AIDS: The Final and Fatal Foreign Service Boondoggle: Memoirs of a Foreign Service Officer

Smart, Philip

ISBN 10: 1403395675 / ISBN 13: 9781403395672

Published by AuthorHouse, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AIDS: The Final and Fatal Foreign Service Boondoggle: Memoirs of a Foreign Service Officer
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403395675
• ISBN 13: 9781403395672
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The reader should know that this work contains the truth and nothing but the truth. The facts about the development of the AIDS pandemic are based on personal knowledge, direct conversations with eyewitnesses to the programs and practices mentioned and information from reliable sources listed in the Bibliography. Some names have been changed to protect the innocent.The research and writing took nearly a decade and no effort is made to attribute each statement to a source. I will leave that to more scholarly works.If the author appears outraged by facts reported, it is with no malice that they are included. I don't believe that anyone mentioned in this book did anything other than his best to carry out his function and that it is the hand of nature itself that transmuted well intentioned acts into the engine that created and spread the virus that has changed the lives of all humanity.If you cannot accept the honesty, truthfulness and good will of the author read no further.

About the Author

In his youth, a country boy in New Hampshire, Mr. Smart, volunteered in WWII to fight with the original rangers, Merrill's Marauders , survived to become a Public Health biologist, working for two decades as an international expert in Malaria with WHO and Public Health Advisor with the United States Agency for Development in five tropical countries. Working in communicable disease control for four decades, almost half as an advisor in the tropics of Asia, Africa and the Americas for WHO and USAID he witnessed the effects, some untoward of mass disease control programs one of which became the world-wide disaster called AIDs.To supervise his tropical disease control programs, he learned to fly his own plane-- almost perished over the Philippine Islands--and mastered a working fluency in eight languages. Since retirement, he has founded a marathon-running club and run many road races including three marathons into his early seventies. He holds a Bronze Star, Purple Heart and a Combat Infantryman's badge.He is now 78 and resides in Corona California with his wife, Gloria and Toy Chihuahua Taco Bell.