Judyth Vary Baker: Living in Exile

[James H. Fetzer]

Some extracts from Edward T. Haslam, Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics

Chapter 17

The Witness (Extract 3)

But did they use radiation to mutate the monkey viruses?

I wrote to Judyth and said that I needed to know specifically if she had been told that the viruses she was working with at David Ferrie’s apartment had been exposed to radiation at another location to change them genetically? I told her I wanted to make sure that no one can find any ambiguity in her statement or be able to misinterpret it, so I was going to put a magnifying glass on it. I needed clarification. I needed her to confirm or deny it based on what she knew? My exact words were:

“My question is about your time in New Orleans in the summer of
1963… Do I understand that you are saying that you were told that the
extracts that you prepared at David Ferrie's apartment and delivered to
Mary Sherman's apartment were being subjected to radiation and then
recycled into more mice? Do I have this right?”

Judyth’s response:

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EXACTLY...ALSO, INTO MONKEYS. MANY WERE KILLED, BUT THEY
ORDERED THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF NEW MONKEYS…
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I continued:

“By your term ‘we all knew it’ who are you referring to? Could I ask
you to answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to each person on this list separately. The
question is: Did you personally discussed exposing your tumor
extracts to radiation with this person:”

Judyth’s response:

Mary Sherman-- SHE WAS THE ONE IN CHARGE OF DOING THIS



Lee Oswald-- YES. HE ONCE TOOK ONE BATCH OVER TO CRIPPLED
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND MET HER THERE BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T
HAVE TIME TO GET THEM FROM HER APARTMENT...

Alton Ochsner --- HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT. DR. SHERMAN
WAS AFRAID HE WAS BEING EXPLOITED AND DIDN'T REALIZE THE
FULL SIGNIFICANCE, THAT OTHERS COULD GET THEIR HANDS ON
THIS MATERIAL. BUT HE KEPT HIMSELF WHITE AS SNOW, THOUGH
HE WASN'T. DR. MARY DIDN'T TRUST HIM.

David Ferrie --YES

Bill Monahan -- THAT IS MONAGHAN.... NO, HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING
EXCEPT THEY NEEDED ME FOR LAB WORK ON COMPANY TIME AND
HE HAD TO DO WORK I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO, WHICH IRRITATED
HIM.

They used radiation to mutate their monkey viruses!



Was Judyth the technician in David Ferrie’s underground medical laboratory? She admits that she was, despite the obvious legal, ethical and security consequences of doing so. Were they irradiating cancer-causing viruses to develop a biological weapon? Judyth participated in that operation and said that their use of radiation was both deliberate and central to the design of the project. Was the operation in David Ferrie’s apartment connected to operation at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital? Judyth says it was.

The consequences of these statements are terrifying!

Frankly, I would have preferred to have been wrong. It appears that I was not. These were very dark deeds indeed. They may have been “the dark deed” whose price the population of the planet still pays today. I doubt this connection will ever be proven to the satisfaction of the critics. But they do not control us nor the truth!

At least I understand why my father was so upset about, when he learned what was going on down at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital.

So we are left with questions. Questions that Judyth Vary Baker cannot answer. Questions I cannot answer. Questions that deserve better answers. Questions like:

* Which monkey viruses did their radiation genetically alter? Was SIV one? 17
* What happened to their collection of mutated monkey viruses after Judyth left?
* Did any of these mutated monkey viruses “escape” into the human population?
* Will Judyth’s price for clearing Lee Oswald’s name be the sacrifice of her own?

Fortunately we can still ask questions like these. One has to wonder what will happen if we ever stop?