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Did the U.S. Army help spread Morgellons and other diseases?

by Hank P. Albarelli Jr.*, Zoe Martell*

18 May 2010

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Last week s Voltaire Network article concerning the mysterious spread of a fungus disease in the Northwest United States provoked a number of readers to contact Mr. H. P. Albarelli Jr., the author of both these articles, with new information concerning strange diseases and the U.S. Army s covert biological warfare activities which involve the use of chemical and biological weapons against human beings. There is a history of U.S. secret human experimentation. In this case, it is unsuspecting U.S. citizens who are the victims.

I went to put some of the medicated salve on the lesions on my face and when I put the salve near them the filaments beneath my skin moved into a group and then moved away from the area I was going to treat. I was dumbstruck. I didn t know what to think. I screamed for my husband to come the damn things beneath my skin were alive; they moved to avoid treatment.
Morgellons victim, Vermont, May 2010.

One reader, former military scientist, Dr. Hanley Watson, revealed that the Army, from 1950 to at least mid-1976 conducted numerous experiments simulating biological or germ warfare attacks in dozens of locations across the country. Said Watson, Previously these experiments were downplayed by the Pentagon as harmless tests occurring in about 8 areas in the US and employing benign substances, but this couldn t be further from the truth.

Watson was referring to a 1976 Pentagon press conference during which an Army spokesman revealed that researchers with the Army s Fort Detrick and Edgewood Arsenal, both in Maryland, conducted simulated germ warfare attacks, using nondisease [sic] causing biological substances in 8 areas of the US. Among these experiments were a 1950 operation off the coast of San Francisco; a 1966 biological warfare experiment in Manhattan in which the vulnerability of the New York subway system was tested ; and at least three experiments conducted in Pennsylvania, Fort McClellan, Alabama, and California with fungal substances to perform field evaluations to determine vulnerability to enemy biological attack.

As widely reported in the mid-1970s, the San Francisco experiment resulted in the death of at least one person. Additionally, the 1952 Alabama experiments resulted in a doubling of pneumonia cases in the surrounding areas. Nonetheless, Army officials stated, There is nothing we have that shows any links between these tests and any outbreak of infection or any deaths.

Army officials went on in defending themselves and the experiments by stating that the substance the Army used in many of the experiments was Serratia marcescens, which they maintained is harmless. Said the Pentagon, The substance is present throughout the environment and is considered not to cause disease. But other physicians said this claim is simply wrong. Several responsible physicians pointed out that Serratia marcescens does cause infection in humans; and is commonly found in bathrooms and public rest rooms. Doctors also state that some strains of the bacterium are resistant to multiple antibiotics.

Eventually in 1976, the Pentagon amended its position, stating: For some individuals who lack a capability to develop immunity to most disease Serratia marcescens could conceivably act as an opportunist and produce an infection. Assumably, the Pentagon was not referring to AIDS patients, however, it is interesting to note that 1976 was about 6 years into its research on a disease that sounded remarkably like AIDS. Also, apparently the Pentagon was unaware of a 1946 Fort Detrick medical journal paper by Dr. Tom F. Paine, which detailed an Army experiment with Serratia marcescens that resulted in illness and infection in 4 subjects exposed to the bacterium delivered in aerosol form.

Explained Watson further, The experiments conducted from the early 1950s through 1976 were many more in number than officially stated, and they were conducted in many more locations than the reported eight. Added Watson, In the 1950s and 1960s alone there were easily about two dozen experiments conducted in the New England area. One of the larger experiments, as detailed in my book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA s Secret Cold War Experiments [1], is the strange, and allegedly coincidental, experiment at a Manchester, New Hampshire woolen mill that resulted in the anthrax-related tragic deaths of 4 mill employees. In September 1957, at the same time the outbreak took place, biochemists from Fort Detrick just happened to be on site at the mill performing tests with an anthrax vaccine. Fort Detrick researcher Dr. George G. Wright had developed the prototype vaccine being tested at the mill. Wright s vaccine is essentially the same controversial serum administered today to American troops.

Watson also cited a number of Army experiments conducted during the same time period and later with spore-borne diseases. One of these experiments was conducted in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. There the Army used a fungal substance known as aspergillus fumigatus. Watson said that this fungal substance could result in disease and severe infection in humans. In addition to the aspergillus fungus, Watson and a former Fort Detrick microbiologist said the Army, through the Special Operation Division (SO) at Fort Detrick, experimented with several other fungus substances including spore-borne C. gattii from Australia, and with a substance very much like Morgellons disease in its effects.

This substance was referred to as FD-CPX. Said the former Detrick scientist, who worked under project MK/NAOMI, a joint CIA-Army program for 6 years, CPX was a problematic substance for us. We worked with it in mutated form, and a number of sub-contractors came down with the disease and that caused all sorts of additional problems. They were still working with it when I left the post. I don t know if SO ever got it right.

The Mechanicsburg experiment took place, according to Pentagon officials, in a warehouse in the area that was completely closed off to others not participating in the tests. Said an Army spokesman, The fungus was not released into the atmosphere outside the warehouse and presented no dangers to anyone unrelated to the activity.

In light of future developments in Mechanicsburg, following the experiment, this assertion is difficult to accept. Several years after the Army activities, scientists in Pennsylvania began to notice that an unusually large number of animals, including cats, dogs and horses that had become ill from the fungus infection. Reportedly, the number of animals that became ill increased for a number of years.

Dr. Watson, along with two other former Fort Detrick researchers, including the late Dr. Henry Eigelsbach, also revealed an odd experiment that took place in Pascagoula, Mississippi and produced one of the most puzzling UFO and strange entity cases on record in America. This was the incident, detailed in Albarelli s book, involving two local fishermen who claimed to have been abducted by aliens from a fishing pier in October 1973. Much overlooked in the case is that the pier was not far away from a former Fort Detrick research site, Horn Island. The barrier island was formally used from 1943 to 1945 by Army researchers, but former microbiologists with the military report that several experiments were conducted on the island, and other islands off the coast of Maryland, in the late-1960s and early1970s. Detrick microbiologists conducted intensive experiments on the islands involving human research subjects and a number of natural hallucinogenics as well as advanced neuroscience techniques aimed at the objection of producing previously unexplored and unique psychological warfare methods. Some researchers maintain that these experiments were part of the Army s top-secret Operation Strange Man, which is said to have involved mutated human subjects. As unbelievable as these reports seem, there have been unexplained sightings, some by law enforcement officials, of very odd humanoid creatures in several of the related locations over the years. Said one of Watson s former Detrick colleagues: These were experiments involving human subjects that went way beyond what anyone could imagine. Some of the findings and technology was transferred to Southeast Asia during the later stages of the war there.

Besides Horn Island, the Army s Chemical Corps and Fort Detrick conducted numerous experiments at Plum Island off the coast of New York. Plum Island, originally known as Fort Terry, In the early 1950s it was under the command of the Army Chemical Corps, and then in 1954 it was nominally transferred to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the mission of its research was changed from one which encompassed studies on various exotic animal diseases to determine both their offensive and defensive potentialities as biological warfare agents to one which pertains only to the defensive aspects of [animal diseases], according to writer Michael Carroll, who wrote a book on Plum Island. Despite the changes made to the official record, research at Plum Island changed little in reality; diseases with the potential to be used as offensive agents continued, unhindered, and a close relationship remained in place between Plum Island and the Department of Defense.

Lyme disease is a tick-vectored spirochetal disease, which was identified in 1975 when a mysterious illness broke out among residents in Old Lyme, Connecticut. It rarely appears by itself in humans, with sufferers often testing positive for infection by several tick-borne diseases concurrently. The Plum Island animal diseases laboratory is located a mere twelve miles from the first identified cases of Lyme disease.

Research at the Plum Island facility is known to have included diseases carried by arthropods; in fact, Carroll describes in his book the historical presence of a large tick colony on the premises. Carroll s history of the testing done at the facility indicates that outdoor, field testing of diseases was done on and near Plum Island, and also details numerous breaches in safety procedures throughout the history of the laboratory s operation. In 1978, for example, a cattle disease called Hoof and Mouth disease escaped from the Plum Island, infecting cattle in neighboring areas.

According to declassified army documents, Fort Derick scientists also experimented widely with Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus (VEEV). Several documents cite that Fort Detrick assigned some its top researchers to efforts to weaponized the virus, but say nothing about the number of former Nazi biochemists who worked closely with Fort Detrick and Edgewood Arsenal researchers, including the much overlooked German scientist, Dr. Gernot Bergold.

Gernot H. Bergold (1911 2003)

The U.S. Army s Project Paperclip [2] secretly brought Bergold to the United States after the war. In America, Dr. Bergold, who under Hitler s Third Reich headed the Nazi s Entomological Department and the Department of Insect Vectors of the Division of Virus Research, secretly worked on the VEE virus for the military at Fort Detrick, and then at a military-sponsored facility in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Psychologist Dr. Karen Cronick, who now works in Venezuela, reports that in the 1970s, at about the same time Bergold was conducting his work with VEE, there was an outbreak of the virus in Michigan. This outbreak has been virtually blacked out by the media and state officials.

Dr. Cronick states, The coincidence of these events has always troubled me. A tropical disease that was researched in Michigan suddenly appeared there in the general population. There is no way the insect vector that transmits the disease could get so far north by any normal migration. Could the Michigan outbreak have been a controlled experiment? It is the perfect place to carry one out: the Great Lakes and winter are natural limits to any unrestrained expansion of infected vectors.

As reported in an earlier Voltaire Network [3] by this author, Morgellons disease, which was experimented with by Fort Detrick in the 1960s and beyond, has recently been reported as a disease of high-level concern in certain areas of the country, including Vermont, and Florida, Texas and California. For reasons thus far unknown, Morgellons seems to be wide spread among Vermont s small population of 600,000. Some doctors in Chittenden County, Vermont s most populated region estimate that about 300 people in the state have the disease.

According to a number of organizations dedicated to the study of Morgellons, there are about 15,000 people in the US suffering from the disease. Included in this number are many well-known names, singer Joni Mitchell, baseball player Billy Koch, and others.

Natasha Cebek, 44, who lives in Vermont with her 3 children, reported that she has had Morgellons disease for about 3 years. I don t really know how I contracted the disease, she said in an interview this week. I came to Vermont years ago to live in a clean, natural environment free from pollution and environmental assaults and never imagined anything like this would happen to me.

Cebek says she has been to several physicians nearly all of whom gave me a Stepford wives-type smile. One even offered to send me to a psychotherapist. That made me quite angry; I had been healthy all my life; I had taken special care to eat properly and live a quality life and to teach my children to do the same. I didn t need psychological attention; I needed medical care; quality, expert care.

Cebek states, There s no comfort in numbers. I ve learned that well over a hundred people have sought treatment for this disease at the same facilities I ve visited. That s a major outbreak in my view; that s a major public health problem, but health officials here don t speak about it publicly.

One form of Mogellons disease.

Kathleen Vanoudenallen, a registered nurse who is a close friend of Cebek s, and who has intensively studied Morgellons for years, and first diagnosed Cebek, stated this week, I don t think there s much doubt that Morgellons looks like something that has been altered, something not natural that may have been created in a lab, something weaponized. Some former military researchers say they worked on just such a disease years ago. How it got out into the general population is anyone s guess. Nobody wants to go the record with information about the government s work with the disease.

Recounted Cebek, When I learned that this disease could possibly be a result of covert biological warfare work performed by our government I was outraged. I wanted to scream, to smash the wall. How dare they do this to unsuspecting citizens? How dare they use people like this? What gives them the right? Who the hell do they think they are?

Special thanks to Anthony Frewin for providing needed information on British biological work.

Hank P. Albarelli Jr.

Investigative journalist and writer who lives in Florida and Vermont. Last book published : « A Terrible Mistake : The murder of Frank Olson and the CIA s secret Cold War Experiments ». Albarelli s forthcoming 2011 book from TrineDay is entitled: The Secret Order: An Exploration of the High Strangeness and Synchronicities of the JFK Assassination.

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[1] A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA s Secret Cold War Experiments, by Hank P. Albarelli Jr. (October 2009, TrineDay Publishers, ISBN-10: 0977795373, Hardcover, 864 pages.).

[2] See «"Operation Paperclip" : des V2 à la Lune», Réseau Voltaire, Augsut 24, 2004.

[3] « Mystery Disease Linked to Vanished Israeli Scientist », by Hank P. Albarelli Jr., Voltaire Network, May 7, 2010.

 

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Mystery Disease Linked to Vanished Israeli Scientist

by Hank P. Albarelli Jr.*

7 May 2010

The recent outbreak of a life-threatening disease in the United States, caused by a new and exotic strain of a hypervirulent fungus, is baffling the US media and the scientific community. Speculations point to climate change as a possible explanation. However, according to journalist Hank P. Albarelli Jr., famous for having uncovered the 1951 CIA experiments with LSD in Pont St. Esprit (France), the answer is more likely to be found inside the Fort Detrick biological warfare center and in Israeli laboratories. A key element of the enigma is apparently a dubious Israeli scientist allegedly connected to the Mossad.

The new Cryptococcus gatti fungus strain, magnified.

Late last month, on April 24, media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least 6 people in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, is spreading throughout the region. The fungus, according to expert microbiologists, who have expressed alarm about the strain s emergence, is a new genotype of Cryptococcus gatti fungi or C gatti. Cryptococcus gatti is normally found in tropical and subtropical locations in India, South America, Africa, and Australia. Microbiologists in the United States maintain that the strain found here, for reasons not yet fully understood, is far deadlier than any found overseas.

Physicians in the Pacific Northwest are reporting that an undetermined number of people in the region are ill from the effects of the strange strain. Physicians also say that the virulent strain can infect domestic animals as well as humans, and symptoms do not appear until anywhere from two to four months after exposure. Symptoms in humans include a lingering cough, sharp chest pains, fever, night-sweats, weight-loss, headaches, and shortness of breath. The strain can be treated successfully, if detected early enough, with oral doses of antifungal medication, but it cannot be prevented, and there is no preventative vaccine. Undiagnosed, the fungus works its way into the spinal fluid and central nervous system and causes fatal meningitis.

The estimated mortality rate is about 25 percent of 21 cases analyzed. Several newspapers and media outlets in the U.S. and overseas quote a researcher at Duke University s Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Edmond Byrnes, as stating: This novel fungus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people. Typically, we see this fungal disease associated with transplant recipients and HIV-infected patients, but that is not what we are seeing.

Microbiologists and epidemiologists studying the strain say the mystery fungus came from an earlier fatal fungus that was first found on British Columbia s Vancouver Island in the fall of 2001, and perhaps as early as 1999. There the fungus infected and killed dogs, cats, horses, sheep, porpoises, and at least 26 people. The disease spreads through spores carried by breezes and wind and when people and animals encounter infected ground where the fungus is present. A number of microbiologists say that the disease has the potential to essentially travel anywhere the wind or people can carry it. Reads an alarming study authored in part by Duke University s Edmond Byrnes: The continued expansion of C. gatti in the United States is ongoing, and the diversity of hosts increasing.

Several researchers in California also note that the Cryptococcus gatti fungus has been researched for decades, extending back to the 1950s, at the U.S. Army s biological warfare center, Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland. One microbiologist at the University of California at Los Angeles recounted that the fungus was first brought to the attention of Fort Detrick researchers by British scientists experimenting with the bark of eucalyptus trees from Australia. U.S. Army biological warfare reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that beginning around 1952 the Army mounted a huge research program involving numerous plant and fungi products, and that well over three-hundred long-term contracts and sub-contracts were let with over 35 U.S. colleges and universities to carry out this multi-faceted research. Examples of this early research in California included experiments and projects at Camp Cooke; Port Huemene; Harpers Lake; Oceanside; and extensive experimentation with wheat stem rust and various spores including several from tropical locations and cereal rust spores and dyed Lycopodium spores. Several Army reports reveal that private sector corporations that participated or assisted in these projects were the American Institute of Crop Ecology; the American Type Culture Collection, Inc.; University of California research institutes; Bioferm, Inc.; and the Kulijian Corp.

The same microbiologist, who declined to speak on the record and who recounted extensive fungus work at Fort Detrick, also stated that researchers at Israel s Institute for Biological Research, located in Ness-Ziona about 20 km from Tel Aviv, have worked with the Cryptococcus gatti fungus. He reports that mysterious Israeli-American scientist Joseph Moshe, 56 years old, may have conducted covert studies with the fungus while he was recently living in California. This report concerning Moshe is especially interesting because Moshe was briefly in the international spotlight in 2009 when he was the subject of a spectacular chase and arrest by the LA police department and SWAT team, assisted by the FBI, Secret Service, CIA, U.S. Army and several unidentified federal officials. That highly unusual arrest has never been fully explained to the media, and the whereabouts of Moshe has remained unknown since its occurrence. Compounding the mystery surrounding the Moshe case is that there is another scientist named Moshe Bar-Joseph who works in Israel at that country s Agricultural Research Organization, whose area of expertise is plant pathology, and who looks remarkably like Joseph Moshe, except that he is about 20 years older.

Moshe Bar-Joseph (L) and Joseph Moshe (R)

Why Moshe was pursued and apprehended by the police is a largely unanswered question. According to the LA media, which recorded the entire incident by helicopter and ground cameras, Moshe claimed to be a former Mossad microbiologist who had telephoned a police dispatch number before his pursuit and had made threatening statements about the White House and the president. Reportedly, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed this when he spoke with several LA reporters.

Joseph Moshe allegedly withstood four rounds of chemical agents before FBI officers shot out the drivers window.

On August 12, 2009, several LA police cruisers and an unmarked armored vehicle pursued Joseph Moshe driving his red VW automobile several miles through downtown LA before his car s engine was reportedly knocked out by an electromagnetic pulse. Moshe refused to exit his car when ordered several times by the police, and after the driver s window of his VW was smashed out by a robotic arm and several rounds of tear gas and pepper gas were fired into the vehicle, he still remained behind the wheel refusing to move. At the time, police officers on the scene were stunned that Moshe was able to withstand 3 tear gas shells and hosing with pepper spray without moving. Later that day, an LA law enforcement official said: I can t explain that, there s no way to explain that. Later still, a number of reports surfaced claiming Mossad scientists are specifically trained to withstand assaults with large amounts of tear gas.

After his apprehension, Moshe was taken to the Patton State Mental Hospital and then to LA s Twin Towers Correctional Facility. Sometime about 60 days later Moshe was quietly released and his current whereabouts are unknown. Since his arrest became public, reports about Moshe s activities in the U.S. have spread like wildfire, especially across the Internet. Many of these reports are unconfirmed but a few come from credible sources and have linked Moshe to the grossly underreported outbreak of flu in the Ukraine.

Other reliable sources, including two former Fort Detrick biochemists, have also linked Moshe to a mysterious disease that is becoming alarmingly common in Vermont and other states, including California. The disease is known to have killed or incapacitated at least 10-to-20 rural dwellers and farmers. This disease is said to be Morgellons disease or a rare, mutated form of Morgellons disease. Former Fort Detrick scientists, speaking off the record, say that the disease is one that was experimented with intensely in the late 1960s at several test sites in New England and at a well known research facility in the Boston area. Morgellons disease causes patients to suffer horrible skin problems as well as fatigue, confusion, and serious memory problems, as well as joint pain and the strange sensation that pins and needles are piercing the body or that something is crawling beneath one s flesh. Some patients struck by the disease report that odd fiber-like materials force themselves through the skin. Several researchers and physicians consulted for this article believe that Morgellons may be a psychiatric condition called delusional parasitosis. Other physicians, who are familiar with treating the disease, say an airborne, unidentified spore may cause it, and that it was developed in the laboratory from an affliction that was first identified in the 1700s. Regardless of its origin, many researchers claim Morgellons is becoming a very real medical problem in some parts of the country.

Related articles:
 Le Pentagone s apprête à reprendre les essais d armes chimiques et biologiques à ciel ouvert (The Pentagon is poised to restart its open air chemical and biologican arms tests), by Ross Sherwood, Voltaire Network, 22 December 2007.
 Intoxication à l anthrax (Anthrax Intoxication), by Paul Labarique, Voltaire Network, 10 March 2004.
 South Africa, a former secret biological terrorism lab for a few democratic countries, Voltaire Network, 28 October 2002.

Hank P. Albarelli Jr.
Investigative journalist and writer who lives in Florida and Vermont. Last book published : « A Terrible Mistake : The murder of Frank Olson and the CIA s secret Cold War Experiments ». Albarelli s forthcoming 2011 book from TrineDay is entitled: The Secret Order: An Exploration of the High Strangeness and Synchronicities of the JFK Assassination.

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