Stealth Viruses as Biological Weapons in Vaccines
How hidden viruses contaminating vaccines could be utilized as binary bioweapons for bioterrorism
Stealth is a very promising feature in biological weapons work, and it is a sought after characteristic in both the way they spread and the way they act on the host, which by its nature, has to be of the incapacitating agents that slowly tire, exhaust, and overwhelm the targets, rather than cause immediate deaths and overly apparent disease. Utilizing stealth agents with long incubation periods that can evade detection and disable the immune system were sought after in the Cold War, agents that were geared toward long-term attacks, so that by the time it is realized that such an agent is doing harm, it is often of such a late stage that is hard to correct or contain.
This is why the agents that cause slow chronic diseases became the most successful biological weapons during the Cold War, which is the focus of my first book The Sleeper Agent: The Rise of Lyme Disease, Chronic Illness, and the Great Imitator Antigens of Biological Warfare. In addition to that, all the better if they could find ways to introduce such viruses into the very medical technologies meant to prevent disease – the vaccine.
While contamination has plagued vaccine manufacturing as an inherent problem in the technology from its inception, the idea of deliberately tainting vaccines is not new in biowarfare history. In fact, even as far back as the Civil War the Confederates accused the North of deliberately tainting their smallpox vaccines with vaccino-syphilis.1 Sabotage of vaccines with specific agents was certainly known in potential and a very sensitive topic in the biological warfare race in motion since the start of the United States of America.2 By the time of the Cold War, the biological warfare race was in full swing and stealth agents were already being developed.
Erich Traub was the godfather of these stealth bioweapons – bioweapons that target the immune system, because it was Traub who discovered the mechanics of how they work when he discovered immune tolerance with LCM Virus beginning in 1935 at the Rockefeller Institute.3 Immune tolerance is chronic immunodeficiency, a paralyzed immune system.
These kinds of stealth agents were being unleashed on America and certainly vaccine contaminants would have been a highly esteemed method of infecting a population with stealth viruses that could cause chronic disease, mental illnesses, and cancers to explode in the decades to follow, which is exactly what we’ve seen, and its continued climbing ever since.
A 2003 declassified CIA assessment titled The Darker Bioweapons Future discusses the mechanisms of stealth viruses as biological weapons and talks about how an enemy could seed a population with a stealth virus that would remain dormant and be triggered later, as binary bioweapons that are effective through two components. It states:
According to the scientists convened, other classes of unconventional pathogens that may arise over the next decade and beyond include binary BW agents that only become effective when two components are combined (a particularly insidious example would be a mild pathogen that when combined with its antidote becomes virulent); “designer” BW agents created to be antibiotic resistant or to evade an immune response; weaponized gene therapy vectors that effect permanent change in the victim’s genetic makeup; or a “stealth” virus, which could lie dormant inside the victim for an extended period before being triggered. For example, one panelist cited the possibility of a stealth virus attack that could cripple a large portion of people in their forties with severe arthritis, concealing its hostile origin and leaving a country with massive health and economic problems.4
This is a striking example of how hidden viruses in vaccines can be turned into biological weapons agents, especially when it comes to the idea of binary bioweapons, where a population is seeded with stealth viruses, like SV40 and additional contaminant viruses of all kinds. The virus lies dormant in hosts for long periods of time, even passing down generations, before being activated by vaccines taken later on, especially by those that containing Pam-3-Cys-like lipopeptides since it will cause serious immunosuppression and immune tolerance, at which point these dormant viruses reawaken and cause serious chronic disease, neurodegenerative disease, and cancers. It is not hard to see how this would be a useful channel for bioterrorism.
All one would have to do is to introduce these stealth viruses into the supply of animals to be used in the manufacture of vaccines, so in the case of polio vaccines grown on monkey kidney cultures, for example, you infect the monkeys where they are sourced in the wild for use, such as the jungles of Africa or Asia. For cell cultures made from animals that are more domesticated, like dogs or hamsters, the process is even easier. Likewise, sera (blood) from horses and other animals is often involved in preparing cell cultures used for growing the vaccine virus, so there are many targets that could potentially enable this contamination to occur and deposit stealth viruses of all kinds into commercial vaccines.
It certainly invites new scrutiny to some of the mass contamination events in vaccine history, most notorious among them is the SV40 problem known to the polio vaccines, where an estimated 200 million Americans (about half the U.S. Population at the time) were exposed to this virus in the uptake of polio vaccines during the 1950s.
Even after the discovery of this virus and the attempt at its containment, batches continued to be tainted, other vaccines also became tainted, and it became a problem that continued plaguing the pharmaceutical industry. Additional strains of SV40 that were not detectable by more modern testing were found in these vaccines, as noted in a 1999 paper, Unique Strains of SV40 in Commercial Poliovaccines from 1955 Not Readily Identifiable with Current Testing for SV40 Infection.
Of course, this could easily be written off as accidental, many contaminates are, but there are some aspects of the polio vaccine development and the people associated with them that are extremely suspicious and the circumstances very alarming, most notably as it relates to a Soviet bioweaponeer named M. P. Chumakov and his friendly American scientists Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk.
But it goes further, because the SV40 saga continues today in the COVID-19 vaccines, with M. P. Chumakov’s son Konstantin Chumakov, having approved the COVID-19 vaccine. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines used segments from the SV40 virus, and is now showing signs of serious harm, including cancer, bringing the story full circle since the days of his father’s work on the oral polio vaccine.
In the last chapter of my book The Sleeper Agent: The Rise of Lyme Disease, Chronic Illness, and the Great Imitator Antigens of Biological Warfare, I had discussed the polio vaccines and the collaboration between Albert B. Sabin and M. P. Chumakov, and I also took a closer look at Jonas Salk, because of biological warfare activity occurring between the Soviet Union and the United States, it was highly troubling that the FBI would clear Jonas Salk to advise the U. S. Government and manufacture a polio vaccine when he couldn’t pass a background check and was found to have been an active member in many communist front groups. Somehow, despite all this, a second FBI investigation was initiated, probably by compromised FBI agents, and they cleared him despite all the red flags, just as they did for Erich Traub in Operation Paperclip.
It was yet another shock to see the FBI then clear Albert B. Sabin to team up with the Soviet bioweaponeer M. P. Chumakov, traveling back and forth between America and the Soviet Union to collaborate on a polio vaccine that would be given to many millions of Americans at a time when biowarfare activity between these countries was very active. M. P. Chumakov was very active in developing and testing biological weapons in the 1930s with ticks and other insects, which they tested on the restive Muslim and Mongolian populations in Siberia. Chumakov then traveled to East Germany to Insel Riems where Erich Traub was running the most advanced bioweapons program on the planet during World War II. Chumakov met with Traub to gather information on immune tolerance and LCM virus – the model for stealth viruses that – when reactivated – inflict slow, wasting diseases and cancers.
It turns out that Erich Traub’s role in war crimes in World War II made him subject to Soviet blackmail during his time under Russian occupation, and of course the British were also helping to assist him and other Nazis with similar circumstances, to come to America where they would begin a largescale bioterrorism campaign against the United States. Let us also remember that the Soviet Union is more or less a creation of British Intelligence and I talked about how the British were waging biowarfare against the United States since its formation. Britain being no stranger to divide and conquer and playing sides to the middle, their initial bioterrorism campaign on America continued through their go-between – the Soviet Union.
After all the suspect moves on behalf of the FBI clearing people with shady backgrounds and allowing collaboration with Soviet bioweaponeers, we ended up with two polio vaccines, the first one was the inactivated polio vaccine, and the second was the oral polio vaccine (OPV) that M. P. Chumakov developed with Albert Sabin. Both vaccines were contaminated by SV40 – a stealth oncogenic virus that acted very much like Traub’s LCM Virus and would cause very similar neurological diseases and cancers. The fact that Chumakov was meeting with Traub in the years before he and Sabin teamed up is very suspicious. Also, Chumakov’s institute even had expeditions in Africa and Asia at the time which were all KGB intelligence people and could have very easily infected the monkey supply used for vaccine production with similar stealth viruses of all kinds, including SV40.
Additional contamination events with Marburg Virus occurred about a decade after the collaboration with Albert Sabin – the Marburg Virus outbreak of 1967 at the Behringwerke laboratory in Marburg, Germany and another lab in Yugoslavia. This was the older sibling of the Ebola virus that would show up later in Africa, both were severe forms of hemorrhagic fever viruses. Shortly before the outbreak occurred, Chumakov was studying hemorrhagic fever viruses in monkey tissues and in different kinds of cells.
These Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever viruses do not originate in Africa, but actually have their origins in Russian territories like Siberia and the Crimea, such as the Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, before they ever show up in Africa, but soon it began to show up in the regions surrounding the Congo, and it earned itself the name Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus. Moreover, just 2 years after Chumakov’s institute had setup expeditions in Nigeria to study arboviruses from monkeys of that area, a new hemorrhagic fever announces itself in the region, Lassa Fever Virus.
They began testing these newly developed agents in the late 1930s, then took them to Africa to continue these testing phases. Africa then unfortunately was turned into a biological weapons testing ground. Certainly, the U. S. has equally taken part in this detestable practice on the unwitting African continent.
When the Marburg Virus outbreak occurred in the labs of Germany (Behringwerke Ag) and in Yugoslavia, they were in the process of manufacturing oral polio vaccines. The virus had been silently infecting the monkeys, in other words, stealth infections that spread to the lab workers and started the dangerous outbreak where people lost their lives and many others were infected and became dangerously ill but survived. The virus had a 30% fatality rate. And this is the reason that stealth viruses would be far more suitable, because then they are more likely to reach the targets of vaccine recipients without starting noticeable outbreaks that alert public health.
The Behringwerke lab was in West Germany, which was under the control of Britain and the United States. Some of the press in East Germany began circulating the idea that the outbreak was the result of the British and Americans running a secret biological weapons program. As a result, they provided M. P. Chumakov with strains of the virus and they never heard another word about it again.
A former KGB officer Alexander Kouzminov talked about plans for such a vaccine sabotage program in his memoir Biological Espionage: Special Operations of the Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence Services in the West with one particular memorandum he describes having seen:
In the memorandum one continually met the phrases “The Instance,” “Day X,” and “direct actions.” By “The Instance” was meant the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After disintegration of the Soviet Union, “The Instance” came to mean the “President of Russia and his Presidential Council,” The formula “Day X” meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the West. “Direct actions” implied acts of biological sabotage and terrorism against the civilians, the army, and the economy of a potential enemy. “The potential strike targets” meant civil targets, including public drinking-water supplies, food stores, and processing plants; water-purification systems, vaccine, drug, and toxin repositories; and pharmaceutical and biotechnological plants.5
All of the aforementioned information would lead us to conclude that a vaccine bioterrorism program to infect the population with stealth viruses through vaccines was a very realistic possibility, and there are all sorts of unwanted animal viruses in the vaccines that sneak through the detection process and activate later, especially after additional vaccines. So even if many of the contaminants were accidental, some like the SV40 could have been deliberate, based on the shady circumstances surrounding the polio vaccines.
Furthermore, why was Jonas Salk writing books about overpopulation and making alarming statements about how we need to stop medical and scientific advances that keep life going for people because of overpopulation:
A major threat to the species is attributed to the increasing size of the human population, which, in turn, is ascribed to successes in science and technology. This “explanation” has evoked an attack upon science and the exploitation of its technology, to the development of which are attributed many adverse effect upon the human species and upon other forms of life. “Polluters” who befoul the planet affect the “quality of life” and are regarded as a threat to the present and future equilibrium of the species and of the planet. Those who consider themselves on the side of Nature, and therefore of the human species, see others in opposition to both Nature and Man. Hence we are to be concerned not only with Man’s relationship to Nature but with Man’s relationship to himself.6
And why was Jonas Salk saying that we could use viruses to degenerate and test the gene pool of humanity in a way that would cause permanent harm and degeneration to occur, when the SV40 virus that contaminated his vaccine does exactly that? If you think I’m making this up, I’ll pull another quote from his book Survival of the Wisest:
Biologists have discovered many ways in Nature of acquiring such information and of producing new combinations. For example, sexual reproduction, which results in new mixtures of inheritable information, may be seen as a producer of “mutations” in the sense implied above. “Mutations,” as here defined, would also be produced by the introduction, either naturally or experimentally, of a virus into a sperm or egg cell, the genetic information of which would then be incorporated in either the DNA or the RNA and transmitted. Such new information might be advantageous or disadvantageous. Nevertheless, it would be transmitted hereditarily, having become part of the organism, whose survival value would then be tested in the process of natural selection. Other ways of altering inheritable information are by the application of X-rays to germinal tissue, or by chemical means; these effects are mediated by DNA or RNA alterations. Purely accidental errors, or copying errors, in the course of gene replication of protein synthesis, produce similar effects. In all instances the survival value of the products for continued evolution are determined subsequently.
Similarly, in the metabiological realm, new perceptions arise from time to time, which occur spontaneously, or by deliberate search. These have effects analogous in a way to new inheritable biological information in its transmissibility from generation to generation by cultural means. New perceptions can also be spread, as would the hypothetical virus proposed above, to alter, favorably or unfavorably, the behavior of the individual arising in this way, those related to him, as well as those to follow. In the metabiological realm revolutionary ideas may be seen as part of the process of evolution, equivalent to the occurrence of “mutations” in the biological domain; they are then subjected to the process of “selection for survival” to be retained until changed or eliminated.7
The SV40 problem has not gone away, it is simply being ignored, the public health system does not even test for it, they aren’t doing anything to address the biggest mass infection event with stealth cancer viruses that infected over 200 million Americans during the polio vaccination program, even though they did have a congressional hearing in the early 2000s, PREVENTING ANOTHER SV40 TRAGEDY: ARE TODAY’S VACCINE SAFETY PROTOCOLS EFFECTIVE? As usual with congressional hearings, they go nowhere and no one is held accountable. However, it didn’t end with SV40, because many more adventitious contaminant viruses have been showing up in every other vaccine. It is a problem that they refuse to adequately study and address.
In the 1970s, U. S. Public Health officials were concerned with nationwide outbreaks of LCM Virus that were infecting hamsters across the country. On April 14, 1974, The New York Times published “Hamsters Killed to Prevent the Spread of Mild Meningitis,” indicating that authorities were involved in a nationwide culling of hamster lots infected with LCM Virus, and this is alarming especially since hamsters were being used as a source for growing vaccine viruses in baby hamster kidney (BHK) cell lines. Multiple journals reported outbreaks of LCM Virus among scientists and medical personnel at the time, and they found that cell lines used in research were sources of the outbreak. For how long these hamsters were infected is not known. LCM Virus is a virus known for its ability to disable the immune system and bring on immune tolerance, as it was the virus Erich Traub discovered immune tolerance with.
Epstein-Barr Virus, or EBV, is another virus that is commonly found in the population that turned up in Africa in the late 1950s causing cancer in the African population and was later found to be infecting the entire United States, and very likely come in from vaccines. Many of the other common herpesviruses seem to be of the same source, and all of the 8 human herpesviruses cause a bewildering number of disease manifestations and cancers. These are issues that need to be looked at with much more scrutiny and attention.
Certainly, some of the contamination events are accidental, but when you look at the SV40 situation as a whole and the shady collaborations and suspicious activities between Sabin, Salk, and M. P. Chumakov, the interest in SV40 and other stealth viruses that caused immune tolerance, like Erich Traub’s LCM Virus, and knowing that M. P. Chumakov’s son was running Vaccine Safety and Review at the FDA and approved the COVID-19 vaccine, which used material from SV40, and is now showing signs of serious harm in the population, there are certainly a lot of coincidences to be considered, which lead us to consider more deliberate, sinister possibilities.
For more of this story, pick up a copy of my book, The Sleeper Agent: The Rise of Lyme Disease, Chronic Illness, and the Great Imitator Antigens of Biological Warfare and you will embark on a journey to understand the esoteric art of stealth biological warfare and the science of immune tolerance that explains much about the chronic disease, mental illness, and cancer crises rocking the United States
1 Paul E. Steiner, Disease in the Civil War: Natural Biological Warfare in 1861–1865 (Springfield, IL: C.C. Thomas, 1968)
2 President George Washington is quoted on the British using smallpox as a weapon against the Continental Army as early as 1775. See: Fenn EA. “Biological warfare in eighteenth-century North America: beyond Jeffery Amherst.” J Am Hist. 2000;86(4):1552-1580
3 Traub, E. Persistence of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus in Immune Animals and Its Relation To Immunity. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 63(6), 847-861. doi:10.1084/jem.63.6.847. (1936).
4 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Office of Transnational Issues (OTI), ”The Darker Bioweapons Future,” (Unclassified Intelligence Report). Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 3 December 2003. Retrieved from: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001298811.pdf
5 Kouzminov, Alexander. Biological Espionage: Special Operations of the Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence Services in the West. Manas Publications, 2006
6 Salk, Jonas Edward. The Survival of the Wisest. New York: Harper & Row, 1973
7 Ibid.