Biowarfare 3

 

Shulgin’s Ecstasy

The Tavistock agenda also spawned the counterculture, Human Potential Movement, and Rave Culture. Psychedelic chemist, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin worked out a whole series of mind-altering compounds, including Ecstasy, STP, synthetic THC and nearly 200 other hallucinogenic compounds.  The godfather of X is a paradoxical character. This counterculture pioneer is also a member of the Bohemian Club, which has been called an Illuminati or globalist front. Strange bedfellows, indeed.

How is it this psychedelic chemist has crossed cultural lines from the ivory tower to Chemical Corps firms, to the roots of psychedelic culture, to rubbing elbows with the transnational meta-controllers of The Grove? Shulgin remains an ambiguous character with a career arc that cut an influential mercurial path through the cultural landscape. We might call him the “Einstein of psychoactive compounds,” most of which he tested on himself.

What cemented the Bohemian deal was an unexpected subpoena sent to Sasha on behalf of Claude Pepper’s “The House Committee On Crime In America.” This famous witch-hunt of the times was concerned with criminal cartels, illegal drug masterminds and those suspected of being their teachers. According to his autobiography, when Sasha entered the Court House the Witch-finder General scowled, “How can you call yourself a scientist” he demanded, “and do the type of work you do?”

Under oath Dr. Ecstasy was “raked over the coals.” Criminal associations were introduced into testimony, including Sasha’s alleged clandestine association with Owsley Stanley, the infamous LSD chemist who made “Orange Sunshine” LSD. Further, Sasha had once been approached to set up and run an illegal lab in Jamaica, being offered “six million dollars” according to his fictional PIHKAL. Even within the government, whether he was a “good guy” or “bad guy” depended on relative point of view.

Shulgin’s research and discoveries permeate the entire social spectrum in recursive feedback loops between counterculture, the military/industrial complex, intelligence, and the global elite. The “love drug” Ecstasy, codenamed “Adam,” has been jokingly called a “weapon of mass elation.” His fictional autobiographies, PIKAL and TIKAL reveals a double-life as a witting and unwitting agent in the twilight zone of clandestine work.

How can someone create the ultimate “peace pill” like MDMA and mingle with warmongers, nuclear arms dealers, transnational criminals and media manipulators? How can MDMA’s Godfather, Dr. Shulgin, sit through the Illuminati-derived occult rituals of Bohemian Grove and then casually write about this in his books? Did he lose his own conscience in the “Cremation of Care” ceremonies? How can he create a drug that promotes truth and communication and sit in an ultra-manipulative secret society called a “private gentlemen’s club,” focused on themes of secrecy, monopolization of resources, war and death?

This chemical genius was quickly grabbed up by powerful interests. In his youth, he worked on pesticides for Dow Chemical, infamous for producing Napalm and other BW agents used in Vietnam. He quickly moved to investigating hallucinogenic drugs. There he developed one of the first synthetic THC compounds, active ingredients in marijuana. He learned how to concentrate the potency and toxicity of many compounds.

The dragon of biological warfare owes much to this old pesticide research. Toxins and poisons derived from plants and animals can be developed into (BW) biological warfare agents - proteins capable of acting on specific receptors in the human body. Developers rely on a variety of sources for toxins, including microbes, snakes, spiders, sea creatures and plants. Toxins can also be derived from algal toxin, for example, and are highly poisonous and difficult to halt with vaccines or other medical treatment.

Another toxin - Saxitoxin - from marine algae, affects nerve cells, eventually causing the victim to stop breathing. Weapons experts also consider the possibility of bioregulators - organic chemicals that regulate cell processes. Physiologically active catalysts will be weaponized for biological warfare in the future.

An intelligence community report points out that such chemicals could short-circuit and disrupt the bodily functions and kill the affected victim. – (Gertz, Air Force Magazine, Jan. 1988). Such biological warfare weapons have been called “bug-spray for humans.” Chemical and biological warfare has terrified the world and is banned today by most civilized nations

Psychonauts

This early pesticide and THC work led Dr. Shulgin to members of the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. In the 1960’s, the Edgewood Arsenal was a main chemical-biological weapons developer for the US military. Shulgin was offered a job working for what he “fictionally” described as the “San Carlos Aerospace Laboratory” under the auspices of NASA. The person who interviewed Sasha for the job told him what to expect. He explained astronauts might be exposed to long periods of sensory isolation and the potential mental challenges that ensue.

A research program was created, geared to developing chemicals that could be used to train those astronauts who might be subjected to long bouts of sensory deprivation. Shulgin was mandated to “teach them to roll with the altered states of consciousness that could very well be a consequence of that isolation” (PIHKAL, pp. 43)

No doubt NASA also had interests in anti-emetic (anti-vomiting) drugs for those new to zero-gravity. And anti-boredom. relaxing and hunger-stimulating agents might be useful on long space flights. Natural THC from marijuana is well known for easing dysphoria and many symptom while stimulating appetite. We can presume similar action for synthetic THC.

Edgewood Arsenal published an academic paper on manufacture of synthetic THC in May, 1967, two years after Shulgin left Edgewood and Dow. This Journal of Organic Chemistry paper is titled, “Synthesis of the Eight Stereo Isomers of Tetrahydrocannabinol Congener” by Herbert Aaron and Parker Ferguson.

So, was Shulgin designing top-secret chemistry for NASA? Or designing top-secret chemistry for: potential biological warfare? Dr. Shulgin supposes in his book PIHKAL, that the man he now worked for - a person he pseudonymously calls “Captain B. Lauder Pinkerton” - was an NSA (National Security Agency) agent: Pinkerton arrived with a whole other world of new biological research projects already established by his own agenda for Sasha to see and explore.

“Here were arcane projects such as black-membrane dynamics, studies of the influence of gravity on plant growth, the relationship between magnetic fields and the blood-brain barrier, and the effects of radiation on fertility.” - PIHKAL, pp. 45

Captain Pinkerton spoke to Dr. Shulgin about many things. For example, “Pinkerton might bring up the subject of mental telepathy and the possibility of influencing another persons thoughts at a distance”. Intelligence was very interested in the fringes of psi powers and truth drugs in those days. Alexander Shulgin naturally concluded that his work would end-up at the CIA or Department of Defense, probably weaponized.

Free Agent

Troubled, Sasha claims he quit this new job right before his official top-secret clearance was approved, since top-secret clearance “would effectively gag [him] for the rest of his life.” His future in open science could be compromised by covert black ops agendas. Science that might save lives or led to important discoveries for the common man could be compromised. Still he knew there were probably a lot of people in the government very interested in what he published.

“I have no doubt whatsoever that the CIA and probably the Defense Department take a close look at some or all of the compounds that I write up; they probably feel that I am doing a lot of their work for them, as a matter of fact. . .testing them for use in war - biological warfare and that sort of stuff?…Or possibly crowd control, or prisoner-of-war interrogation, or maybe helping to drive an unfriendly Head of State into some kind of befuddlement - who knows? Their objectives are not my objectives...” (PIHKAL, pp. 157)

Alexander Shulgin went on to operate his own licensed lab as a consultant, and teach as a college professor. He taught Public health classes at San Francisco General Hospital and lectured at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and San Francisco State University, among others. As the godfather of Ecstasy, he gave life to the Rave movement and other countercultural trends. He is highly respected among the psychedelic intelligentsia despite his background with clandestine forces.

Over the years, Shulgin contracted with the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse) and many other government agencies. He retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of California. Besides Dow Chemical, Shulgin also contracted with Bristol Labs and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

According to the memoir of retired Colonel James Ketchum, M.D., Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten (2006), military mind meddlers wanted a nonlethal incapacitating agent that would dissolve the will to resist, and funding for chemical weaponry and mind control was readily available in the early 60s. Other “incapacitating” experimental drugs of the era included LSD, PCP, STP, MDA, DMT, BZ and Ritalin. Various agencies tested these brainstorms on witting and unwitting victims, and then they escaped the handlers.

One morning, Ketchum arrived at his office in Edgewood and found "a large, black steel barrel, resembling an oil drum, parked in the corner of the room," he recounts in his book. Overcome by curiosity, he opened the barrel and examined its contents. There were a dozen tightly sealed glass canisters that looked like cookie jars; the labels on the canisters indicated that each contained about three pounds of "EA 1729," the Army's code number for LSD. By the end of the week, the 40 pounds of government acid -- enough to intoxicate several hundred million people -- vanished as mysteriously as it had appeared. Ketchum still doesn't know who put the LSD in his office or what became of it.

Great ILLusion

Lab space for such work has increased 10-fold since 2001. The Bush administration built a new 160,000 foot lockdown facility at Ft. Detrick. Critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law by producing and stockpiling the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses"- forbidden by the 1972 BWC and 1989 US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act.

Even after Nixon allegedly ended the nation's biowarfare programs, they never stopped. The CIA remained active through a loophole in the law. The Reagan administration reactivated what Nixon seemingly slowed down. Bush 42 would have been well-familiar with such dark ops from CIA. Linton staunchly advocated dual-use biological defense and weaponry. George W. reveled in unbridled power of all sorts.

Thousands of scientists are now working with bioweapons agents, many for the first time. More than 14,000 scientists have been approved to work with so-called select agents like anthrax that usually pose little threat to public health unless they are used as bioweapons.

Genetically engineered constructs are escaping into the environment, speeding up recombination and jumping species barriers. This is the major route to creating new diseases. With this routine release, we don't need terrorists to create new epidemics. Bioweapon and GM control must come together. By default or design it is still bioterrorism.

Quo Vadis?

Biowarfare’s goal is simply the transmission of disease and disorder. It is arguably as old as mankind. The first recorded example is the Hittites use of plague infected rams, 3300 years ago. "Hittite plague" raged through the Middle East in the 14th century B.C.

Contamination of water was another common tactic. The ancient Assyrians (whose civilization began around 2400 B.C. in modern Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq) poisoned enemy wells with ergot, an LSD-like fungus that grows on wheat, rye and other grains.

Historically, smallpox and anthrax have been used against adversaries. Anthrax infection was known to the Israelites in Egypt who used figs as a remedy for skin lesions. In the medieval period diseased corpses were catapulted into besieged fortresses. The Mongols did the same with bubonic plague victims.

Where are we going with today’s black ops germ warfare?  Hope only offers only delusion for consolation. Our only protection is good food, water and healthy immune systems. The Germ warfare is GOD’s timebomb – Gold, Oil, & Drugs.

No good can come of it. Our only protection is good food, water and healthy immune systems. The pretzel twist is that those are prime targets in the war that never ends. You are in the bullseye.

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Khamsi, Roxanne, Were 'cursed' rams the first biological weapons? New Scientist, Nov. 26, 2007. www.newscientist.com/article...ns-.html

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Miller, Iona, 2008, “Sasha Shulgin, MDMA and the Illuminati” http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_22.html

Miller, Iona, 2008, “Germ Warfare Wants You” http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_28.html
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Miller, Iona, 2008, “Mycoplasma” http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_21.html

Ross, Sherwood (2007), DOES NEW FORT DETRICK "BIODEFENSE" LABORATORY REFLECT BUSH GERM WARFARE INITIATIVE? Feb. 3, 2007 www.opednews.com/articles/...ding_a.htm

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©2009 Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. She is a participant, not just commentator. Her conspirituality work is an omni-sensory fusion of intelligence, science-art, pop physics and emergent paradigm shift, melding many social issues into a new view of society. She is interested in the complex effects of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. http://ionamiller.iwarp.com

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Guyatt, David G., (1997), “Gulf War Syndrome -Biological Black Magic,” Nexus Magazine, Volume 4, #5 (August-September 1997). a modified mycoplasma organism. "an infectious organism manufactured in the US". Oddly enough, this is one of the enduring aspects of the "Octopus" story involving engineered bio-organisms supplied to Iraq by the Wackenhut Corporation, the giant US private-sector security company whose board of directors reads like a roll call of military and intelligence alumni. It is an allegation supported by US investigative journalist Carol Marshall in her manuscript, "The Last Circle". Marshall has spent years investigating the allegations of Michael Riconosciuto-a former CIA scientific whiz-kid. Riconosciuto claimed that while working for the Wackenhut Corporation at its Cabazon Indian Reservation facility he developed advanced and genetically altered biological warfare agents. One such agent, he alleged, was a "race-specific" organism, genetically engineered to attack certain races or groups. Unleashed it could kill or render ill all those of a particular ethnic group, leaving others entirely unharmed.

Harris, Elisa D., (Aug. 11, 2008), “The Killers in the Lab”, New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12...harris.html

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Anita Langley, Riconosciuto Warns of MissileAttacks www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm

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McAlvaney, Donald S., (1996), Germ Warfare Against America: Part IVa – The US Govt. Cover-Up of the Gulf War Plague. www.all-natural.com/part-4a.html GERM WARFARE AGAINST AMERICA: PART IIc - FORCED INOCULATIONS OF U.S. TROOPS

Ross, Sherwood (2007), DOES NEW FORT DETRICK "BIODEFENSE" LABORATORY REFLECT BUSH GERM WARFARE INITIATIVE? Global Research, Feb. 3, 2007 www.opednews.com/articles/...ding_a.htm

Scott, Donald W. MA, MSc, 2001, “Mycoplasma: “The Linking Pathogen in Neurosystemic Diseases” Nexus Magazine, (Aug 2001). The pathogenic Mycoplasma used to be very innocuous, but biological warfare research conducted between 1942 and the present time has resulted in the creation of more deadly and infectious forms of Mycoplasma. Researchers extracted this mycoplasma from the Brucella bacterium and actually reduced the disease to a crystalline form. They "weaponised" it and tested it on an unsuspecting public in North America. Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, stated that this disease agent is now carried by everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the world.

Seper, Jerry, THE WASHINGTON TIMES. Accused spy Robert P. Hanssen gave secret U.S. software to his Russian handlers ...