as easily make adversarial leaders provoke the American public to support, an

otherwise unpopular war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLoI9hAX9dw.

Back in 2001, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil was writing his book

“The Price Of Loyalty”, which documents what he and every other Cabinet member

knew and directly heard from George W. Bush less than 90 days after he was “elected”

(actually appointed by the Supreme Court). Specifically, Bush told all of his lieutenants

to “Find me an excuse to invade Iraq”.

This was music to the ears of our shadow government and Secretary of Defense

Rumsfield, Cheney, and the good folks at Haliburton who would later win dozens of

no-bid contracts that would earn them $39 Billion in profits from the 10 year adventure

and the many “no-bid contracts” their former CEO (Cheney) arranged for them. More

than $60 Billion in commercial profits were garnished from the Iraq invasion.

(Ironically, the oil Bush planned and tried to steal is now being purchased by the

Chinese.)

One by one the actors took the public stage with the New York Times, Reuters, AP,

UPI, and all the other major newsies in the audience. One by one the actors played

their roles quite well and spoon fed the public a tale spun from horrific

lies and scary fabrications including…

1. Saddam was responsible for 911 (George W. Bush)

2. Saddam was buying enriched uranium in Africa
3. Saddam had accumulated weapons of mass destruction
4. Saddam was a unpredictable lunatic
5. Saddam would attack Israel to provoke a war or retaliate

Even Colin Powell, the most credible, reputable, and honest person of the Bush regime

was duped into joining their choir. The song they sang in perfect harmony scared the

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hell out of America. Thanks only to George Wilson of the CIA and other honest

insiders, the truth was eventually leaked out, that all of the above was totally fabricated

bullshit to justify a multi-billion dollar oil grab. But by the time the truth became known,

over 1,500 American soldiers and over 150,000 Iraqi civilians had already been killed.

To me at least, all the people who deliberately told these lies are war criminals, .since

they knew full well that their lies would directly result in deaths of thousands and

plunge America into the biggest national debt in U.S. history.

Today more than 12 years later, no weapons of mass destruction have been found

and 7 of 10 Iraqis insist life was much better when Saddam was around. Baghdad,
once a modern and thriving city still is rubble and $23 Billion in cash that Bush bragged

about sending to Iraq to rebuild the city has simply vanished with American Paul

Bremer the last one to sign for the money. How could $23 Billion just disappear? And

Congress is not even looking for this money. First we Americans were fooled by our

leaders and then robbed by them. Not one of them have been prosecuted. Why? If

you ask Sargent Major Thomas Lovette, a veteran Army intelligence investigator who

insists multiple “suicides” of soldiers in Irag were actually staged murders of witnesses

to crimes of corruption, he can enlighten you on this subject, since I personally did not

have the time nor money to research it further myself. Regarding other war crimes,both

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were convicted in Malaysia of war crimes.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35397/bushcheney-war-

crimes/ Not surprisingly, W. was caught in 935 blatant lies in the eight years he was

President and you can read them here;

https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/finding-the-truth-in-935-lies-about-warwith-
iraq/

On a similar but much smaller scale, some whistleblowers and other disclosure threats

are targeted with lies, that when done correctly, are quite believable. We saw with the

Iran Contragate scandal how everyone who told the truth was discounted as a

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convicted drug dealer, or a Cuban refugee, or some other unsavory title to make them

appear less believable. When the truth cannot be hidden, or disproved, our

government spin masters resort to attacking, smearing, or discrediting the messenger

bearing the truth. It is called “launching an ad hominem attack” or more commonly, a

smear campaign.

While jailed at MCC Miami, I met Lloyd the accountant/auditor who could prove the

Nugan Hand bank of Australia was one of many owned by the United States via proxy

through CIA fronts. They made Lloyd into drunkard who could not be believed. He

even told me how one night before he was to give an interview he “had an accident”
15 minutes before his arrival at the hotel where he was to meet a BBC reporter for a

1 hour initial interview. A man pretending to be drunk bumped into him in the hallway

of the hotel and spilled a full glass of pure gin onto his person and then offered profuse

apologies. He did not think the “accident” was part of any scheme at the time, but he

later learned why the BBC never ran with the story. The reporter was sent a fake

medical report claiming Lloyd was in rehab for acute alcoholism during the time he

claimed to be auditing banking transactions related to the Nugan Hand Bank. It was

not true of course and because Lloyd wreaked of gin the night of the interview, the

reporter never questioned the source of the report. Only nine months later did

Lloyd ever learn about his fabricated “drinking problem.”

It takes creative and brilliant minds to scheme like this and there is no shortage of

them within the U.S. Bureau of Prisons who will routinely tell reporters that an inmate

who alleges prison or government corruption is a drug addict, homosexual, or suffers

from mental disorders. In my case, three reporters tried to visit me but only one

succeeded. The prison staff made sure I would not be able to talk with her however.

(See chapter 19)

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Lake Butner in North Carolina is a special medical facilities prison for those in federal

custody and many prisoners especially those alleging government crimes are sent

here to be officially certified as “mentally impaired & dysfunctional” aka crazy. Because

the prison is rumored to be especially comfortable with cable TV and plenty of

recreational facilities, many inmates gladly go there not knowing what awaits them. Of

course the vast majority of prisoners jailed there are truly in need of medical treatments

like dialysis, surgeries, cancer treatment etc. But those most dangerous political

prisoners are scheduled for a “psychiatric evaluation”, the first step in becoming

certified as a nut case. Lake Butner serves a very useful and convenient purpose for

government officials who have crimes to conceal.

While I was touring the country on the magic bus, I met a man known only as

“The Colonel”. He never told anyone his name. I recall that he was almost six feet tall

with brown but graying hair, hazel eyes and a full mustache. He was a bit eccentric

when he spoke, but that was not often. He seemed to speak only to disagree about

something or to make a request. He was not one to engage in a social group

conversation, but if addressed he would politely reply. In speaking with him, it became

obvious to me (from my own military training) by his vocabulary and mannerisms that

he was a military man of high rank. For example, he would always refer to the toilet

area as “The latrine” and when talking about the food at Lake Butner, he called the

cafeteria “the mess hall, and often spoke of “the enlisted men: and “grunts”. After

spending five days with the Colonel he finally confided in me that he was assigned to

the U.S.

Army’s Medical Corp. for eleven years and was on active duty for almost twenty years.

He said he was assigned to a special research unit at Fort Dietrich in Maryland where

he was responsible for “researching” strains of viruses and bacteria. He claimed he

was third in command of a special “classified” project that lasted five years, and served

as an observer, and “senior data analyst” on three similar teams. He claimed that aside
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from basic training, of his years in the Army were spent in bio-chem warfare research.

One of his statements was quite profound… “Germ warfare is far more deadly but less

predictable than the atomic bomb.” I reflected upon this comment often and have to

conclude that he is right. The Colonel was the only person ever met who could recite

the Constitution and Bill of Rights verbatim. At times that he was sort of quietly

mumbling to himself, when I thought he was praying, he was actually saying the

“Pledge of Allegiance” or reciting the two other historic documents.

He was a patriot to the core after years of service and apparently still felt some

responsibility and a duty to maintain secrecy about his “classified” work for the Army.

Only after I had convinced him I was a federal agent and an airtraffic controller who

also had a security clearance did he start talking more freely and eventually let slip

that his group was working to weaponize certain viruses and bacteria. But every eight

hours he was forced to take “medication” prescribed to him while he was at Lake

Butner for his “psych evaluation”. Once that medication kicked in, he became quite

introverted, non-conversive and only wanted to draw pictures. One of the pictures he

drew will haunt me forever. It was a pencil sketch of soldiers in Vietnam invading a

village and rounding up all the women. The men were all shot dead and laying on the

ground and grief ridden children were crying in the background. But the “rifles’ they

carried by the American intruders were not rifles at all, but rather elongated

hypodermic needles. I asked the colonel what the drawing was supposed to be and

he just replied “nothing you could understand nor should know about.” was his cryptic

answer. When I asked him to try me with an explanation he just shook his head and

waved me off.

I would have to wait approximately six hours for the meds to wear off and take

advantage of that two-hour window of clarity before the next dosage would be given.

I only had about seven such sessions before we were finally separated. When I had

asked him why he was arrested in the first place, he said he was not allowed to discuss

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it. But this did not make a lot of sense to me because the Army has their own criminal

justice and prison. Why was he in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons system? He had to have

been charged with some Federal crime but all he would say was they waited for him

to retire, and then “rail-roaded” him with a kangaroo court and his public defender

played along with the ruse. He did manage to tell me his name, rank and service

number which I had scribbled down on a paper towel when we made a “piss stop” at

a gas station.

He finally fessed up that he had resigned as a form of protest regarding three projects

and then arguments ensued about his pension benefits. Supposedly they had him

working under a social security number that wasn’t his, and the Social Security

Administration was unable to properly process his benefits. Because of his daily rants

and threats by telephone to Army admin staffers, he was probably perceived as a

hostile witness and disclosure threat. After resigning he would have to be charged as

a civilian. The usual catch-all charges are either “conspiracy” or “tax evasion” and the

Colonel said he was charged with both. When I asked if I could read his indictment

and legal papers, he said they were taken from while he was at the Atlanta stop of the

bus tour. He never did tell me all of the projects he was protesting about, but I would

get a clue in an unusual gift he would give me later.

This man was a walking encyclopedia on cell and micro-biology and explained to me

in unbelievable details how his team was developing a self-mutating virus that could

never be tracked to its source (because of its continuous mutation). He said they were

instructed to develop a virus that could be sexually transmitted, undetectable, and

would debilitate those infected within three to six months. He claimed they had

developed three such viruses but none of them worked within the desired time frame.

One of them that he described to me, I would later learn when I became a certified

AIDS counselor after my release from prison was suspiciously similar to the HTLV

virus being researched in France at the Pasteur Institute. We in America would later

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learn about the HIV virus the hard way. Was it the same virus? I cannot be certain and

it would be irresponsible for me to say “yes”. But in some of his most lucid periods the

Colonel told me that they had tested the virus at various veteran hospitals around the

country on 300 test subjects and they had no doubts that a single active hooker could

ultimately cause the infection of over 3,000 men within a year. This man was clearly

a knowledgeable, highly experienced, and educated scientist. He said he was

originally from Michigan and graduated from Duke University but also had post

graduate studies at Virginia or Georgia Tech (I cannot recall at this time).

He claimed his unit was responsible for developing and/or weaponizing 27 different
biological weapons including a super-strain of malaria that was so powerful they had

to kill the project because no vaccine was strong enough to prevent the spread to

friendly troops in the battle theater. The Dengue fever was one of their great

successes, as was something he referred to as SF-5 or the “Crown Flu Virus” which

he described as a “super flu” to be used for “population control”. Because it would

infect thousands, disable battlefield soldiers, but only kill off the weakest victims with

degraded immune systems, all while appearing to be just a bad cold or flu with identical

symptoms, his boss claimed it was ideal to control population explosion in Africa. The

Colonel claimed his boss was racist and a closet supremacist who even claimed to

have developed a super strength strain of sickle-cell anemia, but which has never

been proven and sold to a foreign government. That strain and their malaria project

were tested extensively in Liberia, a tiny country on Africa’s West coast. According to

the Colonel all except three of the diseases they had designed as weapons spread

the fastest in hot tropical climates, and he dreaded a threemonth assignment to

Monrovia related to the Malaria and testing of another virus that would originate with

birds but I cannot recall the details. They had planned to send him to Guyana as well,

but he protested and another colleague was sent. It became obvious to me that

although the development of these killer viruses were created in the U.S., they were

often tested in foreign poor countries where poor hygiene could be blamed if

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something went wrong and infection rates became a news item. A Nazi German doctor

who worked with the infamous Dr. Mengele was allegedly his boss’s mentor, and the

Colonel was frequently derided for his inter-racial marriage with a Philippine wife, that

his boss occasionally referred to as a “mongrel half-breed” which once caused the

Colonel to hurl his coffee cup against the wall. This incident was probably the

beginning of his career’s inevitable end.

He said his boss had inherited another suspended project from another Colonel who

was the Team Leader 20 or 30 years previous in Puerto Rico where they were

experimenting with accelerating the spread of cancer cells, but the Colonel had a both
a conscience and a problem with that project, maybe because his own wife suffered

and died prematurely from cancer. He told me that following an argument with his

boss while forced to work overtime, he removed and burned over a hundred key pages

of the old cancer research project that would make it virtually impossible for the project

to be resumed.

Back then he said they didn’t have shredders but he used the “burn box”. Since

nobody was yet actively assigned to that old project, the missing test results and

summary would not be noticed for some time.

The colonel’s comments about the “old Puerto Rico project” gave me a flash-back to
a sad part of my life when I was stationed in Puerto Rico with the Coast Guard in San
Juan and later in Aguadilla. As the security officer at the Aguadilla air station, I always
had week-ends off but in San Juan as a rescue boat cosxswain I was always on call
like most firemen, or jet fighter pilots. So while in San Juan from 1974-1975 I did not
have a social life.

But I did manage to meet a beautiful young Puerto Rican girl, I will call Angela here
and we had a brief conversation when she came to pick up her father at the Plaza of
Old San Juan where all the Public Cars wait for passengers bound for distant suburbs
and other cities. It was not uncommon for Puerto Ricans from the countryside to

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commute 50 miles to San Juan for wages that were double than in their home towns
in agricultural regions. At home they might collect 500 coconuts or milk 80 cows for
$10 a day. In San Juan they could paint or work on the docks loading ships for $20 a
day. Anyway, we had made some small talk about the huge Ceiba tree that gave
shade to over 150 people in the plaza from the blistering summer sun, and she invited
me to visit her hometown of Fajardo which was about fifty miles to the East of San
Juan on the Northeast tip of Puerto Rico, where the U.S. Navy had a huge base called
Roosevelt Roads, which was the weapons testing center for the Atlantic fleet.

Angela also offered to give me a tour of the famous El Yunque rain forest and some
free Spanish lessons, noting that my Spanish was just a little better than awful (at that
time). It looked to be the beginning of a great new friendship. She had a face like an
angel, with dimpled smile I will never forget.

Geographically Puerto Rico is a relatively small island only 100 miles long by 35 miles
wide but with mostly 2 or 4 lane roads clogged by overloaded sugar cane trucks
trudging along at 20mph (on a good day) traveling by car was generally a pain in the
ass, and close to masochistic if you did not have air conditioning in your public car (a
taxi that never departs with less than 6 passengers in it.). Just imagine the aroma of 5
laborers and you stuffed in a Chevy Impala with no air conditioning on a summer day
when temperatures normally hover in the mid 80s. And since rice and beans is a
popular and tasty dish on the island, one or two passengers inevitably have gas
attacks. If you think it could not be any worse, almost every driver were chain smokers!

Long story short, I bought a Honda 250 Elsinore cross country motorcycle so I would
not have to deal with the horrific traffic nor the stench of the public cars in order to visit
with Angela on our first date which would be El Yunque rain forest. Since I would be
spending at least three years in Puerto Rico, I figured the motorcycle was a good
investment although I would also end up buy a 1955 Ford Crown Victoria in mint
condition the following year, once I realized it rains quite often in the tropics.

I met Angela for our first date at the bus stop nearest El Yunque and from there we
road my motorcycle to the entrance and paid our $20 admission fee. Angela had

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brought a back pack stuffed with fruit, snacks ,and bottled water and saved us a small
fortune from the gougers who exploited the many eco-tourists coming from abroad to
explore this genuine Garden of Eden paradise. Angela was even more beautiful than
I remembered and we hit it off quite well as we explored the amazing flora, tree frogs,
and scenic waterfalls where she took my hand in hers and thanked me for flirting with
here under the Ceiba tree, and I thanked her for letting me! We had our little picnic
under an enormous tree fern. Then suddenly it began pouring rain with no advance
warning and we were soaked to the bone in less than two minutes, but it was a
welcome relief from the 90 degree heat of the rain forest. We made our way down the
mountain back to where the tourist paths split off into different directions. Although we
were lost we really didn’t care because any path that went downwards would
eventually hit Route No. 2 where I parked my motorcycle. The rain stopped as
suddenly as it started and surrounded us in a strange steamy fog that was eerily
romantic. I wanted to steal a kiss but it was our first date, and I was told “Never try to
kiss a Puerto Rican girl on a first date or they will think you are a playboy”. I restrained
myself, but it wasn’t easy.

By the time we reached my motorcycle our T-shirts and shorts were already dry and
instead of making Angela take the bus home, I offered to ride her on my motorcycle
and she thoroughly enjoyed her first motorcycle ride. We arrived in about 45 minutes
just as her mom was serving dinner of a fired fish plate called escaveche or in some
parts called pescaveche. It smelled delicious and I did not have to be asked twice to
stay for dinner! I met the entire Delgado family including her two younger sisters and
an elder brother and her mom and dad. That latter of whom spoke a little English
because he worked as a civilian at the Navy Base as a welder.

The conversation was lively and Angela’s father was trying to impress me with his
English vocabulary which was not bad actually. It seemed all was going well until the
mother, a woman in her late 40s asked me where I was born and when I told her Ohio,
she asked me where that country was located. When I told her Ohio was part of
America, she seemed displeased, rosefrom the table and scurried off never to be seen
again. I asked if something was wrong but Angela quietly told me to just finish eating
and she would explain later. By the time we finished our meal it was dark and I had to

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be headed back to San Juan and hopefully find a gas station that still open to fill up
my gas tank.

Angela walked me out to my motorcycle and

apologized for here mother being upset but
she wid not tell me why. When I started to ask
looked to see if anyone was watching and
quickly pecked me on the cheek with a kiss
and said “I had a fun time today and hope we
can spend more time together”. I told her I
wanted to do exactly that and would call her
once I knew my schedule for the following
week. Apparently are feelings were mutual
and I drove home that night wondering if this
girl would become someone very special in
my life. At this point I was hoping that would Dr.Conelius Rhoads
be the case.

The following week I called Angela as soon as our new duty schedule was posted and
as soon as she answered the phone, I could sense something was wrong. Her ususal
bubbly personality was gone and her solemn voice was direct as she bluntly told me…
I am sorry Bruce, but I cannot see you any more. I was shocked and instantly
saddened with this news. When I began asking why she cut me off and said. I want to
see you again, but mother won’t allow me to spend time with you. I asked why, and
she started to explain that her mom asked her if she “had special feelings for the
Gringo American” and when Angela replied “yes” her mom forbid her see or even talk
with me again. I said I didn’t understand and Angela began crying as I tried to calm
her down.

In a few minutes she explained… My mom’s mother died of cancer that was
deliberately given to her by some Army Colonel in a secret experiment that they didn’t
know about for many years. The Army Colonel was a doctor named Cornelius
Rhoades and that the Army finally admitted he did experiments on human beings
without their permission and he told her grandmother that she was getting a vaccine
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injection when it was really cancer cells. Angela said her grandmother died a very
painful death before she was born and her mother has hated Americans ever since. I
swore I never even heard about this man and was in the Coast Guard, not the Army.
I protested this wasn’t fair. Angela agreed with me but said she could not sway her
mother and even her father had tried but no luck. Angela ended the conversation in
tears and wished me well in my career

I was devastated by this call because I was quite smitten with Angela and I decided I
would visit her mom and plead me own case. I arrived unexpectedly and unannounced
the following weekend with a bouquet of flowers and a framed serenity prayer in
Spanish. Angela heard my motorcycle and came running out to see me. Although she
seemed happy to see me she was equally worried about what might happen. It did not
take long to find out. Her mother came screaming at me out of her house in Spanish
“Yankee devil murderers are not welcome here, go to hell and burn with your evil
ancestors!” Clearly she was not in a mood to hear my plea for mercy and compassion.
I was forced to leave my flowers and framed prayer with Angela and took off before a
scene with all the neighbors would surely develop. Although I carefully wrote a long
12 page letter to Angela and her mom professing my honorable and sincere intentions
for Angela and my expressing my sympathy for the loss of grandmother. I would never
see Angela again and promised myself that I would investigate and expose this evil
Army doctor wherever he was.

Oddly I could not find out anything about the man until Alex Maldonado, the Editor of
El Mundo newspaper in San Juan published one of my editorials in his new newspaper
El Reporter called me to encourage me to write a weekly column. I took that
opportunity to ask Alex if he every heard about this cancer experiment he he admitted
it was a major scandal in Puerto Rico “long ago” and it is not talked about any more
because it caused a lot of “hateful tensions” and there were still Puerto Ricans who
would kill Dr. Cornelius Rhoades if they knew where he was at. The next and last time
I would hear about this man was from the Colonel on my magic bus ride. But today in
the age of the internet and instant knowledge, I found in less than 3 seconds that Dr.
Cornelius Rhoades instead of being prosecuted for his human cancer experiments in
Puerto Rico, became the first Director of the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute and his
days in Puerto Rico are glossed over with his scandal being referred to as a “cultural
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misunderstanding”. I have never heard of attempted murder ever expressed in such
misleading and innocuous terms before. The rage that burns with the heart of Angela’s
mother is well-justified as I myself would track down and slay anyone who did
something similar to my family members.

The Colonel also claimed that there was some special project that was run

by the State Department that was part of an elite global effort to cap world

population growth but only targeting certain races or climate zones, but he

was not privy to anything other than their request for an innocuous virus

capable of becoming a national epidemic and able to be contained when

required. He said their unit received a commendation for the Crown Flu

Virus project, which had two strains with one being super lethal and the

other that could be used to cause a panic or reduce battlefield strength of

opposing troops (ie. Sick soldiers can’t fight with high fevers and depleted

energy levels). The Colonel claimed that the more he inquired about the

purpose of global population control, the more he was distanced and then

totally removed from the project and a woman from the CDC took his place

on that special team. He said the “population control project” was getting

millions of dollars from the Rockefeller Foundation and the “Microsoft guy”

(Bill Gates).

Yet another success story was a similar virus that could spread to humans

from farm animals including chickens and pigs that was more lethal, and

thus would be too suspicious, unless the infections started only in rural

areas, and then spread to the battlefield by delivering infected poultry and

pork to feed the troops. I had noted the name of this virus as well, but it

was in the notes taken from me. I recall only that the name of the virus

began with the letter “S”. This was one of three projects the Colonel

protested about because he said the virus could easily become a

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pandemic if any of the infected farm animals or byproducts became

exports products that would seep into the global food chain undetected.

He said his protests always fell onto deaf ears and eventually his boss

would openly castigate, ridicule, and humiliate him in front of superiors

while he was forced to “bite my tongue”. To avoid the frequent

embarrassment he became passively silent when “the top brass” visited

the lab.

While lucid he often complained about many administrative deficiencies

and what he called “Not even a semblance of concern about those

affected by failed projects, neither the staff, public nor the patients” He

made some reference to

“The Bug Farm in New York” which he said was “located too damn close

to major population centers.” When I asked him about this “Bug Farm” he

just said it was run by a German doctor for the Department of Defense

and he was sent there in the late 1960s to be an observer and do “random

evaluations” of infections made by “carriers insects” that would be air-

dropped upon the enemy and ideally make them so sick within a month,

they would be unable to do battle, and each victim would require costly

medical attention. He said these bugs were infected with a variety of

blood-borne diseases that were seldom if ever found in a natural state, but

could easily be blamed on transmission by rodents and other mammals.

He said that careless handling and accounting of specimens led to

mislabeling that caused over 1,000,000 of the infected insects being

released and when he brought it to the attention of the Director he was

assured that most would be eaten by birds, bats, frogs, and lizards. And

since they were on a remote island, there was no real danger to humans.

I asked the Colonel if that was true and he only said, “I never saw a single

lizard or frog on the island, and deer know how to swim. Birds and bats

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eat mostly flying insects. But the island was fairly remote.” I took his

answer as just a big “maybe”.

He said that duty station was where nobody wanted to work because the

staff was having a high rate of infection and it was on an isolated island

where all they did was work and sleep and occasionally went fishing. He

said his stay there was brief – less than a year, and he was quite happy

to leave after he too was bitten a couple of times by “those nasty blood-

sucking critters”. But he said he was getting preventative treatment

against the infection so he only had to endure itchy tick and flea bites. I

asked him for the names of the diseases they were trying to spread, and

although he told me, I have forgotten and as I mentioned before, much of

my notes were taken from me when I was released.

But after meeting a friend of mine at a local Miami gym in 1985, I noticed

red circles on his back with dark spots in the center, while in the locker

room. I was curious enough to ask what happened to him because I never

saw any rash like that before in my life. He told me it was something called

“Lyme Disease” that only people in New York and Connecticut were

getting from ticks. When I asked how the ticks got infected he admitted

that nobody was sure, but that the doctor told him that the ticks must have

sucked the blood of an infected deer or pig. Ten years later I heard this

strange disease was spreading around the world at an alarming rate and

two of my good friends were debilitated by it. Then suddenly it was

reported that 6% of Americans had Lyme disease. Since the disease takes

its toll over several years and is not immediately fatal in the short term, not

many in the medical industry bothered to pursue a cure. Even in China,

those Chinese who were wealthy enough to study abroad were coming

home from the American northeast with Lyme in growing numbers. Finally,

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years later, I read a book called “LAB 257” (by author Michael Carroll) and

realized the German doctor the Colonel had referred to was a “Dr.

Erik/Erich

Traub” recruited through the famous “Project Paperclip” following World

War II. (Insert link to Project Paperclip)

The following day the Colonel had even more clarity because someone in

the medical unit forgot to dose him on the weekend shift, and he shared

some details with me about his boss who he truly despised, mostly

because he did not like taking orders from “civilians” and his racist remarks

about his wife. His boss was a Dr. Robert Gallo, who he referred to as

“Dr. Death”, an expert in virology and weaponizing molds, bacteria and

viruses. Apparently after WWII the American military realized that the

German inventory of bio-chemical warfare weapons was not only double

that of America’s but of a much greater variety, and quality. As a result of

this revelation, the American Field Generals were suddenly overzealous

in their desire to catch up as they worried the Russians may have captured

huge portions of the German inventory and growing their own strains,

even more potent. Dr. Gallo, Dr. Traub, and more than 200 lab technicians

and researchers at top universities were recruited to expand America’s

arsenal of bio-chem weapons, and Fort Dietrich was the most visible, but

not the only development lab operated by the Department of Defense,

(formerly the War Department).

According to the Colonel, Dr. Gallo’s claim to fame was developing what

was thought to be the best killer virus guaranteed to disable the enemy

but, also turned out to be the greatest and most expensive failure, since

the death cycle was five to ten years. It was designed to be spread by

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prostitutes and would viciously destroy the immune system of everyone

infected so they would be super vulnerable to pneumonia, liver disease,

and any infectious disease that required white blood cell defense to

survive and recover. They had covertly tested this virus on numerous in-

patient veterans mostly abandoned by their loved ones after becoming

disfigured, burned severely, or shell-shocked from the war. They gave it a

numbered designation, but the French would later call it the HTLV virus.

In 1979, the American public would hear about this new strange fatal virus

labeled by the CDC as “HIV”.

As his new mystery disease spread like wild fire, first in the housing

projects off large cities, and then to suburbia, President Reagan managed

to calm the public by telling us all we had nothing to worry about if we were

not gay. The government propaganda peddlers succeeded in planting

numerous magazine and newspaper articles insisting and spewing

“indisputable evidence from top experts” that HIV was “a gay man’s

disease”. Eventually Magic Johnson, Arthur Ashe and a young Florida boy

named Ryan White, would blow the lid off that lie. I helped with that by

making an appearance on a televised debate on WPLG Channel 10 where

I publicly accused CDC Director Anthony Fauci of falsifying the real AIDS

epidemic by repeatedly changing the T cell counts required to distinguish

HIV patients from AIDS patients. At that time in the early 80s HIV was

100% fatal and the CDC was denying that one of the seven strains (known

at that time) were self-mutating, and thus unable to cure or vaccinate

against. I then went on to become a volunteer AIDS counselor (certified

by HRS and Dr. Robert Moon) and learned even more than I wanted to

know. I started the American AIDS Alert Association, (a grass-roots

volunteer group that made guest appearances on radio talk shows and

handed out flyers at local Miami Universities). and then began working for

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an autologous blood bank called National Health Guard which I felt

compelled to do after my volunteer work at the Red Cross blood bank in

Miami, led me to alert Florida surgeons, the FDA, and CBS 60 minutes

about the HIV tainted blood inventories of the American Red Cross. (See

my Chapter “Bad Blood” and the 60 Minutes segment by the same name

circa 1990-1991) We at National Health Guard also became the first and

only private clinic in America to offer low-cost ANONYMOUS HIV/AIDS

testing to keep people off of CDC databases, since they were seriously

considering setting up “Quarantine Centers” at the time. Although we took

a lot of heat from State and Federal agencies, the ACLU came to our

defense and government officials surprisingly backed-off, perhaps

wanting to avoid even more publicity, but they did try to smear me with

this local news article in Miami:

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/man-of-letters-6364306

Although the Colonel seemed to be a super ethical guy, I could not

understand how he reconciled his work with his moral standards since he

hinted that although he favored population control, he was firmly against

random deaths and especially those of children. Somehow he claimed that

only the weakest of our species could be eliminated leaving strong

“breeding stock” unaffected. When I asked him to explain, he said I

wouldn’t understand unless I was a major in genetics. He was right I didn’t

understand his theorem on programming a virus to specifically target

certain people while leaving others in the same city untouched. He also

claimed that Gallo was very close to perfecting a virus that would sterilize

women of all age groups with a virus that had a life cycle of less than a 3

months but had the ability to spread to millions of women in that same

time frame. Somehow it would prevent a woman’s body of generating her

monthly period. I cannot recall the specifics but I was truly amazed how

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 they could modify viruses, mold, and bacteria, to obtain desired effects.

He did admit that the micro bio-engineering was often a matter of trial and

error.

Yes, at times the Colonel seemed to be a man of contradictions, and indeed I could
not understand his ability to embrace population culling yet be opposed to random
murder with bio-chemical weapons. Only a few months after I went free I came to
understand him better when I read what I seem to recall was an article in either
Harper’s New Yorker, or the Atlantic about the imminent population explosion and yet
another on Natural Selection and Nature’s way of culling the weak and unproductive
from our society. Looking back in history, some plague, drought, famine or Wars
always seemed to keep our world in a healthy balance that all of us always seem to
take for granted.
But back in the 1940’s the average human lifespan was only 60 years old. Today
however, people are living an average of 25 years longer while our depletion rate of
world resources have almost doubled. So some scholars and academics suddenly
woke up in the 70’s almost in alarm as “sustainability” became the buzzword of the
day. We are all told to be green, but did not really grasp the big picture beyond the
simple thoughts of recycling and global warming.
Bit the elite and their bankers were far more focused on the costs and liabilities of
aging populations who tax revenues would stop and their consumption of expensive
social services would grow, while all the old geezers no longer served any useful
purpose in their eyes. It simply was an economic burden to have a population with
more than 10% of the aged weighing down and consuming 30% of tax dollars. Sudden
Euthanasia was the new topic that was awkward but convenient in THEIR minds. But
people were not buying into their social experiment which tested the waters with
dozens of lectures and the court cases of Dr. Kevorkian and others. After all, it was
our parents and grandparents they wanted to kill off to increase their profit margins.
But Henry Kissinger. Dr. Rhoads, George H. Bush, The Rockefellers and dozens of
other blue bloods were convinced the aged could be covertly culled with disasters that
were made to look like the work of Mother Nature. Now some of the cryptic allusions
and words of the Colonel were beginning to make sense to me. He mentioned that
there were two sides of the bio-chem program were developed for two distinct different

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purpose. One side was to develop lethal weapons that target the elderly and remove
the burden from the Earth as quickly and painlessly as possible, and the second more
obvious and tax-funded part of the program was developing weaponized germs,
viruses, molds, and bacteria that used deadly pathogens to disable the enemy on a
battlefield which not only eliminated the armed soldier from combat, but required on
or two other live bodies to remove, transport, and care for thousands of patients, pitting
a huge and costly logistical nightmare suddenly in the hands of an overwhelmed
enemy. The colonel though the strategy was brilliant but he did not mince any words
when he admitted the following to me…

“Nothing in either program can work without active pathogens, and pathogens my
friend are unpredictable critters. We know how we want and need them to work, but
they seem to have a mind of their own that can reproduce, spread, mutate and kill
faster or slower than expected based on minute variables as little deviations of at
temperature, light, humidity, oxygenation, or contact with a variety if substances
ranging from amino acids, flesh, carbon, heavy metals, etc. In short we often cannot
really predict the primary, secondary, and tertiary side effects, life-cycles, and latency
of the molecular monsters we create” He went on to say that even small experiments
can get out of hand with grave consequences so they must always have feasible and
believable story for the times things go horribly wrong. “We can never admit we have
anything to do with population control or social programming, the newest program that
has become independent of the other two. He admitted two huge blunders that even
killed some staff members when they tried to duplicate a German virus that was similar
to Ebola but far more deadly and unstable

SARS (2002) CORONA VIRUS (2020)

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 Yet another variation of the mutant SARS family of viruses.
called Warburg or Marburg Disease, (I cannot recall the exact name) and another that
was something River Valley Flu that was destroyed by accident while being
transported and killed over 500 people before being blown aloft by winds and killing
thousands of birds and most the honeybee population of America. He said birds and
bees are super sensitive to toxins and even .05 parts per million was enough to kill
millions of the bees.
When I asked about thus “social programming” he just said it was too complicated fpr
me but likened it to releasing a sedative aerosol into the atmosphere that would pacify
normally angry or combative people on a gradual daily basis. Eventually he said, they
would come to accept their new compliant attitudes and passive behavior as normal
and the spraying could be reduced and later stopped altogether. He claimed not to
know much about this because this new part of the program was stripped away from
th e Army and reassigned to an Air Force base somewhere out West.

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When I think about this
“social programming”
he mentioned I would
always wonder if this
had anything to do with
the rumors I was
hearing about the
strange “chemtrails” I
would see in the sky at
times. Years later
when I would speak
with former FBI Supervisor Ted Gunderson from L.A. I would be stunned and
enlightened by just how much the Colonel knew, but from a strictly a scientific
viewpoint. Never again did I have to wonder about rampant flu epidemics nor bizarre
white grid patterns of cloud trails dispersing in the sky. One day the public will find out
about all this stuff and the explanations they get will have to be quite creative I
remember thinking to myself.

The Colonel definitely knew his profession well, but he grudgingly

acknowledged that Dr. Gallo was the expert. The conversation about “The

Bug

Farm” would be the last intelligent conversation I would ever have with the
Colonel. In his effort to explain the many efforts being made to catch up with the

Russians, the good Colonel assured me that “we surpassed them in the late 70s.”

What occurred next was a rather bizarre incident. When we arrived at El

Reno prison in Oklahoma, there were five or six of us put in a temporary

holding cell, a clear signal that we would not be here very long – perhaps

no more than a day or two. When the guards brought us our meal and

dinks, they would not give The Colonel the same cool aid drinks that the

rest of us were drinking.

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They gave him a separate glass of yellowish-green fluid and he did not
protest.
Apparently he knew or liked the stuff. Or simply didn’t think to ask why he

was drinking something different than the rest of us. He made a toast to

all of us that was also quite strange “To the new world order – by any

means necessary”. And then laughed before chugging down his drink.

“What the hell is he talking about? Maybe he is crazy!” I thought to myself.

I had never heard a word about any “New World Order” and would not for

at least another five or six years, about the same time I learned about the

secret Bildeberger Group that Henry Kissinger made famous by his active

participation.

About 20 minutes later the Colonel began acting weird and was swatting
at imaginary bees he said were swarming all around him. He was clearly

hallucinating and then began shouting in a genuine panic. Surprisingly,

there was a med tech in a white lab coat standing just outside the cell with

a video camera taping the entire episode without ever once attempting to

neither help nor sedate the Colonel. It was as if he knew something like

this was going to happen and he was sent to document it. In fact, I recall

that he was standing there from the time the food cart arrived with our

meals and drinks. Finally, the guards removed the colonel from our cell

and led him away. I would never see him again, and today I surely regret

not prying his name from him.

I was so impressed with his drawing that he had gifted it to me. I would

keep it and guard it with poetry I had also written which I always buried

inside my folder of “Legal Papers” which allegedly are “off-limits” to curious

guards. But when my book manuscripts and legal papers were first stolen

from me at the Kenlands in Miami, this treasured art fell into the hands of

Uncle Sam. It truly belonged in a museum. I had planned to include his

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drawing in this book because my brief encounter with “the colonel” was a

very memorable one.

When I previously asked the Colonel why he was on the Magic Bus he

told me that one of the guards told him “it is for your own safety – some
bad guys are looking to find you”. Who were those “bad guys” really - some

reporters?

Only a day after the Colonel was taken away, I was laying down on the

uncomfortable bench in the holding cell trying to catch a quick nap despite

the din of activity, arguments and fights going on. A roll of toilet paper was

my pillow. Sleep was elusive but I was trying my best when I heard some

guard shout “Wake up Weastler”. Since I had my eyes closed I had no

clue he was pointing at me. Another prisoner shook my shoulder “Wake

up dude” . I protested “My name is not Weastler” as I thought there might

be another prisoner napping in the cell. I now heard the cell door opening

but still my eyes were glued shut as I was determined to sleep and find a

better place in a dream – no matter how short that escape might be. I

suddenly felt myself being pulled off the bench and quickly awoke. I was

the feet of a big burly guard who was clearly corn-fed. Again I repeated, “I

am not Weastler” With a bit of sarcasm and humor the guard replied “I beg

to differ good sir” in his thick European accent as he showed me my jail

card (a 5 by 7 inch index card that carried my mug shot and pertinent

persona; details and prison number) In big red letters the word “Whistler”

was printed at the top of the card. You won’t have time to file any BP-10s

here my friend, let’s go. In prisons and jails around the country, guards

label prisoners and flag them in red ink on their jail cards to warn other

guards of potential problems when handling a particular inmate. Labels

like

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“Spitter”, “HIV” or “S” (for snitch – a government informant who has to be

kept separate from other prisoners). Gang members were also flagged to

keep fights and killings to a minimum. But in some prisons bored guards

would actually put 1 or two “Bloods” in cells with “Cryps” just for free

entertainment. For the first time I saw my jail card and frankly was not too

surprised to learn my name to the guards had become “Whistler”. “If only

they knew” I thought and laughed to myself.

By the way, BP-10s are official complaint forms filed by navïe or dumb

prisoners who actually believe someone will care about your problems in

prison. Before I wisened up in prison I filed a record 24 of these forms at

MCC Miami, mostly about my mail and document theft by Foster and

denial of phone access, etc. I would have a good hoot to go back and read

them today. The prison administration hated these forms which only

represented more paperwork for them, but it gave them a chance to be

creative in an otherwise boring and routine job. No matter how well-

documented a complaint would be, and no matter how many eye-

witnesses to abuse or theft you had, there would never be any fault-finding

or wrong-doing of prison staff included in any replies. We once joked that

if we reported the murder of prisoner by a guard the reply would probably

come back as “After a complete and thorough investigation by our security

team, it was discovered the inmate slipped and fell upon his own knife as

he approached the accused guard” Any prisoner who file more than one

of these BP 10s were simply perceived as a “trouble maker” and flagged

as such on their jail cards.

I was taken away for a quick medical exam. The young prison doc

apparently was aware of my hunger strike back in Miami, and asked me

what provoked it.

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I gave him a quick summary. He was

apparently new to the prison system and

was not yet jaded. I spent an hour talking

with him long after he took my blood

pressure and suggested I ask for Lipitor

when I arrived at my destination. When

I asked where that might be he said he

was not allowed to tell me. In only one hour I trusted this guy enough to

relay a message to Ty West. I told him that I did not need to know where

my destination would be, but I asked him to please relay that destination

to Ty West and gave him the telephone number I had memorized. He

promised that he would make the call and wished me luck

After the magic bus finally deposited me at FCI Ashland, after Ty West

had gave up his 90 day quest to interview me. He would tell me later that

his supervisors did not have the budget to cover more trips, and besides,

the elections were over. George H. Bush would be our new President.

Perhaps Liston’s murder and the IRS hit list was no longer worth reporting,

or at least no longer a headline story. I had roughly four months of relative

peace without any abuse at Ashland.

But then one day, I was summoned to admin and told I was being

transferred to another facility. I thought this was quite strange since I had

such a short time

remaining on my prison sentence by now. Even though I should have been

released nine months before (according to my sentencing guidelines) I

now had less than six months remaining after Foster made sure I missed

my probation/parole hearing with this unscheduled bust tour of America.

Why would they send me to yet another prison? I simply asked. The

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young clerk who had no background information on the nature of my case

innocently answered, “To Lake Butner” Without protesting, I casually

asked why. “BOP in Washington wants some medical exams run on you I

was told”. How strange, was I also going to be sent for a “psychiatric

evaluation” and then be certified as “mentally disturbed”. I was genuinely

concerned about this since I had already started writing this book. Was

this book the reason I was being sent to Butner? It was no secret at that

time that I was writing a book as guards found it and had copies made

during a cell search. But at that time I was careful to avoid the chapters

pertaining to prison corruption and had only gotten to Chapter five.

But I was damn lucky. What was perhaps a stroke of good timing on my

behalf took place. Before I was swooped away from Miami on the magic

bus, I had previously submitted a 2255 writ of habeas corpus pro se to the

Southern District Court of Florida. This motion would require a hearing that

would compel my appearance in Florida. Three days before I was

supposed to be shipped to North Carolina, a judge in Florida issued a court

order to have me transferred to Florida for the hearing I had requested. I

breathed a heavy sigh of relief as I envisioned myself also getting addicted

to whatever drugs the Colonel was drinking in that fluid that looked like

Gatorade. Had I been sent off to Lake

Butner I would surely have been labeled as “mentally dysfunctional” and

what little credibility I had left would be gone forever.

I now reflected back upon that visit I would receive from reporter Susan

Candiotti from WPLG Channel 10 TV. I had been drugged for that

interview, and now wonder if she thought I was the really the drug addict

that I heard someone mention when she asked about my condition. I talk

about this event in a another chapter. The point I wish to make here is that

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the government has the resources to transform fiction into fact and vice

versa. Only the most astute Americans can find the true reality

independently online, and only if they are so inclined and have the time to

browse online rather than plop themselves down in front of a TV and get

a spoon-feeding of diversionary or fake-news from the

MSM (mainstream media). Visit

https://www.scam.com/showthread.php?704348-Help-Expose-The-MSM-
(Main-Stream-Media)-Deception-Send-this-link-to-your-friends

There were many attempts to “break” my spirit and while I was jailed in

solitary confinement that ranged from prolonged isolation, to sleep

deprivation for 72 hours, to drugging, to what I call psychological torture

(i.e. telling me that my mother died and it was a shame I could not attend

her funeral, when in fact she was fine, living at home and only wondering

why I had not called her in two months) During my sleep deprivation

treatment, I was also burned with cigarettes on my arms to wake me if I

dozed off and when even that did not bother me anymore, buckets of cold

water or freezing CO2 fire extinguishers would be used. Even though the

weather in Miami is tropical, the solitary confinement unit is air conditioned

and kept at about 8-12 degrees Celsius. When they keep you naked in a

concrete cell with a bed made from steel and take away your mattress and

bedding, hypothermia is a daily occurrence for some. The cold bothered

me the most as well as the confined space. Even before I came to prison

I was a border-line Claustrophobic and became one while in solitary

confinement. Everyone has a breaking point and mine was growing very

close. Shivering, hungry, and extremely longing my friends and family, I

was close to giving in and signing whatever they wanted when in a strange

twist of fate, I was saved by the magic bus ride. During all that abuse I

mentally escaped by taking my mind to more pleasant places – memories

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of my past scuba diving in Puerto Rico, times spent with my first love

Karen, Horseback riding in Ohio, etc. I can only imagine the horror those

Iraqis went through at Abu Ghraib. I only got a small taste of the abuse

they were subjected to and it was truly hell on Earth for me.

See: https://afewthoughtsfrombruce.wordpress.com/category/torture.

Note to Editor: Repagination required when merged with final

draft and second draft

Insert statements of EI, Mr. B, Ms. G. Dr. Palandi

JH and GB here

INSERT 21A3-

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Also see the other sworn affidavits of witnesses Gary Betzner (aka Gary

Erbe) and BOB Officer Browning at

http://whyunclesamhatesbruce.blogspot.com.
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BTW… I can now easily understand why and how Bradley Manning was

most probably coerced into accepting a guilty plea after he also spent

almost a year in solitary confinement and led to believe his situation was

hopeless. That boy was psychologically abused until he conceded and

needs to be thoroughly interviewed by an independent psychologist from

the Red Cross and a reporter who has the courage and integrity to collect

and document the truth.

Wherever he may be today, I hope the Colonel learned how to save

himself with his own mind – or what may be left of it. He was roughly in his

mid 50s when we met, so there is a slight chance he may still be alive.

Dr. Robert Gallo Dr. Leonard Horowitz

As a final note, I was counseling an angry AIDS patient one day in 1992

in Miami after she just learned she had been infected by her ex three years

ago, and he never bothered to inform her, apparently fearing a law suit

from her lawyer father. Not surprisingly, patients who learn of their

infection do a lot of reading and research on the disease, and this young

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 lady in her late 20s was no exception. She asked me if I knew Dr. Horowitz

from Harvard Medical school, and frankly, at that time I did not. She then

pulled a piece of paper from her purse, and thrust it at me with almost a

command “You need to meet and talk with this man” she said. “Why did

he find a cure?” I asked with some skepticism. “Not exactly” she said, “He

found the real source of AIDS, and it ain’t from some fucking monkey!” As

an AIDS counselor I hear many similar comments from people who just

need to blame someone for their misery. “Okay, I replied, what’s his

theory?” “Read for yourself she said. “Some Dr. Gallo from the

government made this shit to be a weapon”. I had immediate brain freeze

upon hearing this and then copied her web site which led me to two more

and flashbacks off the “crazy Colonel” haunted me for over two weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amXSy7ZDhsI

http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2016/07/dr-robert-gallo-admits-he-created-
aids-to-deliberately-depopulate-humanity.html

https://rense.com/general81/aidsre.htm

As time passed the graphic details of the Colonel’s stories lingered in my thoughts
long after I was released from MCC Miami, and as I began hearing stories about
chemtrails on Coast to Coast Radio, I decided to research all that the Colonel had
shared with me about the human experimentation. To be blunt I was horrified what I
was turning upon the Internet. Within just one week of online research I discovered
the unthinkable was in fact reality – the U.S. government, primarily through the U.S.
Defense Department and the U.S. Army had conducted over a dozen grotesque and
unethical/illegal human bio-chemical warfare experiments both abroad in Africa,
Guatemala, Europe, as well as here at home on America’s own soldiers, university
students etc.

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The Army’s infamous mustard gas experiments subjected 11,000 American soldiers
to third and second degree chemical burns and cancer under the false pretense of
testing the new Army gas masks, when in fact the research was focused on the degree
of human debilitation the mustard gas would cause and in what time frame. The Army
didn’t bother asking for consent from the 1,200 soldiers it exposed in Panama in 1942.

Mustard Gas Experiments 1938 - 1942

Unfortunately, this horror story did not become public until 1993 more than 50 years
after the atrocity took place.

For two years (1946- 1948) The U.S. government deliberately and again, under the
facade of vaccinating foreign citizens, injected STDs into several hundred
Guatemalans. The project was designed to measure and reduce the spread of
gonorrhea and syphilis amongst U.S. soldiers fighting abroad. The syphilis
experiments in Guatemala were United States-led human experiments conducted in
Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. The experiments were led by physician John Charles
Cutler who also participated in the late stages of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
Doctors infected soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and
other sexually transmitted diseases, without the informed consent of the subjects. The
experiment resulted in at least 83 deaths. Serology studies continued through 1953

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involving the same vulnerable populations in addition to children from state-run
schools, an orphanage, and rural towns, though the intentional infection of patients
ended with the original study. On October 1, 2010, the U.S. President, Secretary of
State and Secretary of Health and Human Services formally apologized to Guatemala
for the ethical violations that took place. Guatemala condemned the experiment as a
crime against humanity, and a lawsuit has since been filed

In total, 1,308 people were involved in this experiment, and of this group, 678
individuals were documented as getting some form of treatment. This population
consisted of commercial sex workers, prisoners, soldiers, and mental hospital
patients. Their ages ranged from 10 to 72, though the average subject was in their
20s. A documented subject profile provides a detailed description of what the subjects
faced within this experiment:

Psoriasis and syphilis; lesions on face and body, 1866 Wellcome V0010104

Berta was a female patient in the Psychiatric Hospital... in February 1948, Berta was
injected in her left arm with syphilis. A month later, she developed scabies (an itchy
skin infection cause by a mite). Several weeks later, Dr. Cutler noted that she also
developed red bumps where he had injected her arm, lesions on her arms and legs,
and her skin was beginning to waste away from her body. Berta was not treated for
syphilis until three months after her injection. Soon after, on August 23, Dr. Cutler
wrote that Berta appeared as if she was going to die, but he did not specify why. That
same day he put gonorrheal pus from another male subject into both of Berta's eyes,
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as well as in her urethra and rectum. He also re-infected her with syphilis. Several
days later, Berta's eyes were filled with pus from the gonorrhea, and she was bleeding
from her urethra. Three days later, on August 27, Berta died.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledges that "the design and
conduct of the studies was unethical in many respects, including deliberate exposure
of subjects to known serious health threats, lack of knowledge of and consent for
experimental procedures by study subjects, and the use of highly vulnerable
populations."[11] A total of 83 subjects died, though the exact relationship to the
experiment remains undocumented. In 2010, President Obama and Hillary Clinton
were compelled to apologize to President Alvaro of Guatemala.

In March 2011, seven plaintiffs filed a federal class action lawsuit against the U.S.
government claiming damages for the Guatemala experiments. This case argued that
the United States was at fault due to not asking for consent. This lawsuit asked for
money to compensate for medical damages and livelihood because most of the
families were living in poverty. The case failed when a judge determined that the U.S.
government could not be held liable for actions committed outside of the U.S.

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In April 2015, 774 plaintiffs launched a lawsuit against Johns Hopkins University, the
pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, and the Rockefeller Foundation
seeking $1 billion for damages. The hope was that compensation could be attained by
targeting private institutions rather than the federal government.

MK ULTRA PROJECT

I then found evidence that the U.S. Government was even drugging thousands of
citizens with LSD and other mind-altering drugs without the knowledge nor consent of
the victims, in an effort to see if they could obtain mind control of foreign spies and
captured prisoners. Wikipedia offers the best summary on this “MK ULTRA”
program… In 1964, MKSEARCH was the name given to the continuation of the
MKULTRA program. The MKSEARCH program was divided into two projects dubbed
MKOFTEN/CHICKWIT. Funding for MKSEARCH commenced in 1965, and ended in
1971. The project was a joint project between The U.S. Army Chemical Corps and the
CIA's Office of Research and Development to find new offensive-use agents, with a
focus on incapacitating agents. Its purpose was to develop, test, and evaluate
capabilities in the covert use of biological, chemical, and radioactive material systems
and techniques of producing predictable human behavioral and/or physiological
changes in support of highly sensitive operational requirements.

By March 1971 over 26,000 potential agents had been acquired for future screening.
The CIA was interested in bird migration patterns for chemical & biological warfare
(CBW) research; subproject 139 designated "Bird Disease Studies" at Penn State.

MKOFTEN was to deal with testing and toxicological transmissivity and behavioral
effects of drugs in animals and, ultimately, humans.

MKCHICKWIT was concerned with acquiring information on new drug developments

in Europe and Asia, and with acquiring samples.

Experiments on Americans

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CIA documents suggest that they investigated "chemical, biological, and radiological"
methods of mind control as part of MKUltra. They spent an estimated $10 million or
more, roughly $87.5 million adjusted for inflation

Early CIA efforts focused on LSD-25, which later came to dominate many of MKUltra's
programs. The CIA wanted to know if they could make Soviet spies defect against
their will and whether the Soviets could do the same to the CIA's own operatives.

Once Project MKUltra got underway in April 1953, experiments included administering
LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts, and sex workers—"people who could
not fight back," as one agency officer put it. In one case, they administered LSD to a
mental patient in Kentucky for 174 days. They also administered LSD to CIA
employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the
general public to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were often administered
without the subject's knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg
Code the U.S. had agreed to follow after World War II. The aim of this was to find
drugs which would bring out deep confessions or wipe a subject's mind clean and
program him or her as "a robot agent."

In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels within agency safe
houses in San Francisco, California, to obtain a selection of men who would be too
embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels
were equipped with one-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing
and study. In other experiments where people were given LSD without their
knowledge, they were interrogated under bright lights with doctors in the background
taking notes. They told subjects they would extend their "trips" if they refused to reveal
their secrets. The people under this interrogation were CIA employees, U.S. military
personnel, and agents suspected of working for the other side in the Cold War. Long-
term debilitation and several deaths resulted from this.[47] Heroin addicts were bribed
into taking LSD with offers of more heroin.

LSD was slipped into deputy U.S. marshal Wayne Ritchie's drink of bourbon and soda.
He had a bad LSD trip that culminated in his holding up the bar at gunpoint. Ritchie
was fired and only decades later, in 1999, learned he had been the subject of secret
drug testing. He was one of many test subjects.

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At the invitation of Stanford psychology graduate student Vik Lovell, an acquaintance
of Richard Alpert and Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey volunteered to take part in what
turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of MKUltra,[ at the Menlo Park
Veterans' Hospital where he worked as a night aide.[52] The project studied the effects
of psychoactive drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT and
DMT on people.

The Office of Security used LSD in interrogations, but Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist
who directed MKUltra, had other ideas: he thought it could be used in covert
operations. Since its effects were temporary, he believed one could give it to high-
ranking officials and in this way affect the course of important meetings, speeches,
etc. Since he realized there was a difference in testing the drug in a laboratory and
using it in clandestine operations, he initiated a series of experiments where LSD was
given to people in "normal" settings without warning. At first, everyone in Technical
Services tried it; a typical experiment involved two people in a room where they
observed each other for hours and took notes. As the experimentation progressed, a
point arrived where outsiders were drugged with no explanation whatsoever and
surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA
operatives. Adverse reactions often occurred, such as an operative who received the
drug in his morning coffee, became psychotic and ran across Washington, seeing a
monster in every car passing him. The experiments continued even after Dr. Frank
Olson, an army chemist who had never taken LSD, was covertly dosed by his CIA
supervisor and nine days later plunged to his death from the window of a 13th-story
New York City hotel room, supposedly as a result of deep depression induced by the
drug. According to Stephen Kinzer, Olson had approached his superiors some time
earlier, doubting the morality of the project, and asked to resign from the CIA.

Some subjects' participation was consensual, and in these cases they appeared to be
singled out for even more extreme experiments. In one case, seven volunteers in
Kentucky were given LSD for seventy-seven consecutive days.

MK Ultra's researchers later dismissed LSD as too unpredictable in its results. They
gave up on the notion that LSD was "the secret that was going to unlock the universe,"
but it still had a place in the cloak-and-dagger arsenal. However, by 1962 the CIA and
the army developed a series of super-hallucinogens such as the highly touted BZ,
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the withdrawal of support by many academics and private researchers, and LSD
research became less of a priority altogether.

After reading about the MK Ultra program I now had no doubt that there was n moral,
ethical, nor legal boundary the U.S. government wouldn’t cross for the sake of
obtaining military superiority of even the slightest advantage. In short, NOTHING
surprised me anymore as the Colonel’s horror stories raced through my head.

Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male

This was a clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States
Public Health Service. The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of
untreated syphilis; the African American men in the study were only told they were
receiving free health care from the Federal government of the United States.

Public Health Service started working on this study in 1932 in collaboration with
Tuskegee University, a historically black college in Alabama. Investigators enrolled in
the study a

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Alabama. Of these men, 399 had latent syphilis and 201 did not have the disease.[2]
The men were given free medical care, meals and free burial insurance for
participating in the study. The men were told that the study was only going to last six
months, but it actually lasted 40 years. After funding for treatment was lost, the study
was continued without informing the men that they would never be treated. None of
the men were told that they had the disease, and none were treated with penicillin
even after the antibiotic was proven to successfully treat syphilis. According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the men were told that they were being
treated for "bad blood", a colloquialism that described various conditions such as
syphilis, anemia and fatigue. "Bad blood"—specifically the collection of illnesses the
term included—was a leading cause of death within the southern African American
community.

The 40-year Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male study was a
major violation of ethical standards. Researchers knowingly failed to treat patients
appropriately after the 1940s validation of penicillin was found as an effective cure for
the disease that they were studying. The revelation in 1972 of study failures by a
whistleblower, Peter Buxtun, led to major changes in U.S. law and regulation on the
protection of participants in clinical studies. Now studies require informed consent,[4]
communication of diagnosis and accurate reporting of test results.

By 1947, penicillin had become the standard treatment for syphilis. Choices available
to the doctors involved in the study might have included treating all syphilitic subjects
and closing the study, or splitting off a control group for testing with penicillin. Instead,
the Tuskegee scientists continued the study without treating any participants; they
withheld penicillin and information about it from the patients. In addition, scientists
prevented participants from accessing syphilis treatment programs available to other
residents in the area.[6] The study continued, under numerous Public Health Service
supervisors, until 1972, when a leak to the press resulted in its termination on
November 16 of that year. The victims of the study, all African American, included
numerous men who died of syphilis, 40 wives who contracted the disease and 19
children born with congenital syphilis.

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Tuskegee Syphilis Study, cited as "arguably the most infamous biomedical research
study in U.S. history", led to the 1979 Belmont Report and to the establishment of the
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP). It also led to federal laws and
regulations requiring institutional review boards for the protection of human subjects
in studies involving them. The OHRP manages this responsibility within the United
States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

None of the victims were ever told the truth of the real purpose of the “tests”. Nobody
in those days would ever think our own government would endanger the lives of our
own citizens.

On May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized on behalf of the United
States to victims of the experiment. Law suits are still dragging on 50 years later.

Secretly Spraying Thousands Of St. Louis Citizens With Radiation

(From The Daily Mail)

The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St.
Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has
claimed.

While it was known that the government sprayed 'harmless' zinc cadmium silfide
particles over the general population in St Louis, Professor Lisa Martino-Taylor, a
sociologist at St. Louis Community College, claims that a radioactive additive was also
mixed with the compound.

She has accrued detailed descriptions as well as photographs of the spraying which
exposed the unwitting public, predominantly in low-income and minority communities,
to radioactive particles.

'The study was secretive for reason. They didn't have volunteers stepping up and
saying yeah, I'll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles,' said Professor
Martino-Taylor to KSDK.

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Through her research, she found photographs of how the particles were distributed
from 1953-1954 and 1963-1965. Watch the YouTube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQSO8t4c6s4

In Corpus Christi, the chemical was dropped from airplanes over large swathes of
city. In St Louis, the Army put chemical sprayers on buildings, like schools and public
housing projects, and mounted them in station wagons for mobile use.

Despite the extent of the experiment, local politicians were not notified about the
content of the testing. The people of St Louis were told that the Army was testing
smoke screens to protect cities from a Russian attack.

'It was pretty shocking. The level of duplicity and secrecy. Clearly they went to great
lengths to deceive people,' Professor Martino-Taylor said.

She accrued hundreds of pages of

declassified information, which she has
made available online.

In her research, she found that the

greatest concentration of spraying in St
Louis was at the Pruitt-Igoe public
housing complex, which was home to
10,000 low income residents. She said
that 70 per cent of those residents were
children under the age of 12.

Professor Martino-Taylor became

interested in the topic after hearing
independent reports of cancers among
city residents living in those areas at the
time.

'This was a violation of all medical ethics, all international codes, and the military's own
policy at that time,' said Professor Martino-Taylor.

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'US Radium had this reputation where they had been found legally liable for producing
a radioactive powdered paint that killed many young women who painted fluorescent
watch tiles,' said Professor Martino-Taylor.

In her findings, one of the compounds that was sprayed upon the public was called
'FP2266', according to the army's documents, and was manufactured by US Radium.
The compound, also known as Radium 226, was the same one that killed and
sickened many of the US Radium workers.

The Army has admitted that it added a fluorescent substance to the 'harmless'
compound, but whether or not the additive was radioactive remains classified.

Professor Martino-Taylor has not been able to find if the Army ever followed up on the
long term health of the residents exposed to the compound. In 1972, the government
destroyed the Pruitt-Igoe houses.

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Upon learning of the professor's findings, Missouri lawmakers called on the Army to
detail the tests.

'I share and understand the renewed anxiety of members of the St. Louis communities
that were exposed to the spraying of (the chemicals) as part of Army tests during the
Cold War,' Senator Claire McCaskill wrote to Army Secretary John McHugh.

'The impacted communities were not informed of the tests at the time and are
reasonably anxious about the long term health impacts the tests may have had on
those exposed to the airborne chemicals.'

Senator Roy Blunt called the findings 'absolutely shocking.'

'The idea that thousands of Missourians were unwillingly exposed to harmful materials
in order to determine their health effects is absolutely shocking. It should come as no
surprise that these individuals and their families are demanding answers of
government officials,' Senator Blunt said.

The Manhattan Project

In 1943 the U.S. Military wanted to know the effects of radiation on human beings
because they were developing America’s nuclear bomb. Eventually, hundreds of
people, including 57 mentally handicapped children in Massachusetts and more than
100 disabled adults in Chicago, were fed or injected with plutonium, which holds the
distinction of being one of the most dangerous substances in the world for human
health.

From 1951 to the early 1970s, the Manhattan Project, later reorganized as the Atomic
Energy Commission, gathered exposure data and tracked the fates (most of them
really bad) of the unwitting test subjects. Many of the files on this research are still
classified and therefore unavailable to potential plaintiffs in lawsuits.

The idea seems to wait until the last test subject in the human experiments dies before
releasing them. Given the nature of the research, it may not be a long wait.

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AGENT ORANGE & DIOXIN TESTING

Compliments of By Richard Stockton

Published October 24, 2017

In 1965, dermatologist Dr. Albert Kligman got a hefty $10,000 grant to study various
chemicals on behalf of Dow Corning, Johnson & Johnson, and the U.S. Army. His
particular brief was to observe how human skin reacts to harsh chemicals, a process
known as “hardening,” though he also tested psychoactive drugs as well.

The specific chemicals he was to test, and many of the other details about his work,
are lost to history. In 1981, it was discovered that all of his notes and records had been
destroyed, but we do know he drew test subjects from Holmesburg Prison in
Pennsylvania, where he described the inmates like so:

“All I saw before me were acres of skin … It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for
the first time.”

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Wikimedia Commons Dr. Albert Kligman described his non-consenting prisoners as
“acres of skin” to experiment on.

One of the chemicals we know that Dr. Kligman was testing was dioxin, the active
ingredient in Agent Orange.

At the time, the military was crop dusting half of Vietnam with the stuff, and people in
the spray zones were exposed over and over. The Pentagon was interested in what
would happen to them, as was Dow, the manufacturer of Agent Orange.

To speed up his research in the human experiments, Dr. Kligman injected his victims
with a reported 468 times the recommended “safe” dose of dioxin, which is known to
work as a blister agent and systemic toxin. His eventual findings, if any, are not known.

We also don’t really know what happened to the prisoners he poisoned – their names
were among the records that Kligman destroyed to cheat justice. In the event, the
doctor had the good taste to die from natural causes before the inevitable lawsuit, so
he never had to answer for what he’d done.

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The Military Poison Tests

Compliments of By Richard Stockton

Wikimedia CommonsAn American C-119 “Boxcar,” of the sort used to dust the
Midwest with bacteria.

As early as 1942, people in the War Department whose job was to be paranoid about
security were worried about how wide-open and vulnerable the United States was. On
their recommendation, President Roosevelt created America’s first biological warfare
bureau, officially to study the country’s vulnerabilities and devise an appropriate
response, should Japan, Germany, or, later, the Soviet Union ever get the idea to
spray some germs around the U.S.

Unfortunately, the bureau’s method of “assessing vulnerability” was to covertly attack

those perceived vulnerabilities with germ warfare of its own. Over a period lasting 20
years, from 1949 to 1969, well-intentioned officials working for the Department of
Defense repeatedly doused whole cities across America with chemicals, bacteria, and
fungal spores that they were pretty sure would be mostly harmless.

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One of the earliest (of more than 200) tests took place in September 1950, when a
U.S. Navy ship near San Francisco hoisted its fire hose and sprayed tons of bacteria
into a bank of fog that was drifting over the city.

Later, government officials checked in with local hospitals to see how many people
had been infected. It turned out to be thousands, and one of them may have died as
a result, but the human experiments kept going.

To get more data about how a biological attack might spread, project planners dusted
rural areas with potentially carcinogenic cadmium, including several schools in
Minneapolis. They went with a cover story that the military was experimenting with
shrouding cities in smokescreens in case of nuclear attack.

In New York, in 1966, agents threw light bulbs filled with bacteria onto the subway
tracks to see if the whoosh of air from the trains would spread the contaminants. It
turns out it would – samples dropped at 14th Street were found as far away as the
59th Street station.

The bacteria, Bacillus globigii, a pathogen that causes food poisoning, also coated the
clothes, skin, and hair of subway passengers. None of the people who were exposed
knew what was going on, and nobody was ever punished for these human
experiments.

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