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Morgellons and the CIA’s MK/NAOMI Project (Part 2)by Hank P. Albarelli Jr.*, Zoe Martell*

Why is it that the U.S. state apparatus is standing in the way of any serious medical

investigation into Mogellons disease? For the simple reason that it would inexorably lead

to the covert biological war programmes of the 1950’s. Hank Albarelli lifts the veil on a

period - which may not necessarily be over - when the military-industrial complexproclaimed to safeguard the "free world" while testing new experiments on the civilian

population that it purported to protect; a period when members of the medical profession

- including the CDC - developed diseases that they should have been preventing but

which they used instead to contaminate the very people they were supposed to protect.

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Part 1: Morgellons Victims Across the US and Europe

One of the many pages from the MKNAOMI and MKULTRA

declassified documents. MKNAOMI was the code name for a

joint Department of Defense/CIA research program lasting from

the 1950s through the 1970s. It is generally reported to be a

successor to the MKDELTA project and to have focused on



Symptoms of Morgellons disease.

biological projects including biological warfare agents

—specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or

kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of

such materials.

List of declassified MK-Ultra Project Documents

“A massive malignant agenda at play…”

Dr. Edward Spencer, 75-

years old, is one of the few

physicians in the United

States that takes

Morgellons disease very

seriously. Spencer is a

Stanford University and

Yale University Medical

School educated

neurologist, who worked

for nearly 40 years at

Petaluma Valley Hospital inNorthern California.

One day several years ago,

Dr. Spencer was summoned

to meet with the hospital’s

Physicians Wellness

Committee. Spencer had no idea what the purpose of the meeting

was, but thought perhaps they wanted to discuss his recently

expressed concerns about swine flu and vaccines in Eastern Europe.

Dr. Spencer had been alarmed to learn that the flu vaccine sent to

Eastern Europe was reportedly contaminated with lethal bird flu virus.

Additionally, Spencer had been an outspoken advocate for Morgellonspatients.

Spencer had earlier stated, “[The] CDC and medical establishment

have been totally negligent in studying this system of disorders

known as Morgellons, and have provided no treatment, support, or

comfort at all to patients afflicted.” He further stated, “Morgellons is

not a problem of ‘delusions of parasitosis’; it is an unexplained illness

which is characterized by skin manifestations including non-healing

lesions, itching, and the appearance of fibers. There appears to be a



strong association with Lyme disease.”

Once in the meeting, Spencer recalls, “I naively thought that maybe

they actually wanted to discuss some of my findings about swine flu”,

but was instead shocked to hear that the committee was greatly

concerned about his positions on swine flu and Morgellons, and that

they wanted him “to agree to undergo psychiatric evaluation because

they felt me to be a possible danger to my patients.” Said Spencer,who had been associated with the hospital for nearly 40-years, “I

couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I was in a state of near shock,

sitting there with all my files on swine flu thinking they were actually

interested in my findings.”

Following a second meeting with the committee, Dr. Spencer says he

realized, “I was up against a star chamber and kangaroo court which

had already decided to get rid of me.” He explains, “I had never

challenged the system before, but I had come to the point where I

felt I had to do it. Too much was going on that really bothered me. I

had come to realize that the pharmaceutical companies were basically

a conspiracy against common people; that truth about a lot of thingshad become submerged big time; that medicine today was 100 years

behind the times and had been taken over by military medicine.

There seemed to be a massive malignant agenda at play.”

After resigning his position at the hospital, Spencer testified about

Morgellons disease before the mayor and city council of Berkeley,

California. He stated in part: “There now exists strong data indicating

that this disorder [Morgellons] is associated with nanotechnology,

specifically nano machines in the form of nanofibers.”[see below]

About 30-days later, Dr. Spencer recounts that “I made plans to

attend an infectious disease conference in Malaysia”, but before he

left he was involved in a strange automobile accident. His car wasstruck head on by another vehicle traveling completely on his side of

the road. Hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, Spencer

oddly entered “a disassociated state for about 4 hours.” He states

that no reason or diagnosis for this was ever established. He recalls,

“I was on my cell phone when it started, and phone records revealed

that I called a woman in Iowa who tracks Morgellons patients, and

was connected for seven minutes. I have no memory of this.”

In an interview with these authors, Dr. Spencer said, “I regard



Morgellons disorder as a hybrid bio-nano-machine terror weapon.

Establishment medicine and the government, which is now a

fraudulent foreign owned corporation, go to great lengths to protect

Morgellons from investigation of any sort. Morgellons is not one thing

but is actually a system of multiple attack vectors that damage the

body in numerous ways and carry various DNA and RNA strands. It is

made in laboratories by talented men and women who have lost their

souls and adhere to satanic principles.”

Interview with Dr. Edward Spencer Part 1

Parts 2, 3 and 4.

Valerie’s Story

In 1986, Valerie Prazen was living in a middle-class, suburban

subdivision in Wellington, Utah. She had lived there for nearly five

years, and in 1985 the area’s sewage treatment plant began having

capacity issues revolving around the number of digesters required.



Consulting scientists employed by the plant recommended that a

second digester be added, but, according to Prazen, “Short cuts were

taken and instead of installing a second digester, the plant, which had

been privatized from municipal ownership, opted for two huge open

air sludge pits.”

Prazen says, “The pits stunk to high heaven, and worse yet folks

became very ill, many with respiratory problems, lethargy and a rashthat was flowing around peoples’ bodies systematically.”

Recounts Prazen, “People were calling the TV news station, and

eventually a number of town meetings were called about the

problem, but just before this there was a strange death of a local

man. He lived the exact distance from the plant as me on the other

side, about a quarter mile away. His death provoked a large number

of people to wonder if it was somehow connected to the plant’s

activities, including workers at the plant who were very concerned, a

concern that shot through the roof after the plant began to glow

fluorescent red, something nobody had ever previously witnessed.”

Valerie explained that she soon discovered that the man had died

shortly after returning home from having been “on maneuvers

upstate with the National Guard, [and his death] coincided with the

plant turning fluorescent red.” At a meeting with townspeople called

by the Army, Prazen recounted that a high-ranking Army officer said,

“The man died from Hantavirus which he allegedly came into contact

with while on maneuvers.” She points out those maneuvers took

place in and around the Dugway Proving Grounds, a well known

military site for the testing of biological weapons. [Hantavirus is a

deadly disease spread by rodents that is similar to the flu. Hantavirus

is a serious infection, and even with aggressive treatment, more than

half of the cases are fatal.]

“Everyone that lived near the sewage plant got sick,” recalls Valerie,

“but only I had lesions. It didn’t seem to make sense.” Eventually,

Valerie, with the help of friends and family and through her own

research, realized that she had Morgellons disease. This occurred

after she had moved away from Utah to a remote mountainous area

in Colorado, where she and her husband set up a gift shop and art

gallery.



Valerie has firm opinions about Morgellons disease. She says, “I

believe Morgellons is a technology that was programmed to go into

the body and meets with a reversal of organs—chaos ensues. This is

just part of the story; it is a whole system that will work together

unless it is stopped… I’ve often compared this situation with

Morgellons to the movie, Altered States, with John Hurt. He’s running

around looking crazy and everyone thinks he should be committed.

Then they see it and they understand, and they look crazier than heever did.”

Jan Smith’s Story

Jan Smith is highly regarded among Morgellons sufferers. She has

appeared on the Jeff Rense radio show numerous times, and she and

Rense are widely recognized as unflinching forces who have

championed Morgellons victims long and hard, and well before

anyone else. The Rense.com website is a virtual treasure trove of

Morgellons resources and studies. Nobody can seriously look into the

disease without going through the sites’ voluminous files.

’Goldenhead’: a Nano Robotic Sensor with holographic features

(as generated from blue fiber which was harvested from Jan

Smith’s body).



Photo: Rense.com

Says Jeff Rense, “Morgellons is a communicable invasion or syndrome

that afflicts the entire human body (it is not merely a ‘skin disease’)

in the form of self-assembling, self-replicating, visible colored fibers,

wires-like items, tiny black specks and other formations some

containing what seem to be sensors or ‘antennae.’ Other small

objects are ‘fluorescent’ or metallic in color…. It is also reported bymany Morgellons victims that the fibers and other Morgellons items

exhibit a kind of collective intelligence within the bodies they have

parasitized.”

Jan Smith’s first recollection of “having something wrong with me”

was about 13 years ago when she thought “that a black fly bit me on

my left arm just below my elbow.” The spot where the bite occurred

has never fully healed, says Smith, “and each time I thought I was

rid of it a new lesion sprang up right beside it and after 6 months I

had a line of 4 scars from one active lesion running down my arm.”

Smith recounts, “I did not feel unwell during the time following thebite but it bothered me that things were escalating on my arm in

spite of diligent efforts with Bacitracin and bandages to get rid of it.”

Smith went to her doctor of 20 years and showed him her arm. She

says, “His immediate reaction was to tell me that I had been picking

at my arm and causing this running line of scars and sores due to the

bad habit. I was dumbfounded and hurt. After 20 years of seeing him

why would he think I had suddenly turned into a scab picking person.

He didn’t believe me when I told him that was not the case.” Smith

asked for a referral to a dermatologist, but before making that visit

she began to notice that “the lesion on my arm had long fibers

coming out of it and at first I thought it might be blanket fuzz or lint

from clothing.”

Recalls Smith, “I kept a Band-Aid on the area and it puzzled me how

the fuzz was not only under the pad but also had fibers stuck beneath

the adhesive strip. Something didn’t make sense. There was also a

strange clear fluid that oozed from the lesion that formed a clear

scale over the lesion that looked like dried airplane glue. There was

no blood and no normal scab. I began to collect fibers from the sore

and they were strange red, blue, and colorless fibers. Some were

even in fiber-balls of entwined strands. I had my trusty magnifying



glass and I planned to vindicate myself with the dermatologist. By the

time my appointment came 3 months later I had a good collection of

these fibers. I was sure the dermatologist would know what I had and

would vindicate my good name from the ranks of ‘pickers.’

At her visit with the skin doctor, Smith, with her fibers in hand in a

Ziploc bag, says she “graduated from being a ‘self excoriater’’ to

becoming a person with delusional parasitosis, as the physician wroteon my medical records.” She says:

"This put me in the ranks of schizophrenics and at that point it was all

downhill. It was the first of many dermatologists, infectious disease

doctors and others. With each succeeding medical person I

anticipated the negative diagnosis of delusions of parasitosis before I

even met them. This diagnosis brought forth the most condescending

treatment and complete inability for anyone to listen to a word I had

to say. Suddenly, I had gone from an intelligent person to an imbecile

who should not speak. I had to start bringing my husband to the

doctor’s visits to keep the abuse quotient low. This long nightmarish

quest for medical help lasted for about 3 years, and at that time Ihad still not experienced the full breakout of copious lesions that

were yet to come. Fatigue had set in and I had to quit my job at a

residential school in favor of working from my home due to perpetual

weakness and need for sleep. In the fourth year after the onset of the

arm symptoms we moved from our home and made a lot of life

changes due to decreased income since I could no longer work at all.

Right after this stressful move, the disease went full throttle and I

developed over 60 lesions on my arms, chest and abdomen. I was

completely bedridden for months. I thought I was going to die and

the medical community offered me antipsychotic drugs and skin

cream for my so-called relief. I refused to take the antipsychotic

drugs and the skin cream was of little to no help. I was on my own. I

eventually got to a point where I was functioning but I never came

back to normal. Thank God I am stubborn. I bought myself a couple

of microscopes and decided to do my own research. Those medical

quacks were never going to have the last word and steal my life.”

MK/NAOMI: Genesis of Morgellons?



FBI investigators concluded that Fort Detrick probably was the

source of the anthrax spores used in the deadly mailings to

Capitol Hill after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

As some readers may be aware, MK/NAOMI was the cryptonym for an

ultra-secret project instituted by the CIA for its partnership with the

Special Operations Division (SOD) of the U.S. Army’s biological

warfare center at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The general objectives of

MK/NAOMI, as stated in contemporaneous CIA documents, were:

To provide for a covert support base to meet clandestine

operational requirements.

To research, develop, and stockpile severely incapacitating and

lethal materials for the specific use of CIA’s Technical ServicesDivision.

To maintain in operational readiness special and unique items for

the dissemination of biological and chemical materials.

To provide for the required surveillance, testing, upgrading, and

evaluation of materials and items in order to assure absence of

defects and complete predictability of results to be expected under

operational conditions.

Recently obtained CIA documents reveal that in the mid-1950s,



scientists at Fort Detrick’s SOD undertook intensive research and

experimentation with a large number of “paralysis agents.” This

phase of MK/NAOMI was referred to in-house at Fort Detrick as the “K

Project” and the “K Problem.” According to CIA documents, K

indicates both “knockout” and “kill”, depending upon the

circumstances under which researched biological products were

employed by CIA operatives in the field operations conducted under

"Project Artichoke" and later programs.

According to former Fort Detrick employees and sub-contractors,

including microbiologist Dr. Henry Eigelsbach and Dr. Hanley Watson,

the initial and central objective of the “K Project” was to “create a

substance or substances that will render an individual or animal

helpless and immobile, either consciously or unconsciously, until

definite control measures can be instituted.” Reads one memorandum

on the program, “The instances and situations where such an

advantage can be utilized are too numerous to be mentioned.”

Said the late Dr. Eigelsbach, who after leaving SOD worked for the

University of Maryland, “Some of the "K Project" work was farmed outto universities, but the project’s work involving human subjects in all

cases I’m aware of were conducted with [SOD] personnel present.”

Reads a 1960 CIA document, “Certain species of ticks (genus

Dermacentor) have been incriminated in a clinical syndrome

commonly referred to as ‘tick paralysis.’ This syndrome occurs in both

man and animals. It results from a tick bite, and is characterized by

ascending flaccid paralysis of the musculature. Removal of the tick is

usually followed by complete and rapid spontaneous recovery. The

etiology of tick paralysis remains obscure. The disease is believed to

result from the inoculation of some unidentified tick-generated toxic

substance, which appears to be neurotropic.” [See attacheddocument.]

The same document continues: “As a by-product of "Project NAOMI",

a sizable amount of this neurotropic toxic substance is being isolated.

The development and experimental evaluation of the substance as a

sedative agent will be carried out within the scope of this ‘K’ Problem

project.

Recounted Dr. Watson, in a recent interview, “[SOD] research with



[ticks] continued into the early 1960s, reaching a turning point

around 1962 or 1963 when focus shifted away from working with the

paralyzing agents toward use of [tick substances] for possibly

creating a designer disease that could render targeted groups or

populations incapacitated, as opposed to immobilizing people…

research was intense, but perhaps not as best regulated as need be,

but a number of diseases did come off the workbench for

experimentation involving primates and then eventually humansubjects… I don’t recall ever hearing a name for any of these

diseases, certainly not Morgellons, but the dermatological

manifestations and characteristics of the current day disease certainly

were commonplace with experiments with animals used, swine,

guinea pigs, dogs, cats, the gamut… tests were as effective as the

earlier experiments. Additionally, some of the intended neurological

impacts pursued, like the brain confusion or fog, appear to be present

in today’s mystery disease.” As some readers may be aware, ticks are

a natural breeding and mixing ground for pathogens.

Pertaining to the earlier experiments, a 1960 CIA document on SOD

research reads: “As a result of animal testing procedures, a numberof centrally acting muscle relaxants have been found. Several are or

have been evaluated clinically in man with varying results.

Occasionally, clinical reports appear claiming that certain

pharmacological agents that have minimal muscle relaxant effects in

some experimental animal preparations produce dramatic relief of

spasticity in man. Clinical impressions are the usual criteria of

effectiveness…. There exists within the [redacted] the opportunity for

clinical evaluations of some centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxants

on the therapeutic relief of spasticity in man.”

Other Related MK/NAOMI Projects

Former Fort Detrick and military scientists, including Watson, note

that at about the same time intensive and varied work was being

performed using tick related substances, researchers at the Army’s

Frederick, Maryland biological warfare complex were also conducting

elaborate research and experiments using birds. Some of theses

scientists, speaking anonymously, claim that the use of birds for

biological warfare developments may have played a determining role

in the yet-to-occur onslaught of Morgellons disease.



Says one former Detrick microbiologist, “Some of these experiments

employing birds as vectors for biological agents were part and parcel

with MK/NAOMI and the K Project.” Although he is “unsure of some of

the specifics” of the bird project, he said, “I am certain that as many

as 750,000 birds, maybe as many as one million, and about $3

million, were used in the mid 1960s by Detrick microbiologists under

the direction of CIA officials.” Dr. Watson maintains that in addition to

the CIA’s Technical Services Division closely working on the project,the CIA funded front organization, the Human Ecology Fund, and the

Office of Naval Intelligence played strong roles in the bird projects for

about 3 or 4 years in the 1960s.”

As fantastic as the claims about bird vectors seem, these authors

have discovered that the CIA and Fork Detrick did indeed institute

and conduct at least three bird-related MK/NAOMI projects

throughout the 1960s, one codenamed Project STARBRIGHT. Some

Fort Detrick researchers recall having to receive special inoculations

for the project. A detailed article in the Journal of the History of

Biology (Issue 34, 2001) by Roy MacLeod, University of Sydney,

Australia, reveals that nobody connected with the project was “toldwhich diseases” the inoculations were for. States MacLeod, “In fact,

[project] staff were told as little as possible, and then only on a ‘need

to know’ basis."

MacLeod also writes, “During the same period, studies, studies of

dissemination— ‘delivery systems’ — of biological weapons are known

to have formed part of the research portfolio of both the CIA and the

Chemical Corps. Among the more notorious projects were those to

develop so-called ‘nondiscernible microbioinoculators – the dart gun

was one example— and aerosol sprays, along with the potential use

of insects (including ticks) and other organic agents.” MacLeod also

underscores that on December 9, 1968, an article in ScientificResearch by William E. Small “alleged that the Smithsonian

Institution [a partner in the Army’s bird projects] was deeply

committed to studies in Brazil and the Pacific dealing with the

mechanisms by which rare viruses and blood parasites are

transmitted from birds, mammals and insects to man.”

Lastly, MacLeod wrote that some experiments conducted by Fort

Detrick scientists at the same time involved “a set of barges loaded

with Rhesus monkeys” whereby a fine “bio-powder” (the nature of



which has never been disclosed) was disseminated and monitored.

Detrick scientists were jovial with the results of the so-called

“laydown”— “over half the monkeys died.” Remarked one Fort Detrick

scientist, William Patrick, at the time, “tactical use of similar

‘laydowns’ could devastate whole cities.”

Prion Diseases

Let us turn for a moment to another subject that has fascinated

biowarfare researchers for years: prion diseases. According to the

Centers for Disease Control, “Prion diseases or transmissible

spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a family of rare progressive

neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals.

They are distinguished by long incubation periods, characteristic

spongiform changes associated with neuronal loss, and a failure to

induce inflammatory response. The causative agent of TSEs is

believed to be a prion. A prion is an abnormal, transmissible agent

that is able to induce abnormal folding of normal cellular prion

proteins in the brain, leading to brain damage and the characteristics

signs and symptoms of the disease.”

In layman’s terms, a transmissible agent called a prion causes certain

proteins in the body to fold abnormally, causing severe neurological

damage and eventual dementia and death. The exact means of

transmission for these diseases remains controversial in the scientific

community, with some researchers arguing that specific genetic

material is necessary for transmission, some arguing that the prion

protein itself is infectious, and some arguing for a link to a type of

bacterial organism known as a spiroplasma; yet others argue for a

viral link, or transmission by a complete viral particle known as a

virion. Prion forming proteins have also been identified in many types

of fungi.



Prions and Mad Cow Disease

The public at large first became familiar with prion diseases when the

term “Mad Cow Disease” (properly known as Bovine Spongiform

Encephalopathy, or BSE) was first mentioned in the news, in relation

to contamination of beef products. Prion disease infected tissue

remains infectious even after being subjected to high heat,

presenting a risk to humans eating infected meat, even if fully

cooked. Mad Cow Disease, however, is only one of a host of such

prion diseases, many of which have been studied for years by

scientists with interests in biowarfare. In addition to BSE, prion

diseases include Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting

disease (CWD) in deer, and Scrapie in sheep and goats, among

others.



D. Carleton Gajdusek in 1997.

D. Carleton Gajdusek, a top official at

Fort Detrick and head of laboratories

for virological and neurological

research at the National Institutes of

Health, was awarded a Nobel Prize in

1976 for his work on prion diseases

in humans, a subject he had studied

extensively since beginning work onthem in 1957. Nobel Prize

notwithstanding, Gajdusek’s

reputation is far from untarnished.

His research findings link the prion

disease Kuru to human cannibalism,

claiming that the mode of

transmission of the disease comes

from the ingestion of the brain of a

person suffering from the condition.

Critics, however, have called these

findings into question, claiming that cannibalism among the Fore

people of New Guinea was no longer being practiced when Gajdusek

claims to have witnessed it personally.

According to researcher Donald Scott, in May of 1966, Gajdusek and

several other researchers published their efforts to transmit a “kuru

like syndrome” into chimpanzees. The report was published in the

journal Nature, but more significantly, was also later mentioned in a

document entitled “Progress Report #8,” (1971) of the “Special Virus

Cancer Program (SVCP).” As Scott and many others have reported,

the Special Virus Cancer Program, which operated from roughly 1964

though 1977, was a thinly veiled cover for the US Biowarfare

program, continuing long after offensive biological weapons research

was discontinued on-record by president Nixon in 1971. The program

underwent several name changes during its operation, also being

referred to at times as the “Special Virus Leukemia Program”

(1964-69) and the “Virus Cancer Program” (1973). Alan Cantwell,

cancer researcher, states: “Also joining forces with the SVCP at the

NCI [National Cancer Institute] were the military’s biological warfare

researchers. On October 18, 1971, President Richard Nixon

announced that the Army’s biowarfare laboratories at nearby Fort

Detrick, Maryland, would be converted to cancer research. As part of



Nixon’s so-called War on Cancer, the military biowarfare unit was

renamed the new Frederick Cancer Research Center, and Litton

Bionetics was named as the military’s prime contractor for this

project.” Litton Bionetics is well known to have been a top biological

weapons contractor for the U.S. Army during the late 1960s and early

1970s.

A close look at the SVCP’s documents reveal that the program’s goalswere much more closely geared toward causing diseases than toward

curing them. Among the many diseases studied were prion diseases,

at the time thought to be caused by slow acting viruses, and

considered highly desirable as bio-weapons for use against livestock.

Of particular interest is Gajdusek’s work with a disease originally

found in sheep, commonly known as Scrapie. The disease was

reportedly named for its most obvious symptom – intense itching and

discomfort that caused the infected animal to scrape against fences

and other objects until it had worn away its wool, or even its skin. A

September 1972 review article published in The American Journal of

Pathology (R.W. Lampert, D.C. Gajdusek, C.J. Gibbs, Jr.) reports, “experimentally, Scrapie has been transmitted to goats, mice, rats,

hamsters, garbils [sic], mink, and recently to monkeys.” The article

explains that transmission of the disease was accomplished by

injecting or feeding brain and other tissue from an infected host to

the uninfected subject.

The possible implications of this information raise some grim

questions: If Scrapie and other prion diseases had been

experimentally transferred across species, including the infecting of

non-human primates, could humans also have been infected by these

diseases, or variants thereof?

GMOs and Morgellons

Another line of inquiry, for both medical professionals as well as

independent researchers, has been the question of whether a

relationship exists between genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

and Morgellons disease. Research published by the State University of

New York at Stony Brook in 2007 indicated a possible connection

between Morgellons disease and agrobacterium, a soil bacterium that

possesses the natural ability to transfer parts of its genetic material



to plant cells. Agrobacterium has been used extensively in

agricultural genetic engineering.

The pilot study (which included genetic skin testing of only two

individuals) stated: “Morgellons skin fibers appear to contain

cellulose. This observation indicates possible involvement of

pathogenic Agrobacterium, which is known to produce cellulose fibers

at infection sites within host tissues.” In an update to the study,

researcher Vitaly Citovsky, Ph.D., stated: “Our continuing screen of

additional Morgellons patients has identified Agrobacterium genetic

material in three additional individuals. Thus, all Morgellons patients

screened to date have tested positive for the presence of

Agrobacterium, whereas this microorganism has not been detected in

any of the samples derived from the control, healthy individuals.”

One independent researcher, whose work appears under the name

“Kammy” on a wordpress.com blog, pointed out some startling

similarities between bioengineered pesticides, the creation of

“artificial cilia” (moving hairs) and the appearance of Morgellons

fibers.

The article specifically references a patented insecitcidal delivery

system (United States Patent 4844896). The patent describes a:

“1. Microencapsulated pathogen comprising:

(i) an insecticidal pathogen including a virus, bacterium, or fungi

known to infect insects

(ii) a polymeric encapsulating agent comprising polyacrylates,

polyacrylic acids, polyacrylamides or mixtures thereof;

(iii) a sunscreening agent comprising methyl orange, malachite

green or its hydrochloride, methyl green, brilliant green, an FDC

green, coomasie brilliant blue R, methylene blue HCl salt, brilliant

cresyl blue, acridine yellow, and FDC yellow, an FDC red, fluorescein

free acid or mixtures thereof.”

“Among the sunlight protectants were Buffalo Black, Carbo-Jet Black,

cellulose, carbon, aluminum powder and aluminum oxide. Among the

microencapsulating walls were ethylcellulose and gelatin.

Microcapsules containing virus and sunlight protectant were found to

be more stable than virus alone.”



When taken in light of colored, autofluorescent fibers that emerge

from the skin of Morgellons patients, as well as sufferers’ reports of

black specks and black tar-like sweat coming from their skin, this

invention becomes decidedly quite interesting. Added to the equation

is the aforementioned fact that several researchers have noted that

the Morgellons fibers appear to contain cellulose.

Kammy points us to another invention of note, as well: cyclic

polymers. She makes the following observations: “Concentrated

solutions of ring or cyclic polymers (CPs), which lack chain ends, are

scientifically intriguing, since they defy a simple description in terms

of the tube model which has been used rather successfully to

describe the properties of linear and branched polymers,also called

‘self oscillating gel’. It has the attribute to form artificial cilia and self

walking gel…”

Indeed, a 2007 article from New Scientist Magazine describes this

invention, stating: “Nanoscopic hair-like polymer structures are being

developed by US researchers and could help explain the way similar

biological appendages, known as cilia, function inside the body. Ciliaare cell appendages that perform many different jobs in the human

body - from picking up sounds inside the ear to performing a sensory

function in the kidney. Inside the lungs, cilia wiggle back and forth

pushing mucus, and potentially harmful airborne particles, through

the respiratory system.…”

Might inventions of this nature account for the moving, seemingly

alive fibers that Morgellons patients describe?

The mystery deepens further as we begin to examine some of the

disease agents that are encapsulated within these structures. Of

particular interest to some independent Morgellons researchers are aclass of viruses, known as Baculoviruses, that attack insect and

arthropod hosts. The makers of pesticides based on baculoviruses

tout them as harmless to humans and animals, but the medical

literature raises some important questions about their safety. A 1995

article from the journal Cell Biology details ways in which

recombinant baculoviruses have been used as a means of transferring

genetic material into human liver cells. The same article tells us that

certain baculoviruses are in development as a “biological weapon

against particular insects.”



Baculoviruses are sometimes used in combination with other insect

pathogens, working synergistically to increase pesticidal effect.

Kammy nicely summarizes the mechanism by which these viruses

work, stating: Entomopoxviruses and baculoviruses are pathogens of

insects which replicate in the cytoplasm and nuclei of their host cells,

respectively. During the late stages of infection, both groups of

viruses produce occlusion bodies which serve to protect virions from

the external environment. Immunofluorescence and electronmicroscopy studies have shown that large bundles of filaments are

associated with these occlusion bodies.”

A website on biological control, hosted by Cornell University, gives us

the following information:

“Insects killed by baculoviruses have

a characteristic shiny-oily

appearance, and are often seen

hanging limply from vegetation. They

are extremely fragile to the touch,

rupturing to release fluid filled withinfective virus particles. … It is

interesting to note that most

baculoviruses, unlike many other

viruses, can be seen with a light

microscope. The polyhedra of many

viruses look like clear, irregular

crystals of salt or sand when viewed

at 400x or 1000x. The fluid inside a

dead insect is composed largely of

virus polyhedra - many billions are

produced inside of one cadaver.”

The similarities between these insect

manifestations, and the symptoms

Morgellons sufferers report, are certainly noteworthy. [Those who are

interested in learning more about GMOs are urged to read F. William

Engdahl’s book, “Seeds of Destruction”, Global Research, 2007.]

State of the Art

There are many dimensions of Morgellons disease that deserve



serious examination and investigation. As we have attempted to

demonstrate in this article, not the least of these are the past

biowarfare activities of the United States Army and its multi-faceted

research programs conducted at Fort Detrick. Despite the fact that

these programs have been shrouded in near total secrecy since their

inception, there is very disturbing information that acts to make

reasonable people suspect that Morgellons, and other harmful and

lethal diseases, could have either intentionally or inadvertentlyemerged from government research projects.

The Morgellons landscape and patient “community” are places riddled

with subterfuge, falsehoods, intrigue, paranoia, witch-hunts,

ostracisation, petty jealousies, and infighting. Given the lack of any

recognized and authoritative voice and leadership for those who

suffer the disease, combined with the refusal of the conventional

medical community to recognize Morgellons, this is understandable

and offers ripe breeding ground for exploitation, disorganization and

mental anguish. Morgellons sufferers are left feeling banished from

mainstream society, stranded in a nether-limbo of isolation and quiet

desperation.

Making matters especially problematic for Morgellons sufferers is that

the few legitimate practitioners that treat them face genuine

harassment and threats of malpractice claims, as well as tremendous

peer pressure from the medical community. The fear of being

branded a “quack” practicing “voodoo medicine” is very real for some

doctors who want to treat patients but fear the reactions of their

colleagues.

Many Morgellons patients become disturbed to discover that a

number of the so-called “experts” and “medical professionals”

offering their services to them have dubious academic credentials andoften run side-businesses whereby “alternative” treatment products

are sold, including male sex-drive enhancements. In large part,

Morgellons sufferers have been done a tremendous disservice by a

number of “independent researchers” who, despite sincerity, simply

lack the medical and scientific credentials and schooling to fully

understand what they are seeing. The number of charlatans peddling

Morgellons cures and treatments on the Internet alone is astounding,

with few of the products amounting to much more than snake oil.



Perhaps more concerning is the widespread illicit distribution of

regulated pharmaceutical products among some Morgellons patients.

We found that it was quite common for un-prescribed drugs to be

shared widely among some Morgellons suffers. As can be imagined,

Morgellons detractors pounce on these factors and go out of their way

to promote that some practitioners have been “run out” of certain

states for malpractice and have been “reprimanded for unethical

practices.” At the root of many of these issues is the gross shortageof trained medical personnel, especially physicians and research

scientists, who are willing to devote any level of quality time to the

study of the disease and the examination and treatment of patients.

Until the medical community as a whole takes significant notice of

Morgellons and recognizes it as a serious health threat little will

change with the overall situation, and the paranoia, infighting, and

exploitation so dominant in the Morgellons community will continue

and perhaps expand.

Regardless of how one feels about Morgellons disease, it is

inescapable to note that the affliction appears to be expanding

worldwide at an alarming rate. As it spreads, regardless its cause, itreaps very real pain, horror and psychological devastation in its path.

Not long before we concluded this part of our article we received a

letter from a woman who had recently come down with the disease.

The single mother of two, who works on an average of ten hours a

day to support her family, despite near constant pain from

Morgellons, wrote:

“I know you don’t know me, or what I’m going through, but I don’t

know who else to write to or what to do. No doctor will help me.

Instead, doctors have tried to silence me by charging me with mental

illness and threatening to take my children. I live in hell every

moment. The only things keeping me from suicide is that it is againstmy religion, my love and responsibility for my children, and I pay a

lot of money for life insurance and don’t want any problems for my

children in collecting those policies. No one listens. Many asked for

my research and photos and then leave me to suffer. The CDC

refuses to return my calls, my friends all shun me now, and not a day

goes by without my considering that the best thing I can do is kill

myself. I don’t know what happened to people. Many want money

from you upfront and want to sell their product lines that will cure

you. Cure me from what? To treat a person you must know what they



have. If you could help me find a lab or a person who is really sincere

in finding what this disease is and may not be connected to any

government research projects that may have helped in developing

this I would be grateful. Please, please help me.”

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