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, ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics

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The?1964 murder of a nationally?known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé?of?medical professionals?enmeshed?in covert government operations over the course of?three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book?presents evidence?of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with?the handling of evidence in the?JFK assassination and?continued apace, sweeping doctors?into coverups of cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine,?the?arrival of the?AIDS virus,?and?biological weapon research using infected monkeys.