https://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-rand-pandemic-flu-study-2008.pdf

Anyone make heads or tails of this? Wikileaks doc on HIV and serums. Excerpt from the PDF above.

Origins in HIV Screening Program

The serum collection currently maintained in the DoDSR and managed

by AMSA started in 1985 as part of the Army’s HTLV-III screening program

(ASD(HA), December 5, 1985), which began in response to the spread of a

new human virus subsequently known as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

(HIV). DoD instituted mandatory collection of blood specimens for

screening of all civilian applicants going through Military Entrance

Processing Stations.6

Actual collection and storage of remnant serum

occurred as part of contracts between DoD and commercial testing

laboratories in which all non-reactive serologic specimens were ordered

to remain in frozen storage for the duration of the contract. Although

these disparate collections of serum, which would ultimately seed the

DoDSR inventory, were stored by the DoD contractors, a specified purpose for their future use had not been officially articulated. In 1989, a

maintenance and management contract was awarded to McKesson to begin

consolidating and storing in a single facility the serum specimens that

were stored by testing contractors, who had been conducting HIV

screening for the DoD since 1985. Under the authority of WRAIR

Retrovirology, this contract gave way to the establishment of the

Army/Navy Serum Repository, the predecessor to the DoDSR. By 1990, the

contractor processing the HIV specimens had collected and stored over

six million serum specimens.