On June 9, 1969, Dr. Donald MacArthur testified before a House of Representatives subcommittee on department of defense appropriations for 1970. Along with two military officers and three other scientist, MacArthur asked for funding for the development of a new type of biological weapon, a synthetic retrovirus that would be resistant to all forms of treatment. To date, there is only one such virus in existence: the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV.

Dr. Macarthur was a senior researcher at the US Army Chemical and Biological Weapons Lab. In his testimony, he claimed that the army could develop this synthetic virus within “5 to 10 years,” given adequate funding, of course. The committee awarded the project 10 million dollars.

In 1979, the first cases of what we now know to be HIV appeared among homosexuals residing in New York City. It could be a coincidence that the virus emerged at the tail end of Macarthur’s projected 5 to 10 years, or it could be a hint of something far more insidious.

The exact origin of HIV remains a mystery. The prevalent theory comes from Dr. Robert Gallo, who claimed that HIV originated in monkeys as the Simian Virus, jumped species on three separate occasions in the span of less than a century, was passed to Haitian teachers working in Central Africa who in turn brought it back to Haiti, where it was spread to male prostitutes who then spread HIV to the states through white gays. Even Gallo admits that his theory is, at best, an educated guess, and it certainly doesn’t take an MD to see that it is thinly pieced together.

Even if the virus were somehow able to evolve into an entirely new organism within the span of a century and bounce between species like a biological ping pong ball, why would it have been discovered first in New York gays instead noticed running rampant through Central Africa? Unless evolution has a fast forward button, the only explanation for these consistencies is that HIV is a synthetic virus, which our friend Dr. MacArthur already assured us is possible.

Dr. Gallo, the Co-“Discoverer” of HIV and author of the mainstream explanation for the origin of HIV worked as a cancer researcher out of Fort Detrick, Maryland, home to the US Army’s biological weapons program since its inception in 1943. Could it be that Gallo’s theory served as a sort of Warren Commission, complete with its own brand of “magic bullet” impossibilities, designed as a smokescreen to cover up the true origin of the HIV virus?

In Nov. 1978 the government gave between 1040 and 1083 non monogamous gay men between the ages of 20 and 40 a free Hepatitis B vaccine. Two months later, in January of 1979, the AIDS virus first emerged. In 1981, up to 50 percent of men given the vaccine had begun exhibiting symptoms of AIDS. By 1983, 64 percent were diagnosed with AIDS. The rates in following years remain unknown, classified under the pretense of “national security.”

Many, including Dr. Robert Strecker, prolific investigator into the true origin of AIDS, believe that the vaccinations contained a proto HIV virus, released to study dispersal patterns, then quickly spiraling out of control. Gay men, Strecker speculates, were chosen because of their propensity to spread fluids through unprotected sex. Perhaps the government underestimated these men’s promiscuity, or perhaps they discounted the effectiveness of the virus. Many even think that it was intentionally released into gay communities in an act of genocide, a theory popularized in 1997 by Dr. Alan Cantwell Jr.

It is hardly incomprehensible that the US government could test harmful biological agents on unwitting, marginalized citizens after looking at the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments and countless other instances of the government being at least complicit in human experimentation. The US Army’s own biological weapon program engaged in more than 300 open air tests of pathogens between 1950 and 1969, resulting in at least one death.

On top of this, on Feb. 2, 1987, the Philadelphia Daily News reported that Colonel David Huxsoll, Chief of the United States Army Medical Research Institute for infectious diseases, commented on behalf of the Defense Department that his department had “experimented with HIV as a biological weapon, and found it ineffective.” Would it be possible that they found it ineffective because it was impossible to control, quickly escaping the group they intended to study into the general American heterosexual population?

In the same year the pentagon, in an attempt to undo Huxsoll’s blunder, released that Defense Department labs were searching for a cure for AIDS, which would be ironic considering the DOD’s plan to require AIDS victims to wear identification not unlike the infamous yellow Stars of David that emerged in Germany more than a half century ago. Why would they want to cure a disease that they were counting on to create a civil emergency in order to declare martial law and take control of a country that was becoming “far too democratic,” as worded ominously in a leaked report from earlier that year. The DOD had no interest in curing AIDS, only in cleaning up their own mess.

Apart, these scraps of evidence seem circumstantial. But, together they begin to form a disturbing whole, a pattern of denial, misconduct and a government that shows total disregard, perhaps even contempt, of its citizens. The only thing that remains certain is that the facts of the HIV/AIDS outbreak simply do not match the official narrative.

Since its introduction, the AIDS virus has claimed more than 32 million lives. Regardless of whether or not HIV/AIDS was a creation of the US military, our government does not deny that it currently has massive stores of bioweapons all around the world. If the government deemed HIV safe enough for human tests on American civilians, imagine what else they have in store. Anthrax, the Bubonic Plague, Influenza, all modified to be deadlier than ever, biological weapons of mass destruction that could very well be even more dangerous than their nuclear counterparts, a Pandora’s box waiting to open. Thirty-two million could easily pale in comparison to the potential billions waiting to be murdered by America’s silent killers.