James Barrington - Pandemic

SEMScanning Electron Microscope

ShareholdersNaval Air Squadron meeting, normally held every morning, covering administration, flying programme, etc

SIG P226Swiss-manufactured 9mm semi-automatic pistol

SISSecret Intelligence Service: often but inaccurately known as MI6, and responsible for espionage outside the United Kingdom. Also referred to as ‘Six’

SISDE Servizio per le Informazione e la Sicurezza Democratica : the Italian Secret Service

SITREPSituation report

SobsSenior Observer of a Royal Navy squadron

SOPStandard operating procedure

SPCSurface Picture Compiler. Royal Navy noncommissioned officer or rating responsible for tracking all surface radar contacts around the mother ship

SpectreItalian-manufactured 9mm sub-machine-gun, unique in that it is double-action, and unusual in having a magazine capacity of fifty rounds

SplotSenior Pilot of a Royal Navy squadron

SPSStandard Pressure Setting of 1013.25 hPa (hectopascals) or 29.29 inches (for some American aircraft). Set on the altimeter sub-scale, it is used above about five thousand feet to ensure all aircraft altimeters share a common setting to allow accurate vertical separation

SVR Sluzhba Vneshney Razvyedki Rossi : the successor to the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, responsible for espionage and intelligence operations outside Russia

SWATSpecial Weapons and Tactics. Generic term applied to police and other law-enforcement agency paramilitary units

Two and a halfRoyal Navy slang term for a Lieutenant Commander

UHFUltra high frequency

UnsubUnknown subject – the unidentified perpetrator of a crime (US slang)

USAMRIIDUnited States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Part of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the principal research laboratory of the American Biological Defense Research Program

UziIsraeli-manufactured 9mm sub-machine-gun

Vauxhall CrossThe headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service fronting the Thames in London: the building’s bizarre design has spawned a number of uncomplimentary nicknames

VHFVery high frequency

WalnutSlang term for the CIA’s main database

WASPWhite Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Slang term applied mainly to young, white, affluent and powerful middle-class Americans in the 1970s and 1980s

WingsCommander (Air): the head of the Air Department on an aircraft carrier

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‘Conspiracy of silence’ by Neville Hodgkinson. The Sunday Times , 3 April 1994. URL: http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/nhconspiracy.htm.

‘The AIDS Dilemma: drug diseases blamed on a passenger virus’ by Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick. Genetica 104: 85–132. 1998. An abstract is available at the following URL: http://www.duesberg.com/papers/pddrgenetica.htmlor the full article is available at: http://www.duesberg.com/images/pddrgenetica.pdf(this requires Acrobat Reader).

This is a Bio-attack Alert by Theodore A. Strecker M.D., Ph.D., 28 March 1986. URL: http://www.umoja-research.com/bio-attack_doc.htm.

Emerging viruses by Leonard G. Horowitz D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Tetrahedron Publishing Group, ISBN: 0–923550–12–7, page 87.

Hendra virus. Further details of this virus outbreak can be found at the URL: http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/zoonoses/hendra/hendraindex.html.

Queer Blood – The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot by Alan Cantwell Jr., M.D. URL: http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/health/062397he.htm.

Emerging viruses by Leonard G. Horowitz D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Tetrahedron Publishing Group, ISBN: 0–923550–12–7, page 95.

Department of Defense Appropriations 1970, Part 6, starting page 104. A transcript is available at URL: http://groups.msn.com/GOVERNMENTGoneWrong/dodhearing.msnw.

For example, W.H.O.’s annual bulletin 1972, page 259.

‘The Case of Africa: A dark age or a renaissance?’ by Linda de Hoyos. Executive Intelligence Review , 8 October 1999, pp. 25–29. A copy of this is available at the URL: http://www.aboutsudan.com/conferences/schiller_institute/dark_age_or_renaissance.htm.

Did the US Government Develop the AIDS Virus? Network 23 broadcast on a Los Angeles Public Access Cable Channel. A full transcript is available at the following URL: http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/the_aids_conspiracy/aids-us.html.

Problems Associated with AIDS . House of Commons Third Report from the Social Services Committee Session 1986–87. Minutes of Evidence (8 April–13 May 1987). Memorandum by Dr John Seale, Royal Society of Medicine. Full transcript at URL: http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?id=519.

‘AIDS: Biowarfare Experiment Out of Control?’ by Sean MacKenzie, 1993. URL: http://mindgallery.com/hiddenroom/biowarfare.html.

Emerging viruses by Leonard G. Horowitz D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Tetrahedron Publishing Group, ISBN: 0–923550–12–7, page 487.

Emerging viruses by Leonard G. Horowitz D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Tetrahedron Publishing Group, ISBN: 0–923550–12–7, page 528.

‘ The Strecker Memorandum ’. URL: http://www.konformist.com/1999/aids/strecker.txt.

‘W.H.O. murdered Africa’ by William Campbell Douglass, M.D. URL: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/who.htm.