Friday, April 3, 1998 | 9:15 a.m.
Nobel laureate and Council on Foreign Relations member Dr. Joshua Lederberg published a paper, "Medical Science, Infectious Disease and the Unity of Mankind," presenting his world-government-or-world-pestilence thesis on the pages of the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. What is especially noteworthy in this respect is that Lederberg had from 1990 to 1996 been a director of American Type Culture Collection, which, according to congressional sources, made some 70 government-approved shipments of anthrax and other pathogens to Iraqi scientists between 1985 and 1989.
In his JAMA editorial last year, Lederberg noted that, "Iraq was proven to have developed and militarized a repertoire of biological warfare agents, notably anthrax spores." I am not surprised that he failed to mention the apparent role which the company, on whose board he served, played in facilitating the creation of that threat.
In 1993, Lederberg, of all people, was selected by President Clinton to chair the Defense Science Board Task Force on Persian Gulf War Health Effects. If that isn't rich enough for you, try this: It was the same Lederberg-directed ATCC which sold Aryan Nation's Larry Wayne Harris the bubonic plague samples that have fueled the current consternation over weapons of mass destruction in the hands of domestic terrorists.
I believe that Lederberg's and Bill Clinton's dialectics are subject to further scrutiny.
Frank M. Pelteson
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