MURDER BY INJECTION: CHAPTER 3: THE PROFITS OF CANCER

By Eustace Mullins

In 400 B.C., Hippocrates assigned the name of Cancer or crab

to a disease encountered during his time, because of its crab-like

spread through the body. Its Greek name was "karkinos." In 164

A.D., the physician Galen in Rome used the name of "tumour" to

describe this disease, from the Greek "tymbos" meaning a sepulchral

mound, and the Latin tumore, "to swell." The disease could not have

been very prevalent; it is not mentioned in the Bible, nor is it

included in the ancient medical book of China, the Yellow

Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. Unknown in most

traditional societies, it spread with the rise of the Industrial

Revolution. In the 1830s, cancer was responsible for two per cent of

the deaths around Paris; cancer caused four per cent of deaths in the

United States in 1900.

With the rise of cancer came "modern" methods of coping with

it. A leading critic of the medical establishment, Dr. Robert S.

Mendelsohn, comments that "Modern cancer surgery someday will

be regarded with the same kind of horror that we now regard the use

of leeches in George Washington's time." The surgery of which he

spoke is the widely accepted and imposed method of cancer

treatment now in vogue throughout the United States. It is called the

"cut, slash and burn" technique. This method of cancer treatment

actually represents the highwater mark of the German allopathic

school of medicine in the United States. It relies almost exclusively

on surgery, bleeding and heavy use of drugs, with the exotic

addition of radium treatment. The Temple of the modern method of

cancer treatment in the United States is the Memorial Sloan

Kettering Cancer Institute in New York. Its high priests are the

surgeons and researchers at this center.

Originally known as Memorial Hospital, this cancer

establishment was presided over during its early years by two

physicians who were stereotypes of the Hollywood caricatures of

"the mad doctor." If Hollywood planned to make a movie about this

hospital, they would be stymied by the fact that only the late Bela

Lugosi would be appropriate to play not one, but each of these two

doctors. The first of these "mad" doctors was Dr. J. Marion Sims.

Son of a South Carolina sheriff and tavern owner, Sims (1813-1883)

was a nineteenth century "women's doctor." For years he dabbled in

"experimental surgery" by performing experiments on slave women

in the South. According to his biographer, these operations were

"little short of murderous." When plantation owners refused to allow

him to conduct further experiments on their slaves, he was forced to

purchase a seventeen year old slave girl for $500. Within a few

months he had performed some thirty operations on this unfortunate,

a girl named Anarcha. Because there was no anesthesia at that time,

he had to ask friends to hold Anarcha down while he performed his

surgery. After one or two such experiences, they usually refused to

have anything further to do with him. He continued to experiment

on Anarcha for four years, and in 1853, he decided to move to New

York

 Whether his little Negro hospital in South Carolina was

surrounded by screaming villagers one night as they brandished

torches, as in an old Frankenstein movie, is not known. However,

his decision to move seems to have come rather suddenly. Dr. Sims

bought a house on Madison Avenue, where he found a supporter in

the heiress of the Phelps empire, Mrs. Melissa Phelps Dodge. This

family has continued to be prominent supporters of the present

cancer center. With her financial assistance, Sims founded Women's

Hospital, a 30 bed, all charity hospital which opened on May 1,

1855.

Like a later quack, "Doc" Simmons, Sims advertised himself as

a women's specialist, particularly in "vesico-vaginal fistula," an

abnormal passage between the bladder and the vagina. It is now

known that this condition has always been "iatrogenic," that is,

caused by the ministrations of doctors. In the 1870s, Sims began to

specialize in the treatment of cancer. Rumors began to circulate in

New York of barbarous operations being performed at Women's

Hospital. The "mad doctor" was at it again. The trustees of the

institution reported that "the lives of all the patients were being

Women's Hospital.

However, because of his powerful financial supporters, he was soon

 reinstated. He was then contacted by members of the Astor

family, whose fortune was founded on old John Jacob Astor's

 ties with the East India Company, the British Secret Intelligence

 Service, and the international opium trade. One of the Astors

had recently died of cancer, and the family wished to

establish a cancer hospital in New York. They first approached the

trustees of Women's Hospital with an offer of a donation of

$150,000 if they would turn it into a cancer hospital. Smarting from

his recent firing, Sims double-crossed the trustees by private

negotiations with the Astors. He persuaded them to back him in a

new hospital, which he called the New York Cancer Hospital.

It opened in 1884. Dr. Sims later went to Paris, where he attended the

Empress Eugenie. He was later awarded the Order of Leopold from

the King of the Belgians. Apparently he had lost none of his

chutzpah. He returned to New York, where he died shortly before

the opening of his new hospital.

In the 1890s, after receiving gifts from other benefactors, the

hospital was renamed Memorial Hospital. In the mid-twentieth

century, the names of Sloan and Kettering were added. Despite

these names, this cancer center has for many years been a major

appendage of the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly. During the 1930s,

a block of land on the fashionable Upper East Side was donated by

the Rockefellers to build its new building. Rockefeller henchmen

have dominated the board ever since the building was opened.

In 1913, a group of doctors and laymen met in May at the Harvard

Club in New York City to establish a national cancer organization.

Not unnaturally, it was named the American Society for the Control

of Cancer. Note that it was not called a society for the cure of

cancer, or the prevention of cancer, nor have these ever been

primary goals of this organization. 1913, of course, was a very

significant year in American history. During that fateful year,

President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, which

was set up to provide funding for the forthcoming World War; a

national progressive income tax, taken directly from Marx's

Communist Manifesto of 1848, was imposed upon the American

people; and legislatures had their constitutional duty of appointing

Senators removed, they being henceforth elected by popular

Senators; they all now had to compete for the popular vote.

It was in this heady era of socialist planning that the cancer society

originated. Naturally enough, it was funded by John D. Rockefeller,

Jr. His attorneys, Debevoise and Plimpton, remained dominant in

the administration of the new society throughout the 1920s. Its

funding came from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation, and

from J. P. Morgan.

From its inception, the American Cancer Society has followed

the pattern set up by the American Cancer Society. ACS also had a

board of trustees, a House of Delegates, and in the 1950s, it also

established a Committee on Quackery. This Committee later

changed its name to the Committee on Unproven Methods of

Cancer Management (note that it was called management, not cure),

but the society still used to term "quackery" freely in referring to

any methods not sanctioned by its trustees, or deviating from the

"cut, slash and burn" method of cancer treatment.

In 1909, the railroad magnate, E. H. Harriman (whose fortune,

like that of the Rockefellers, had been funded entirely with

Rothschild money funneled to him by Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb

Co.) died of cancer. His family then formed the Harriman Research

Institute. In 1917, the scion of the family, W. Averell Harriman,

abruptly decided to go into politics, or rather, to manage our

political parties from behind the scenes. The Institute was suddenly

shut down. Its financial backing was then transferred to Memorial

Hospital. The principal backer of the hospital at that time was James

Douglas, (1837-1918). He was chairman of the Phelps Dodge

Corporation, whose heiress in 1853, Melissa Phelps Dodge, had

been the initial backer of what eventually became Memorial

Hospital. She had married a dry goods merchant named William

Dodge, who used the Phelps fortune to become a giant in copper

production.

The Dictionary of National Biography describes James Douglas

as "the dean of mining and metallurgical properties." He owned the

richest copper mine in the world, the Copper Queen Lode. Born in

Canada, he was the son of Dr. James Douglas, a surgeon who

became head of the Quebec Lunatic Asylum. His son joined the

Phelps-Dodge Company in 1910, later becoming its chairman.

Because he had discovered extensive pitchblende deposits on his

Western mining properties, he became fascinated with radium. In

collaboration with the Bureau of Mines, a government agency which

he, for all practical purposes, controlled, he founded the National

Radium Institute. His personal physician was a Dr. James Ewing

(1866-1943). Douglas offered to give Memorial Hospital $100,000,

but there were several conditions. One was that the hospital must

hire Dr. Ewing as its chief pathologist; the second was that the

hospital must commit itself to treating nothing but cancer, and that it

would routinely use radium in its cancer treatments. The hospital

accepted these conditions.

With Douglas' money behind him, Ewing soon became head of

the entire hospital. Douglas was so convinced of the benefits of

radium therapy that he used it frequently on his daughter, who was

then dying of cancer; on his wife; and on himself, exposing his

family to radium therapy for the most trivial ailments. Because of

Douglas' prominence, the New York Times gave a great deal of

publicity to the new radium treatment for cancer. The journalist

headlined his story with a page one headline, "Radium Cure Free for

All." The claim was made that "not one cents worth of radium will

be for sale," Douglas was greatly annoyed by this statement, and on

October 24, 1913, he had the Times run a correction. He was quoted

as follows, "All this story about humanity and philanthropy is

foolish. I want it understood that I shall do what I like with the

radium that belongs to me." This was a rare glimpse of the true

nature of the "philanthropist." His rivals in this field, Rockefeller

and Carnegie, always give away their money with no strings

attached. With this assurance, they were able to stealthily establish

their secret power over the nation. Douglas had revealed the true

nature of our "philanthropists."

The original press releases from Memorial Hospital had in fact

intimated that the radium treatments would be free. They apparently

believed that the great philanthropist James Douglas would donate

his supply. The Memorial Hospital Rules and Regulations were

immediately changed to stipulate that "an extra charge would be

made for Radium Emanations used in the treatment of patients." In

1924, the Radium Department at Memorial Hospital gave $18,000

radium treatments to patients, for which it charged $70,000 its

largest single source of income for that year.

Meanwhile, James Douglas, who had boasted that he would do

what he liked with his radium, continued to give himself frequent

treatments. A few weeks after the New York Times story in 1913, he

died of aplastic anemia. Medical authorities now believe that he was

but one of a number of personalities associated with the early

development of radium who died from its effects, the most famous

being Marie Curie, wife of its discoverer, and her daughter, Irene

Joliot-Curie. By 1922, more than one hundred radiologists had died

from X ray induced cancer.

Douglas' protégé, Dr. Ewing, remained at Memorial Hospital

several more years. He developed a number of ailments, the most

annoying being tic doloreux, which made it embarrassing for him to

meet or talk with anyone. He withdrew from the hospital, becoming

a recluse on Long Island, where he finally died of cancer of the

bladder in 1943.

Douglas' son and heir, Lewis Douglas, inherited one of the

largest American fortunes of that time. He married Peggy Zinsser,

daughter of a partner of J. P. Morgan Co. Peggy's two sisters also

married well; one married John J. McCloy, who became the chief

lawyer for the Rockefeller interests; the other married Konrad

Adenauer, who became Chancellor of postwar Germany. Lewis

Douglas became chairman of Mutual Life of New York, a Morgan

controlled company. Early in World War II, he became a protégé of

W. Averell Harriman in the Lend Lease Administration. Douglas

was then named chairman of the War Shipping Board, one of the

famous "dollar a year" men of the Roosevelt administration. Later in

the war, he succeeded Harriman as U.S. Ambassador to England.

After Hitler's fall, Douglas was slated to become High

Commissioner of Germany, but he stepped aside to allow his

brother-in-law, John J. McCloy, to take this post. The two

Americans were pleasantly surprised when their brother-in-law,

Konrad Adenauer, was named Chancellor. The family interests of

the J. P. Morgan firm were firmly in control. In fact, Adenauer's

earlier political activities in wartime Germany had centered around a

small group of J. P. Morgan cohorts in Germany. They were ready

to take over when Hitler died.

In the 1930s, two giants of the automotive industry were

persuaded to become contributors to Memorial Hospital. Alfred P.

Sloan had been president of General Motors for a number of years.

He was also a director of J. P. Morgan Co. In 1938, he owned

750,000 shares of General Motors. He owned a 235 foot yacht

which was valued at one and quarter million dollars in 1940.

Charles Kettering was an authentic inventive genius, responsible for

much of today’s auto ignition, lights, starters and other electrical

systems. Fortune estimated in 1960 that Sloan was worth 200-400

million dollars, while Kettering was worth 100 to 200 million.

Alfred Sloan's credentials as a philanthropist were somewhat

marred by his record at General Motors. He had steadfastly opposed

the installation of safety glass in Chevrolet cars. During the 1920s,

the lack of safety glass meant that a relatively minor auto accident,

if it caused the breaking of the windshield or the windows of a car,

could result in hideous disfigurement or death for the occupants.

Shards of flying glass would rip through the interior, slicing the

passengers as it tore by. For a relatively minor amount, the ordinary

glass used in automobiles during that period could be replaced with

safety glass. Today, safety glass is required on all cars. Sloan made

a public statement on this issue on August 13, 1929. "The advent of

safety glass will result in both ourselves and our company absorbing

a very considerable portion of the extra cost out of our profits. I feel

that General Motors should not adopt safety glass for its cars and

raise its prices even a part of what that extra cost should be."

On August 15, 1932, Sloan again reiterated his opposition to the

installation of safety glass in General Motors' automobiles. "It is not

my responsibility to sell safety glass," he complained. "I would very

much rather spend the same amount of money on improving our car

in other ways because I think, from the standpoint of selfish

business, it would be a very much better investment.'' The Alfred P.

Sloan Foundation is doing well; in 1975 it had $252 million, which

grew to $370 million by 1985. It and the Charles F. Kettering

Foundation ($75 million) continue to be the chief benefactors of the

Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. A liberal editor, Norman Cousins,

heads the Kettering Foundation.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is headed by R. Manning Brown, Jr.

Directors include Henry H. Fowler, former secretary of the Treasury,

now a partner of Goldman Sachs Co., New York investment bankers ~

also director is Lloyd C. Elam, president of the nation's only black medical s

chool, Meharry College in Nashville, Tennessee; Elam is also a director of

the giant Merck medical firm; Kraft, South Central Bell Telephone, and the

Nashville Bank; Franklin A. Long represents the necessary

Rockefeller connection as a director of Exxon; he is also a director

of United Technologies, Presidential Science Advisory

Commission, professor of chemistry at Cornell since 1936, a

Guggenheim fellow, he has received the Albert Einstein Peace

Prize ~ he is a member of the American Pugwash Steering

Committee, set up by the notoriously pro-communist financier

Cyrus Eaton who was a Rockefeller protégé.

Pugwash is said to be directed by the KGB; Herbert E. Longenecker,

 president of Tulane University; he serves on the selection committee

for Fulbright students, a very powerful position ~ his list of awards and honors

in Who's Who goes on for several paragraphs; Cathleen Morawetz,

who is a director of National Cash Register, also a Guggenheim

fellow; she is married to Herbert Morawetz, a chemist from Prague;

Thomas Aquinas Murphy, president of General Motors for many

years, also director of Pepsico, and the National Detroit

Corporation; Ellmore E. Patterson, who had been with J. P. Morgan

Company since 1935, he also serves as treasurer of Sloan-Kettering

Cancer Center, and is director of Bethlehem Steel, Engelhard

Hanovia, and Morgan Stanley; Laurance S. Rockefeller, who is

director of Reader's Digest, National Geographic Society, and the

Caneel Bay Plantation; Charles J. Scanlon, director of the GM

Acceptance Corporation, Arab-American Bank of New York, and

trustee of Roosevelt Hospital, New York; and Harold T. Shapiro,

president of the University of Michigan, director of Dow Chemical

Corporation, and Ford Motor Co., Burroughs, Kellogg, and the

Bank of Canada—Shapiro has been on the advisory panel of the

Central Intelligence Agency since 1984; he also is an advisor to the

U.S. Treasury Department.

The governing board of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer

Institute, called the Board of Managers, reads like a financial

statement of the various Rockefeller holdings. Its principal director

for many years was the late Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, partner of

Kuhn, Loeb Co., the Rothschild bankers in the United States.

Strauss listed himself in Who's Who as "financial advisor to the

Messrs. Rockefeller." He was also a director of Studebaker,

Polaroid, NBC, RCA, and held government posts as Secretary of

Commerce and as head of the Atomic Energy Commission. For

many years he funneled Rockefeller funds into the notorious

Communist front, the Institute of Pacific Relations. Strauss was also

president of the Institute for Advanced Study, a Rockefeller think

tank at Princeton, and financial director of the American Jewish

Committee, for which he raised the funds to publish the propaganda

organ, Commentary magazine.

Another prominent director of Sloan Kettering was Dorothy

Peabody Davison, a leading New York socialite for some fifty

years. She had married F. Trubee Davison, son of Henry Pomeroy

Davison, a Rockefeller relative who had been the right-hand man for

J. P. Morgan. Davison was one of the group of five leading bankers

who met with Senator Nelson Aldrich (his daughter married John D.

Rockefeller, Jr.) at Jekyll Island in a secret conference to draft the

Federal Reserve Act in November of 1910. The Dictionary of

National Biography notes that Davison "soon won recognition from

J. P. Morgan, frequently consulting with him, particularly during the

monetary crisis of 1907. In association with Senator Aldrich, Paul

M. Warburg, Frank A. Vanderlip and A. Piatt Andrew, he took part

in drawing up the Jekyll Island report that led to the crystallization

of sentiment resulting in the creation of the Federal Reserve

System."

 As head of the Red Cross War Council during the First World War,

Davison raised $370,000,000, of which a considerable

number of millions were diverted to Russia to salvage the

floundering Bolshevik government. His son and namesake, Henry P.

Davison married Anne Stillman, daughter of James Stillman, head

of the National City Bank which handled the enormous cash flow

accruing to the Standard Oil Company. H. P. also became a partner

of J. P. Morgan Co.; his brother, F. Trubee Davison, married

Dorothy Peabody, the nation's leading philanthropic family.

The Peabodys may be said to have invented the concept of foundation

philanthropy, the first major foundation being the Peabody

Education Fund, set up in 1865 by George Peabody, founder of the

J. P. Morgan banking firm; it later became the Rockefeller

Foundation. Dorothy Peabody's father was the renowned Endicott

Peabody, founder of the Establishment training school, Groton,

where Franklin D. Roosevelt and many other front men were

educated. Dorothy Peabody was on the national board of the

American Cancer Society for many years, as well as director of

Sloan Kettering. She was also a noted big game hunter, making

many forays to India and Africa, and winning many trophies for her

prize animals. Her husband was Secretary of War for air from 1926-

32, and was president of the American Museum of Natural History

for many years; this was Theodore Roosevelt's favorite charity.

Her son, Endicott Peabody Davison, became secretary to the J. P.

Morgan Co., and then general manager of the London branch of the

firm; he has been president of U.S. Trust since 1979, director of the

defense firms Scovill Corporation and Todd Shipyards, also the

Discount Corporation. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum

of Art and the Markle Foundation, which makes key grants in the

communications media. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John

Foster Dulles, was also related to the Rockefellers through the

Pomeroy family.

The present Board of Managers of Memorial Sloan Kettering

Cancer Center include Edward J. Beattie, a Markle scholar at

George Washington University, and staff member of Rockefeller

Hospital since 1978, fellow of the American Cancer Society, and

chief medical officer of Memorial since 1965; Peter O. Crisp, who is

manager of investments for the Rockefeller Family Associates;

Harold Fisher, chairman of Exxon Corp., the flag-bearer of the

Rockefeller fortune; Clifton C. Garvin, Jr., president of Exxon

Corporation, director of Citicorp, Citibank (the former National City

Bank), Pepsico, J. C. Penney, TRW, Equitable Life, Corning Glass,

and the drug firm Johnson and Johnson.

 Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., is president of the giant Squibb drug firm,

director of American Express, Caterpillar and Melville Corp.; he is a

member of the visiting committee at Harvard University; Ellmore C. Patterson,

with J. P. Morgan since 1935, married Anne Hyde Choate, of New

York's leading legal family; Patterson is treasurer of Memorial

Sloan Kettering; he is also a trustee of Carnegie Endowment for

International Peace, which was formerly headed by Alger Hiss;

Patterson's brother-in-law, Arthur H. Choate, Jr. was a partner of J.

P. Morgan Co. for some years; he then joined Clark Dodge & Co.;

Robert V. Roosa, partner of the investment bankers Brown Brothers

Harriman, a Rhodes Scholar who was the mastermind of the Federal

Reserve System for many years, training Paul Volcker and then

nominating him to be chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of

Governors in Washington; Roosa also helped David Rockefeller set

up the Trilateral Commission, of which he remains a director;

Benno C. Schmidt, managing partner of the investment bankers J.

H. Whitney Co. for many years, which has large holdings in

Schlumberger, Freeport Minerals, and CBS; Schmidt was general

counsel of the War Production Board during World War II.

He managed the Office of Foreign Liquidation in 1945 and 1946, which

disposed of billions of dollars worth of material at giveaway prices;

Schmidt was on the President's Cancer Panel from 1971-80; he is a

director of General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, Carnegie

Endowment for International Peace, and the Whitney Museum; he

received the Cleveland Award for distinguished service in the

crusade for cancer control from the American Cancer Society in

1972 (these groups are always awarding each other honors and

prizes, no one else need apply); Schmidt also received the Bristol

Myers award for distinguished service in cancer research in 1979;

his son, Benno Schmidt, Jr., married the boss' daughter, Helen

Cushing Whitney, and is now president of Yale University; he had

served as law clerk to Chief Justice Warren at the Supreme Court

and later held the office of legal counsel to the Department of

Justice.

Other members of the Board of Managers are H. Virgil Sherrill,

president of the investment firm Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, which

is now Prudential Bache; Frank Seitz, director of Organon, the

Ogden Corp. both of which are chemical firms; he has been

chairman of the key political group, the Institute for Strategic

Studies since 1975; Seitz is on the board of the National Cancer

Advisory Board and the Rockefeller Foundation; he also serves on

the Belgian American Educational Foundation which was set up by

Herbert Hoover after World War I to conceal his profits from his

Belgian charitable work; Seitz also serves on the board of the John

Simon Guggenheim Foundation which had assets of $105 million in

1985, and from which it spent only $7½ million in its charitable

work; William S. Sneath, president of the giant chemical firm Union

Carbide Corp., which has had several accidents in its chemical

factories in recent years; he is also a director of Metropolitan Life,

controlled by the Morgan interests, Rockwell International, and the

giant advertising firm, JWT Group; Lewis Thomas, whose exploits

take up a full column in Who's Who; he is investment counselor for

the Rockefeller Institute, dean of the medical school at Yale,

professor of medicine at Cornell since 1973; Thomas is a director of

the drug firm Squibb, president emeritus of Memorial Sloan

Kettering, director of the Rand Institute, Rockefeller University,

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Menninger Foundation,

Lounsbery Foundation, the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, and the

Aaron Diamond Foundation; J. S. Wickerham who is vice president

of the Morgan bank, Morgan Guaranty Trust; Harper Woodward,

who is with the Rockefeller Family Associates, longtime associate

of Laurance Rockefeller.

This is only the Board of Managers of Memorial Sloan

Kettering, the nation's preeminent cancer center. Each person on the

Board of Managers shows many direct or indirect links with the

Rockefeller interests. The Center's Board of Overseers includes Mrs.

Elmer Bobst, widow of the prominent drug manufacturer and

reorganizer of the American Cancer Society; Dr. James B. Fisk,

chairman of Bell Telephone Laboratories, director of American

Cynanamid, Corning, Equitable Life, John Simon Guggenheim

Foundation, Chase Manhattan Bank (the Rockefeller Bank), board

of overseers at Harvard, and director of the Cabot Corporation;

Richard M. Furlaud, chairman of the giant drug firm, Squibb,

director and general counsel of Olin Corporation the huge munitions

manufacturer, and director of American Express; Dr. Emanuel

Rubin Piore, born in Wilno, Russia, headed the Special Weapons

Group at the U.S. Navy 1942-46, head of the Navy Electronics

Bureau 1948, director of research at IBM since 1956, professor at

Rockefeller University, consultant to MIT and Harvard, director of

Paul Revere Investors, director of Sloan Kettering since 1976; he

received the Kaplan Award from Hebrew University; his wife Nora

Kahn is a longstanding health analyst with the New York City

Health Department since 1957, director of the Commonwealth

Fund, Blue Cross Senior Fellow, United Hospital Fund, Robert

Wood Johnson Foundation (of the drug firm Johnson and Johnson),

Pew Memorial Trust, Vera Foundation, Urban League, grantee from

U.S. Public Health Service; James D. Robinson III, chairman of

American Express, which has now incorporated both Kuhn, Loeb

Co. and Lehman Brothers investment banking houses into Shearson

Lehman Hutton; he was formerly with Morgan Guaranty Trust, and

is now director of Bristol Myers drug firm, Coca Cola, Fire-mans

Fund Insurance, chairman of Memorial Sloan Kettering, and

Rockefeller University; James S. Rockefeller, director of Cranston

Print Works.

Laurance Rockefeller, who is director of Reader's Digest with

18 million circulation and National Geographic with 10

million circulation ~ meaning that he influences 28 million middle

class American homes each month ~ Dr. Ralph Moss, former public

relations director of Memorial Sloan Kettering, noted that Reader's

Digest is often a barometer of orthodox thinking on the cancer

problem. The Rockefellers remain the most prominent contributors

to Memorial Sloan Kettering; William Rockefeller is also an

overseer—he is a partner of Shearson Sterling, lawyers for the

Rockefeller interests; he is also a director of Cranston Print Works

and Oneida Ltd.; T. F. Walkowicz, who serves with the Rockefeller

Family Associates; he is chairman of National Aviation and

Technology Corporation, CCI, Itek and Mitre Corporation,

Safetrans Systems and Quotron Systems; Arthur B. Treman, Jr.,

managing director of Dillon Read investment bankers for many

years.

Not only do the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering have

direct ties to the Rockefellers; they are also closely linked with

defense industries, the CIA, and chemical and drug firms. It is no

accident that they serve on the board of an institution whose

recommendations on cancer treatment mean literally billions in

profits to those who are in the right position to take advantage of

them. And you thought this was a charitable organization! The fact

is the Memorial Sloan Kettering and the American Cancer Society

are the principal organizational functionaries, with the American

Medical Association, of the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly. In

1944, the American Society for the Control of Cancer changed its

name to American Cancer Society; it was then placed in the hands

of two of the most notorious patent medicine hucksters in the United

States, Albert Lasker and Elmer Bobst.

Albert Lasker, born in Freiburg, Germany (1880-1952) has

been called "the father of modern advertising." He focused on easily

remembered slogans and constant repetition to drill his messages

into the heads of the American people. Like other successful

hucksters memorialized in these pages, he began his career as a

journalist. He was brought to this country by his parents, who settled

in Galveston, Texas. His father, Morris Lasker, became a

representative for Rothschild banking interests, and soon became the

president of five banks in Texas. He lived in a luxurious mansion in

Galveston, was a prominent grain and cotton dealer, and because of

extensive interests in West Texas, he became known as "the

godfather of the Panhandle." He died in 1916, leaving his son Albert

as his executor. Needing cash to expand his advertising business,

Albert Lasker hurriedly sold the lands at a bargain price, which in

1916, was not very much. His business acumen failed him here,

because more than one billion dollars of oil was later discovered on

those lands.

At the age of sixteen, Albert Lasker became a reporter on the

Galveston News; he soon moved on to a better paying position in

Dallas, on the Dallas Morning News, the largest newspaper in

Texas. He soon found that the real money in the newspaper business

was not in journalism, but in advertising, which brought in most of

the revenue. Lasker went to Chicago, where he talked his way into a

position with Lord and Thomas, the city's largest agency. He was

only nineteen years old. Because he had agreed that his salary

depended on how much business he could bring into the firm, he

became a fanatical hustler. At the age of twenty-five, he had saved

enough money, together with his family's money, to buy twenty-five

per cent of the agency. At that time, he was earning one thousand

dollars a week; the president of the United States was then paid ten

thousand dollars a year. At the age of thirty, Lasker bought the

entire agency. He went on to participate in some of the most

memorable advertising campaigns in the history of the business.

He built a three and a half million dollar estate in the exclusive suburb

of Lake Forest, Mill Road Farm, a 480 acre spread with twenty-seven

buildings, and a million dollar golf course which Bob Jones

described as one of the three best golf courses in the United States.

At the age of 42, he had arrived. The estate employed fifty workers,

who kept six miles of hedges clipped each week. The French

chateau in the center of all this luxury was more magnificent than

anything built by his crusty neighbors, who viewed him with ill-disguised

dislike. For years, he was the only Jewish resident, and he

delighted in bruiting it about that he intended to leave the estate in

his will as a Jewish community center.

Lasker was always very active in major Jewish organizations,

serving on the American Jewish Committee and the powerful Anti-

Defamation League. His sister Florine founded the National Council

of Jewish Women and the Civil Liberties Committee in New York;

another sister, Etta Rosensohn, was a passionate Zionist who headed

the Hadassah Organization.

During the First World War, Lasker had been persuaded by his

friend Bernard Barruch to join Woodrow Wilson's cabinet as an

assistant secretary; this was to be his only government post. Despite

the fact that he had built Lord and Thomas into a giant advertising

agency, he felt that Chicago was too small for him; he soon moved

his headquarters to New York. When he joined the agency, it had

only $900,000 a year income, of which a third came from one

product, Cascarets, a laxative. After he moved to New York, he

realized that he was in a position to launch national campaigns to

sell products whose stocks would then greatly increase in value. He

cannily invested large sums in products which had not yet gained

wide public acceptance, his most notable triumph being his

promotion of Kotex.

The press had long had a phobia about any mention of Kotex, and it was

 seldom advertised. Lasker bought a million dollars worth of

International Cellulose, its manufacturer, and then launched a

tremendous campaign in newspapers and magazines. He made many

millions in profits on this one operation.

Not only did he charge the firm for his advertising campaign, but he

also reaped millions from the stock operation. He repeated this

formula with other products, amassing a fortune of fifty million

dollars. He later boasted that "No one has taken as much money out

of advertising as I have."

Lasker was behind many of the nation's most successful radio

shows. He auditioned Bob Hope, and launched him on a sixty year

career. It was Lasker who made Amos and Andy the most popular

radio show in the United States. He hired them for Pepsodent

because he said that the half of the American population who

listened to the show each evening would be envisioning the white

teeth flashing "in those dusky countenances." The sponsor of the

show was Pepsodent toothpaste. Although the program is now

denigrated as offensive to American blacks, if Lasker were still

alive, he would push it as the nation's most successful television

show.

Lasker owned the Chicago Cubs, and was a heavy gambler. He

was known to bet as much as $40,000 on a single golf match. He

also was a hard driving taskmaster. In the depression year of 1931,

he had a personal profit of one million dollars. This did not dissuade

him from cutting back the expenses of his business. He took

advantage of the widespread unemployment and the depression to

fire fifty people from the staff of Lord and Thomas; those who

remained had their salaries cut by fifty per cent.

One of Lasker's most successful promotions was his campaign

to popularize drinking orange juice for the Sunkist company. He is

best remembered, however, for his association with American

Tobacco's George Washington Hill. When Lasker came onto the

scene, Percival Hill was still the firm's president. The son of a

prominent Philadelphia banker, he had built up a successful carpet

business, which he sold, investing the proceeds in a tobacco

company, Blackwell Tobacco; he then sold this firm to the tobacco

king, James Duke.

Duke reorganized the firm in 1911 and asked Hill to become

president, his son, George Washington Hill, became vice

president. Lasker got the account after World War I, when tobacco

manufacturers were very conservative in their advertising

expenditures. They rarely spent large sums promoting a single

brand, preferring to advertise their entire line. Lasker persuaded the

Hills to concentrate their advertising, and to increase their budget.

They did so and sales skyrocketed. In a single year, Lasker

increased their advertising budget from one million to twenty-five

million dollars. He managed to maintain good relations with the

arrogant and domineering George Washington Hill, whose

crudeness was memorialized by Sidney Greenstreet in the film "The

Hucksters." Greenstreet portrayed Hill as a loathsome slob who

made his point by spitting a great gob on the table in front of his

directors.

Lasker created the catchy slogan for Lucky Strikes, "It's

Toasted." When World War II began, he tried to foist a supposedly

patriotic slogan on the American public, "Lucky Strike Green Has

Gone To War." The campaign was a flop. It was a flimsy pretext

that the green color used in the package had been requisitioned for

the war effort.

Lasker's greatest achievement was his national campaign to

persuade women to smoke in public. He could be said to be the

father of women's lung cancer. At that time, few women were bold

enough to be seen smoking in public. Ably assisted by his minions

in Hollywood, Lasker saw to it that in many scenes of movies,

leading women would be seen smoking cigarettes in public. His

greatest success was through Bette Davis, who delivered her lines in

almost every scene through a thick cloud of smoke. Smoking in

public now became common, creating a vast new market for

cigarettes, which, of course, was Lasker's only goal. Some twenty

years later, many of these women were dying from emphysema or

lung cancer.

Lasker's furious pace took its toll. He had three nervous

breakdowns, but his greatest shock came when his wife died in

1936. He met an actress the following year, Doris Kenyon, and

impulsively married her. The marriage lasted only a few months.

She went back to Hollywood, divorced him, and married the

brother-in-law of pianist Arthur Rubinstein, which proved to be a

successful marriage. In 1939, while lunching with Wild Bill

Donovan at the "21 Club" who was soon to become head of the

wartime OSS, later the CIA, he was introduced to an attractive

divorcee, an art dealer named Mary Woodard.

The daughter of a Wisconsin banker, she had started a dress company,

 Hollywood Patterns, designing inexpensive dresses for working girls,

and then had gone into the art business. A few days later, while he was

lunching with publisher Richard Simon, he met her a second time,

and decided to marry her. He was just starting to build an art

collection and knew very little about painting. He later claimed he

had married her to save one million dollars in sales commissions,

which he probably did. She tried to get him to relax, and soon had

him going to a psychoanalyst. He was lunching with Richard Simon

again when he jumped up and said, "I'm late for my psychoanalyst."

Simon seemed puzzled, and Lasker explained, "I'm doing it to get

rid of all the hate the advertising business has put into me."

It is likely that he had put more hate in advertising business than it had

put into him. Despite the fact that practically all of his close friends

were prominent Jews, such as Bernard Baruch, Anna Rosenberg,

David Sarnoff, the New York publicist Ben Sonnenberg, and Lewis

Strauss of Kuhn, Loeb Company, he rarely hired Jews in his

advertising firm. When he was reproached for this, he merely

smiled, and said, "Look, I went into this firm and took it over. Do

you think I want somebody to do that to me?"

Among his protégés were very successful advertising men such

as Emerson Foote, William Benton and Fairfax Cone, all of whom

were gentiles. Lasker liked to call them his little goyim. He joked

about how he could make them jump when he barked.

In 1942, Lasker, having made a large fortune, decided to close

down Lord and Thomas. His protégés went on to found the firm of

Fairfax Cone and Belding; William Edward, a lawyer, had married

Carla, the daughter of Bernard Gimbel of the department store

fortune. At the wedding, Lasker dourly cited an old Jewish proverb,

"You can't make an omelet from two spoiled eggs." He was proven

right; they got a divorce. His daughter, Mary, married the Chicago

steel tycoon, Leigh Block, of Inland Steel. They amassed a multimillion

dollar art collection. She also became a vice president of

Foote, Cone and Belding. Block's brother Joseph became president

of the Jewish Federation.

Lasker had grown bored with wearing white shirts; he started

the vogue of wearing blue shirts in New York, which became the

hallmark of the advertising profession. He never learned to drive a

car, and had no mechanical skills. After moving to New York, he

begrudged the enormous upkeep of his Lake Forest estate; in 1939

he donated it to the University of Chicago. The trustees promptly

sold it off for building lots; the million dollar mansion went for

$110,000.

Lasker's importance to this narrative is the fact that he and his

cohort, a patent medicine huckster named Elmer Bobst, took the

American Cancer Society, a moribund group in the early 1940s, and

within months built it into a powerful national force. They used all

their techniques for promotion, fund-raising and business

organization to make this group the most powerful force in the new

billion dollar world of cancer treatment, an achievement for which

the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly was extremely grateful. They

summarily dumped a cumbersome organization known as the

Women's Army, which was very decentralized, and placed all the

power of the American Cancer Society in New York. All of its

meetings are held there. They also used their business connections

to bring in a new board of trustees from the biggest names in

banking and industry, charging $100,000 each for the privilege of

serving on the board.

After launching the American Cancer Society as a viable

organization, Lasker himself became ill with cancer. He was

operated on for intestinal cancer in 1950, not knowing that cutting

into a cancer immediately spreads it throughout the body. He died in

1952 at the Harkness Rockefeller Pavilion. Before his death, he had

set up the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, which was to make

Mary Lasker the most powerful woman in American medicine. She

soon controlled a vast empire of grants, foundations, Washington

lobbyists and other organizations. Her most able lieutenant in

achieving this power was the Rockefeller employee, Anna

Rosenberg, who has worked closely with her for years.

Elmer Bobst, who was Lasker's partner in putting the American

Cancer Society over the top, was also a tycoon. Unlike Lasker,

Bobst had come from a poor family, but he also had the born

huckster's mentality, taken from that native American entrepreneur,

P. T. Barnum, who said, "There's a sucker born every minute."

Bobst joined the drug firm of Hoffman LaRoche in 1911, where his

talents as a salesman got him the presidency of the firm. He was

also a shrewd businessman; just after World War I, knowing that

commodity prices were bound to fall, he was shocked to find that

the firm had accumulated huge inventories in the New Jersey

warehouse. He quickly closed a deal with Eastman Kodak to buy

five tons of bromides, a key ingredient not only of analgesics but

also of photographic supplies. He offered the bromides at sixty cents

a pound, ten cents below the market price. Within a few weeks, the

market price had fallen to sixteen cents a pound.

Bobst's great achievement at Hoffman LaRoche was his

advertising campaign for vitamins. It was so successful that he won

the nickname of "the Vitamin King." He made millions of dollars in

the stock market, and he decided to leave Hoffman LaRoche for

greener pastures. In 1944, he called in Cravath, Swaine and Moore,

the lawyers for Kuhn, Loeb Company, to negotiate his terms; they

got him a very favorable settlement of $150,000 the first year and

$60,000 a year until his seventy-fifth birthday. Having made his

fortune in peddling vitamins, he now moved on to the higher-priced

pills, becoming head of Warner-Lambert. This firm's biggest

product was Listerine. Gerald Lambert, no mean huckster himself,

had built Lambert Pharmacal into a giant empire, principally

through his relentless warnings about the perils of "bad breath."

His father had invented a mouthwash, for which he appropriated the

most famous name in medicine, Baron Joseph Lister, the inventor of

antiseptics and asepsis in hospitals. A prominent surgeon, Baron

Lister had operated on Queen Victoria herself, the only time she

submitted to the knife. Gerald Lambert made his name a household

word with full-page advertisements for Listerine. Banner headlines

warned that "Even your best friend won't tell you." Lambert coined

a new word for this plague, halitosis, from the Latin for bad breath.

At the height of the 1920s stock market boom, Gerald Lambert sold

his firm to the Warner Corporation for $25 million, the equivalent of

$500 million in 1980 dollars. The deal was closed in 1928; within a

year, the value of the firm had dropped to $5 million.

The resulting Warner-Lambert Corporation had showed little

growth during the 1930s. Bobst was hired primarily for his

marketing skills, but he soon proved that he was an empire builder,

buying more than fifty additional companies. In an astute move, he

named Albert Driscoll president of the firm. Driscoll had just served

seven years as Governor of New Jersey. As directors, Bobst brought

in the shrewdest brains on Wall Street, Sidney Weinberg of

Goldman Sachs, and Frederick Eberstadt, of Eberstadt and

Company. As director of public relations, he brought in Anna

Rosenberg, who had long been director of labor relations for the

Rockefellers at their primary holding Rockefeller Center. This

meant that Bobst had now established a key Rockefeller connection,

as Anna Rosenberg continued to have a close association with her

former employers.

Because he was the only one who was aware of his ambitious

plans, Bobst had bought heavily into Warner-Lambert stock before

he began his great expansion. As a result, the stock increased many

times in value. He was now the largest stockholder, worth many

millions. Fortune described his seigniorial life style, his vast estates

in New Jersey, his 87 foot yacht at Spring Lake, and his suite at the

Waldorf." In fact, Bobst owned five yachts in succession, each one

larger than the last, and all named Alisa, the last being called Alisa

V. He also married a second time, marrying the Lebanese delegate

to the United Nations. He was chairman of the War Bond drive in

New Jersey during World War II, and became a large contributor to

political campaigns. He thus became a very influential behind the

scenes figure in the Republican Party, so much so that he chose his

own man for the Presidency.

Eisenhower's Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey, of

the Rothschild Bank, National City Bank of Cleveland, had been

slated to speak at a fund-raising rally in New Jersey of which Bobst

was chairman. He became ill, and Vice President Richard Nixon

was sent in his place. This began a close relationship between Bobst

and Nixon, which was almost a father-son relationship. Nixon was

dazzled by Bobst's millionaire life style, and he saw to it that the

Bobsts were frequently invited to the White House dinners. In 1957,

Nixon was able to introduce Bobst to the Queen of England at a

White House gathering.

After Nixon's ill-advised, if justified, attack on the press after

his campaign in California, it seemed that his political career was

over. However, Bobst was not about to give up on such a potential

ally. Nixon later fondly recalled the best advice Bobst ever gave

him. Bobst had drawn him aside, during what was a period of great

depression for Nixon, and earnestly told him, "Dick, it's time you

learned the facts of life. You see, there are really only two kinds of

people in the world, the eaters and the eaten. You just have to make

up your mind which group you're going to be in."

At a time when Nixon had little or no prospects, Bobst went to

his attorney, Matt Herold, the senior partner of the Wall Street firm

of Mudge, Rose and Stern. Warner Lambert was their biggest client,

and when Bobst "suggested" to Herold that he bring in Nixon from

California as a partner of the firm, Herold was only too happy to

oblige. With this springboard, Nixon was able to launch his

successful campaign for the Presidency.

The move turned out to be a wise investment all around. After

Nixon won the election, the Republican Governors of the states of

New Jersey, Nebraska, Kentucky, and West Virginia turned over all

of their tax-free bond business to Mudge Rose, giving the firm an

additional million dollars a year of income. In January of 1971,

Mudge Rose appeared before the Justice Department on the matter

of the merger of Warner-Lambert and Parke-Davis, a decision

which meant millions of dollars to Bobst. Attorney General John

Mitchell, also a protégé of Bobst, disqualified himself; his deputy

Attorney General, Richard Kleindienst, then let the merger go

through. These were the only deals which became a matter of public

knowledge; no doubt there were many more. In a brilliant tax move,

Mitchell advised Bobst to donate $11,000,000 to New York

University for the Bobst Library.

In 1973, Bobst had his autobiography published by David

McKay Company in New York. An obvious "puff" job, it was a

glowing account of Bobst's accomplishments, unmarred by any

unfavorable comments. When Bobst died in 1978, no obituary

appeared in the New York Times. This was an amazing circumstance

concerning one of New York's most prominent tycoons. The Times

routinely memorialized even the minor executives of New York

firms. Strangely enough, a public statement about Bobst did appear

in the Times, a memorial eulogy by his longtime friend, Laurance

Rockefeller, the chairman of Sloan Kettering. Rockefeller said, "His

efforts in the fight against cancer earned the sincere gratitude of

cancer patients and researchers as well as the general public."

Perhaps Bobst's real memorial is the label of Listerine, which still

carries the message, "For Bad Breath, insect bites, infectious

dandruff; 26.9% alcohol."

Rockefeller was referring to Bobst's revitalization of the

American Cancer Society. Under his leadership, it had obtained a

new charter on June 23, 1944, and underwent a complete

reorganization. The staff was expanded to 300, and the two

hucksters launched a national campaign to enlist two and a half

million "volunteers" to patrol every foot of the nation in gathering

funds to "fight cancer." Because the orders to engage in this

campaign always came from business tycoons, social leaders and

politicians, the masses had no alternative; they had to obey. The

huckster talents of Bobst and Lasker resulted in the often ludicrous

spectacle of millions of peasants being herded out into the streets in

an annual march to rattle tin cans and beg donations for the Super

Rich. The only campaign to equal it probably was the annual drive

by the Nazi Party in Germany for contributions for the Winterhilfe

campaign. The ACS campaign operated on the same lines. The

millions of "volunteers'' threw themselves into this annual task

because their jobs, their social position, and their families depended

on their willingness to make the sacrifice to the God of Mammon,

which was presently masquerading as "the Ghost of Cancers Past,

and To Come."

The chairman of the American Cancer Society, Clarence D.

Little, had been named to that post in 1929 by the Rockefellers,

longtime associates who had established a laboratory for him at their

summer home on Mt. Desert Island. He seemed to have no interest

in cancer, spending most of his time as president of the American

Birth Control League, the Euthanasia Society, and the Eugenics

Society, the latter being a pet project of the Harriman family. He

admitted that in 1943, the American Cancer Society spent nothing

on research. Little had been president of the University of Michigan,

and now served as Overseer of Harvard University.

Under his leadership, the cancer group had been nothing more than

 a small group of elitists who met occasionally in New York.

Despite its reorganization on a more business like basis, the

American Cancer Society, long after the Little's departure,

continued to pile up a stunning record of non-accomplishment. One

critic, a longtime federal official, publicly stated that it should be

called "the infantile society for national paralysis." However, the

society's inability to find a cure for cancer was hardly accidental.

The Bobst-Lasker influence brought it firmly into the orbit of the

Sloan Kettering Institute, whose motto had long been "Millions for

research, but not one cent for a cure." Charles McCabe, the

irreverent columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote on

September 27, 1971, "You might be wondering if the personnel of

the American Cancer Society, or cancer research foundations, and

other sainted organizations, are truly interested in a cure for cancer.

Or whether they would like a problem which supports them to

continue to exist."

The new Bobst-Lasker board of the American Cancer Society

featured the usual array of Rockefeller cohorts, Anna Rosenberg,

Eric Johnston, longtime head of the Chamber of Commerce and now

head of the Motion Picture Association, a public relations

spokesman for the Hollywood moguls; John Adams, a partner of

Lazard Freres and head of Standard Brands; General William

Donovan, the Wall Street lawyer who was selected by the British

Intelligence Service to head the new Office of Strategic Services,

the nation's spy network; he was later sent to Thailand as U.S.

Ambassador to oversee the operations of the world dope ring;

Emerson Foote, Lasker's advertising protege; Ralph Reed, the

president of American Express Company; Harry von Elm, the super

banker who was president of Manufacturers Trust; and Florence

Mahoney, the multi-million dollar heiress of the Cox newspaper

fortune, and a longtime crony of Mary Lasker.

In 1958, the officers of the American Cancer Society were

Alfred P. Sloan, president; Monroe J. Rathbone, president of

Standard Oil; Mrs. Anna Rosenberg Hoffman of the Rockefeller

Foundation; General Donovan and Eric Johnston. Senator Ralph

Yarborough of Texas, a perennial champion of socialized medicine,

established a 26-member National Panel of Consultants on the

Conquest of Cancer, chaired by Benno Schmidt, head of J. H.

Whitney investment banking firm, other members were Laurance

Rockefeller, Dr. Sidney Farber, former president of the American

Cancer Society, G. Keith Funston, chairman of the Olin munitions

firm, and Mathilde J. Krim, a former Zionist terrorist.

An interesting footnote to history is the revelation of the cozy

relationships which developed between top Nazi officials and the

founders of the Zionist terrorist network, Haganah and the Irgun

Zvai Leumi, in the closing days of the Second World War.

The Zionists were working to drive the British out of Palestine; the Nazis

were also at war with England, which gave birth to the most curious

political alliance of the twentieth century. One of the leading

advocates of working with the Abwehr, German Intelligence, was

one Yitzhak Shamir, now Premier of Israel.

After the war, the Zionists employed many former Nazis to help

set up their military opposition to the British. The leader in this alliance

 was the veteran of the old Stern Gang of terrorists, which was now the

 Irgun Zvai Leumi, none other than Menachem Begin.

 One of Begin's protégés was a young woman named Mathilde J.,

as she was known in terrorist circles. She was born in Switzerland

after her father left Italy because of "poor economic conditions," ~

 no political ideology there. The present Mrs. Krim is described by Current

Biography as a "geneticist" and a "philanthropist." She has been the

resident biologist at the American Cancer Society for many years. In

her younger days, she joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi, marrying a

fellow terrorist in a show of solidarity. She soon became a favorite

of Begin, and divorced her husband.

 It was Begin who was asked by a grinning Mike Wallace

on the program "Sixty Minutes," "Did you really introduce terrorism

into the politics of the Middle East?"

Begin answered emphatically, "Not just the Middle East ~

the whole world.'' He was referring to the worldwide terrorist

operations of Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence group which is

entirely financed by the CIA with American taxpayers' funds.

Mathilde J. then went to work at the Weizmann Institute in

Israel. One day, she was introduced to one of its wealthiest

American directors, the movie mogul Arthur Krim. They were

married, making her an American citizen. Krim has been the chief

lobbyist in Washington for the major film companies for many

years; he is also a principal fund raiser for the Zionist agitprop

network.

As a fund raiser, he was also a close friend of President

Lyndon B. Johnson. Krim and his wife were house guests of

Johnson's at the White House when the Israelis attacked the U.S.

ship of the line, U.S.S. Liberty, killing many of her crew.

When other American ships sent planes to aid the Liberty, immediate

orders were sent from the White House for the planes to turn back.

The Israelis were free to continue their attack for several more hours

in a desperate attempt to sink the Liberty, to destroy the radio

evidence it had gathered that the Israelis had started the Six-Day

War.

Although it is generally believed that Krim issued the orders

for the U.S. planes to turn back, no investigation was ever made.

Johnson is now dead, and they are the only living witnesses in this

horrendous example of high treason from the White House. The

CIA had known for twenty-four hours that an attack was planned

against the Liberty, in the hopes of bringing the U.S. into the war on

the side of Israel; faked evidence had already been planted that the

attack would come from the "Egyptians."

Mathilde Krim is now a director of the Rockefeller Foundation;

she and her husband are directors of the Afro-American Institute.

Arthur Krim has a long record of supporting leftwing causes in New

York, the New York School of Social Research, the Henry Street

Settlement, and the Field Foundation. Krim is chairman of United

Artists (now Orion Films). As personal attorney for Armand

Hammer, whose claim to fame is that he was a friend of the blood

soaked terrorist, Lenin, Krim is also a director of Hammer's two

principal firms, Iowa Beef and Occidental Petroleum. Krim also

served as chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee; he is

chairman of the board of trustees of Columbia University, and

director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation.

Critics noted in 1976 that at least eighteen members of the

American Cancer Society's Board of Directors were executive

officers of banks. ACS spent $114 million that year, but had assets

of $181 million. As of August 31, 1976, 42% of ACS cash and

investments, some $75 million, was being held in banks with which

these officers were affiliated. The 1975 budget of ACS reported that

570 went for administration; the amount allocated for research was

less than the salaries of its 2,900 employees. The American Cancer

Society for all practical purposes controlled the National Cancer

Institute, a government agency.

Former NCI director Frank J. Rauscher became the senior vice president

of ACS, with his salary doubled to $75,000 a year. An ACS spokesman

 admitted that 70% of its 1976 research budget went to "individuals or

institutions" with which its board members were affiliated. Pat McGrady,

who served for twenty-five years as science editor of ACS, told writer Peter

Chowka, "Medicine has become venal, second only to the law. The

ACS slogan, control cancer with a checkup and a check . . . it's

phony, because we are not controlling cancer. That slogan is the

extent of the ACS scientific, medical and clinical savvy. Nobody in

the science and medical departments there is capable of doing real

science. They are wonderful professionals who know how to raise

money. They don't know how to prevent cancer or cure patients;

instead, they close the door to innovative ideas. ACS money goes to

scientists who put on the best show to get grants or who have friends

on the grant-giving panels."

This is probably the most reliable summation of what is done

with your contributions to the American Cancer Society. As we

pointed out earlier, it is the masses giving alms to the Big Rich, who

know how to distribute these funds among themselves, their friends,

and their favorite tax-exempt organizations, which in many cases

are refuges for the more incompetent members of their families.

The ACS directors are drawn from the "best people" in New York, the

jet set, the trendy Park Avenue crowd who were caricatured by

novelist Tom Wolfe as "radical chic." At one time, Black Power was

in; now it is homosexuality and cancer. This group constantly

advertises itself as being obsessed with "compassion and caring,"

which is always done with other people's money. Their own wallets

remain glued to their backsides. This is exemplified by the bleeding

hearts on the national news shows, who nightly regale us with their

version of the homeless, the starving in Africa, or wherever they can

find a photogenic victim with flies crawling on him.

These "journalists," who are paid millions of dollars a year, have never

been known to toss their coins to these victims. In politics, its

morals are exemplified by the fat, aging playboy, Senator Teddy

Kennedy; in Hollywood, by the equally pudgy Elizabeth Taylor.

Mathilde Krim is now the guiding genius behind the newly created

American Foundation for AIDS Research; because of her powerful

Hollywood connections, she was easily able to persuade Elizabeth

Taylor and other stars to raise millions for her pet project. She also

recruited her old friend Mary Lasker as the first board member of

AIDS. Mary Lasker paid the current "advertising genius," Jerry

della Femina, to create a tasteful national ad campaign for the

distribution and use of condoms.

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center continues to be

the most "fashionable" charity among the New York socialites;

certainly it is the most influential. It is listed on the tony Upper East

Side as the "The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer

Center." It has operated a popular thrift shop on Third Avenue for

many years, which is filled with donations from wealthy families.

Like many other young writers and artists, the present writer

purchased his clothes there for years, all of it labeled from the most

expensive shops in New York.

Because "the fight against cancer" is totally controlled by the

Rockefeller Medical Monopoly, grants are routinely awarded which

are nothing more than rip-offs. One wag claims the ACS will award a

research grant only if the recipient signs a paper swearing he will

not find a cure for cancer. Although only the tip of the iceberg has

been revealed, there have been numerous exposes attesting that most

of the "cancer research" is bogus, replete with faked results. In one

of the more publicized incidents, the National Cancer Institute gave

$980,000 to a researcher at Boston University, who was forced to

resign after charges that he had falsified his research data; another

well known incident at the august Memorial Center itself found that

mice were painted different colors in order to "verify" certain cancer

tests. Dr. William Summerlin of Sloan Kettering admitted painting

the mice to make them look as though successful skin grafts had

been done.

The National Bureau of Standards reports that half or more of

the numerical data published by scientists in articles in the Journal is

unusable because there is no evidence that the researchers accurately

measured what they thought they were measuring. Alarmed by these

statistics, officials instituted a survey; 31 authors of scientific

reports were sent questionnaires asking for their raw data. The 21

who replied said that their data had been "lost" or "accidentally

destroyed." What a loss to the research profession!

The reliability of the nation's researchers wilted under a

blistering expose on "Sixty Minutes" on January 17, 1988, under the

title, "The Facts Were Fiction." The subject of the expose was "one

of the leading scientific scholars" in the nation. He had claimed to

have done extensive research on the mentally retarded at a state

institution, where the records clearly showed that he had only

worked on goldfish. The "Sixty Minutes" report estimated that from

ten to thirty per cent of all research projects carried out in the United

States is totally faked, because of the requirements to win the

"grantsmanship" race. "Startling" results must be claimed before

serious consideration is given to requests for funding, which

themselves are hardly niggardly amounts; they often amount to

grants of millions of dollars.

 One scientific scholar who was interviewed on "Sixty Minutes" declared

that "I would think twice before I believe what I read in the medical journals

... it is dishonest, fraudulent information." The moving spirit behind all

this fakery is the unwillingness of the Big Rich to see their profits imperiled by

any genuine advances in medicine. Therefore, the more fake

research that is done, the less chance that a drug now on the market

which is bringing in $100,000,000 a year or more will be knocked

off the market. The wholesale fakery in American research is almost

entirely due to the pressures of the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly

and the drug firms under their control, who routinely present

elaborately faked "tests'' to the Food and Drug Administration to

obtain approval for new products, concealing harmful side effects,

which often include liver and kidney damage, or death. The control

of the universities by the Medical Monopoly creates a breeding

ground for more robotic minions, willing to abase themselves in any

manner for a grant or a job which requires little or no performance.

A lengthy history of faked research is an ideal "Panama" or control

to keep these minions in line.

It is frightening to contemplate that such faked research is

usually the basis for the acceptance or denial of new drugs, while

protecting the Establishment as it continues to reap more profits

from long outmoded and discredited panaceas and procedures. Yet

this is the background, as well as the raison d’être, for President

Reagan's Brave New Budget for 1989, which sets aside $64.6 billion

for "research and development." Although this is only a 4% increase

over 1988, it represents a 52% increase since Reagan took office.

The National Institute of Health budget has doubled to $6.2 billion;

cancer research will receive $1.5 billion, while AIDS is earmarked

for an expenditure of $2 billion. Mathilde Krim must be very happy.

Critics have pointed out that Memorial Sloan Kettering had

done practically no research on the prevention of cancer, only on its

favored modes of "treatment." The basic premise of its researchers,

that the cell is solely responsible for the multiplication of cancer

cells, is probably erroneous; however, it is the basis for all of their

work, including their promotion of chemotherapy. In fact, the cell is

probably reacting to outside infection or pressures, and the fault is

not in the cell. The Sloan Kettering approach dangles the promise of

a "Magic Bullet," which will bring the cell back to a healthy

regimen through medication, or chemotherapy.

The chemotherapy drugs include alkylating agents which actually inhibit

cell growth. They are alkaloids, which hinder cell mitosis or cell division.

 Sloan Kettering also bypasses the possibility of stimulating the immune

system to respond to cancer growth, which is the normal method

which the body uses to fight disease. This institution receives $70

million a year from various tax exempt foundations, including the

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which means that the American

taxpayer is subsidizing all of this research. One hundred and thirty

full time scientists are doing research at the Center; all 345

physicians at the Center are also heavily involved in research. And

what are the results of all this activity? A continued reliance on the

now antiquated "cut, slash and burn" techniques still redolent of the

"mad doctor" practices of the late Doctors J. Marvin Sims and James

Ewing, dead these many years. While wedded to the ritual

observance of these expensive, painful and futile procedures, the

"Scientists" at Sloan Kettering maintain a resolute phalanx of

opinion denouncing various holistic procedures which rely on diet,

nutrition and vitamins.

Dr. Muriel Shimkin of the National Institute of Health, wrote in

the Institute's official primer on cancer in 1973 that "Treatment of

cancer by diet alone is in the realm of quackery." Yet the American

Cancer Society, faced with a growing amount of evidence to the

contrary, issued a Special Report in 1984 advising the following

program:

"1. Avoid obesity.

2. Cut down total fat intake to 30% of total calories.

3. Eat more high fiber foods.

 4. Eat foods rich in vitamins A and C.

 5. Include cruciferous vegetables in the diet, greens, etc.

6. Be moderate in the consumption of alcohol.

7. Moderate consumption of salt-cured, smoked and nitrite cured

foods."

 This is a very sensible regimen; however, it has not been

emphasized by the ACS or the NIH, nor do many doctors include

this advice in their recommendations to their patients.

The American Cancer Society has always had one bugaboo,

laetrile. Dr. Lewis Thomas, longtime head of Sloan Kettering, told

the American Cancer Society Science Writers Seminar on April 2,

1975, "Laetrile had absolutely no value in combating cancer."

This contradicted the work done by the Center's own scientists, whose

real results had been suppressed. Dr. Thomas stated again in 1975,

"Laetrile has been shown, after two years of tests, to be worthless in

fighting cancer." Dr. Robert Good, president of Sloan Kettering had

also stated in January 1974, "At this moment there is no evidence

that laetrile has an effect on cancer." His own scientists had

completed studies which showed the opposite; two researchers, Dr.

Lloyd Schoen and Dr. Elizabeth Srockett, both working

independently at the Center, had found that pineapple enzymes

combined with Laetrile resulted in total tumor regression in 50% of

their experiments on 34 experimental animals there.

One of the most famous beneficiaries of the laetrile treatment

was the actor, Steve McQueen. He had been given up by his

physicians as a terminal case when he tried laetrile. He was

responding well until a physician persuaded him to undergo surgery

on a tumor; he then died on the operating table of an embolism. The

Establishment proclaimed that this proved the laetrile treatment was

worthless.

Harold Manner, at the Cancer Center, also found a combination

of laetrile, enzymes and vitamin A had a similar positive effect on

mice with cancer. Dr. Kinematsu Suiguira, who had been at

Memorial since 1917, after earlier working on cancer at the

Harriman Institute, had also produced striking results proving that

laetrile was effective on cancer in experimental animals. On June

13, 1973, the results of cancer tests using laetrile by Dr. Kinematsu

Suiguira over a period of nine months stated, "The results clearly

show that Amygdalin significantly inhibits the appearance of lung

metastasis in mice.'' Although this had been announced by the Sloan

Kettering Institute, on January 10, 1974, Dr. Robert Good, president

of Sloan Kettering, denounced the news of the findings as "a

premature leak." Dr. Ralph Moss, who was then public relations

director at the Cancer Center, considered Suiguira's work a genuine

breakthrough and a welcome departure from Sloan Kettering's

singular lack of success in its cancer work. On November 17, 1977,

he held a press conference at the Hilton Hotel in New York. Instead

of receiving praise for publicizing the success at the Center, he was

fired the next day. He later wrote an excellent book, "The Cancer

Syndrome" which exposes many of the strange events at Sloan

Kettering. His book is very factual, and is written without rancour

against those who had thrown him out.

Because Elmer Bobst had played the crucial role in making it

possible for Nixon to become president, he had little trouble in

persuading Nixon to authorize a new and expensive "war on

cancer." At Bobst's instigation, Nixon signed the National Cancer

Act in 1971, which transformed the National Cancer Institute at

Bethesda into a new monolithic government bureaucracy. During

the next fifteen years, NCA was to spend more than ten billion

dollars funding various cancer programs, none of which had any

effect in curing or preventing cancer. In 1955, NCI had established a

Chemotherapy National Service Center with a $25 million grant, to

promote the use of chemotherapy.

 A full page advertisement in the New York Times, December 9, 1969,

 proclaimed that "Cancer Cure is Near at Hand." The story promised that a

 cancer cure by 1976 was a "distinct possibility." The chairman of

the President's National Cancer panel submitted a report admitting

that the first five years of the National Cancer Program was a failure;

the cancer toll had risen during each year of its operation.

By 1985, the annual toll was 485,000 victims.

More than 43,000 people deluged Nixon with demands that the

NCI test laetrile. Benno Schmidt then chose a panel of scientists to

make the tests; all of them were known to be fanatically opposed to

laetrile. When he asked for the scientific results, he said, "I couldn't

get anybody to show me his work." Had their tests shown laetrile to

be worthless, they would have been only too happy to publish their

findings. The battle against laetrile continued on a nationwide

campaign. One lobbyist, Charles Ofso, had a fulltime job in

Sacramento, California, lobbying against laetrile; he was paid

$25,000 a year. Drug store proprietors who displayed books

favorable to laetrile were informed that no member of the AMA

would henceforth send them prescriptions until these books were

removed. Since 1963, the Federal Trade Commission has brought

pressure against publishers of pro-laetrile books. Government

statutes not only prohibit the interstate shipment of laetrile, but even

of books which recommend it!

After chiropractic, laetrile was the most important target of the

criminal syndicalist operation of the Coordinating Conference of

Health Information, the conspiracy launched by the American

Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, and the Food

and Drug Administration. It continued to be mostly a war of

censorship and intimidation, whose goal was to prevent any public

discussion of laetrile. TV shows which scheduled forums on laetrile,

to discuss both sides of the controversy, were suddenly cancelled.

Tests showing the effectiveness of laetrile were suppressed; they

never reached the public. The desperation of the campaign against

laetrile was solely financial; it represented the greatest threat to the

profits of the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly. Hospital treatment for

cancer cost many thousands of dollars. Despite the Cancer Center's

$70 million a year for "research," its Memorial Hospital charged

$470 a day for a bed; a ten day stay would be nearly $5,000, with

another $4,000 charged for treatment and physician care.

The record of the "cut, slash and burn" treatments were

routinely distorted and falsified. Dr. Hardin James, professor of

medical physics at the University of California at Berkeley,

addressed the ACS Science Writers Conference in 1969; he revealed

that the worst cancer cases were usually termed "inoperable" and

deliberately left untreated. The published cancer studies of cures or

remissions were the "sweetheart" cases, which had a high rate of

recovery. Nevertheless, Dr. James reported, "the life expectancy of

these untreated cases was actually greater than the life expectancy of

those who were treated."

Despite Dr. James' revelations, the hospitals continued to pick

and choose which cases of cancer they would treat; even the

esteemed Cancer Center noted that its policy is not to accept some

terminal cases; the patients are politely referred to a death hospice

where they can die. In fact, such turnaways may have been a boon to

the dying, as the treatment they would have undergone at Memorial

Hospital would have made Count Dracula drool with envy.

Dr. Ralph Moss revealed some of the prevalent surgical techniques

there. He reported that cancer of the head and neck was treated by

an operation called the "commando" after a combat technique used

by commandoes in the Second World War; it called for the entire

removal of the jaw. Pancreatic cancer was treated by removal of

most of the area organs near the infected gland; the survival rate,

despite this drastic treatment, remained the same, a mere three per

cent. In 1948, Dr. Alex Brunschweig invented an operation called

"total exenteration," which called for the removal of the rectum,

stomach, bladder, liver, ureter, all internal reproductive organs, the

pelvic floor and wall, pancreas, spleen, colon and many blood

vessels. Dr. Brunschweig himself called this hollowing out

technique "a brutal and cruel procedure," (New York Times, August

8, 1969).

The epitome of the "mad doctor" operations was known as a

hemeocorporectomy. Originated by Dr. Theodore Miller at the

Cancer Center, it involved cutting off everything below the pelvis.

These techniques are more than reminiscent of certain procedures

used by Communist revolutionaries in Latin America; the Sandinista

revolutionaries were inspired by their leaders poetic dictum that

"Liberty is not conquered with flowers, but with bullets, and that is

why we use the VEST CUT, THE GOURD CUT, and the

BLOOMERS CUT." In the vest cut, the victim's head was lopped

off with a machete and his arms were severed at the shoulders; in

the gourd cut, the victim had the top of his head lopped off; the

bloomers cut called for hacking both legs off at the knees, leaving

the victim to bleed to death.

The records of the "mad doctor" syndrome would fill several

books. One special Congressional report followed some 31 "human

guinea pig" experiments over a thirty year period. The Committee,

chaired by Woodward D. Markey, D.Ma., gave his comment that his

findings "shock the conscience and represent a black mark on the

history of medical research.'' The report showed that from 1945 to

1947, in the Manhattan Project, scientists routinely injected eighteen

patients with plutonium; from 1961 to 1965 at MIT, twenty elderly

patients were injected with or fed radium or thorium.

From 1946 to 1947 at the University of Rochester, six patients who had

good kidneys were injected with uranium salts "to determine the

concentration that might produce kidney injury"; from 1953 to 1957

at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, twelve patients were

injected with uranium to determine the dosage that would cause

kidney injury. From 1963 to 1971, 67 inmates of Oregon State

Prison and 64 inmates of Washington State Prison had X-rays on

their testes to determine the effect of radiation on human fertility.

From 1963 to 1965 at the National Reactor Test Station of the

Atomic Energy Commission in Idaho, radioactive iodine was

purposely released on seven separate occasions, and seven human

subjects purposely drank milk from cows grazed on iodine

contaminated land. From 1961 to 1963 at the University of Chicago

and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, 102 human subjects

were fed fallout from the Nevada test site, with radioactive

simulated fallout particles, and solutions of radioactive cesium and

strontium. During the late 1950s, twelve patients at Presbyterian and

Montefiore Hospitals in New York were injected with radioactive

calcium and strontium cancer particles. Oregon State Prison gave

radium doses of 600 roentgens in single exposures on the

reproductive organs, when the safe dose was 5 roentgens per year.

For a decade, scientists were fed radioactive materials so that other

scientists could calibrate their instruments for measuring these

doses.

Whatever kicks the mad doctors may have gotten from these

experiments, the cancer rate remained the same, or increased.

Congressman Wydner pointed out that "Information has been

brought to my attention showing that twenty years ago, in 1957, the

same proportion of cancer cases, one in three, was being cured. This

raises the question why, despite all the money and effort devoted to

cancer research ... the cure rate has remained the same." Despite

such criticism, the NCI continued to waste billions of dollars on

worthless programs.

 It was reported that George R. Pettit of the University of Arizona

at Tempe had spent six years and $100,000 extricating chemical

s from a quarter of a million butterflies as part of a NCI program;

 there were no identifiable results. Other researchers continued to find

the war on cancer a profitable war.

The Saturday Review reported in its issue of December 2, 1961 that

a prominent financial supporter of the American Cancer Society in

Massachusetts was upset when he could never find the state director

in his office. He was finally told that the director, James V. Lavin,

was probably in his other office across the street, where he ran a

private fund-raising company, the James C. Lavin Company; he

represented a select group of clients. Stung by this revelation, the

executive vice president of the American Cancer Society, Lane W.

Adams, wrote a letter to Saturday Review, June 6, 1962 as follows:

"The arrangement by which James C. Lavin operated private fund

raising while serving as executive director of the Massachusetts

American Cancer Society was known by the National Society."

Adams said that Lavin's salary was $17,000, plus another ten

thousand a year paid to his company. Saul Naglin of the Lavin

Company was the controller of the Massachusetts branch of ACS

for a number of years. The yearly overhead of the Massachusetts

branch was $548,000 in 1960, with total income of $1.1 million.

Adam's letter also boasted that "We helped support the research

of Dr. Sterling Schwartz injecting human leukemia brain extract in

human subjects, Dr. Chester Southam injecting live cancer cells

beneath the skin of human beings." Adams who had been with the

American Cancer Society since 1948, now heads the national offices

at 90 Park Avenue, in New York. He received the Albert Lasker

Public Service Award from ACS; he is also vice president of Zion

First National Bank in Salt Lake City, director of Paul Revere

Investors, and the Energy Fund. Lavin's attorney, James Mountzos,

was secretary of the Massachusetts ACS and also served on the

national board.

In 1978, the American Cancer Society had $140 million income

of which less than 30% was spent on cancer research, with 56%

going to cover administrative costs. The Society had $200 million in

investments. Before the Bobst-Lasker takeover in 1944, its income

had never gone past $600,000 a year; the following year, it raised $5

million. In 1982, Allan Sonnenshein published a warning,

"Watchout; the American Cancer Society May Be Hazardous To

Your Health!''

In 1955, in a power move, ACS took over all research from the

National Research Council, executing a brilliant coup by

creating a new Science Advisory Council to represent American

hospitals and universities. Dr. Samuel Epstein, in his book, "The

Politics of Cancer," noted that "apart from being uninvolved in

cancer prevention, other than, to a limited extent, tobacco, senior

(ACS) officials have developed for the society a reputation of being

indifferent, if not actively hostile, to regulatory needs for the

prevention of exposure to carcinogenic chemicals in the general

environment and in the workplace." Epstein reported that the ACS

opposed regulation of such potential carcinogens as Red Dye #2,

TRIS, and DES. ACS refused to support the Clean Water Act, and

blamed victims for cancer.

EPA had reported that indoor pollutants cause six thousand cancer

deaths a year and that 38 million Americans drink water with unsafe

levels of lead and other toxic matter, including chlorine by-products.

DES, diethylstilbestrol, was widely used from the 1940s to the early 1970s

 as a synthetic female hormone which was routinely prescribed by doctors

 to prevent miscarriage; it was not tested for possible side effects, nor did

anyone know what they were. Finally, a student at the University of

Chicago Medical Center showed that not only was it ineffective in

preventing miscarriage, but it might have side effects. This finding

failed to halt its use. In 1972, its long-term effects began to appear,

cancer of the breast, with vaginal cancer in daughters of those

patients treated with DES, as well as other genital malformations

and abnormalities. It was also linked to liver damage.

Lee Edson, in "The Cancer Ripoff" notes that 74 private

companies near the National Institute of Health in Bethesda were

charging the government 144% overhead plus 9% profit to perform

virus research. Nixon had placed his protégé, Dr. Frank Rauscher, in

charge of NCI; he was a virologist who began to promote

chemotherapy as the answer to cancer. Dr. Rauscher claimed that

the NCI chemotherapy program "has provided effective treatment

for cancer patients all over this country, and the world." This claim

was promptly challenged by Dean Burk, head of the cyclochemical

section of the NCI, pointing out that "virtually all of the

chemotherapeutic agents now approved by the FDA for use or

testing in human cancer patients are highly toxic to markedly

immuno-suppressive and highly carcinogenic in rats and mice,

themselves producing cancers in a wide variety of body organs."

Despite this criticism, Rauscher was then named head of the

President's National Cancer Advisory Board.

The side effects of chemotherapy have been graphically

described by many of its victims, the terrible nausea, loss of hair,

sudden weight loss and many other adverse factors. A book by M.

Morra, "Choices; Realistic Alternatives in Cancer Treatment, Avon,

1980, reports favorably on all of the Establishment's cut, slash and

burn techniques. Morra mentions diet only in its relation to nausea

from chemotherapy; he soberly advises that you "let someone else

do the cooking so that the smell of food won't nauseate you." Morra

gave no advice on how to serve food without smell.

Since Memorial Sloan Kettering's first benefactor, James

Ewing, dosed himself to death with radium in 1913, it has remained

the treatment of choice at this Cancer Center. The New York Times

noted July 4, 1979 that 70% of all cancer patients at Memorial

receive radiation treatments, at a charge of $500,000 a year. It now

performs 11,000 surgical procedures and 65,000 radium treatments

a year. In 1980, Memorial bought all new equipment for its radium

treatment, an expenditure of $4.5 million. However, radium

treatment continues to be a horrifying treatment in its effects.

In 1937, Dr. Percy Furnivall, a prominent surgeon at London

Hospital, diagnosed his own tumor as cancer. On February 26, 1938,

he published in the British Medical Journal an impassioned plea as

a result of his experience, "Tragedies from radium treatment are of

frequent occurrence, and the publicity given to radium treatment of

cancer is a disgrace to the Minister of Health and the vested interests

which charge fantastic prices for this body-destroying substance. I

do not wish my worst enemy the prolonged hell I have been through

with radium neuritis and myalgia over six months . This account of

my own case is a plea for a very careful consideration of all the

factors before deciding which is the most suitable form of

treatment." He died shortly thereafter, yet his plea had no effect on

the continued use of radium treatments for cancer.

The late Senator Hubert Humphrey, who died of cancer, is

often cited as an advertisement for radium treatment. Jane Brody in

her New York Times book, "You Can Fight Cancer and Win,"

coauthored with American Cancer Society vice-president Holleb in

1977, cites Hubert Humphrey as "a famous beneficiary of modern

radiotherapy." She glosses over the fact that "this famous

beneficiary" was totally disillusioned with radium therapy before his

death. In 1973 he was found to have cancer of the bladder; he was

treated by X ray, and in 1976, his physician Dr. Dabney Jarman,

triumphantly reported that "As far as we are concerned, the Senator

is cured.'' (New York Times, October 6, 1976). Humphrey continued

to wither away, undergoing more chemotherapy, until he flatly

refused to go back to Memorial Cancer Center for more treatment.

Quoted in the Daily News, January 14, 1978, he called

chemotherapy "bottled death."

The Washington Post in February 1988 ran a story "Cancer

Treatment Toxic." "We are spared very little as we see healthy

looking people turned before our eyes into shaking, shivering,

nauseated bundles of misery . . . The successes, although few, have

been dramatic."

One factor which has been consistently ignored in the

development of cancer is the role of unusual stress. We all face daily

stresses in our lives, with which we cope as best we can. However,

unusual and prolonged stress places a greater strain on our system

than we may be able to cope with. This is particularly true today,

when sinister hidden forces poison all our communications with

their shadowy propaganda, while assuring us that they stand only for

"compassion and caring." A writer named Morley Roberts advanced

a startling theory of cancer in 1926. An English scientist, Roberts

belonged to no known school of thought, and because of his

independence, his works have been largely ignored. His theory of

Organic Materialism advances the following points:

"Malignancy and Evolution: Malignancy is the diversion of

energy from high differentiation into the proliferation of low-grade

epithelia which can endure irritation but only differentiate with

difficulty." Epithelioma, a common form of cancer, is the

multiplication of cells of the simplest type in the body, which, like

those of the outer skin, the epidermis, are comparably short-lived

and unable to differentiate. An organism afflicted with cancer is

unable to differentiate to meet the conditions of its existence,

because its energy has been diverted into multiplying low-grade

cells. Cancer is the proliferation of low grade cell colonies in the

organism. They migrate through the body seeking a place for

themselves, although they have no function. Wherever they gather,

they rob the higher grade cells of nourishment, where they are

gathered into cell colonies as the organs of the body. These organs

are choked off and starve, eventually causing the death of the

organism. The modern State is a malignant organism dedicated to

the proliferation of lower grade units at the expense of higher, more

differentiated types. The more productive organisms are heavily

taxed to support large numbers of nonproductive and poorly

differentiated growths. The steadily increasing strain on the

productive members of the State causes their premature death, just

as the proliferation of the lower grade cells in the cancerous

organism kills the higher differentiated cells. Roberts posits the

question, "May we go further and even say that the common

tendency to malignancy is the result of sociology refinements which

ask for a higher role for epithelia?"

Morley Roberts posited a theory of the development of the

organism, in which other cells began to gather around the execretory

cell colonies of primitive organisms, and subsequently these cell

colonies began to give off secretions which were poisonous to the

organism. In self-defense, the organism threw up fortifications, or

other cell colonies, around the vicious presence, which, in time,

became part of the organism, and whose secretions became useful to

it. Roberts calls this a theory of the development of the organs of the

body.

The role of nutrition in cancer has yet to be seriously

researched by the billion dollar boondoggles of the National Cancer

Institute and the Rockefeller. Yet in 1887, an Albany, New York

physician, Ephraim Cutter, M.D. wrote a book called "Diet in

Cancer," in which he stated, "Cancer is a disease of nutrition."

Hippocrates coined the word diaitia, meaning "a way of life"

which is what a diet is. In the classical world, "meat" meant the

daily fare, and referred to oats, barley, rye, wheat, fruit and nuts.

The confusion as to the meaning of the word meat occurs in

translations of the Bible. In Genesis, it is stated, "Behold, I have

given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the

earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;

to you it shall be for meat." Hippocrates' advice to physicians was

that they should first find out what food is given to a patient, and

who gives it.

The ongoing controversy over laetrile revolves around the fact

that it is a substance called a nitriloside. In 1952, Dr. Ernest A.

Krebs, Jr., a biochemist, discovered that cancer is caused by a

deficiency of nitrilosides, which occur naturally in over twelve

hundred foods and plants. Animals usually instinctively seek out

grasses and other plants which contain nitrilosides, yet when

humans do the same thing they are attacked by federal agents. Some

researchers believe that the adverse effects of carcinogens, radiation

and sunburn on humans is caused by the fact that they are suffering

from poor nutrition. These nutrition experts argue that coal tar does

not cause cancer; and that the sun does not cause skin cancer.

Rather, these conditions arise from the sun's effect upon the skin of

a person who is consuming too many sugars, fats and dairy

products. The sun's rays create an acidic condition which causes

these substances to rise to the surface of the skin, causing an

irritation which can then become catalyst. It is noted that people in

tropical countries, who are exposed to strong sunlight, rarely get

skin cancer because they eat little meat and fats. It was also

discovered after the atomic bombing of Japanese civilians that those

who were still eating their traditional diet of brown rice, sea salt and

miso vegetables, were little damaged by the same amount of atomic

radiation which killed those who were eating a more modern diet of

fats and meat.

Some experts note that they can detect cancer by the peculiar

smell of a person in its early stages, the smell of decomposition.

Others note that cancer can be detected by a greenish cast to the

skin. The epidemic of prostate cancer among American men seems

to be the result of a diet of rich foods, with frequent ingestion of

eggs, meat and dairy products, and baked goods made with refined

flour. A suggested remedy is a diet of fruit and rice, the same diet

which is recommended to lower blood pressure and which has been

featured at Duke University for many years. Beef is said to be

particularly dangerous for prostate and colon cancer. Nutritionists

believe that cancer represents a reverse evolutionary process, in

which cells decompose or change back to a more primordial

vegetable type of life. This corresponds in some ways with the

theories of Morley Roberts.

It is notable that only four percent of the nations medical

schools offer a course in nutrition. This reflects the Rockefeller

Medical Monopoly's obsession with drugs and its commitment to

the allopathic school of medicine, as opposed to homeopathic or

holistic medicine.

Nobel Prize winner James Watson declared at a cancer

symposium at MIT that "the American public has been sold a nasty

bill of goods about cancer ... a soporific orgy," as reported in the

New York Times March 9, 1975. In January of 1975, Dr. Charles C.

Edwards, a researcher, wrote to the Secretary of HEW that the war

on cancer was politically motivated and was based on spending

money. The prominent French oncologist, Dr. Lucien Israel, said,

"Radium is an unproven method in many cases . . . indeed, there

have been no conclusive trials" on radiation therapy. Israel terms it

"a palliative for relief of pain, etc., temporary in nature." He also

points out that "the medical community has been thrown into

confusion by recent studies which have shown that metastases may

be more frequent in cases that have received radiation." In short, the

radiation increases the spread of cancer. It has long been known that

cutting into a tumor causes it to spread throughout the body. The

exploratory operation to see if you have cancer usually guarantees

that it will be fatal.

Nevertheless, the American Cancer Society continues to back

all of the losing methods of treating cancer. For twenty years, it has

patently repeated its famous Cancer's Seven Warning Signals, which

ignore chemicals in the environment and discounts FDA warnings

about coal tar and hair dyes. In 1976, the ACS released a press

communication, "Urgent Message; Mammography; Benefits and

Risks." Dr. John Bailar of the Harvard School of Public Health, and

editor of the prestigious NCI Cancer Journal, was horrified. He

wrote a letter to the acting director of the NCI, Dr. Guy Newell, "I

have just become aware of a problem that has the seeds of a major

disaster . . . The Urgent Message itself is plain hog-wash, the

statement is seriously faulty, and hence represents a grave danger to

that bulk of women who should avoid mammography. ''

Nevertheless, the ACS flyer went to every hospital in New York,

and to 15,000 physicians. Despite the known risks of exposing

women to repeated X rays, the ACS still emphasizes annual

mammographies as one of its most vaunted techniques for

"controlling" cancer. Jane Brody's book, "You Can Fight Cancer

and Win," recommends this and many other ACS goals.

The American Cancer Society also stands firmly behind radical

mastectomy, the total removal of the breast in cases of women's

breast cancer. This technique is frowned upon as unusually brutal

and ineffective; it has long been abandoned in most European

countries, including England, France and the Scandinavian countries

and neighboring Canada. In 1975, when Rose Kuttner published her

definitive work, "Breast Cancer" which was critical of radical

mastectomy, the ACS refused to list or recommend it.

It was Elmer Bobst's goal to make the National Cancer Institute

"autonomous," much as the Federal Reserve System is

"autonomous." He was able to achieve this goal because of his

longstanding personal connection with President Richard Nixon. As

the mastermind of the American Cancer Society, he really intended

it to become "autonomous" from Washington influence, while

making it completely subservient to the American Cancer Society

from New York. Rep. David Obey, Democrat, Wisconsin, noted that

"the American Cancer Society wants to keep the National Cancer

Institute strong in bankroll and weak in staff so that it can direct its

spending without too much interference." A very astute observation.

One of its directors, is Mary Lasker, who, thirty-six years after

Albeit Lasker's death, is still described by Washington observers as

the most powerful woman in American medicine. The National

Institute of Health bought the Visitation Convent in Bethesda from

the Catholic Church for $4.4 million; it now houses the Mary Lasker

Center. Through her access to funding, the ACS maintains fulltime

lobbyists in Washington, headed by Col. Luke Quinn, and aided by

Mike Gorman. The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, with

Washington lobbyist Lloyd Cutler, also works with Mary Lasker.

Whatever else may be said of the American Cancer Society.

There can be no doubt that it remains well insulated against reality. A

leading Washington reporter, Daniel S. Greenberg, wrote in the

Columbia Journalism Review in 1975 that cancer rates for most

types of cancer had been static since the 1950s; some rates actually

declined, probably because the use of toxic chemotherapy increased

the death rate. One researcher told Greenberg there had been little

improvement since 1945. Dr. Frank Rauscher challenged Greenberg

at the 1975 ACS Science Writers Seminar, claiming that these

figures were out of date; however, when the new figures were

released, they upheld Greenberg's findings.

This rings hollowly against the annual promises of "breakthroughs"

when the two and a half million "volunteers" swarm across America

shaking their tin cans and begging for the rich. They have been making

these same promises and raising the same amounts of money, or more, for

almost fifty years. Laurance Rockefeller noted in Reader's Digest,

February 1957 an exultant comment, "There is, for the first time, a

scent of ultimate victory in the air," as he described "progress

against cancer." Sloan Kettering director C. P. Dusty Rhodes was

quoted in the Denver Post, October 3, 1953, "I am convinced that in

the next decade, or maybe more, we will have a chemical as

effective against cancer as sulfaniolmides and penicillin are against

bacterial infection."

Well, maybe more. In 1956, Dr. Wendell F. Stanley, a Nobel Prize Winner

 reported in an address to the annual AMA convention,

 "Viruses are the prime cause of most types of cancer."

Nothing more has been heard on this subject in thirty years.

One physician, Dr. Cecil Pitard, was informed that he had

terminal cancer and that he had only a few weeks to live. The

Knoxville, Tennessee physician was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic

as having lymphoma. Lymphatic cancer results because the body is

no longer able to detoxify or cleanse itself. Tonsillectomies often

initiate a deterioration of the lymphatic system, resulting in lymph

gland inflammation, and eventually, lymphatic cancer. With nothing

to lose, Dr. Pitard experimented on himself with the anti-flu

bacterial antigen, staphage lysate and sodium butyrate, a fatty acid

food found in milk and butter. He soon found that he had been

completely cured. Nevertheless, the Cancer Establishment ignored

his report, and became even more vociferous in its campaign against

"unproven remedies." In most cases like Dr. Pitard's the cancer

profiteers sneer that it probably was misdiagnosed and he never had

cancer, or that he had a "spontaneous remission," which is their

most oft repeated response. It would seem that they would show

some interest in how to obtain a "spontaneous remission," because

they have now been talking about it for half a century, yet we have

heard nothing from the $70 million a year research program at Sloan

Kettering about spontaneous remission.

After Dr. Ralph Moss had been fired from Sloan Kettering for

revealing the positive results of laetrile experiments, he made public

the fact that the Institute was sitting on many other results of

successful treatment of cancer, including more than one thousand

positive cases of response to the Coley treatment since 1906.

Moss reported that Dr. James Ewing, "Coley's nemesis and arch rival,

turned Memorial Hospital into a medical branch of the radium

trust." Dr. William E. Koch, professor of physiology at Detroit

Medical College and the University of Michigan, presaged

free radical pathology treatment with the development of

Glyoxylide, which stimulated the body to oxidate toxins. Although

his treatment was never scientifically refuted, Koch, who began

oxidation studies in 1915 and used this treatment since 1918, was

persecuted for sixteen years by the Medical Monopoly. He was

finally driven out of the country, and died in Brazil in 1967.

The FDA had started to harass him in 1920; the Wayne County Medical

Society formed a "Cancer Committee" of doctors in 1923 who

condemned Koch's treatment. His stimulation of cell oxidation

treatment is by carefully planned diet which cleansed the system, yet

this proven treatment is still denounced today by the cancer

profiteers as "quackery." Koch tried to continue his work in Mexico

and Brazil, but the FDA refused to abandon their pursuit. He was

prosecuted in 1942 and 1946; the FDA finally obtained a permanent

junction against the Koch treatment in 1950. Several physicians who

had successfully treated cancer with the Koch treatment were

expelled from the medical society. It was still allowable to kill a

patient, but it was unforgivable to cure him.

Another independent physician, Dr. Max Gerson, discovered

that a vegetarian diet, with raw fruits and vegetables, and no salt,

cured migraine and lupus. He continued his studies until he found

that detoxification of the body could cure cancer. In 1958, he

published his findings in his book, "A Cancer Therapy,"

emphasizing a low fat diet, no salt and a minimum of protein. In

1964, he was invited to testify before a Senate Subcommittee, which

produced a 227 page report, document number 89471. The copies of

this report were never distributed by the Senate; it received no

coverage in medical journals, and Dr. Gerson never received one

cent from any charitable organization such as the American Cancer

Society to either prove or disprove his findings, even though these

groups claimed they were "researching" a cure for cancer.

Another famous case was that of Harry Hoxsey, who used a

herbal treatment, based upon Indian remedies, for cancer for thirty-five

years. In a well-publicized court battle, Hoxsey won a libel suit

against Morris Fishbein; the good doctor was forced to admit under

cross examination that he, the most famous doctor in the United

States, had never practiced medicine one day in his life.

Dr. Robert E. Lincoln discovered the bacterioplage method of

conquering cancer, in which viruses parasitically attach and destroy

specific bacteria. He received national attention when he cured the

son of Senator Charles Tobey with this method. Tobey was

astounded to learn that Dr. Lincoln has been expelled from the

Massachusetts Medical Society because he was curing people of

cancer.

He conducted a Congressional investigation, in which his

special counsel from the Department of Justice, Benedict Fitzgerald,

wrote, April 28, 1953, "The alleged machinations of Dr. J. J. Moore

(for the past ten years the treasurer of American Medical

Association) could involve the AMA and others in a conspiracy of

alarming proportions . . . behind and over all this is the weirdest

conglomeration of corrupt motives, intrigues, selfishness, jealousy,

obstruction and conspiracy I have ever seen. My investigation to

date should convince this Committee that a conspiracy does exist to

stop the free flow and use of drugs in interstate commerce which

allegedly (have) solid therapeutic value. Public and private funds

have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair to close up

and destroy clinics, hospitals and science research laboratories

which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations.

How long will the American people take this?"

Thirty-five years, they are still taking it. The outcome of the

Tobey Hearings is instructive. Senator Tobey died suddenly of a

heart attack, as happens in Washington when a politician treads on

dangerous ground. He was succeeded on the Committee by Senator

John Bricker of Ohio. Bricker, for many years, was considered to be

a dedicated conservative by millions of Americans. In reality, he

was the lawyer for a number of large drug manufacturers and

bankers, the ultimate establishment figure. He promptly fired

Special Counsel Benedict Fitzgerald; the Hearings were then closed

down.

Dr. Robert Lincoln was bold enough to sue the Massachusetts

Medical Society for libel; he also died before the case could come to

trial.

Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois,

began to use a preparation which he called Krebiozen. He succeeded

in curing cancer with it; the AMA promptly published a report on

Krebiozen which ruled that it was "of no benefit." A 289 day trial

resulted, in which Dr. Ivy was cleared of all counts against him.

Dr. Peter de Marco, a graduate of Hahnemann Medical School,

successfully treated over 800 patients with PVY, procaine polyvinyl

pyrrolidone; his license to practice medicine in New Jersey was

revoked.

A favorite recommendation of the American Cancer Society is

the "Pap" test for cancer, despite its many drawbacks. Insight

magazine, January 11, 1988, criticized many diagnostic laboratories

for doing sloppy work, quoting the Wall Street Journal of

November 1987 that "Pap smears have a false negative rate of from

20-40%; a false negative means death by cancer." Stung by this

exposure of a method which the ACS had frenetically promoted for

many years, Dr. Harmon J. Eyre, president of the American Cancer

Society, called a joint press conference of the ACS, the AMA, and

the NCI, to renew their joint recommendation that all women from

20 to 60 have an annual Pap smear. At this press conference

reported by AP, January 20, 1988, Eyre was quoted, "A main reason

for calling the press conference was an attempt to counter confusion

about the value of the Pap test in light of recent publicity about the

percentage of false negative results from some labs." Although he

went on record with unqualified endorsements of the Pap tests, Eyre

offered no answer to the problem of false negative reports or the

terrible threat which it posed to many women.

Some women's groups are becoming alerted to the fact that the

Medical Monopoly is needlessly condemning many women to

death. The Washington Post noted, February 16, 1988, a report of a

Women's Health Trial, in which 300 women demanded low fat tests

in which fat in the diet would be reduced from 40% to 20%, the

purpose being to diminish breast cancer. They asked for funding

from the NCI, but the Board of Scientific Counselors of NCI refused

to advance any funding for the project. The women's spokesman

pointed out that "NCI is committed to breast cancer control rather

than prevention."

What would the most powerful woman in American medicine

have said about this? Mary Lasker has been content to play the part

of the gracious Lady Bountiful with the money her husband earned

as the nation's most famous huckster. At the American Cancer

Society's Science Writers Seminars, which are held each year in

some exotic hotel during the harsh winter months, Science noted

May 18, 1973 that these spring seminars, held annually since 1949,

always are held in warm climates, free junkets for science editors at

big circulation newspapers and magazines. Science pointed out that

these seminars, which cost ACS about $25,000, generate about 300

favorable news stories and result in ACS raising about $85 million

in extra donations. This is probably one of the best investments

around.

In 1957, novelist Han Suyin, wearing an exquisite fur coat,

delivered an enthusiastic report to the Science writers about how

much good the chemical manufacturers have done for the health of

our citizens. In all fairness to Han, Love Canal had not been

discovered in 1957. The seminar met recently (1973) at the fabulous

Rio Rico Inn near Tucson, Arizona. Not only are all expenses paid

for the complaisant writers, but an extra treat, a Happy Hour at the

bar at the end of each "work day," makes certain that the journalists

float in to dinner in a very jovial mood. The Happy Hour is paid for

by the gracious Mary Lasker. Saturday Review noted April 10,

1965, the ACS had an unusually effective public relations

department. The secret of public relations is to obtain free space in

major publications, instead of buying advertising. The Lasker

connection also ensures that major New York agencies such as

McCann Erickson, prepare advertising campaigns for ACS at no

charge.

It is ironic that Albert Lasker, the co-creator of the American

Cancer Society as we know it, and its subsidiary creature, the

National Cancer Institute, should have built much of his fortune on

his promotion of cigarette smoking. After his death from cancer, the

American Cancer Society reluctantly came to the conclusion that

"smoking is bad for your health." The mounting death toll from lung

cancer forced the cigarette companies to consider alternatives; one

of these was filters. On January 1, 1954, Kent cigarettes released an

ad to 80 newspapers that AMA tests had proved the Kent filters

were the most efficient in removing cigarette tar. Because this

"proof was on a par with most other AMA claims, the AMA was

compelled to protest to Lorillard, the manufacturer.

Time magazine commented, April 12, 1954, "The usually soporific A

MA barred advertisements for Kent cigarettes." When the Surgeon General

released his 1964 report on the harmful effects of cigarette smoking,

it panicked the industry, even though it had long been heralded by

previous studies. In June, 1954, Dr. Daniel Horn and Edward Cuyler

Hammond presented a report to the AMA convention, linking

smoking and lung cancer. Horn and Hammond headed the statistical

department at the ACS. American Tobacco, one of Lasker's

principal holdings, dropped five points in one day after this

presentation. Hammond was a well known epidemiologist who had

served as a consultant to NIH, the U.S. Navy, USAF and the

Brookhaven Lab. He was a vice president of ACS and director of its

research. Although he had conducted extensive research on the

effects of smoking, he steadfastly refused to share this material with

other organizations. In 1971, he received an invitation to join a

panel of scientists to discuss smoking; he refused, stating that it had

been the policy of ACS since 1952 not to share data with other

researchers. Current Biography reported in 1957 that Hammond

smoked four packs of cigarettes a day; his wife smoked three packs

a day They both died of lung cancer.

Despite the ACS revelations, the tobacco interests, which were

closely linked to the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly, fought a

determined rearguard action against the lung cancer campaign. One

of Washington's best connected lobbyists, Patricia Firestone

Chatham, widow of Representative R. T. Chatham, the chairman of

Chatham Mills textile firm, stalled the placement of the warning on

cigarette packages, "Smoking May Be Dangerous To Your Health,"

for five years, from 1964 to 1969. She lives in a two million dollar

mansion in Georgetown, the former James Forrestal home.

The furor over lung cancer and smoking ignores a pertinent

fact, that primitive tribes have been smoking tobacco for thousands

of years, with no disagreeable after effects. In Virginia, origin of

this writer, Indians were smoking tobacco when Captain John Smith

landed at Jamestown. Dr. Richard Passey, a researcher at London's

Chester Beattie Research Institute, conducted twenty years of

research on the tobacco problem. He found no significant link

between the traditionally air dried tobacco and lung cancer.

However, the American and English tobacco industries, which are

dominated by the Rothschilds, use sugar in their tobacco, for a

sweetened, sugar dried effect. England, uses 17% sugar, the United

States 10%. England has the highest lung cancer rate in the world.

Dr. Passey concluded that the addition of sugar to tobacco creates a

carcinogenic substance in the nicotine tar; in air dried tobacco, this

carcinogen is not activated. He found no resulting lung cancer in the

Soviet Union, China and Taiwan, all of which produce air-dried

tobacco.

Esquire magazine featured a lengthy article on the work of the

Janker Clinic in Bonn, Germany, finding that this clinic has treated

76,000 cancer cases since 1936, with full or partial remission in

70% of their patients. The Esquire reporter was astounded to learn

that "the National Cancer Institute refuses to use Janker Clinic

isophosphamide, A. Mulsin, Wobe enzymes and other successful

Janker techniques because they refused to use sufficient dosage. The

American Cancer Society is even more rigid. It prides itself on

keeping the Janker techniques out of the United States."

The Esquire reporter went on to complain that "The American Cancer

Society has become a major part of the problem. It eschews

sponsorship of chemical and research innovation and instead goes in

for propaganda (cigarettes are harmful, the Seven Danger Signals,

celebrity radio and TV spots) and it virtually condemns and

suppresses unorthodox methods which, incidentally, it does not even

trouble itself to investigate thoroughly."

The reporter did not know that the American Cancer Society

has a vested interest in the established forms of cancer treatment; for

instance, it holds a fifty per cent ownership of the patent rights of 5

FU, (5 flourouracil), one the toxic drugs now in vogue as an

"acceptable" medication for cancer. 5FU and a later development 5-

4-FU, are produced by Hoffman LaRoche Laboratories.

The Knight Ridder News Service reported in 1978 that the ACS

refused to take a position on suspected pesticides which caused

cancer. The ACS board and its allied organization, Sloan Kettering,

have many members who are heads of the largest chemical firms in

the United States. The war against pollution will win no adherents

there. ACS was asked to take a position on other dangerous

substances, such as Red Dye #2, the fire-retardant TRIS, used in

children's clothing (it has since been banned), and forms of synthetic

estrogen. Yet ACS again refused to state its position on these

substances. To counter its baneful influence, the Committee for

Freedom of Choice in Medicine planned to file an action in 1984

before the Permanent Committee on Human Rights at the United

Nations, charging that the American medical establishment was in

violation of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and

the International Human Rights Agreement of 1966. Its prepared

statement noted that "Americans have been needlessly slaughtered

and criminalized because a host of useful products, medicine and

metabolic nutritional approaches in medicine have been crushed by

vested interests.'' The Committee termed the present situation "a

Medigate."

The failure to reduce the death rate from cancer is a grim

indictment of the insurmountable obstacles which the ACS has

placed in the path of a viable approach to this problem. John Bailar

of the Harvard School of Public Health, addressing the American

Association for the Advancement of Science in 19867, pointed out

that "The government's fifteen year old national cancer program has

not lowered the death rate for major forms of cancer and should

therefore be considered a failure. It has not produced the results it

was supposed to produce." Bailar was well qualified to make this

observation; he had been editor of the Journal for NCI for twenty five

years. He was supported by a fellow member of the faculty of

the School of Public Health, Dr. John Cairns, who reported that, "In

the past twenty years, cancer has increased; there have been no

significant gains against cancer since the 1950s.''

Dr. Hardin James addressed the ACS Panel in 1969. A

professor of medical physics at the University of California at

Berkely, he stated that his studies had proven conclusively that

untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than

treated individuals. "For a typical type of cancer, people who

refused treatment live an average of twelve and a half years. Those

who accepted surgery and other kinds of treatment lived an average

of only three years. I attribute this to the traumatic effect of surgery

on the body's natural defense mechanism. The body has a natural

type of defense against every type of cancer."

In February, 1988, the National Cancer Institute released its

definitive report, summarizing the "war against cancer." It reported

that over the past thirty-five years, both the overall incidence and

death rates from cancer have increased, despite "advances" in

detection and treatment." Washington Post, February 9, 1988. The

problem may be that, just as in other wars we have engaged in the

twentieth century, too many of those "on our side" are actually

working for the enemy.