National Cancer Institute
 National Cancer Institute     | |
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| Parent organization | National Institutes of Health |
| Headquarters | 9609 Medical Center Drive Rockville, Maryland 20850 |
| Interests | US/biological weapons, virus |
| US government cancer institute that was involved in biological warfare cancer reserach | |
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Official narrative
The NCI conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other activities related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer; the supportive care of cancer patients and their families; and cancer survivorship.[1] NCI is the oldest and has the largest budget and research program of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health ($6.9 billion in 2020).[2]
SV40 Safety claim
The US National Cancer Institute has claims that "Although the virus has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals, there is no evidence that it causes cancer in people." This claim is disputed by several researchers.[3][4][5]
Viral Cancer Program and biological warfare
In 1991 Richard Hatch wrote an article on the NIC and covert biological warfare research both before and after the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention:
In 1969, President Richard Nixon ordered a halt to offensive biological warfare (BW) research and weapons stockpiling by the United States. Research into viruses during the War on Cancer provided an ideal cover for continuing biological warfare research.
The U.S. Army destroyed its toxins, viruses, and bacteria with heat and disinfectants by May 1972; the disposal of the scientific personnel was not so simple. Some of these biowarriors went to the CIA. Others quickly found new support from the National Cancer Institute, particularly in its Viral Cancer Program (VCP). The NCI funded and supervised some of the same scientists, universities, and contracting corporations - ostensibly for cancer research - which had conducted biological warfare research. Some of these medical research contracts ran simultaneously with the U.S. biological warfare program. When the military work ended, the civilian programs continued to expand on the same critical areas.
The NCI's Viral Cancer Program - a highly politicized public relations effort - was launched in 1971 with great fanfare as part of Nixon's War on Cancer. The stated aim of the program was to organize experiments aimed at finding cancer-causing viruses. Apparently this agenda was compatible with the incorporation into various units of the VCP of possibly dozens of former U.S. BW researchers who continued to study topics with potential military application. Potential cancer-causing viruses were collected, grown in huge amounts, and distributed through the VCP; thousands of animals were infected experimentally, and the aerosol distribution of carcinogenic viruses was studied.
Two former BW facilities would play a large part in the Viral Cancer Program. The U.S. Army's Fort Detrick in Maryland had been the "parent research and pilot plant center for biological warfare." During the early 1960s, the CIA paid the facility $100,000 a year for BW and chemical agents and their delivery systems. In Oakland, California, the Naval Biosciences Laboratory was involved in early experiments with the plague and collaborated in massive open-air tests of biological warfare "simulants" in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s. Former biological warfare specialists from both of these centers were deeply involved in all aspects of the VCP.
Throughout the 1970s, U.S. "defensive" BW efforts were increasingly aimed at the research and development of viral disease agents. The "seed stocks" for this massive production of viruses came from the Cell Culture Laboratory (CCL); the CCL was "physically located at the Naval Biosciences Laboratory (NBL)" in Oakland, California.
One of the subcontractor Bionetics Research Laboratories' most important NCI contracts was a massive virus inoculation program that began in 1962 and and ran until at least 1976, and used more than 2,000 monkeys. Dr. Robert Gallo, the head of the U.S. AIDS research program at NCI and its chief of its tumor cell biology laboratory, and Dr. Jack Gruber, formerly of VCP and then NIH, were project officers for the inoculation program. The monkeys were injected with everything from human cancer tissues to rare viruses and even sheep's blood in an effort to find a transmissible cancer.[6]
References
- ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/avil19668
- ↑ https://www.genengnews.com/a-lists/top-50-nih-funded-institutions-of-2020/
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11897278
- ↑ http://www.naturalnews.com/032854_SV40_polio_vaccines.html
- ↑ http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Rogue-virus-in-the-vaccine-Early-polio-vaccine-2899957.php
- ↑ Covert Action Information Bulletin No 39, page 14-16 https://archive.org/details/TheCIAAndTheWebOfSupportingAgenciesCovertActionInformationBulletinNo39/page/n13/mode/2up
