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【CIAが生物兵器の「暗い未来」について報告】
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CIAは外部委託の委員会の報告により、遺伝子研究の進歩による技術は、既知でも最悪のものとなる疾病や「最も恐ろしい生物兵器」を作り出せる、という内容の報告書を金曜日に発表した。
外部委員会は「これらの人工的な生物学的な物質は人類に既知のいかなる疾病よりも悪い効果を及ぼす。」と言っている。
11月3日付けの機密解除された2頁のCIA報告書は”The Darker Bioweapons Future”という題名でアメリカ科学者連盟のウェブサイトに掲載されている。
http:/www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/bw1103.pdf.
http:/www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/
急速に進歩するバイオ・テクノロジーは今までにないような使い方をされるかもしれないと委員会は述べる。例えば、この10年くらいの内にバイナリー生物兵器が現れるかもしれないが、これは、通常の病原とその解毒剤が一緒になったときだけに効果を発揮するものだ。
このような「デザイナー」生物兵器は、抗生物質耐性であったり、免疫反応に侵入したり、犠牲者の遺伝子機構を恒常的に変更してしまう兵器化された「遺伝子治療ベクター」だったり、病気が発現するまでに長期間体内に潜む「ステルス」ウィルスだったりするのだ。（後略）
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このレポートは高度に専門化されたバイテクにお手上げのCIAが科学者の助言を仰いで作ったという体裁になっているが、このようなことは、少なくともここ20年くらいはアメリカ政府主導の形で研究が進められてきているのは疑いがない。
このような内容を今の時期に発表するのは、このような「デザイナー」生物兵器が近い内に使用されるのを正当化する意図があるように思う。
キナ臭いイラクその他の状況と合わせて「テロリストによる」「新しい」バイオテロを「CIAが」計画しているのかもしれない。
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20031114/sc_nm/security_bioweapons_dc
CIA Says Experts See 'Darker Bioweapons Future'
Fri Nov 14, 5:11 PM ET
By Tabassum Zakaria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A panel of outside experts told theCIA (news - web sites) that advances in technology due to genomic research could produce the worst known diseases and the "most frightening" biological weapons, a CIA report said on Friday.
"The effects of some of these engineered biological agents could be worse than any disease known to man," the panel told the CIA.
The unclassified two-page CIA report dated Nov. 3, 2003, and titled "The Darker Bioweapons Future," was posted on the Federation of American Scientists Web site at http:/www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/bw1103.pdf.
It summed up a January workshop of a panel of non-government science experts who discussed with the CIA the potential threat from new biological weapons.
Growth in biotechnology and a knowledge explosion due to the genomic revolution which provided an understanding of genes and how they work could be used in unpredictable ways, the panel warned.
"The same science that may cure some of our worst diseases could be used to create the world's most frightening weapons," the report said.
In the next decade or beyond, some of the unconventional pathogens that could arise included binary biological warfare agents that only become effective when two components are combined, such as a mild pathogen and its antidote, the panel of experts said.
There could be development of "designer" biological warfare agents created to be antibiotic-resistant or evade an immune response, weaponized gene therapy vectors that cause permanent change in the victim's genetic makeup, or a "stealth" virus which could lie dormant inside the victim for an extended period before being triggered, the report said.
STEALTH VIRUS ATTACK
One panelist gave as an example the possibility of a stealth virus attack that could cripple a large portion of people in their forties with severe arthritis, leaving a country with massive health and economic problems.
"The resulting diversity of new BW (biological warfare) agents could enable such a broad range of attack scenarios that it would be virtually impossible to anticipate and defend against," the report said. "As a result, there could be a considerable lag time in developing effective biodefense measures."
Traditional intelligence methods for monitoring development of weapons of mass destruction "could prove inadequate" in dealing with the threat from advanced biological weapons, the report said.
Detecting the development of novel bioengineered pathogens will increasingly depend on human intelligence and require a closer working relationship between the intelligence and biological sciences community, the report said.
One panelist proposed that the bioscience community help government by acting as a "living sensor web" at international conferences, in university labs and through informal networks, to identify and alert about new technical advances with weaponization potential, the report said.
"The quality of intelligence can only improve from the rough and tumble of peer review and outside input," said Steven Aftergood, director of the government secrecy project at the Federation of American Scientists.
"In the past, CIA has been completely insular, they have been unwilling to engage with outside experts," he said, "and so this is a welcome departure from that norm."
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