THE "GAY" EXPERIMENT
The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot
By Alan Cantwell Jr., M.D.

 Is AIDS a covert genocide program? Could American gays be victims of
a government-sponsored, Nazi-like extermination program?
How did the Holocaust succeed in wiping out almost the entire Jewish
population of Europe? The decision to liquidate European Jewry was
secretly authorized at the highest levels of the German government.
Through sophisticated propaganda techniques the natural resistance of
the general population to genocide was neutralized so that massive
killings could proceed without interference.

In The Genocidal Mentality, Robert Jay Lipton and Eric Markusen
investigate the psychological mechanisms underlying the Nazi
atrocities. "Genocide requires well-educated professionals. They are
necessary for its technology, its organization, and its rationale. In
the Nazi case, members of all the professions--physicians, scientists,
engineers, military leaders, lawyers, clergy, university professors,
and school teachers--were all effectively mobilized to the ideological
project." The authors add, "A nation carrying out genocide must create
new institutions and alter existing ones."

The Nazi perpetrators were carefully chosen for their obedience and
loyalty. The Jews never fully realized that the Germans were serious in

their avowal to exterminate all of them as enemies of the Third Reich.
The Jews preferred psychological denial to the incomprehensible thought

that every single one of them was doomed.

To those perceptive enough to discern it, the mass deaths of
homosexuals from AIDS was similar to the mass deaths of Jews in the
Holocaust. The scientists blamed the green monkeys and African Blacks;
the public blamed the homosexual lifestyle; the gays blamed themselves;

and the U.S. government did as little as possible to stem the rising
toll of gay AIDS deaths. During his first term of office as president,
Ronald Reagan never once mentioned the word AIDS in public.

In their genocide program the Nazis, under the leadership of Adolf
Hitler, first secured the cooperation of the German physicians. Almost
half were members of the Nazi party. These doctors were the original
architects and perpetrators of Hitler's prewar forced euthanasia "T-4"
program that led to the murder of one hundred thousand mentally and
physically disabled people in an attempt to "purify" the German people.

Hitler then turned to the masses to support him in his mission.
Political rallies were transformed into vast public spectacles of a
grandeur not seen since the days of ancient Rome. The Germans were
hypnotized into believing they were a nation of demi-gods. Those who
were not susceptible to the propaganda of racial superiority were
subjected to innuendo, lies, fear, intimidation, coercion,
incarceration and finally, elimination. Thus did Hitler lead his people

into a frenzy of mass murder against their enemies, real and imagined.

As they had been labeled for two thousand years, the Jews were again
branded as killers of Christ. They were Communists determined to
destroy the German nation, moneyed parasites that sucked the blood of
the German people. The Jews were a cancer that needed to be cut out of
a diseased Germany. Jews were microbes that had to be purged from the
body of Deutschland.

Hitler's mission to rid Germany of its Jews became messianic. In Mein

Kampf he wrote: "The Jew today is the great agitator for the complete

destruction of Germany." He did not want to see Germany fall victim to
the "Jewish doctrine of Marxism." In his view, Germany could only
survive the Russian-Jewish-Communist threat by becoming a community of
physically and psychically homogenous creatures. In this community the
Jew, with his foreign ways and his racial and religious identity, had
no place. He concluded, "I believe that I am acting in accordance with
the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew,
I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

Along with the Jews, other enemies had to be eliminated: Gypsies,
homosexuals, prostitutes, drunkards, beggars, vagabonds, Jehovah's
Witnesses, Freemasons, criminal elements and other genetically and
politically-incorrect individuals that fouled the purity of the Third
Reich.

In the 1970s, large numbers of white gay men came out of the closet.
Bigots, racists and white supremacists responded by adding "faggots" to

the top of their hate list. When the hepatitis B experiment began in
1978, gays were arguably the most hated minority in America, more
despised than Blacks and Jews.

A gay Black physician once told me that white gay men did not fully
understand the social and political consequences of coming out. When
white men identified themselves as queer, they lost all the privileges
and the protection provided to white heterosexual men in American
society. By publicly relinquishing their heterosexuality, the doctor
believed that gays placed themselves in a very dangerous situation. He
predicted the government would treat gays badly. White gays would soon
find out what it was like to be a Black man in America. He thought it
might even be worse for gays because it was still socially acceptable
for everyone, including Blacks and Jews, to hate gays.

When the closet doors opened, the government was startled by the
political strength and the social demands of the new gay and lesbian
civil rights movement. After centuries of oppression, thousands of gays

were becoming more secure in their sexuality. They felt good about
themselves as human beings; they wanted equal status with
heterosexuals. Many straight Americans disliked the brazen sexuality of

this new breed of homosexual. Gay and lesbian demands for social reform

especially infuriated the religious right.

For a century homosexuals had been erroneously classified as
psychologically deranged. Under pressure from gay activists, the
American Psychiatric Association finally took homosexuals off their
list of mentally ill people in the early 1970s. However, the World
Health Organization (WHO) still classifies homosexuality as a mental
illness.

Soon after their mental status was clarified, American gays faced
another serious health problem. The physical health of homosexual men
now came to the attention of the medical authorities. According to
public health statistics provided by government epidemiologists, the
gay community was infested with venereal disease. The most shocking
rates of infection were for hepatitis B.

It was Nazi doctors who first proved that hepatitis was infectious. In
their experiments, physicians forced concentration camp prisoners to
eat material scraped out of the stomachs of people who had turned
yellow from liver disease. When the prisoners subsequently sickened
with yellow jaundice, the Nazi doctors determined that hepatitis was
most likely caused by an infectious agent, probably a virus.

During World War II, thousands of American GIs became accidentally
infected with hepatitis following compulsory vaccinations. The cause of

the hepatitis epidemic was traced back to contaminated batches of
yellow fever vaccine. The vaccine was manufactured, in part, from human

blood serum contaminated with the infectious agent of hepatitis. After
injection with yellow fever vaccine, the soldiers became infected with
serum hepatitis.

When hepatitis B was also proven to be a sexually transmitted disease,
it was discovered that half the gay population was infected with
hepatitis B virus. The epidemiologists determined that homosexual men
were a potential public health menace not only to themselves, but to
the larger public as well.

During the 1970s promiscuous behavior became widespread not only among
gays, but also among straights. It became fashionable for gay
physicians to talk about the "special" diseases that affected their
homosexual clientele.

The new buzz word was "anal sex." It seemed to be involved in many of
the venereal diseases common in gays: gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes,
warts, intestinal parasites, and especially hepatitis. New illnesses
like "the gay bowel syndrome" began to appear in the medical
literature. A new philosophy was promoted emphasizing that the medical
needs of gays were different from straights. As a result, gay community

leaders put pressure on the government to provide better health care
for homosexuals.

Because of this new medical attitude, civic- and healthminded
homosexual volunteers responded in large numbers to test a new
experimental vaccine, which offered the hope of eradicating hepatitis B

from the gay population.

The groundwork for the experiment began in 1973 when The Gay Men's
Health Project in Manhattan provided blood samples for hepatitis B
testing at The New York City Blood Center. The results were
astonishing! One out of every two gay blood samples were positive. By
contrast, only 5% of the blood samples from straights were positive.

Developed at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research at West
Point, Pennsylvania, the first crude experimental vaccine was tested in

chimpanzees, the only animal susceptible to the human hepatitis B
virus. Later, the vaccine was tried on a small group of retarded
children.

When the experimental vaccine was ready to be more widely tested in
humans, several "high risk" groups were considered. These included male

homosexuals, drug addicts, mentally deficient adults,
Chinese-Americans, indigenous Alaskans, and patients and medical staff
of kidney dialysis centers. After much debate, the epidemiologists
decided that young promiscuous gay men would be the best group to test
the efficiency of the vaccine.

Wolf Szmuness, a Polish physician trained in the Soviet Union, was
placed in charge of the hepatitis B vaccine trial to be conducted at
the New York City Blood Center. Sketchy details of his life appear
posthumously in an article written by Aaron Kellner, a colleague at the

Center.

Szmuness, a Jew born in Poland in 1919, was a young medical student in
eastern Poland when the Nazis invaded the country in the summer of
1939. When Poland was partitioned by Germany and Russia, Szmuness was
sent to Siberia as a political prisoner. His entire family in western
Poland was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. His years in exile
in Siberia were "a long dark period that he was most reluctant to talk
about."

June Goodfield in Quest for the Killers, the definitive account of the
gay hepatitis experiment, provides information on Szmuness' painful
years in Siberia. During confinement he was repeatedly interrogated and

beaten by the Russian KGB for refusing to cooperate in spy activities.
When he could not be broken, they warned him: "Say nothing of this to
anyone, but remember. We will reach you anywhere in the world. No
matter where you go, no matter where you try to hide, you will never be

out of our grasp."

After release from detention in 1946 he was allowed to finish his
medical education in Tomsk in central Russia. While a student, he
married a Russian woman. He specialized in epidemiology, and when his
wife contracted a nearly fatal case of hepatitis, Szmuness decided to
dedicate his life to the study of this liver disease.

In 1959 the Soviets allowed Szmuness, and his wife and daughter, to
return to Poland where he worked as an epidemiologist in the health
department. Szmuness told Aaron Kellner a story about this period when
he was exhausted due to the stresses of his job. He applied to the
authorities for a vacation at a rest home. While recuperating, Szmuness

shared a room with a young Catholic priest. A remarkable friendship
developed and the two men corresponded for a long time thereafter. The
Polish priest eventually became the first Polish pope in Catholic
history: the current anti-Communist and anti-gay Pope John Paul II.

There are conflicting reports of how Szmuness came to America.
According to Kellner, the Communists allowed Szmuness and his family to

attend a scientific meeting in Italy in 1969. While there, they
defected to the West. This account is at odds with Allan Chase's
account in Magic Shots.

Chase claims Szmuness was driven out of Poland in a 1968 Communist
purge of the few remaining Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. June
Goodfield also writes that Polish anti-Semitism cost Szmuness his job,
resulting in his applying for a visa which eventually enabled him to
get out of Poland legally. From Rome the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
arranged for the family to come to the U.S.

Szmuness arrived in Manhattan with $15 in his pocket. Through the
intervention of Walsh McDermott, Professor of Public Health at New York

Hospital, Szmuness was fortunate enough to secure a position as a lab
technician at the New York City Blood Center. Within a few years he was

given his own lab, and a separate department of epidemiology at the
Center was created for him. In record time he was appointed Professor
at the Columbia School of Public Health.

By the mid-1970s he was a world authority on hepatitis and transfusion
medicine. In another startling occurrence, Szmuness was invited back to

Moscow in 1975 to give a scientific presentation. As a defector he was
terrified to set foot in the Soviet Union, and memories of KGB torture
and interrogation still plagued him. However, his colleagues assured
him he would have the full protection of the U.S. State Department. His

return to Russia was a scientific triumph.

By the late 1970s he had been awarded millions of dollars in grant
money and was phenomenally successful in his hepatitis work. Now he was

fully prepared to undertake the most important mission of his life: the

hepatitis B vaccine experiment.

First, Szmuness became acquainted with the gay community, and added
homosexual physicians and activists to his staff. He was taken into the

gay ghetto where he viewed the baths and the bars and the discos.
Promiscuous homosexuals were perfect guinea pigs. They would prove,
beyond doubt, that Szmuness could wipe hepatitis B off the face of the
earth.

In the late 1970s a bloodmobile began canvassing the gay neighborhood
in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan, looking for homosexual
volunteers. Over ten thousand men signed up and donated blood samples
for Szmuness' upcoming experiment.

Szmuness was highly selective in the men he chose as finalists. He
required that the men be highly promiscuous. In fact, the more
promiscuous the better. He was testing a vaccine against a
sexually-transmitted virus. Therefore, he didn't want any monogamous
men, or men with lovers, in his experiment. He also wanted men who were

healthy, young, responsible, intelligent, and preferably white.
Promiscuous bisexuals were acceptable, but heterosexual men were
excluded from the experiment. The men had to have an address and a
phone number, and be willing to provide blood samples over a long
period of time.

The hepatitis experiment was a costly one, and Szmuness didn't want any

uncooperative or hard-to-find gays messing up his experiment. There was

too much money at stake. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, were all involved in the study, as
well as big pharmaceutical companies, such as Merck, Sharp & Dohme
Inc., and Abbott Laboratories.

In preliminary experiments, Szmuness first tested his vaccine in
chimpanzees. He then tested two hundred human volunteers, presumably
gay men, by inoculating them with the vaccine. In the months before the

official beginning of the experiment there had been no problem with the

chimps or the volunteers. Szmuness was now ready to set the date for
the final experiment--an experiment which would decimate the gay
community in New York City.

The first group of gay men was inoculated in November 1978 at the New
York City Blood Center. The experiment continued until October 1979.
Over one thousand men from Manhattan were injected with Szmuness'
vaccine.

In January 1979, a few months after Wolf Szmuness began his experiment,

purple skin lesions began to appear on the bodies of young white gay
men in the Village. The doctors were not sure exactly what was wrong
with these men. During the next thirty months, Manhattan physicians
encountered dozens of cases of a new disease characterized by
immunodeficiency, Kaposi's sarcoma, and a rapidly fatal lung disease,
known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. All the men were young and gay

and promiscuous. Almost all were white. All died horribly.

Within a few years, AIDS would become the leading cause of death of
young men and young women living in New York City. The Big Apple would
be designated the epicenter of the new plague with the highest number
of AIDS cases in the country.

Wolf Szmuness was thrilled with the tremendous success of his hepatitis

experiment. In March 1980 the CDC supervised additional gay experiments

in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis and Chicago. In the
fall of 1980 the first West Coast case of AIDS appeared in a young man
from San Francisco.

Six months later, in June 1981, the AIDS epidemic became "official."
The epidemiologists and health experts could not understand why large
numbers of young, white, previously healthy homosexual men were dying
mysteriously in Manhattan, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

By the beginning of the 1980s, Szmuness was awarded millions of dollars

for his research, and his hugely successful hepatitis vaccine was
hailed as having tremendous global implications. He collaborated with
the most powerful medical institutions in the nation: the NIH, the
National Cancer Institute (NCI), the FDA, the WHO, and the Cornell,
Yale and Harvard Schools of Public Health and the Russian Academy of
Medical Science. Other global connections included the International
Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyons, France, and close associations
with third world African countries. Even the services of the Sengalese
Army were employed to secure blood specimens in one of Szmuness' many
African experiments.

In June 1982 Wolf Szmuness suddenly died of lung cancer. I could find
no obituaries of his death in any of the medical journals, except for
Aaron Kellner's account.

In closing his posthumous account of Szmuness and his scientific

achievements, Aaron Kellner wrote: "He was the quintessential doctor's

doctor. Most physicians in their professional careers influence the
lives of a few hundred or a few thousand people. Some fortunate ones
can influence the lives of a few million. It is the rare physician who,

like Wolf Szmuness, is given the grace to touch the lives of billions
of people--those living on this planet and generations yet unborn."

Szmuness' seminal work at the Blood Center continues to affect
continents. Alfred Prince now coordinates the Center's programs with
the WHO, with IARC in France, and with The Organization of African
Unity. The Center has determined that all Black African babies are at
"high risk" for hepatitis; all the babies require immunization. A 1983
report, published after Szmuness' death, details a new experimental
hepatitis B vaccine program in Kangwane, using Black South African
infants as subjects.

Most people are unaware of the gay experiments that preceded the mass
deaths in the gay ghettos. But the details of the vaccine trials, and
their effects on the health of homosexual men, are recorded for
posterity in the annals of medical science.

Although Szmuness' death received no fanfare, he was remembered and
honored by a small coterie of distinguished scientists--the national
and international medical power brokers who run medical science, and
who represent the media darlings. Those who paid tribute to Szmuness
include the top government scientists in AIDS and cancer, the two
discoverers of the AIDS virus, the most well-known researchers in
animal experimentation, the heads of the most prestigious biomedical
establishments in the nation, and the chief executives of drug
companies tied to genetic engineering, vaccine production, and
biological warfare research.

On May 11, 1984, a landmark meeting took place in the nation's capitol
to honor Wolf Szmuness. One of the most distinguished attendees was Dr.

Robert Gallo, who had announced the discovery of the AIDS virus three
weeks earlier.

Looking over the list of contributors and participants at this
remarkable symposium sponsored by the American Red Cross, I wondered
what had really brought all these powerful people together to pay
homage to Wolf Szmuness. I had lived long enough to recognize the truth

contained in the adage, "Birds of a feather do indeed flock together."

There was a strange and ominous connection between cancer and AIDS,
between animal experimentation and genetic engineering of viruses,
between biological warfare technology and drug companies, between gay
experiments and AIDS, between vaccine programs and the contamination of

the nation's blood supply. Why else would all these people from diverse

areas of science be attending this high level government conference?

Despite the denial of the medical authorities, there was a connection
between Szmuness' gay experiment and the outbreak of AIDS in American
cities. It wasn't my imagination. And it wasn't a coincidence.

The more I studied the hepatitis B experiment, the more the connections

to biological warfare and genocide became apparent.

(Exerpted from QUEER BLOOD: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot by Alan
Cantwell, Jr. M.D., published by ARIES Rising Press, P.O. Box 29532,
Los Angeles, California 90029 $12.95 Phone: 213-462-6458) 061697he.htm