The Red Book

Means, Motive, Opportunity

’Remember what Parcelle said about my father. He knew too much about the shit show in the submarine, never mind the absolute shit show in Bethesda. That makes sense if my father had got his hands on the red book, read it, and it revealed that what had really gone on in the submarine, was not what had been revealed to the rest of the scientific world and the public.

’Absolutely. With the red book your father was an internal threat Malherbe and the submariners and an international, global threat too.

’One thing I’ve just thought of, Philippe.’

‘Yes.’

’You know you told me about AZT.’

‘Yes.’

‘When was the go-ahead given for AZT to be mass produced?’

’That’s a good question. Let me think. I’m not certain, to be frank.’

Anne-Sophie looked it up on her phone.

‘My god! What a coincidence.’

‘What is it?’

’AZT was approved by the FDA on March 19, 1987.’

‘That is no coincidence.’

‘I’m very aware of that, Eric.’

’Means, motive opportunity. That’s what every detective is looking for. The HIV Network had all three. in spades.’

‘Tell us more about the HIV Network and what you think was going on in March 1987, Philippe.’

’Before I start, let me joust say that you do not have to rely solely on my theories, evidence-based as they are. Dr. Bernard Hamfar, head of the Frederick Cancer Research Institute, which each week in late 1984 was producing 250 liters of fluid containing the so-called AIDS virus, spoke in an interview about what he called a very powerful AIDS network disseminating its messages throughout the entire scientific community. He went further and said of the National Cancer Institute, NCI, that, if as appeared to be the case, the NCI’s AIDS program was being operated on the basis of ‘reaching conclusions without substantiating facts, then heaven help us’.

That latter sentence reminds me very much of Sherlock Holmes’s dictum: ’It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.’

That dictum in fact was one of your father’s scientific principles. Facts first, theories second.’

‘OK.’

’So, we are agreed that by March 29th 1987, your father was a threat to the entire medical-science-big pharma, HIV Network?’

‘Agreed.’

’All of whose members had, for one reason or another, bought 100% into the HIV/AIDS official narrative. More especially, he was a threat to those medical research scientists who, from as early as the summer 1981, had pushed the theory that the human equivalent of the feline leukaemia virus was the cause of AIDS. People such as Don Bartholomew and Max Estez. By the end of 1981, Bartholomew had already convinced Jim Cooper, the head of the CDC’s AIDS task force, to forget about all the multitude of theories circulating about the origin of AIDS. By1983, Bartholomew was directing the AIDS laboratory at the CDC in Atlanta and pushing Roberto Bicchiere hard into looking for the AIDS virus in his Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, part of the National Cancer Institute complex in Bethesda, Washington. Bicchiere was good friends with Antony Fouci who, by the end of 1984, had become the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID. In the spring of 1984, as well as controlling the CDC’s virological response to the epidemic, Bartholomew was also working closely with Bicchiere’s team and Malherbe’s team of submariners at L’Academie. In fact, Bartholomew came across to Paris that spring, just before Bicchiere threw Bartholomew and Malherbe under the bus on April 23rd. Two of Bicchiere’s post doctorate researchers, Bernadette Hannant and her husband Garry Sharp, became the most famous and violently vociferous proponents of the zoonotic theory of the origin of HIV. Hannant and Sharp were ably supported by Bette Kerber, one of Max Estez’s post-docs, who studied the HIV molecular clock and came up with 1930 as the year that HIV first made the leap from one single central African chimp to one single human hunter. Kerber became the steward of the Los Alamos National Laboratory HIV Sequence Database in the early 2000s. There, she was following in the footsteps of Bicchiere’s mistress, mother of his child, and fellow LTCB technician, Florence Longstaff, now no longer sadly with us.

In short, Jean-Marie, through his determination that scientific truth would prevail, and establishing the AIDS Truth Group, was a threat to all those people who had not only built lucrative careers on the back of the ‘HIV is the single cause of AIDS’ hypothesis but had also put themselves into the key positions where they could control every aspect of the narrative. A small group of scientists, led by Bartholomew, Bicchiere, Malherbe and others, by repeatedly citing each other’s work, quickly established a dense citation network, thus gaining early control over nomenclature, publication, invitation to conferences, and of course history.’

‘Because History is written by the winners.’

’Yes. Clinicians, and researchers in other fields, who read the professional literature simply to keep up with the latest findings, not to critically evaluate the analyses and methodologies, were very unlikely to raise questions about the official narrative.′

‘I think you’re talking about a conspiracy?’

’I am, yes, Eric. And it is a conspiracy theory, look, I have said the dirty words, without absolute proof, but I think it stands up well to scrutiny. People ask how many people does it take to execute a conspiracy and the answer is, actually not that many. The key to the successful execution of a conspiracy is compartmentalization, and no world is more compartmentalized than that of medical-science.

‘Wow. Hats off to you, Philippe. That’s quite a theory.’

‘It is indeed, Eric. However, I can only take some of the credit for. Most of the credit goes to Jean-Marie.’

My father knew all this and he was close to exposing it.

’It all boils down to proof. What we need to find is definite proof.’

‘What we need to find, Philippe, is the red book.’