911review

PROJECT ANTHRAX V
By Alex Constantine

"You simply don't develop a new hyper-weaponized
strain of anthrax powder for military defense, and
then commission the top U.S. anthrax expert to report
on this new weapon's capability and lethality from
mailed delivery, unless that's how you foresee it
being used." - Ingri Cassel, director of the National
Vaccination Liberation Association


The "conservative"
corporatists in the 911 loop seem to derive a
childlike thrill from their weaponized anthrax
stockpiles.

A "new and highly lethal strain" was produced in
advance of 911, a nameless Pentagon general told the
New York Times in September 2001. He mentioned
something called Operation Jefferson.1

What was "Operation Jefferson?" Before the anthrax
mailings, William Patrick went to work at the Battelle
Memorial Institute (BMI). Patrick holds five
classified patents in the manufacture of weapons-grade
anthrax. BMI - a contractual partner of BioPort -
hired him to conduct a risk-assessment study involving
the dissemination of anthrax powder through the mail
system.2 BMI is located in West Jefferson, Ohio. The
work was done at the BL-3 Anthrax Lab.3

Battelle had exclusive control of the Ames strain, a
fact the press has not made clear. It's true that
Dugway Proving Ground had an anthrax program of its
own, as reported, but Battelle directed that program
as well.

This narrows it down quite a bit... The FBI was drawn
straight to William Patrick III - Stephen Hatfill's
"mentor" at Ft. Detrick - and Ken Alibeck, a BMI
consultant with a background in CBW research for the
Soviets.4

One independent Internet news site reports that the
FBI investigated "the possibility that financial gain
was the motive behind the anthrax mailings." Two
federal laboratories were searched, BMI and Dugway,
but "a contradictory announcement was relayed the same
day (December 21, 2001) by Ohio Senator Mike DeWine.
Based on an ABC News report concerning a BMI employee
who had been under FBI investigation for an anthrax
threat, FBI Director Robert Mueller had, according to
The Dispatch, assured Senator DeWine that the bureau
was not investigating, nor intending to investigate,
anyone with, or formerly with, BMI."5

Case closed. The FBI's stalling perplexed reporters
assigned to the story. George Monbiot wrote in the
Guardian in May 2002: "Last week, I phoned the FBI.
Why, I asked, when the evidence was so abundant, did
the trail appear to have gone cold? 'The investigation
is continuing,' the spokesman replied. 'Has it gone
cold because it has led you to a government office?' I
asked. He put down the phone." Had the FBI spokesman
remained on the line, there were any number of related
outrages he might have explained: "The army's
development of weaponized anthrax [the processed Ames
strain], for example, directly contravenes both the
biological weapons convention and domestic law. So
does its plan to test live microbes in 'aerosol
chambers' at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center,
also in Maryland. So does its development of a
genetically modified fungus for attacking coca crops
in Colombia, and GM bacteria for destroying materials
belonging to enemy forces. These, as the research
group Project Sunshine has discovered, appear to be
just a tiny sample of the illegal offensive biological
research programmes which the US government has
secretly funded..."6

Some of the government's anthrax has been weaponized,
kills effectively but is otherwise useless. It is also
illegal. Ingri Cassel, director of the National
Vaccination Liberation Association, points out that
vaccines "are developed to help guard against
pre-existing threats." Ames was processed illegally,
"apparently for offensive military uses, sabotage, and
even terrorism. You simply don't develop a new
hyper-weaponized strain of anthrax powder for military
defense ... and then commission the top U.S. anthrax
expert [William C. Patrick, III] to report on this new
weapon's capability and lethality from mailed
delivery, unless that's how you foresee it being
used."7

Once the anthrax was weaponized - milled and capable
of airborne transmission - BMI ran a classified test
in the Nevada desert. This was in early September
2001. It was reported that Patrick's study on mailing
anthrax was instrumental to the test.

Was Stephen Hatfill recruited for the next phase of
"testing?" This appears to be the case and explains
the FBI's capricious explanations to the press:
"Operation Jefferson" is a federally-sanctioned covert
operation that would have never come to light had it
not been for the doggedness of independent journalists
and the scientific community. Wayne Madsen points to
past bio-warfare studies: "In 1957, at the Dugway
Proving Grounds in Utah, the Q-Fever toxin was
discharged by an airborne F-100A plane. If a more
potent dose had been used, the Army concluded 99 per
cent of the humans in the area would have been
infected. In the 1960s, conscientious objecting
Seventh Day Adventists, serving in non-combat
positions in the Army, were exposed to airborne
tularemia..."8

The West Nile outbreak and the anthrax mailings began
with the 1998 BioVax meeting held in the Truman Room
of the White House, attended by SAIC's Jerry Hauer and
William Patrick. Another participant at the meeting
was William Cohen, who, as a Republican Senator,
signed off on the heavily-spun Cheney-Hamilton
Iran-contra report. In 2004, he was elected to the
American International Group's (AIG) Board of
Directors.

AIG is part owner of Kroll Associates, the infamous
private security firm. Kroll - run by former CIA, FBI,
British secret service, Scotland Yard and British
Special Air Service agents - was once known as the CIA
of Wall Street because the firm did everything from
corporate espionage to the training of foreign armies.
A Kroll partner provides counter-terrorism instruction
in Saudi Arabia.

Cohen is also a member of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, the Cold War propaganda mill
and ultracon academic base of Ray Cline, John Hamre,
Admiral Crowe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kenneth Langone,
Henry Kissinger and others central to 911 and
subsequent profiteering through privatization.

Another attendee "of interest" at the 1998 Truman Room
conference was Thomas Monath, former chief of the
virology division at the SAIC-USAMIID facility at Ft.
Detrick, and VP/chief scientific officer at BioVax,
since renamed Acimbis.

Monath was a friend of Stephen Hatfill's. He was
introduced to Rudolph Giuliani by Jerry Hauer, SAIC
scientist and president of Rockefeller University -
the fruits of this relationship were the aerial
spraying of malathion, resmethrin or sumithrin in the
New York City area.9 Nevertheless, the mosquito-borne
disease has spread across the country.

The anthrax scourge also recurs from time to time. An
increasingly feasible theory for the origin of Gulf
War Syndrome is military experimentation with anthrax
vaccines. Were the following incidents further "tests"
of anthrax delivery systems by the
"counter-terrorists" at SAIC-Ft. Detrick? ...

A) Exposure at a children's hospital blamed on an
"accidental" shipment of live spores from the Southern
Research Institute in Frederick, Maryland. BioPort
director David Franz comes from SRI (a leading
producer of depleted uranium):

http://www.nvo.com/shildtfinancial/sv003data/view.nhtml?profile=sv003data&UI
D=12056

Researchers Exposed To Anthrax Health Highlights June
7 to June 13, 2004

A possible shipping mistake in late May resulted in at
least half a dozen researchers at Children's Hospital
Oakland Research Institute being exposed to live
anthrax.

Some of the researchers, working on an anthrax
vaccine, handled the live anthrax bacterium and others
were present at the time. So far, none have shown any
signs of illness. Seven of the workers are taking the
antibiotic Cipro as a precautionary measure, the
Oakland Tribune reported.

State health officials said there is no risk to other
staff or residents living in the area.

The researchers believed they were handling a dead
sample of the anthrax bacterium. However, according to
hospital officials, the researchers were mistakenly
sent live anthrax by the supplier, Southern Research
Institute of Frederick, Md.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is
investigating the incident.

B) Anthrax-Contaminated Heroin

Anthrax clue to heroin deaths Times of London May 18
2000 By Helen Rumbelow, medical reporter ANTHRAX, a
virulent disease used as a biological weapon, could be
responsible for a spate of deaths among heroin addicts
in Scotland, it was disclosed yesterday.

Ten heroin users in Glasgow and one in Aberdeen have
died of a mysterious illness in the past three weeks,
which led scientists, who had heard of a similar death
in Oslo, to send the victims' blood samples to Porton
Down, the biological defence laboratory.

Two of the five tested so far have shown low levels of
antibodies to anthrax, suggesting that the addicts
were exposed to the disease through a contaminated
heroin supply.

Although the results are not conclusive, experts are
carrying out tests on the others who died and on nine
more heroin addicts who have come down with the
illness. One survivor still has the black scab that is
typical of localised anthrax infection.

David Goldberg, deputy director of the Scottish Centre
for Infection and Environmental Health in Glasgow,
said that tests were also being made for anthrax
spores on heroin batches seized by police in the city.
Meanwhile users were being advised to smoke the drug
rather than inject it, and especially not to inject
into the muscle.

He believes that the weak results in the anthrax test
may be because all the victims were treated with
antibiotics before their samples were taken.

[TO BE CONTINUED]

NOTES

1.) Nick Papadimitriou, "Anthrax Attacks Linked to CIA
and Drug Industry?" Institute of Science in Society
(UK), February 14, 2002.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/isisnews/i-sisnews13-12.php

2) Ibid.

3) Bob Fitrakis, "Battelle Exposed In Anthrax
Biochemical Conspiracy," FreePress.org, January 14,
2002.

4) Ibid.

5) Anon., "FBI Implicated in Anthrax Mailings
Cover-up."
http://www.worldnewsstand.net/news/anthrax.htm

6) George Monbiot, "Riddle of the spores: Why has the
FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks stalled?"
Guardian, May 21, 2002.

7) Ingri Cassel, "Public Health Expert Says Solving
The Anthrax Mailing Mystery May Be Easy: FBI Doesn't
Seem Interested," NVLA press release, Nov. 12, 2001.
http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR011112.html

8) Wayne Madsen, "Thinking The Unthinkable,"
CounterPunch.org, April 8, 2002.

9) See,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=printer_
format&om=5074&forum=DCForumID43

Alex Constantine

911review