FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2003
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers representing U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's office
will seek to dismiss a federal lawsuit seeking the full disclosure of a formerly
secret virus development program called The U.S. Special Virus Program during an
open court session beginning at 11 a.m. PST June 27, 2003.
The legal complaint filed Dec. 6, 2002 by AIDS activist Boyd E. Graves in the
U.S. Federal Court for Southern California, alleges the U.S. government
'created,' 'produced,' and 'proliferated,' the HIV/AIDS virus.
Graves said the U.S. Special Virus Program is part of a covert international
plan to reduce the world's minority populations by introducing a new deadly
'special virus.' The U.S. Special Virus Program developed and mass produced
thousands of liters of a new 'special virus' by 1978 and that virus is known
better today as HIV/AIDS, Graves said.
Graves said it will be the first open court appearance by U.S. government
attorneys since President George W. Bush announced his decision to nominate John
Ashcroft to serve as U.S. Attorney General on December 22, 2000 calling him
"a man of great integrity, a man of great judgment and a man who knows the
law." Upon confirmation by the Senate, Ashcroft pledged to renew the war on
drugs, reduce the incidence of gun violence and combat discrimination so no
American feels outside the protection of the law.
Clinton era appointed Judge Jeffrey T. Miller is scheduled to hear the government's argument to dismiss Graves' petition to provide an immediate open-door public review of The U.S. Special Virus Program progress reports published annually through 1978.
The government's opening arguments addressing Graves' Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit for the full disclosure of The U.S. Special Virus program are
scheduled to begin at 11 a.m June 27, 2003 in court room six inside the U.S.
Federal Court for Southern California in San Diego.
