Science is harmful to your Health
These articles are particularly disturbing in their implications. The first
is lengthy, but worth the read.
The original is at:
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html
The two short articles that follow it illustrate that this is a story that
is continuing to unfold. They can be found at:
http://9news.com/storyfull.asp?id=1519
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1896000/189 6661.stm
A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your Health (Revised - updated)
DEATH TOLL MOUNTING AS CONNECTIONS TO DYNCORP, HADRON, PROMIS SOFTWARE AND
DISEASE RESEARCH EMERGE
by Michael Davidson, FTW staff writer and Michael C. Ruppert
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[ED. NOTE: As FTW has begun to investigate serious discussions by legitimate
scientists and academics on the possible necessity of reducing the world's
population by more than four billion people, no stranger set of
circumstances since Sept. 11 adds credibility to this possibility than the
suspicious deaths of what may be as many as 14 world-class microbiologists.
Following on the heels of our two-part series on the coming world oil
crisis, this story by Michael Davidson, a graduate of the Syracuse
University School of Journalism, is one which takes on a unique significance.
In our original story we incorrectly reported the original date of
disappearance of Don Wiley and two other microbiologists. These errors have
been corrected and we have updated the story to include new deaths that have
occurred since we published an earlier version on Feb. 14. The newest
connections to DynCorp, Hadron and PROMIS software are leads an amateur
would not miss. How else would any microbiologists threatening an ultra
secret government biological weapons program be identified than by secretly
scanning their databases to see what they were working on? -- MCR]
Feb. 28, 2002 -- In the four-month period from Nov. 12 through Feb. 11,
seven world-class microbiologists in different parts of the world were
reported dead. Six died of "unnatural" causes, while the cause of the
seventh's death is questionable. Also on Nov. 12, DynCorp, a major
government contractor for data processing, military operations and
intelligence work, was awarded a $322 million contract to develop, produce
and store vaccines for the Department of Defense. DynCorp and Hadron, both
defense contractors connected to classified research programs on
communicable diseases, have also been linked to a software program known as
PROMIS, which may have helped identify and target the victims.
In the six weeks prior to Nov. 12, two additional foreign microbiologists
were reported dead. Some believe there were as many as five more
microbiologists killed during the period, bringing the total as high as 14.
These two to seven additional deaths, however, are not the focus of this story.
This same period also saw the deaths of three persons involved in medical
research or public health.
· On Nov. 12, Benito Que, 52, was found comatose in the street near the
laboratory where he worked at the University of Miami Medical School. He
died on Dec. 6.
· On Nov. 16, Don C. Wiley, 57, vanished, and his abandoned rental car was
found on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was
found on Dec. 20.
· On Nov. 23, Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, was found dead in Wiltshire, England,
not far from his home.
· On Dec. 10, Robert Schwartz, 57, was found murdered in his rural home in
Loudoun County, Va.
· On Dec, 11, Set Van Nguyen, 44, was found dead in the airlock entrance to
a walk-in refrigerator in the laboratory where he worked in Victoria State,
Australia.
· On Feb. 8, Vladimir Korshunov, 56, was found dead on a Moscow street.
· And on Feb. 11, Ian Langford, 40, was found dead in his home in Norwich,
England.
OOPS!
Prior to these deaths, on Oct. 4, a commercial jetliner traveling from
Israel to Novosibirsk, Siberia was shot down over the Black Sea by an
"errant" Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, killing all on board. The missile
was over 100 miles off-course. Despite early news stories reporting it as a
charter, the flight, Air Sibir 1812, was a regularly scheduled flight.
According to several press reports, including a Dec. 5 article by Barry
Chamish and one on Jan. 13 by Jim Rarey (both available at www.rense.com),
the plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as five
passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are homes
for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the
scientific capital of Siberia, and home to over 50 research facilities and
13 full universities for a population of only 2.5 million people.
At the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding
the alarm that two Israeli microbiologists had been recently murdered,
allegedly by terrorists. On Nov. 24 a Swissair flight from Berlin to Zurich
crashed on its landing approach. Of the 33 persons on board, 24 were killed,
including the head of the hematology department at Israel's Ichilov
Hospital, as well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and
Hebrew University School of Medicine. They were the only Israelis on the
flight. The names of those killed, as reported in a subsequent Israeli news
story but not matched to their job titles, were Avishai Berkman, Amiramp
Eldor and Yaacov Matzner.
Besides all being microbiologists, six of the seven scientists who died
within weeks of each other died from "unnatural" causes. And four of the
seven were doing virtually identical research -- research that has global,
political and financial significance.
QUE PASA?
The public relations office at the University of Miami Medical School said
only that Benito Que was a cell biologist, involved in oncology research in
the hematology department. This research relies heavily on DNA sequencing
studies. The circumstances of his death raise more questions than they answer.
Que had left his job at a research laboratory at the University of Miami
Medical School, apparently heading for his Ford Explorer parked on NW 10th
Avenue. The Miami Herald, referring to the death as an "incident," reported
he had no wallet on him, and quoted Miami police as saying his death may
have been the result of a mugging. Police made this statement while at the
same time saying there was a lack of visible trauma to Que's body. There is
firm belief among Que's friends and family that the PhD was attacked by four
men, at least one of whom had a baseball bat. Que's death has now been
officially ruled "natural", caused by cardiac arrest. Both the Dade County
medical examiner and the Miami Police would not comment on the case, saying
only that it is closed.
A MEMPHIS MYSTERY
Don C. Wiley of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University,
was one of the most prominent microbiologists in the world. He had won many
of the field's most prestigious awards, including the 1995 Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award for work that could make anti-viral vaccines a
reality. He was heavily involved in research on DNA sequencing. Wiley was
last seen around midnight on Nov. 15, leaving the St. Jude's Children's
Research Advisory dinner held at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn.
Associates attending the dinner said he showed no signs of intoxication, and
no one has admitted to drinking with him.
His rented Mitsubishi Galant was found about four hours later, abandoned on
a bridge across the Mississippi River, headed towards Arkansas. Keys were in
the ignition, the gas tank full, and the hazard flashers had not been turned
on.
Wiley's body was found on Dec. 20, snagged on a tree along the Mississippi
River in Vidalia, La., 300 miles south of Memphis. Until his body was found,
Dr. Wiley's death was handled as a missing person case, and police did no
forensic examinations.
Early reports about Wiley's disappearance made no mention of paint marks on
his car or a missing hubcap, which turned up in subsequent reports. The type
of accident needed to knock off the hubcaps (actually a complete wheel
cover) used on recent model Galants would have caused noticeable damage to
the sheet metal on either side of the wheel, and probably the wheel itself.
No damage to the car's body or wheel has been reported.
Wiley's car was found about a five-minute drive from the hotel where he was
last seen. There is a four-hour period in his evening that cannot be
accounted for. There is also no explanation as to why he would have been
headed into Arkansas late at night. Wiley was staying at his father's home
in Memphis.
The Hernando de Soto Bridge carries Interstate 40 out of Memphis, across the
Mississippi River into Arkansas. The traffic on the bridge was reduced to a
single lane in each direction. This would have caused westbound traffic out
of Memphis to slow down and travel in one lane. Anything in the other two
closed lanes would have been plainly obvious to every passing person. There
are no known witnesses to Wiley stopping his car on the bridge.
On Jan. 14, almost two months after his disappearance, Shelby County Medical
Examiner O.C. Smith announced that his department had ruled Wiley's death to
be "accidental"; the result of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the
Hernando de Soto Bridge. Smith said there were paint marks on Wiley's rental
car similar to the paint used on construction signs on the bridge, and that
the car's right front hubcap was missing. There has been no report as to
which construction signs Wiley hit. There is also no explanation as to why
this evidence did not move the Memphis police to consider possibilities
other than a "missing person."
Smith theorizes that Wiley pulled over to the outermost lane of the bridge
(that lane being closed at the time) to inspect the damage to his car.
Smith's subsequent explanation for the fall requires several other things to
have occurred simultaneously:
· Wiley had to have had one of the two or three seizures he has per year due
to a rare disorder known only to family and close friends, that seizure
being brought on by use of alcohol earlier that evening;
· A passing truck creating a huge blast of wind and/or roadway bounce due to
heavy traffic; and,
· Wiley had to be standing on the curb next to the guardrail which, because
of Wiley's 6-foot-3-inch height, would have come only to his mid-thigh.
These conditions would have put Wiley's center of gravity above the rail,
and the seizure would have caused him to lose his balance as the truck
created the bounce and blast of wind, thus causing him to fall off the bridge.
SCIENCE IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD?
Robert M. Schwartz was a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology
Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at
Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. He was extremely well respected
in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA sequencing.
Co-workers became concerned when he didn't show up at his office on Dec. 10.
He was later found dead at his home. Loudoun County Sheriff's officials said
Schwartz was stabbed on Dec. 8 with a sword, and had an "X" cut into the
back of his neck.
Schwartz's daughter Clara, 19, and three others have been charged in the
case. The four are said to have a fascination with fantasy worlds,
witchcraft, and the occult. Kyle Hulbert, 18, who allegedly committed the
murder, has a history of mental illness, and is reported by the Washington
Post to have killed Schwartz to prevent the murder of Clara. At the request
of Clara Schwartz's attorneys, on Feb. 13 Judge Pamela Grizzle ordered all
new evidence introduced about her role in the case to be sealed. She also
issued a temporary gag order covering the entire case on police, prosecutors
and defense attorneys.
BREATHE DEEPLY, AND CARRY A BIG STICK
Set Van Nguyen was found dead on Dec. 11 at the Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization's animal diseases facility in Geelong,
Australia. He had worked there 15 years. According to an article on
www.rense.com by Ian Gurney, in Jan. 20001 the magazine Nature published
information that two scientists at this facility, using genetic manipulation
and DNA sequencing, had created an incredibly virulent form of mousepox, a
cousin of smallpox. The researchers were extremely concerned that if similar
manipulation could be done to smallpox, a terrifying weapon could be
unleashed.
According to Victoria Police, Nguyen died after entering a refrigerated
storage facility. "He did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had
leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Unable to breathe, Mr. Nguyen
collapsed and died", is the official report.
Nitrogen is not a "deadly" gas, and is a part of air. An extreme
over-abundance of nitrogen in one's immediate atmosphere would cause
shortness of breath, lightheadedness, and fatigue -- conditions a biologist
would certainly recognize. Additionally, a leak sufficient to fill the room
with nitrogen would set off alerts, and would be so massive as to cause a
complete loss of cooling, causing the temperature to rise, which would also
set off alerts these systems are routinely equipped with.
A RUSSIAN, BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AND OLD CORPSES
In 1989, Vladimir Pasechnik defected from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to
Great Britain while on a trip to Paris. He had been the top scientist in the
FSU's bioweapons program, which is heavily dependent upon DNA sequencing.
Pasechnik's death was reported in the New York Times as having occurred on
Nov. 23.
The Times obituary indicated that the announcement of Pasechnik's death was
made in the United States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated
that the cause of death was a stroke. Davis was the member of British
intelligence who de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection.
Davis says he left the intelligence service in 1996, but when asked why a
former member of British intelligence would be the person announcing the
death of Pasechnik to the US media, he replied that it had come about during
a conversation with a reporter he had had a long relationship with. The
reporter Davis named is not the author of the Times' obituary, and Davis
declined to say which branch of British intelligence he served in. No
reports of Pasechnik's death appeared in Britain for more than a month,
until Dec. 29, when his obituary appeared in the London Telegraph, which did
not include a date of death.
Pasechnik spent the 10 years after his defection working at the Centre for
Applied Microbiology and Research at the UK Department of Health, Salisbury.
On Feb. 20, 2000, it was announced that, along with partner Caisey
Harlingten, Pasechnik had formed a company called Regma Biotechnologies Ltd.
Regma describes itself as "a new drug company working to provide powerful
alternatives to antibiotics." Like three other microbiologists detailed in
this article, Pasechnik was heavily involved in DNA sequencing research.
During the anthrax panic of this past fall, Pasechnik offered his services
to the British government to help in any way possible. Despite Regma having
a public relations department that has released many items to the press over
the past two years, the company has not announced the death of one of its
two founders.
FEBRUARY, BLOODY FEBRUARY
On Feb. 9 the news publication Pravda.ru reported that Victor Korshunov had
been killed. At the time, Korshunov was head of the microbiology
sub-facility at the Russian State Medical University. He was found dead in
the entrance to his home with a cranial injury. Pravda reports that
Korshunov had probably invented either a vaccine to protect against
biological weapons, or a weapon itself.
On Feb. 12 a newspaper in Norwich, England reported the previous day's death
of Ian Langford, a senior researcher at the University of East Anglia. The
story went on to say that police "were not treating the death as
suspicious." The next day, Britain's The Times reported that Langford was
found wedged under a chair "at his blood-spattered and apparently ransacked
home."
The February 12 story, from the Eastern Daily Press, reports that clerks at
a store near Langford's home claim he came in on a daily basis to buy "a big
bottle of vodka." Two of the store's staff also claim Langford had come into
the store a few days earlier wearing "just a jumper and a pair of shoes."
None of the store's staff would give their name.
It is hard to understand how a man can reach the highest levels of
achievement in a scientific field while drinking "a big bottle of vodka" on
a daily basis, and strolling around his hometown nearly nude. A Feb. 14
follow-up story from the Eastern Daily Press says police believe Langford
died after suffering "one or more falls." They say this would account for
his head injuries and large amount of blood found at the death scene.
THE HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE -- ANOTHER LINK?
There is another intriguing connection between three of the five American
scientists that have died. Wiley, Schwartz, and Benito Que worked for
medical research facilities that received grants from Howard Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI). HHMI funds a tremendous number of research programs at
schools, hospitals and research facilities, and has long been alleged to be
conducting "black ops" biomedical research for intelligence organizations,
including the CIA.
Long-time biowarfare investigator Patricia Dole, Ph.D.
reports that there is a history of people connected to HHMI being murdered.
In 1994, Jose Trias met with a friend in Houston, Texas and was planning to
go public with his personal knowledge of HHMI "front door" grants being
diverted to "back door" black ops bioresearch. The next day, Trias and his
wife were found dead in their Chevy Chase, Md. home. Chevy Chase is where
HHMI is headquartered. Police described the killings as a professional hit.
Tsunao Saitoh, who formerly worked at an HHMI-funded lab at Columbia
University, was shot to death on May 7, 1996 while sitting in his car
outside his home in La Jolla, Calif. Police also described this as a
professional hit.
BEYOND THE BIZARRE
Early-October saw reports that British scientists were planning to exhume
the bodies of 10 London victims of the 1918 type-A flu epidemic known as the
Spanish Flu. An October 7 report In The Independent, UK said that victims of
the Spanish Flu had been victims of "the world's most deadly virus." British
scientists, according to the story, hope to uncover the genetic makeup of
the virus, making it easier to combat.
Professor John Oxford of London's Queen Mary's School of Medicine, the
British government's flu adviser, acknowledges that the exhumations and
subsequent studies will have to be done with extreme caution so the virus is
not unleashed to cause another epidemic. The uncovering of a pathogen's
genetic structure is the exact work Pasechnik was doing at Regma. Pasechnik
died six weeks after the planned exhumations were announced. The need to
exhume the bodies assumes no Type-A flu virus sample exists in any lab
anywhere in the world.
A piece on MSNBC that aired September 6 makes the British exhumation plans
seem odd. The story refers to an article that was to be published the
following day in the weekly magazine Science, reporting the 1918 flu virus
had recently been RNA sequenced. Researchers had traced down and obtained
virus samples from archived lung tissue of WWI soldiers, and from an Inuit
woman who had been buried in the Alaskan permafrost.
HELP WANTED, SPIES, AND A LINK TO PROMIS
Almost immediately at the outset of the anthrax scare, the Bush
administration contracted with Bayer Pharmaceuticals for millions of doses
of Cipro, an antibiotic to treat anthrax. This was done despite many in the
medical community stating that there were several cheaper, better
alternatives to Cipro, which has never been shown to be effective against
inhaled anthrax. The Center for Disease Control's (CDC) own website states a
preference for the antibiotic doxycycline over Cipro for inhalation anthrax.
CDC expresses concerns that widespread Cipro use could cause other bacteria
to become immune to antibiotics.
It was announced Jan. 21 that the director of the CDC, Jeffrey Koplan, is
resigning effective March 31. Six days earlier it was announced that Surgeon
General David Satcher is also resigning. And there is currently no director
for the National Institutes of Health -- NIH is being run by an acting
director. The recent resignations leave the three most significant medical
positions in the federal government simultaneously vacant.
After three months of conflicting reports it is now official that the
anthrax that has killed several Americans since October 5 is from US
military sources connected to CIA research. The FBI has stated that only 10
people could have had access, yet at the same time they are reporting
astounding security breaches at the biowarfare facility at Fort Detrick, Md.
-- breaches such as unauthorized nighttime experiments and lab specimens
gone missing.
The militarized anthrax used by the US was developed by William C. Patrick
III, who holds five classified patents on the process. He has worked at both
Fort Detrick, and the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. Patrick is now a
private biowarfare consultant to the military and CIA. Patrick developed the
process by which anthrax spores could be concentrated at the level of one
trillion spores per gram.
No other country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion per
gram. The anthrax that was sent around the eastern US last fall was
concentrated at one trillion spores per gram, according to a Jan. 31 report
by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg of the Federation of American Scientists.
In recent years Patrick has worked with Kanatjan Alibekov.
Now known by the Americanized "Ken Alibek", he defected to the US in 1992.
Before defecting, Alibek was the no. 2 man in the FSU's biowarfare program.
His boss was Vladimir Pasechnik.
Currently, Ken Alibek is President of Hadron Advanced Biosystems, a
subsidiary of Alexandria, Va.-based Hadron, Inc. Hadron describes itself as
a company specializing in the development of technical solutions for the
intelligence community. As chief scientist at Hadron, Alibek gave extensive
testimony to the House Armed Services Committee about biological weapons on
Oct. 20, 1999, and again on May 23, 2000. Hadron announced on Dec. 20 that
as of that date, the company had received $12 million in funding for medical
biodefense research from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the
US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and the NIH. Hadron said it
was working in the field of non-specific immunity.
In the 1980s Hadron was founded and headed by Dr. Earl Brian, a medical
doctor and crony of Ronald Reagan and an associate of former Attorney
General Edwin Meese. Brian was convicted in the 1980s on fraud charges. Both
Hadron and Brian have been closely associated in court documents and
numerous credible reports, confirmed since Sept. 11, with the theft of
enhanced PROMIS software from its owner, the INSLAW Corporation. PROMIS is
a highly sophisticated computer program capable of integrating a wide
variety of databases. The software has reportedly been mated in recent years
with artificial intelligence. PROMIS has long been known to have been
modified by intelligence agencies with a back door that allows for
surreptitious retrieval of stored data. [For more information on what PROMIS
can do and its history, please use the search engine at www.copvcia.com.]
Given this unique capability, and Hadron's prior connections to PROMIS, it
is a possibility that the software, by tapping into databases used by each
of the victims, could have identified any lines of research that threatened
to compromise a larger, and as yet unidentified, more sinister covert
operation.
A PATTERN?
The DNA sequencing work by several of the microbiologists discussed earlier
is aimed at developing drugs that will fight pathogens based on the
pathogen's genetic profile. The work is also aimed at eventually developing
drugs that will work in cooperation with a person's genetic makeup.
Theoretically, a drug could be developed for one specific person. That being
the case, it's obvious that one could go down the ladder, and a drug could
be developed to effectively treat a much broader class of people sharing a
genetic marker. The entire process can also be turned around to develop a
pathogen that will affect a broad class of people sharing a genetic marker.
A broad class of people sharing a genetic marker could be a group such as a
race, or people with brown eyes.
SMALLPOX
An Oct. 17 story in USA Today reported that the US government wanted to
order 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine. Apparently, that wish has been
granted. On Nov. 28 a British vaccine maker, Acambis, announced that it had
received a $428 million contract to provide 155 million doses of smallpox
vaccine to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This was
Acambis' second contract. The company is already in the process of producing
54 million doses. The US government has 15.4 million doses stockpiled, and
HHS plans to dilute them five to one. The two contracts and the dilution
program will bring the total HHS stockpile to 286 million doses.
Smallpox was officially declared eradicated by the World Health Organization
in 1977, after treating the last known case in Merca, Somalia.
MEHPA -- MEDICAL FASCISM
A meeting of the Center for Law and the Public Health (CLPH) was convened on
Oct. 5. This group is run jointly by Georgetown University Law School and
Johns Hopkins Medical School, and was founded under the auspices of the
Center for Disease Control (CDC). CLPH was formed one month prior to the
2000 Presidential election. The purpose of the October meeting was to draft
legislation to respond to the then current bioterrorism threat.
After working only 18 days, on Nov. 23 CLPH released a 40-page document
called the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA). This was a "model" law
that HHS is suggesting be enacted by the 50 states to handle future public
health emergencies such as bioterrorism. A revised version was released on
Dec. 21 containing more specific definitions of "public health emergency" as
it pertains to bioterrorism and biologic agents, and includes language for
those states that want to use the act for chemical, nuclear or natural
disasters.
According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS),
after declaring a "public health emergency", and without consulting with
public health authorities, law enforcement, the legislature or courts, a
state governor using MEHPA, or anyone he/she decides to empower, can among
many things:
· Require any individual to be vaccinated. Refusal constitutes a crime and
will result in quarantine.
· Require any individual to undergo specific medical treatment. Refusal
constitutes a crime and will result in quarantine.
· Seize any property, including real estate, food, medicine, fuel or
clothing, an official thinks necessary to handle the emergency.
· Seize and destroy any property alleged to be hazardous.
There will be no compensation or recourse.
· Draft you or your business into state service.
· Impose rationing, price controls, quotas and transportation controls.
· Suspend any state law, regulation or rule that is thought to interfere
with handling the declared emergency.
When the federal government wanted the states to enact the 55 mph speed
limit, they coerced the states using the threat of withholding federal
monies. The same tactic will likely be used with MEHPA. As of this writing
the law has been passed in Kentucky. According to AAPS, it has been
introduced in the legislatures of Arizona, California, Delaware, Illinois,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. It is expected to
be introduced shortly in Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, and
Wisconsin. MEHPA is being evaluated by the executive branches in North
Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington, DC.
The research the microbiologists were doing could have developed methods of
treating diseases like anthrax and smallpox without conventional antibiotics
or vaccines. Pharmaceutical contracts to deal with these diseases will total
hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. If epidemics could be
treated in non-traditional ways, MEHPA might not be necessary. Considering
the government's actions nullifying many civil liberties since last
September, MEHPA seems to be a law looking for an excuse to be enacted.
Maybe the microbiologists were in the way of some peoples' or business'
agendas.
We also know that DNA sequencing research can be used to develop pathogens
that target specific genetically related groups. One company, DynCorp,
handles data processing for many federal agencies, including the CDC, the
Department of Agriculture, several branches of the Department of Justice,
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the NIH. On Nov. 12 DynCorp
announced that its subsidiary, DynPort Vaccine, had been awarded a $322
million contract to develop, produce, test, and store FDA licensed vaccines
for use by the Defense Department. It would be incredibly easy for DynCorp
to hide information pertaining to the exact make-up, safety, efficacy and
purpose of the drugs and vaccines the US government has contracted for.
Reasons to suspect DynCorp of criminal behavior are not hard to find.
Investigative reporter Kelly O Meara of Insight Magazine, in a story dated
February 4, disclosed a massive US military investigation of how DynCorp
employees in Bosnia had engaged in a widespread sex slave ring, trading
children as young as eight and videotaping forced sexual encounters.
She reviewed government documents and interviewed Army investigators looking
into the activities which had spread throughout DynCorp s contract
operations to service helicopters and warehouse supplies for the US military.
Videos and other evidence of the crimes are in the Army s possession. And in
a February 23rd story, veteran journalist Al Giordano of www.narconews.com
reported that a class action suit had been filed in Washington, D.C. by more
than 10,000 Ecuadorian farmers and a labor union against DynCorp for its
rampant spraying of herbicides which have destroyed food crops, weakened the
ecosystem and caused more than 1,100 documented cases of illness.
DynCorp s current Chairman, Paul Lombardi responded to the suit by sending
intimidating letters in an unsuccessful attempt to force the plaintiffs to
withdraw.
DynCorp has also been directly linked to the development and use of PROMIS
software by its founder Bill Hamilton of Inslaw. DynCorp s former Chairman,
current board member and the lead investor in Capricorn Holdings, is Herbert
Pug Winokur. Winokur was, until recently, Chairman of the Enron Finance
Committee. He claimed ignorance as to the fraudulent financial activities of
Enron s board even though he was charged with their oversight.
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Victims Identified in fatal plane crash
Web Producer Jeannie Piper
March 26, 2002
9News.Com
CASTLE ROCK - Denver car dealer Kent Rickenbaugh, his wife, Caroline, and
their son Bart were killed Sunday in a plane crash near Centennial Airport.
Pilot Dr. Steven Mostow also died.
Kent Rickenbaugh, 64, owned two car dealerships in the Denver area. Caroline
Rickenbaugh, 62, was known for her involvement in the community. Bart
Rickenbaugh, 35, lived in Bozeman, Mont.
Mostow, 63, was one of the country's leading infectious disease experts and
was associate dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Mostow was a crusader for better health, an early advocate for widespread
flu vaccinations and more recently an expert on the threat of bioterrorism.
He was a champion for rural health care and childhood immunizations. For the
past three years, he had been helping to expand the 9Health Fair, a program
that benefits thousands of people in Colorado.
Investigators returned to the scene of the plane crash Monday to try to
figure out why the twin-engine Cessna 340 went down.
The plane was headed to Centennial from Gunnison when Mostow reported engine
trouble around 4:30 p.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jerry
Snyder said.
The plane crashed near mile marker 190 in unincorporated Douglas County.
Witnesses say they saw the plane go down. "As we came over the hill we saw
the plane coming fairly straight toward the highway actually, and swerving
from side to side, losing altitude fast," Willen Guyer said. "I think the
guy saw the highway and turned away from it and when he turned left he just
went nose down into the ground."
The weather was cloudy with snow flurries; however, National Transportation
Safety Board investigators said weather did not appear to be a factor in the
crash, Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman Bernie Harris said.
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Space bug specialist killed in crash
Wednesday, 27 March, 2002, 15:16 GMT
BBC News
A pioneering British scientist who was leading studies in Antarctica to
understand the likelihood of life existing on Mars and elsewhere has been
killed in a car accident.
Dr David Wynn-Williams died after he was involved in a crash involving two
vehicles near his home in Cambridge.
He was the Antarctic astrobiology project leader at the British Antarctic
Survey and studied the way microbes survive in harsh conditions as a model
for how life might exist on other planets.
He was jogging when the crash happened.
Pioneering work
Professor Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, said:
"Staff at the British Antarctic Survey are deeply saddened to hear about the
tragic death of Dr David Wynn-Williams.
"David has worked at the survey for over 28 years as a microbiologist.
"He was a talented scientist who, at the early start of his career,
pioneered work on the role of microbes in the Antarctic.
"David will be sorely missed by colleagues and friends, not only for being a
brilliant and innovative scientist in the area of microbiology, but for his
overwhelming enthusiasm for his work, the Antarctic and everything he did.
Mars lander work
"Our thoughts and sympathy are with his family at this time," he said.
Dr Wynn-Williams made 10 trips to the South Pole and collaborated with
Italian, New Zealand and US colleagues. He worked with American space agency
to develop and evaluate equipment for a Mars lander and advised researchers
in Britain working on the Beagle-2 Mars lander, part of the European Mars
Express programme. He was also involved in a biology experiment which is to
be flown on the International Space Station.
In 1980 he received a polar medal for his outstanding contribution to polar
science.
The drivers of the two cars involved in the crash which killed Dr
Wynn-Williams were not seriously hurt. Cambridgeshire police would like to
speak to anyone who saw the crash.
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