DynCorp, a spooky US defense contractor best known for blasting Colombia
with wide spectrum herbicides in the Drug War, is setting up a bioweapons vaccine business.
It's partner is Porton International ..."
From: copa
<copa@tidalwave.net>
To: Washington Peace Center
<wpc@igc.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2001 10:43 PM
Subject: Real biodefense -
diplomacy
Biotech's Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Presently, the US Congress' biodefense pocketbook
is wide open.
There's no
shortage of outstretched hands.
Much of it is
pursued by an
industry whose
public image is staked on the false hope
of
creating meaningful
protection from
biological attack.
In the past week, almost every
major US daily
has run articles
praising the experimental biodefense "miracle"
or
"magic" brewing
just around the
corner at a local university or biotech startup.
Did the United
States have such
a huge and promising biotech defense industry
before September 11th
and
nobody noticed? No.
By global standards, our
program is big; but it
isn't
promising and the professor or Chief Technology
Officer
around the
corner is no
more likely to save you from a biological attack
than a tidal wave.
Through America's preoccupation with homeland
biodefense, the
biotech industry
believes it has been granted a license to proceed
into a profitable
war with no
possibility
of producing peace and no durable
long-term product but
profit.
Congress didn't exactly give biotech a Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution;
but sloppy
media coverage and shameless opportunism are
creating one.
DynCorp, a spooky US defense contractor
best
known for blasting Colombia
with
wide spectrum herbicides in the Drug War, is
setting up a
Bioweapons vaccine
business.
It's partner is
Porton International, a
company which
sprang forth from
Porton Down,
the UK's equivalent of Ft. Detrick, MD.
Before 1969
Ft. Detrick was
the US headquarters of biological weapons
research.
Now it houses
important
elements of our biodefense apparatus.
DynCorp has
its fingers in
many pies and
also advises the US Army and industry on
compliance with biological
and
chemical weapons agreements.
Another major military contractor, Science
Applications
International Corporation
(SAIC) (
SAIC Sept
11 Wiki LINK)
already has assets at Ft. Detrick through
contracts with the
military and
the National Cancer Institute.
In Texas, Lynntech Inc. proffers organophosphorus
hydrolase as part
of its
quest to,
in the soothing words of a local
newspaper, discover "a
single enzyme
that will neutralize all toxic agents."
A pipe
dream if one ever
existed; but on
September 11th the Texans got a call from a
general at Ft. Detrick.
In Seattle, Corixa Corp. publicly complains that
$3.5 million isn't
enough for its
experimental anthrax vaccine
and wants more help
from the
government.
Corixa's stock is up more than 50%. There are
legions more.
The Vaccine Push
During the Gulf War, the US realized that it did
not have the
ability
to vaccinate
its troops (much less those of allies) against
anthrax and other
biological
weapons possessed by Iraq.
Entreaties to the
pharmaceutical
industry prompted
a flood of antibiotics but little vaccine.
Treating disease has
always been more
profitable than preventing it.
After further haggling, industry made clear it
wasn't interested in
manufacturing
bioweapons vaccines
without massive subsidies and
relief from
liability.
The
military effectively agreed, and SAIC drew up a
plan for the
government to
invest
about $3 billion in research and to build
vaccine facility
costing $370
million.
At this government facility, companies
will produce eight
(8) vaccines
against anthrax, smallpox, plague, tularemia,
botulinum, "next
generation" (read:
genetically engineered) anthrax, ricin, and
equine encephalitis.
This $3 billion
plus buys only eight, only to protect the US
military and, by
agreement, some
soldiers from Canada and the UK. US civilians are
out of luck,
according to SAIC
"Beyond the baseline operating scope of the
[government-owned,
contractor-operated] facility design."
Foreign
citizens aren't even
an
afterthought.
Avoiding the Spiral and Invoking Diplomacy
On September 4th, the New York Times revealed
that
US Central
Intelligence
Agency biodefense researchers had tested mock
biological bombs
and
built a real
bioweapons production facility in Nevada,
activities
completely
indistinguishable
from offensive biological warfare research.
The
US kept these
activities secret,
and did not divulge them
in annual confidence
building reports to
the Bioweapons
Convention.
The US is now pouring billions more into
biodefense.
In the current
climate, it is
difficult to believe that potential adversaries
will not respond
with their own
investments. After all, the US itself has failed
to comply with its
arms control
commitments.
The situation could very easily
spiral out of control. The sooner the US understands the impossibility
of effective
biodefense, the
sooner pressure will build for the Bush
administration to come to
its senses and
advocate fast conclusion of the Verification
Protocol to the
Biological and Toxin
Weapons Convention.
Excerpted from: Operation Infinite Contract
Biotech's Impossible,
Profitable War to Defeat
Nature
By Edward Hammond. October 3 2001.
The author is
a Director of the
Sunshine
Project USA,
a non-profit organization working to
prevent
development and use
of biological weapons.
http://www.sunshine-project.org/
PROJECT
ANTHRAX - 6
pages
Saic
- 9/11 Encyclopedia
Dyncorp
- 9/11 Encyclopedia
Computer
Sciences Corporation CSC - SAIC NSA Digital Rights ...
SAIC's Trinity Church TV/"Dad" Obit./Barry
Glasser/Freedom Forum
Mantech, BAE, CACI, NSA SAIC etc... - 9/11Review
Dr.
Kaminski DEFENSE MAPPING - General Dynamics, DynCorp
DynCorp Disgrace Sex Slaves Bosnia - Gov contractor
Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go
Away
Investigators Say Millions Wasted in Iraq
Reconstruction Dyncorp fraud
Michael
Hayden 9/11 connection NSA
Khashoggi,
Part 35: Fear and Loathing at the NSA
Selections
from SAIC's SEC Filings, 2000-2002
911review links
September
11 Wiki - Dyncorp
September
11 Wiki - Anthrax 9-11 Gate
September
11 Wiki - Shadow Government