West Nile Virus
available on-line!

by Robert Lederman
(718) 743-3722
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
November 17, 2000

Ed Note: The following two paragraphs are based on information Mr. Lederman garnered directly from the American Type Culture Collection (ATTC) home page. At that site you can search for items like the West Nile Virus, as well as many other toxic materials.
Click here to view the page and do a search of your own.

ATTC sold Saddam Hussein West Nile Virus and 770 other bio-warfare applicable chemicals, bacteria and viruses before the Gulf War started and its director was the former head of Rockefeller University-which may be implicated in the original WNV epidemic in Uganda in 1937 [See Newsday excerpt and Rockefeller University article excerpt below]. Note: I am not suggesting (as a planted CIA disinformation piece in the media last year attempted to do) that Iraq was responsible for the NYC West Nile "epidemic" nor am I suggesting that ATTC or any of its employees were responsible. I am suggesting that WNV could have been accidentally or deliberately released into the NYC environment by any of the individuals, government agencies or bio-medical institutions that have ordered it from ATTC over the past decades. The mechanism could have been as "innocent" as experimental waste materials from a NYC research facility being carelessly disposed of.

The ease of ordering this and related materials (you can order just about any toxic virus or bacteria you've ever read about from this website) makes it clear that the CDC's stated theories that WNV came into this country "in a used tire from Asia" or via "a mosquito that might have been inside an airborne Israeli tourist's clothing" or by "mosquitoes carried here in a transatlantic storm" is about as believable as the idea that we've just had an honest election. ANYONE with a couple of hundred bucks can start their own "West Nile Virus epidemic" on their kitchen table. The only screening process is to sign a form accepting responsibility. This site is worth exploring in depth. It has references to mycoplasmas and numerous other dangerous living substances used in biowarfare that can be ordered by anyone with a credit card.

Newsday 11/27/96

Undisclosed Connection

A Nobel laureate who headed a 1994 Pentagon study that dismissed links between chemical and biological weapons and Persian Gulf War Illness was also a director of a U.S. firm that has earlier exported anthrax and other lethal materials to Iraq before the 1991 conflict, according to federal records. Renowned geneticist Joshua Lederberg of New York served as chairman of the Defense Science Board Task force on Persian Gulf War Health Effects.
At the time of the 1994 study, Lederberg was also one of 10 directors on the board of American Type Culture Collection, or ATCC. Newsday has found that the non-profit Rockville, Md. firm made 70 government approved shipments of anthrax and other disease-causing pathogens [including West Nile Virus] to Iraqi scientists between 1985 and 1989 according to congressional records...the ATCC shipments, along with supplies from other countries, had been used by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's scientists for an expanding biological weapons program, according to U.S. officials...the study was overseen by Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch, now director of the Central Intelligence Agency...some members of the panel who served with Lederberg, 71, the former president of Rockefeller University in Manhattan, were unaware of his ties to ATCC.

Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports Online Yellow Fever in the
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

by Heather Bell

This article originally appeared in the
1995 Rockefeller Archive Center Newsletter.
(Click Here)

No one had any idea that yellow fever occurred in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan until 1933, when its previous biological existence was discovered as part of an Africa-wide immunity survey conducted by the International Health Division (IHD) of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF)...The Sudan government was not willing, however, to let the yellow fever virus enter Sudan for experimental purposes, and therefore refused an IHD request to establish a yellow fever laboratory in southern Sudan.
The Ugandan government gave the IHD a better reception; with the opening of the Yellow Fever Research Institute at Entebbe in 1936, IHD scientists started the search for East African yellow fever virus in order to indicate their immunity test results...When the outbreak that the IHD had been waiting for finally came, it nearly passed everyone by...In the eyes of the Sudan Medical Service (SMS) and IHD researchers, however, the epidemic was less an episode of human suffering than an exciting scientific event. Exulted Dr. Robert Kirk of the SMS, in his Scottish lilt, "If it were no' for the war, this epidemic wad be juist grrrand!"
IHD doctors Alexander F. Mahaffy and Kenneth C. Smithburn isolated two strains of yellow fever virus from the Nuba Mountains. This proved the validity of the protection test and confirmed that many cases of East African yellow fever were mild, even sub-clinical. Among colonial doctors in Africa, everyone was a convert, requesting large supplies of the RF's 17D yellow fever vaccine...From a country without African colonies, the RF provided the international personnel, outlook, and funds that made for truly global medical philanthropy.

Newsday 9/29/99

Area Labs Have Long Studied Virus /
Yale, Rockefeller began tests in '50s page A28

Epidemiologists suspect that the West Nile virus has for the first time been isolated in humans or animals in the Western Hemisphere, but the virus has for decades made its home in several U.S. research laboratories, including Rockefeller University in Manhattan and Yale University in New Haven, Conn. In fact, investigators there were the first to grow and study the West Nile virus in the United States. The work began in the 1950s when unidentified viral samples from around the world arrived at Rockefeller on a steady basis.

Newsday 11/21/93

Lab Focus Was On 4 Animal Diseases

When the military officially closed Ft. Terry in 1954, Army officers turned over to Plum Island scientists 134 strains of 13 viruses collected from four continents, most obtained for development as biological warfare weapons.

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[Note: this email should not be construed as encouraging anyone to order WNV from ATTC. It is for informational and educational purposes only.]

To a Directory of Mr.Lederman's Essays

Important Note:
Mr. Lederman has explained that his articles posted here are not to be taken as official statements by the No-Spray Coalition of which he is a member or of the "No-Spray" lawsuit in which he is a plaintiff.

Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for the Greenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive archive of Lederman columns] The Shadow, The African Sun Times, The Vigo-Examiner [see: http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm] and Street News, and is the author of hundreds of published essays concerning Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Lederman has been falsely arrested 41 times to date for his anti-Giuliani activities and has never been convicted of any of the charges. He is best known for creating hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator.

Robert Lederman,
President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
(718) 743-3722

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For an article on the Manhattan Institute go to
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