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Genes
"FROM TIME TO TIME, various scenarios having to do with biological warfare surface, and these are written off. In the mid 1960s, MIT professor Salvador Luria raised a few eyebrows when he expressed concern, not optimism, about the 'dangers that genetic surgery, once it becomes feasible, can create if misapplied.' Luria pointed out that fruit flies could be infected with a virus which then changes their metabolisms so they suddenly become oversensitized to carbon dioxide. CO2 becomes a lethal poison for them.
In the same way, Luria suggests, human populations could be seeded with viruses, making them susceptible to introduced chemicals which, ordinarily, would have no effect, but would quickly become lethal.
Indicating that as of 1987, 127 sites around the U. S. were doing CBW research, including universities, foundations, and private corporations, a Science report (Feb. 27, 1987) stated: 'The Department of Defense is applying recombinant DNA techniques (genetic engineering) in research and in the production of a range of pathogens and toxins, including botulism, anthrax, and yellow fever.'
In a speech given at a NY Lenox Hill Hospital AIDS symposium, on April 10, 1983, US Representative Ted Weiss, like Salvador Luria of MIT, raised a few eyebrows when he offered this piece of advice: ' ... as far fetched as it may seem, given the attitudes towards homosexuals and homosexuality by some segments of society, the possible utilization of biological weapons must seriously be explored.' Presumably, Weiss was serious about recommending an investigation ..."
– AIDS Inc. by Jon Rappoport, 1988, ISBN 0-941523, p 237
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