You want the scoop on AIDS? Well, here it is (at least in the US--African genocide to expedite the exploitation of the continent's natural resources is another story):

Although my evidence is strictly ANECDOTAL (where are you going to find documentary evidence on the manufacture of HIV: the Ministry of Information Dispersal or the Ministry of Information Retrieval?), my story is firsthand and my source reliable: an old retired Army man who was on my crew when I orchestrated the 1980 Census Enumeration for the Ortiz Mountains between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. He and I used to enjoy getting drunk together on Milwaukee's Best.

After I went away to the Northwest and ended up doing activist door-to-door work in Seattle and got radicalized, I came back one Christmas to visit my parents in Albuquerque. This old soldier (I remember his name, but it would serve no purpose at this stage of things, it seems to me) and I ended up getting drunk at his apartment Christmas Eve on a bottle of cheap red wine. At some point, I realized that he bore no relation to any military man I had ever met in my life.

"John," I inquired, "What DID you do in the Army?"

"I was in research and development on chemical and biological weapons," was his offhand reply.

"Was AIDS an example of targeted biological warfare?" I managed to continue the volley with a befitting lack of emotion.

"Of course, it was," he responded without missing a beat. "Back during the Ford administration, the queers in San Francisco were given HIV in the place of the hepatitis A vaccine."

I have no way of knowing whether he was telling me the truth that alcoholic night; but, he had no obvious reason to make the implausible story up--and who was in a better professional position to know about such things?

I do strongly insist upon the veracity of my own account of this conversation, an instructive little tale with which I have repeatedly regaled many a captive audience fortunate or unlucky enough to have offered me a ride over the two intervening decades.

Hasta Luego--
Companero Wildseed