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More on Paul and the Newsletters
No conspiracy theory was too outlandish for Pauls endorsement. One newsletter reported on the heretofore unknown phenomenon of Needlin, in which gangs of black girls between the ages of 12 and 14″ roamed the streets of New York and injected white women with possibly HIV-infected syringes. Another newsletter warned that the AIDS patient should not be allowed to eat in restaurants because AIDS can be transmitted by saliva, a strange claim for a physician to make.
Paul gave credence to the theory, later shown to have been the product of a Soviet disinformation effort, that AIDS had been created in a U.S. government laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Three months before far-right extremists killed 168 Americans in Oklahoma City, Pauls newsletter praised the 1,500 local militias now training to defend liberty as one of the most encouraging developments in America. And he offered specific advice to antigovernment militia members, such as, Keep the group size down, Keep quiet and youre harder to find, Leave no clues, Avoid the phone as much as possible, and Dont fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.