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- Biologicals were found in the Southern California backyard
of a doctor who had worked for the South African Government doing biological
research - the doctor was 'suicided' on March 2nd. There was also an attempt
to murder his business partner...who was/is also involved in biological
research.
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- This is a developing story... http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2045
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- This is an important clue to what is going on around
the world. RMNews has not put all the pieces together yet, but when we
do, it will be posted. We feel this story somehow linked to Operation
Raindance. This is the American project which creates biologicals that
will target selective races.
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- We wonder if we will be told the truth about what the
canisters contained when the analysis on them is completed... _____
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- Suspicious Canisters, Clues Unearthed in Orange County,
California
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- By Scott Martelle, Jack Leonard, H.G. Reza, LA Times
Staff Writers
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- Inquiry: Police believe they hold weapons or hazardous
materials. Doctor's link to South Africa military probed.
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- Investigators unearthed six suspicious canisters Thursday
from the backyard of Dr. Larry C. Ford's Irvine home as details emerged
about the biomedical researcher's possible one-time links to military and
biological weapons programs.
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- The specifics of Ford's role are unclear, but in an interview
Thursday the former surgeon general of the South African Defense Force
said Ford served as an "informal consultant" and provided advice
on protecting military personnel against biological attacks.
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- Dr. Neil Knobel said that the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, a South African government panel investigating apartheid-era
human rights abuses, asked about his relationship with Ford during hearings
in 1998.
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- The commission also asked the head of a secret South
African military biological weapons program whether Ford had worked with
him, Knobel said, though the panel did not mention Ford's name in any final
report.
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- Knobel said he does not believe Ford played a role in
weapons development, but another South African doctor said Ford claimed
in 1995 that he had been involved in the research.
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- Ford is at the center of a widening probe into the attempted
assassination last week of his business partner, John Patrick Riley, chief
executive of Biofem Inc.
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- Ford committed suicide March 2, police said, a day after
detectives served search warrants on his Irvine home in connection with
the shooting.
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- The excavation in Ford's backyard came after detectives
were told by an unnamed family member that the doctor had buried weapons
and biological materials on the property.
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- Officer Discounts Danger of Containers
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- Police on Thursday found six white plastic cylinders,
10 inches wide and at least 3 feet long, buried beneath a concrete slab
in Ford's backyard.
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- "We have dug down 3 feet and haven't reached the
other end of the cylinders, which we believe are also capped," Irvine
Police Lt. Sam Allevato said. "We don't know what's inside, but we
believe they are filled with illegal weapons and hazardous materials."
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- Once dirt is removed from around the containers, a robot
from the Orange County Sheriff's Department will be used to lift them out.
The cylinders will be X-rayed at the site and then taken to a laboratory,
where they will be opened, police said.
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- Allevato said he doesn't believe the canisters pose a
health threat.
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- "We believe the items [inside] to be secure,"
he said. "They are in a static condition and will only be opened in
a lab."
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- Another 21 canisters filled with "thousands of rounds"
of ammunition, including belted machine gun rounds, were found during a
search of Ford's house, Allevato said. No illegal weapons were found in
the home, he said.
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- Police said Ford owned a number of rifles and shotguns,
and ammunition for those legal weapons was found in the home. Hundreds
of rifle rounds were discovered inside a closet, under a false floorboard,
Allevato said.
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- It is unclear why Ford had the belted machine gun ammunition,
illegal for a private gun collector to own. Police believe the suspected
biological materials were used as part of Ford's medical research.
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- Ford's attorney said Wednesday that his client had once
done work for the U.S. government on chemical weapons but didn't know specifics.
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- Federal government sources said Thursday they were aware
Ford had contact with the South African consulate in Los Angeles during
the 1980s.
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- Police closed an Irvine elementary school and evacuated
48 families, about 250 residents, from the neighborhood Wednesday as a
precaution. They feared that Ford might have booby-trapped some of the
buried containers, but Allevato said no explosive devices were found.
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- The dig came more than a week after an apparent botched
assassination attempt on Riley, 58, as he arrived for work at Biofem's
Irvine Spectrum offices. An unidentified gunman shot Riley once in the
cheek, then fled in a van, which investigators said was driven by Los Angeles
businessman Dino D'Saachs, 56, who has been charged in the case. The gunman
remains at large.
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- Three days later, Ford returned home after meeting with
his lawyer, then shot himself in an upstairs bedroom.
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- Riley issued a statement Thursday sympathizing with the
families evacuated but declaring that his company never worked with hazardous
materials.
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- "I am very sorry that this has caused such a disruption
to your lives," he said through a public relations company. "I
want to assure everyone that the work at Biofem does not, nor has it ever
in the past, involved the use of toxic materials or chemicals. Additionally,
there are no toxic substances of any type involved in the creation or testing
of our products."
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- Biofem Had Considered Trials in S. Africa
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- Riley said he has been advised to "remain in seclusion
for the time being. I am looking forward to a full recovery and returning
to work and resuming my life."
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- He said that company officials are already back at work
in hopes of starting clinical trials soon on Inner Confidence, a female
contraceptive suppository they believed would also hinder the spread of
sexually transmitted diseases. Biofem, he added, has sufficient funds to
complete tests.
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- Until the outbreak of violence, Biofem was a little-noted
company through which Ford and Riley sought to market Inner Confidence.
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- One of their ideas was to conduct clinical trials in
South Africa, a plan supported by Knobel, the military surgeon general
who retired in 1997.
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- Dr. Otto Muller, a South African medical researcher,
said he worked with the company to draw up plans for the trials. But Biofem
never followed through, he said.
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- Ford had also suggested trials involving South African
defense forces' medical personnel, Muller said. But Muller rejected that
idea, fearing political fallout because the mostly white military had been
so discredited in the wake of apartheid.
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- Raymond A. Lee, the Biofem attorney, said the firm dropped
the South African trials to await approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,
which he said would allow them to market the product globally.
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- The extent of Ford's relation with the South African
military is unclear. Muller said Ford told him in 1995 that he was involved
in South Africa's military-led program to develop biological weapons.
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- Knobel did say that Ford worked with the military during
the Persian Gulf War by giving advice on a chemical-warfare protection
plan for personnel stationed in Israel.
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Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:05:10 -0800 To: neff1@mindspring.com Subject: IMPORTANT
biologicals/murder ADD Cc: eotl@west.net
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- AP Slants Earlier LA Times Story
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- From Rumor Mill News
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- RMNews - The following are the highlights from an AP
story about the doctor (Ford) whose backyard contained buried weapons of
biological warfare.
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- It is our belief that the LA Times story is probably
closer to the truth... Please also notice the deceptive headline that the
AP runs with this story.
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- *** from AP wire service
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- "Ford's attorney said the doctor worked for the
CIA for 20 years, and the Los Angeles Times reported that he had expertise
in chemical and biological weapons.
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- Lawyer Bryan Card said Friday night that police told
him the doctor may have had enough bacteria at his disposal ''to wipe out
a country.'' He declined to elaborate. A police spokesman could not be
reached for comment Friday night.
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- Forty-nine homes and a school near Ford's home were evacuated
before digging started Thursday.
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- Investigators believe Ford held answers to the attack
on his partner at Biofem Pharmaceutical Inc., James Patrick Riley. A masked
gunman shot and wounded Riley two weeks ago.
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- Almost immediately, police focused on Ford. But before
police could question Ford, he committed suicide.
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- Police have arrested a friend of Ford's and accused him
of being the getaway driver in the botched hit. They were searching for
the shooter."
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- (Pay attention to the headline! ...no mention of biologicals...enough
"to wipe out a country")
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- Hidden Ammo Probed in Murder Case
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- By Chelsea J. Carter, Associated Press Writer
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- IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- Investigators said Friday they
found thousands of rounds of ammunition hidden under a false floor in the
home of a doctor who committed suicide before police could question him
about a failed plot to kill his partner.
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- On Thursday, police and FBI agents found 21 canisters
filled with bullets, including machine gun rounds, hidden in the home of
Dr. Larry C. Ford, police Lt. Sam Allevato said. Investigators also found
six drums planted 7 feet deep in Ford's yard that contained ''military-grade''
plastic explosives, Allevato said.
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- Ford's attorney said the doctor worked for the CIA for
20 years, and the Los Angeles Times reported that he had expertise in chemical
and biological weapons.
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- Lawyer Bryan Card said Friday night that police told
him the doctor may have had enough bacteria at his disposal ''to wipe out
a country.'' He declined to elaborate. A police spokesman could not be
reached for comment Friday night.
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- Forty-nine homes and a school near Ford's home were evacuated
before digging started Thursday.
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- Investigators believe Ford held answers to the attack
on his partner at Biofem Pharmaceutical Inc., James Patrick Riley. A masked
gunman shot and wounded Riley two weeks ago.
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- Almost immediately, police focused on Ford. The two men
were trying to market a vaginal suppository to combat AIDS transmission
and believed the product would make millions of dollars.
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- But before police could question Ford, he committed suicide.
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- Police have arrested a friend of Ford's and accused him
of being the getaway driver in the botched hit. They were searching for
the shooter.
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- Ford once worked for the federal government on chemical
weapons and advised the South African Defense Force on how to protect military
personnel against biological attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
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- SNIP SNIP
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- READ THE REST AT THIS AP URL http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap67.htm
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