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Dr Paul Alexander Breedlove
No one ever fooled me so completely as Paul Breedlove.
I liked Paul Breedlove moments after I met him at my initial interview at Genomex. For years, I beileved what I saw: a kindly, intense, grandfatherly man with decent instincts. After he saved my life in 1991, I had opportunities to dig deeply into the archives of Genomex, where I discovered that he was not even ‘Paul Breedlove’.
He was born Kurt von Schuler, 4 July 1931 in Salzburg, Austria, the third child in a family with a tradition of building harpsichords for over a century. He was a child prodigy, and recruited by Nazi scientists at the age of 8 to study biology; brief years later he became a participant in some of the most horrific ‘experiments’ ever conducted upon human beings.
At war’s end, he was not prosecuted for these activities because chronologically he was only slightly more than a child, and was held not responsible for his wartime ‘work’. For a handful of years, he returned to Salzburg, and the building of harpsichords until one of his former mentors located him, and invited him to continue scientific work. Shortly afterward, a fire destroyed the harpsichord workshop and killed his surviving sister.
The next years are poorly documented, but sometime in the mid-1950s an American intelligence agency offered him a position and citizenship if he would perform research for the US. He accepted, and thus was ‘born’ Dr Paul Breedlove.
In 1960, he met Eleanor Singer, MD, a pediatric specialist. They married in 1961, and with Eleanor’s inherited fortune, government funding, and some venture capital, they established the first of the Breedlove Clinics in upstate New York. Ostensibly dealing with the prevention of birth defects, the clinic had a sideline of genetic manipulation focused upon plants and animals. The corporation later known as Genomex grew from this latter work.
Decades were required, but Paul finally experienced guilt for a lifetime spent in unholy science in 2007. Ironically, he was murdered by a mutant of his own creation shortly afterwards.
M Eckhart
December 2007
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