The CIA can take you up. But they can also bring you down. Using its own Chemical and Bacteriological Warfare facilities, the CIA developed small, almost weightless, peptides that acted as sedatives. With slight modifications, based on DNA research, organisms were created which could produce toxic proteins capable of instilling either terrible fear or erratic behavior and bizarre actions not characteristic of the individuals in the targeted group. Imagine the effects of this toxin released in aerosol form in a political forum gathered in a small room or even a large meeting hall. And who would ever know that this new "technique" of disruption had been employed by the government? Literally hundreds of studies were done for the CIA in the area of neuropharmacology, particularly in the area of intercellular communications-neurotransmitters.

The idea was to find a chemical substance that could be easily administered through aerosols to interfere and "mix up" neurotransmitters. (A substance was isolated which has a special "affinity" for a specific cell which required only pico or nanograms to entirely disable the "target" in a very selective way and without arousing suspicions.) Item: Freeze-dried and microencapsulization techniques developed by the U.S. Army (primarily at Fort Detrick and Los Alamos) since 17 were successful in creating a product that reduces toxicity to the agent handling the material and allows dissemination on impact and a sustained release. Using these techniques, the U.S. government now has the capability of delivering any virus to any unsuspecting person or group.

According to documents in the possession of certain U.S. Senate intelligence oversight committees, even the Bubonic Plague virus can now be aerosolized and used on specified targets, either here or abroad. One little known detail of the Persian Gulf War is that the CIA made several unsuccessful attempts to infect Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with a rapidly acting type of Legionnaire's virus. Question: How, then, can we know if someone who died of "natural causes" was actually the target of this type of weapon? Answer: We can't. For years, spy novelists wrote about agents who were killed by "heart attack," through the use of curare-tipped instruments. A little pin prick the tip of an umbrella into a calf and you're dead. But that's long since obsolete; no self-respecting spy novelist would dream of using a curare pin-prick in his story anymore than any government agent would use it in real life. It's too easily detectable by new technology and the story has been told too many times by the John LeCarre's of the world. The agents and the spy novelists have advanced way beyond that.

Item: A new synthetic "heroin" was produced. It is four times stronger than real heroin. Freeze dried, encapsulated and put into aerosol form, it was then sprayed into known hangouts of drug addicts over a period of six months. The report on this experiment called it "highly effective." This new heroin substitute was then mixed with regular heroin and allowed to be distributed through the illicit drug network.

Those unfortunate enough to "try" heroin for the first time containing this additive were instantly addicted for life. Using the same technology, the AIDS virus was mixed into batches of heroin and cocaine to speed up the epidemic among drug addicts and allow the mainstream population to believe that AIDS was not something they had to worry about. Those damned gays and drug abusers were bringing this plague upon themselves! What emerged from the Fort Detrick tests helps to explain the rapid spread of AIDS among drug abusers. Since only a small minority of drug abusers "shoot" their drugs, contaminated needles could in no way be the sole cause for the bombshell of AIDS which hit drug abusers. That's like saying that the HIV virus was carried from Haiti and spread among homosexuals in America. But this would not account for the 9000-power spread of the disease. According to intelligence documents, the HIV virus freeze-dried and encapsulated in "mainline" heroin shots and mixed with cocaine for "snorting" would have an instantaneous effect through the nasal membranes, ensuring that the inhaler would come down with AIDS in due course.

Fort Detrick researchers actually did a paper on this subject. If it hasn't been destroyed, it's still in their highly classified files. But only a miracle would ever bring it forth for public scrutiny. Other intelligence reports do, however, indicate that batches of AIDS-infected drugs were released "onto the market." The AIDS virus is but one of many biochemical tools of destruction our government has created. If the public knew how many billions of tax dollars have been spent to create and produce and stockpile these microscopic weapons of mass destruction, they wouldn't even be shocked to discover that a virus that destroys the human immune system has become an operational part of their vast arsenal. The implications are not difficult to imagine. Are you a member of a target group that the government or some renegade group in the government deems undesirable? Here's what's in store: Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in The Technotronic Era in 1972, "At the same time the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous control over every citizen, and to maintain individual files containing even the most personal behavior of every citizen, in addition to the customary data. "These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information…

This will encourage tendencies through the next several decades toward a technotronic era, a dictatorship, leaving less and less room for political procedures as we now know them. Finally, looking ahead to the turn of the century, the possibility of biochemical and mind control and genetic tinkering with man, including beings which will function like men and reason like them, could give rise to some difficult questions." A generation ago, Brzezinski's ideas might have sounded to ordinary people like the rantings of some lunatic fringe case. But he knew what he was talking about. He was a true insider. Five years after he  (9 of ) wrote those words, he was named National Security Adviser to President Carter. If a person of that stature dared to say the above publicly, just try to imagine what they were saying to each other privately. At the moment Brezezinski wrote about future "genetic tinkering with man," the research was already progressing on the creation of a virus designed to destroy the human immune system. As we approach the turn of the century, just as he predicted, those "difficult questions" are being answered secretly in Chemical and Bacteriological Warfare laboratories in the West and Russia. It's not even difficult to understand why. Brzezinski has already told us: It's about control. Mind control. Political control. And, ultimately: Population control.

AIDS is the weapon of a powerful segment of society whose spiritual forefathers date back centuries. The epidemic is the culmination of the intellectual and spiritual tradition of some of the richest and most powerful people alive, many of them famous and respected figures from families whose names are household words and held in high esteem by the public. Their indifference or contempt for the lives of common humanity should not come as a surprise, nor be hard to believe. Since at least the height of British colonial domination of the world, there has been a potent strain of thinking among "aristocrats" about superior races (white, English speaking, educated and rich) and inferior races (white or black or colored, uneducated and poor). The entire British colonial system was based on the ruthless domination by a few of the "superior" over vast numbers of the "inferior."

America itself was founded in rebellion against that domination. The American Revolution was an overthrow of those old ideas about who should rule and how. And then the new Americans turned right around and did the same thing to their own "inferiors," allowing slavery for blacks and committing genocide against Native Americans with a rapacity that would have gratified the most ruthless British colonialists. Philosophers revered as great thinkers by the British aristocrats of those centuries openly expressed their views that the inferior peoples of the planet must not be allowed to increase sufficiently in numbers to use up the earth's precious natural resources and, eventually, to overrun by sheer numbers the existing political and economic system. The most prominent 18th Century spokesman for the British East India Company policies of global genocide was the economist Adam Smith. His article, The Wealth of Nations, is still required reading in college economics classes. He wrote several works on forced population reduction, the most notable being The Treatise of Human Nature and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in which he placed mankind on the level of animals. Smith's ideas were advanced in the 19th Century by philosophers as prominent as Thomas Malthus, another high-ranking employee of the British East India Company.

To the acclaim of the British upper classes, Malthus actually wrote in the mid-1800's: "All children who are born, beyond what would be needed to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the death of grown persons…We should facilitate, instead of desperately trying to impede, the operation of nature in producing this mortality, and if we dread the all too often visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction which we compel nature to use."

Malthus' modest proposals included that the poor be educated into habits of filth rather than cleanliness and that poor villages should be built "near stagnant pools and particularly encourage settlements in marshy and unwholesome situations." And he encouraged that restraint be enforced upon those misguidedly benevolent men who would try to protect the poor from contagious diseases. Malthus was a respected writer of his era, and though not one American in a thousand has read his work since some boring college class, his name remains famous. His writings were eminent enough to be responsible for the invention of a word that remains in our language even now: Malthusian. Meaning: "Of or pertaining to the theory of Thomas Malthus that population tends to increase faster than food supply, with inevitably disastrous results unless the increase in population can be checked." Inevitably disastrous results unless the increase in population can be checked. Precisely. And in one sentence, the meaning of "Malthusian" captures perfectly what the AIDS epidemic is really all about: Population control.