Editing Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories (section)

===Additional theories===
These theories generally attribute HIV's origin to the [[US government]] or its contractors:

====Created at Fort Detrick====
[[Jakob Segal]] (1911–1995), a professor at [[Humboldt University]] in then-[[East Germany]], proposed that HIV was engineered at a U.S. military laboratory at [[Fort Detrick]], by splicing together two other viruses, [[Visna-maedi virus|Visna]] and [[Human T-lymphotropic virus|HTLV-1]]. According to his theory, the new virus, created between 1977 and 1978, was tested on prison inmates who had volunteered for the experiment in exchange for early release. He further suggested that it was through these prisoners that the virus was spread to the population at large.

At the end of the [[Cold War]], former [[KGB]] agents [[Vasili Mitrokhin]] and [[Oleg Gordievsky]] independently revealed that the Fort Detrick hypothesis was a propaganda operation devised by the KGB's [[First Chief Directorate]] codenamed "[[Operation Denver]]". This revelation was later supported by officer Günther Bohnensack of section X of East Germany's [[Main Directorate for Reconnaissance]].

It is known that Segal was in close contact with Russian KGB officers and Mitrokhin mentioned him as a central asset of the operation.<ref name="Andrew 1999 319">{{Cite book |last=Andrew |first=Christopher |author2=Vasili Mitrokhin |title=The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB |publisher=Basic Books |year=1999 |isbn=0-465-00310-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/swordshieldmitro00andr/page/319 319] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/swordshieldmitro00andr/page/319}}</ref><ref name="spiegel.de">Johanna Lutterroth: [https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/ddr-verschwoerung-aids-aus-dem-labor-a-947607.html ''Aids-Verschwörung. Das Propaganda-Virus des KGB'']. Spiegel Geschichte, 2012-06-26 (German)</ref> It is not entirely clear whether Segal pursued the hypothesis independently on his own accord or whether he was simply following orders. Segal himself always denied the latter and kept pursuing the hypothesis even after the operation had been canceled and the Cold War had ended.

====Conspiracy to decrease the population====
In ''Behold a Pale Horse'' (1991), radio broadcaster and author [[Milton William Cooper]] (1943–2001) proposed that [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] was the result of a conspiracy to decrease the populations of [[Black people|blacks]], [[Hispanics]], and [[homosexuals]].<ref name="Carroll">{{cite book |last=Carroll |first=Robert Todd |title=The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions |year=2003 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |isbn=9781118045633 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FPqDFx40vYC |author-link=Robert Todd Carroll |access-date=17 January 2013 |page=175 |chapter=Illuminati |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FPqDFx40vYC&pg=PA175}}</ref>