At regular intervals, documents from history’s darkest archives come to light. When the United States declassified previously secret CIA documents in June 2007 covering the Agency’s activities during the 1950s, 1960s, and into the early 1970s, the revelations made headlines. The CIA had attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro using poison capsules, conducted military LSD experiments on unwitting test subjects, and more. For the mainstream media, this was news. For those who had tried to piece together reality from other sources—including defectors from within the Agency—it was old news.
However, the released documentation only extends into the early 1970s and therefore does not address allegations concerning the CIA’s involvement in the emergence of HIV and the subsequent spread of AIDS. According to the text, those issues remain too sensitive.
Regarding HIV/AIDS and its origins, several theories have been proposed. The three that have largely endured and continue to circulate—either because they have stood the test of time or because they have received support from those in positions of authority—are essentially the following:
1. That the virus arose naturally. Since very similar viruses have been found in a small number of chimpanzees, this has become the theory embraced by much of the scientific establishment. According to the text, researchers who belong to this establishment are safest adhering to this theory if they wish to continue having their findings published and to secure ongoing funding for research into the virus.
2. There is also the exact opposite theory—namely, that HIV plays only a very minor role in the disease itself and that entirely different factors are responsible for AIDS. Under this view, the origin of HIV is of little significance.
This theory was advanced by the prominent scientist Peter Duesberg at a time when increasing numbers of HIV-positive individuals were turning to alternative medicine in search of treatments they believed could strengthen their immune systems and significantly extend their lives. Informal groups of people living with HIV had increasingly begun to turn their backs on mainstream medicine and research, believing they were unable to provide effective help.
But perhaps even more importantly, Duesberg and others vigorously promoted their theory at the same time that there was widespread discussion about whether HIV might have been man-made. According to the text, Duesberg’s theory attracted the attention of many within the alternative health community and, in doing so, created confusion regarding the nature of HIV. This raises the question of whether that confusion was, in fact, the intended outcome.
3. The most taboo theory is that HIV was created in a laboratory by combining several previously known viruses using the genetic engineering techniques available at the time, and was then deliberately introduced into both humans (homosexual men in New York and California) and chimpanzees.
According to the text, the documentation supporting this theory is highly plausible, but because the subject is so controversial, it has rarely been discussed in public. Censorship and self-censorship are said to have played a role, and no admissions have ever come from those who might allegedly have been responsible for creating the virus.
The Testimony of Sue Arrigo
But then, in May 2007, testimony emerged from within the CIA’s innermost circles.
Apparently, the secrecy and assignments that had crossed most ethical boundaries had become too much to bear for physician and CIA employee Sue Arrigo.
In a lengthy report of more than 200 pages addressed to Congressman Waxman, Sue Arrigo recounts events she was involved in over the previous 30 years. The content and level of detail lend a certain degree of credibility to her account.
When it comes to former intelligence agents—whose professional role often involves deception—it is important to examine their background and motives in order to assess the credibility of their testimony.
A decisive motivation for Sue Arrigo, according to the text, was the support she found in the principles established by the declaration adopted following the Nuremberg Trials.
Refused to Participate
What ultimately caused Sue Arrigo to reach her breaking point was when she was assigned to participate in staged news reports intended to portray Iran as a nation preparing to develop nuclear weapons. When Arrigo refused to take part in what she regarded as fabricated reports that would worsen an already tense global situation and increase the risk of a Third World War, she claims she was ”punished” by being raped.
This assault led Sue Arrigo to break the confidentiality agreement that applies to those working within military organizations of the CIA’s caliber. Disclosing classified information can result in extremely severe punishment. In Arrigo’s case, according to the text, there was little worse that could happen to her short of death, but she first made sure she had left the United States. She now lives in Ireland.
It is easy to understand that the dual role Sue Arrigo performed—as both a civilian physician and a covert CIA operative—placed enormous psychological strain on her. She had to lead a double life and conceal her activities even from those closest to her.
Sue Arrigo has been dismissed by some as schizophrenic, making it easier for U.S. authorities to portray her claims as the fantasies of a mentally ill woman. However, according to the text, the clarity of her account and the motives she presents in her lengthy report make it important that the truth be thoroughly investigated.
In this context, the text also points to what it describes as a remarkable excess mortality among microbiologists who worked, directly or indirectly, under military contracts involving research into potential biological weapons. According to the text, the reported causes of death have most often been ”traffic accidents” or other unusual circumstances.
Sue Arrigo’s Background
Sue Arrigo worked both as a physician based in California and as a CIA operative, where she participated in a project involving remote viewing. This formed part of the CIA’s intelligence activities, in which individuals were trained to use remote viewing to, for example, locate missing aircraft or detect unauthorized nuclear weapons development by hostile nations. Remote viewing was also used to assess the likely outcomes of various staged provocations and the possibility that they might escalate into war.
The concept of remote viewing has often been dismissed as unscientific, and the CIA developed the program in secret. It was not until the Clinton administration that the Agency publicly acknowledged that it had investigated the potential of methods not recognized by mainstream science.
Sue Arrigo, who also trained others in remote viewing, writes that the method could serve as a complement to other intelligence-gathering techniques, since it never produced 100 percent reliable results—just as satellite imagery did not. However, she argues that it could provide valuable leads for further investigation on the ground. The successful location of missing aircraft was cited as lending some credibility to the method.
According to the text, Sue Arrigo had already been recruited by the CIA as a child, without having any opportunity to refuse. Her father was a military officer stationed in Taiwan and Korea. The method allegedly used on the children to ensure they would not reveal classified information was to threaten that harm would come to their loved ones if they disclosed their assignments while carrying out relatively simple intelligence-gathering tasks.
Sue Arrigo also became involved in various weapons shipments to Iraq during and after the Iran-Iraq War. She writes that she found it absurd when she examined U.S. weapons deliveries to Iraq and discovered that several shipments allegedly included biological agents. According to her account, the shipping documents even stated that the shipments contained Ebola.
When, in connection with these discoveries, she sought confirmation as to whether those responsible for the shipments were aware of the international agreements the United States had signed concerning the handling of biological weapons, she says she was met with evasive responses from those in charge.
An Insight into How the Power Structure Operated
On several occasions, Sue Arrigo participated in briefings before the highest levels of the U.S. military leadership. Prior to these recurring information sessions, at which Arrigo and others presented expert assessments, they were given access to a substantial amount of classified material. As a result, Sue Arrigo gained considerable insight into how power operated within the highest circles of the United States.
Another area of significance for the CIA, according to the text, involved experiments in mind control, both to instill unquestioning obedience in those who worked for the Agency and to enable them to carry out assignments without hesitation. To achieve this, the Agency allegedly experimented with drugs, electroshock, hypnosis, and even outright torture. These methods were reportedly used especially on children, who were believed to be more susceptible to manipulation.
With regard to children, Sue Arrigo further claimed that they became commodities to be traded and later exploited as victims of sex trafficking.
During the Kosovo War, she states that she observed the U.S. purchasing land in Kosovo to establish homes for orphaned children, who would later become victims of a modern form of slavery in which sexual exploitation was one component.
According to the text, another lucrative source of income for those who exerted influence over the organization was the drug trade, which also fueled hatred and division within the United States by setting rival youth gangs in major cities against one another.
The Influence of the Power Elites
The conclusions Sue Arrigo drew after working within the organization for more than 40 years—and attempting to steer it in a direction that would give less influence to those advocating war—were that war is the means by which the major players further enrich themselves, both financially and in terms of power.
She also concluded that, in the United States—and indeed on a global scale—a power elite, or Cabal, had developed, united through secret rituals in various obscure organizations. One such Masonic-related group is Skull and Bones. According to the text, it has been home to many U.S. presidents. It further claims that one cannot become President of the United States without being a member of the organization.
The text also claims that, in order to exercise influence on a global scale, international groups such as the G5 (now the G8) and the Bilderberg Group were created and are controlled by this Cabal.
According to the text, the leading news media, the film industry, and other influential trendsetters are likewise owned and directed in accordance with the interests of this elite.
When the term ”American national security” is used, Arrigo argues that only 10 percent of its purpose is to protect American citizens. The remaining 90 percent, she claims, is devoted to misleading the American public so that the power elite can further enrich itself—whether through drugs, war, sex trafficking, or disease.
The U.S.–Nazi Germany Connection
At the international level, Sue Arrigo has noted the very troubling links between American financial interests and the German Nazis. Here, Preston Scott Bush, grandfather of the current U.S. president, appears. Through his banking contacts, Preston Scott Bush was able to help finance large parts of Nazi Germany’s war machine both before and well into the Second World War. Even after the war, many German war criminals were employed within the U.S. war machine through Operation Paperclip, among other things to develop biological weapons.
Sue Arrigo explains her motive for publishing her testimony and other well-documented positions in several lengthy reports as follows:
“I am truly trying to say this carefully in order to reduce the risk of harm to people in the United States and the rest of the world. A person’s duty must be to defend the world at large, not merely to serve tyranny and play along with the neoconservatives’ goal of a totally U.S.-dominated globalized world. In my writings, I try to use only already known documents to support my position. I cannot remain silent when the future of the American public and the world’s population is at stake. I am one of the very few people in the world ‘who know’ and who is prepared to speak out about these things. I had very extensive access to information for several decades. I was asked to investigate several important issues. I was never given a choice as to whether I would belong to the intelligence organization or not, and I have never sworn any oath of loyalty; the secrecy oath I gave at the age of three, or which concerns only parts of my consciousness, is not valid. The Nuremberg Principles also make clear that there are times when you are required to refuse to obey the orders of authority and instead remain loyal to the welfare of your fellow countrymen and other citizens of the world. When those in power have reached their positions by illegal means and are traitors, then it is one’s duty to refuse to obey them.”
Sue Arrigo draws her moral strength and hope for the future partly from the pacifist nonviolent method practiced by Gandhi during the Indian struggle for independence:
“With nonviolence, the masses have a weapon that allows every child, every woman, and even elderly weakened men to successfully challenge the most powerful governments. If your spirit is strong, then physical strength ceases to be a handicap”…
– Mahatma Gandhi
The Question of the Origins of HIV and AIDS
When it comes to issues that we have previously covered in 2000-Talets Vetenskap, it is primarily those concerning the origins of HIV and the spread of AIDS where Sue Arrigo’s testimony may support or shed new light on the circumstances.
Regarding the origin of HIV itself, Sue Arrigo writes in her report under the heading ”The Development of HIV at the U.S. Army Biological Weapons Laboratory”:
”Although I did not want to address this subject, I have changed my mind in the hope that this disclosure will prevent the United States from releasing yet another disease-causing microorganism. … After reviewing the research documentation at both laboratories (Fort Detrick’s biological weapons division and the Chemical Warfare Division), I became fully aware that the United States had initiated the AIDS epidemic a little more than a year before I compiled my report (a report submitted directly to then–Vice President George Bush Sr. concerning the potential of biological weapons). At the personal briefing, Bush Sr., Cheney, and others were present, although President Reagan himself was not. What I remember from the discussion was the atmosphere at the meeting, which was like that of any war planning session: How can we kill as many of the enemy as possible? At the end of the meeting, they decided to use Haitians and Africans as the primary targets. That decision was based on racism and the fact that their populations were growing the fastest. The method they intended to use was to export contaminated donor blood from homosexuals in New York and California, label it as foreign aid, and send it especially to hospitals in Africa located near areas of armed conflict.”
Sue Arrigo recalls that the entire discussion at the briefing was marked by a euphoric sense of triumph. She also states that participants discussed how riots could be provoked in predominantly Black neighborhoods in the United States and how HIV-contaminated blood could then be sent to hospitals in those areas.
The crime against Africa
With regard to African nations, the plan, according to the text, was to send HIV-contaminated donor blood, particularly to areas where local wars were being fought and where hospitals had a great need for blood transfusions. The objective was ultimately to kill as many people as possible, with only a small number of selected individuals being spared.
Sue Arrigo illustrates how she came to possess this information with what she describes as a gruesome example. According to her account, after the first people in Africa who had received HIV-contaminated blood transfusions became ill, American physicians gathered 40 patients and performed autopsies on them. In one case, the entire skin of a man was removed and sent back to the United States, where it was reportedly stored in the vault of one of the secret organizations. During one of the briefings for the President, the remains, kept in a plastic bag, were brought out to be shown to Sue Arrigo before being forwarded to Fort Detrick.
Sue Arrigo also states that she found documentation indicating that the U.S. Army had developed a vaccine production method that would be effective against multiple infectious agents and could be used in the field. However, according to her, the United States wanted to retain exclusive control over the method and therefore chose not to make it public. She further claims that several high-ranking CIA officials had already been vaccinated after it had been determined that the method produced only few and mild side effects.
Sue Arrigo writes:
”The fact that they waited year after year while millions died in Africa and elsewhere in the world without sharing the vaccine, and without allowing any other vaccine to be developed and used, is one of the greatest crimes since the Second World War.”
Ingemar Ljungqvist, Confessions of a female CIA agent
