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 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…”

Symptoms of Morgellons disease.

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
in Northern 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
Morgellons patients.

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 things had 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 was struck 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 rash that 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 he ever 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).

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 by many
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 the bite 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 wrote on
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 I had 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 Services Division.

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 out to 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 attached document.]

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
human subjects… 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 number of 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 “told which 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 Scientific Research 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 on them 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 goals were 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. Cilia
are 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 a
class 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 electron microscopy 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 with infective 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 inadvertently emerged 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 and often 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 shortage of 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, it
reaps 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 against
my 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.”