Pentagon bio-weapons

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian investigative announcer and Heart Due east Correspondent. Over the final two years she has published a series of reports on weapons smuggling to ISIS in Syrian arab republic. In the by year she came under pressure from the Bulgarian National Security Agency and was fired from her job in the Bulgarian paper Trud Daily, without caption. Despite this, Dilyana continues her investigations. The following written report, beginning published on South Front, provides an overview of the Pentagon's secretive development of biological weapons in bio-labs around the earth.

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The The states Army regularly produces deadly viruses, leaner and toxins in directly violation of the United nations Convention on the prohibition of Biological Weapons. Hundreds of thousands of unwitting people are systematically exposed to dangerous pathogens and other incurable diseases. Bio warfare scientists using diplomatic comprehend test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world. These US bio-laboratories are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Bureau (DTRA) under a $ ii.1 billion military program - Cooperative Biological Appointment Programme (CBEP) - and are located in former Soviet Matrimony countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, Southward Eastern asia and Africa.

Pentagon's Biolabs


The Lugar Center, Republic of Georgia

The Lugar Heart, Republic of Georgia

Vaziani Air Base

The US Army has been deployed to Vaziani Military Air Base, 17 km away from the Pentagon bio-laboratory at the Lugar Center.

Georgia is a Testing Ground For Bioweapons

The Lugar Center is the Pentagon bio laboratory in Georgia. It is located only 17 km away from the U.s.a. Vaziani military airbase in the capital Tbilisi. Tasked with the military program are biologists from the US Army Medical Research Unit-Georgia (USAMRU-Thou) along with private contractors. The Bio-safety Level 3 Laboratory is attainable only to US citizens with security clearance. They are accorded diplomatic immunity under the 2002 The states-Georgia Agreement on defense cooperation.

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Defense Agreement

The USA-Georgia understanding accords diplomatic status to the US armed forces and civilian personnel (including diplomatic vehicles), working on the Pentagon program in Georgia.

Data obtained from the Us federal contracts registry clarifies some of the military machine activities at the Lugar Center - among them inquiry on bio-agents (anthrax, tularemia) and viral diseases (eastward.g. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever), and the collection of biological samples for futurity experiments.

Pentagon Contractors Produce Bio Agents Nether Diplomatic Cover

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has outsourced much of the work nether the military machine program to private companies, which are not held answerable to Congress, and which can operate more freely and motion around the dominion of law. Usa noncombatant personnel performing work at the Lugar Eye have likewise been given diplomatic amnesty, although they are not diplomats. Hence, individual companies can perform work, nether diplomatic cover, for the Us government without being under the directly control of the host state - in this case the Democracy of Georgia. This practice is often used by the CIA to provide comprehend for its agents.

DTRA contractors

Three individual American companies work at the U.s.a. bio-laboratory in Tbilisi - CH2M Loma, Battelle and Metabiota. In addition to the Pentagon, these private contractors perform biological research for the CIA and various other authorities agencies.

CH2M Hill has been awarded $341.five million DTRA contracts under the Pentagon'southward program for bio-laboratories in Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Republic of iraq, Afghanistan, South East Asia. One-half of this sum ($161.1 million) is allocated to the Lugar Centre under the Georgian contract.

According to CH2M Hill, the US Company has secured biological agents and employed quondam bio-warfare scientists at the Lugar Center. These are scientists who are working for another American company involved in the military programme in Georgia - Battelle Memorial Institute.

As a $59 million subcontractor at the Lugar Center, Battelle has all-encompassing experience in inquiry on bio-agents, as the company has already worked on the U.s.a. Bio-weapons Programme under 11 previous contracts with the US Army (1952-1966).

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Source: US Regular army Activities in the US, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. II, 1977, p. 82

The private company performs piece of work for the Pentagon's DTRA bio laboratories in Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. Battelle conducts research, development, testing, and evaluation using both highly toxic chemicals and highly pathogenic biological agents for a wide range of United states of america government agencies. It has been awarded some $ii billion federal contracts in total, and ranks 23 on the Peak 100 US regime contractors list.

The CIA-Battelle Project Clear Vision

Project Articulate Vision (1997 and 2000), a joint investigation by the CIA and the Battelle Memorial Institute, under a contract awarded by the Agency, reconstructed and tested a Soviet-era anthrax bomblet in guild to examination its dissemination characteristics. The project's stated goal was to assess bio-agents dissemination characteristics of bomblets. The undercover CIA-Battelle operation was omitted from the U.s.a. Biological Weapons Convention declarations submitted to the United nations.

Anthrax spores under microscope

Anthrax spores under microscope

Top Secret Experiments

Battelle has operated a Top Secret Bio laboratory (National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center - NBACC) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, under a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contract for the last decade. The company has been awarded a $344.4 meg federal contract (2006 - 2016) and another $17.3 million contract (2015 -2026) past DHS.

NBACC

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NBACC is classified every bit a The states Top Secret facility.

Among the secret experiments performed by Battelle at NBACC, are: Assessment of powder dissemination technology, Assessment of take chances posed past aerosolized toxins, and Assessment of virulence of B. Pseudomallei (Meliodosis) equally a function of aerosol particle in non-human primates. Melioidosis has the potential to be developed as a biological weapon, hence it is classed as a category B. Bioterrorism Amanuensis. B. Pseudomallei was studied by the United states equally a potential bioweapon in the past.

Biowarfare scientists

Besides the military experiments at the Lugar Center in Georgia, Battelle has already produced bioterrorism agents at the Biosafety Level 4 NBACC Height Secret Laboratory at Fort Detrick in the Usa. An NBACC presentation lists sixteen inquiry priorities for the lab, including to characterize classical, emerging and genetically-engineered pathogens for their BTA (biological threat agent) potential; assess the nature of nontraditional, novel and not-owned induction of disease from potential BTA; and to expand aerosol-claiming testing capacity for non-homo primates.

NBACC lab

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Scientists engineer pathogens at the NBACC lab.

Pentagon Biolabs at The epicenter of The Ebola Crisis

The US Visitor Metabiota Inc. has been awarded $eighteen.4 million federal contracts under the Pentagon's DTRA plan in Georgia and Ukraine for scientific and technical consulting services.

Metabiota services include global field-based biological threat research, pathogen discovery, outbreak response and clinical trials.

Metabiota Inc. had been contracted by the Pentagon to perform work for DTRA earlier and during the Ebola crunch in West Africa, and was awarded $3.1 one thousand thousand (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone - 1 of the countries at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.

Metabiota labs

Metabiota worked on the Pentagon's project at the epicenter of the Ebola crisis, where three United states biolabs are situated.

Ebola Crisis

A July 17, 2014 report, drafted by the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, accused Metabiota Inc. of failing to abide by an existing understanding on how to study test results and for bypassing the Sierra Leonean scientists working in that location. The report as well raised the possibility that Metabiota was culturing blood cells at the lab, something the report said was dangerous, also every bit misdiagnosing good for you patients. All of those allegations were denied by Metabiota.

Lugar Center

2011, the Lugar Centre, Andrew C. Weber (on the right) - US Assistant Secretary of Defense (2009-2014), The states DoD Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response (2014-2015), is currently a Metabiota (US contractor) employee.

Armed services Experiments on Biting Insects

Entomological warfare is a type of biological warfare that uses insects to transmit diseases. The Pentagon has allegedly performed such entomological tests in Georgia and Russia.

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Biting Flies in Georgia

In 2014 The Lugar Center was equipped with an insect facility and launched a project titled 'Raising Awareness nigh Barcoding of Sand Flies in Georgia and Caucasus'. The project covered a larger geographic area outside of Georgia - the Caucasus region. In 2014-2015 Phlebotomine sand fly species were collected under another project, 'Surveillance Work on Astute Febrile Illness' and all (female) sand flies were tested to determine their infectivity rate. A tertiary project, also including sand flies collection, studied the characteristics of their salivary glands.

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A biting fly in a bathroom in Tbilisi, Georgia

Every bit a result, Tbilisi has been infested with biting flies since 2015. These biting insects live indoors, in bathrooms, all year long, which was not the typical behavior of these species in Georgia previously (commonly the Phlebotomine fly flavor in Georgia is exceptionally brusk - from June to September). Local people complain of beingness bitten past these newly-appeared flies while naked in their bathrooms. They likewise have a strong resistance to common cold and can survive even in sub-cipher temperatures in the mountains.

Bitter Flies in Dagestan, Russia

Since the start of the Pentagon project in 2014, flies similar to those in Georgia have appeared in neighboring Dagestan (Russian federation). According to local people, they bite and cause rashes. Their breeding habitats are house drains.

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Flies in Georgia (on the left). The same wing in Dagestan (on the right)

Flies from the Phlebotomine family carry dangerous parasites in their saliva which they transmit through a bite to humans. The illness, which these flies carry, is of loftier interest to the Pentagon. In 2003 during the US invasion of Iraq, American soldiers were severely bitten by sand flies and contracted Leishmoniasis. The disease is native to Iraq and Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, and if left untreated the acute form of Leishmoniasis tin exist fatal.

A 1967 US Army report 'Arthropods of medical importance in Asia and the European USSR' lists all local insects, their distribution and the diseases that they bear. Bitter flies, which alive in drains, are besides listed in the certificate. Their natural habitat, though, is the Philippines, not Georgia or Russia.

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'Arthropods of medical importance in Asia and the European USSR', US Army report, 1967

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Operation Whitecoat: Infected Flies Tested to Bite Humans

In 1970 and 1972, Sand Wing Fever tests were performed on humans according to a declassified United states Army report - 'US Army Activities in the US, Biological Warfare Programs, 1977, vol. Two, p. 203'. During Functioning Whitecoat, volunteers were exposed to bites past infected sand flies. Operation Whitecoat was a bio-defense medical enquiry programme carried out past the U.s. Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, between 1954 and 1973.

Despite the official termination of the U.s. bio-weapons program, in 1982 USAMRIID performed an experiment to run across if sand flies and mosquitoes could be vectors of Rift Valley Virus, Dengue, Chikungunya and Eastern Equine Encephalitis - viruses which the The states Army researched for their potential as bio-weapons.

Killer Insects

A. Aegypti

The Pentagon has a long history in using insects as vectors for diseases. According to a partially declassified 1981 US Army written report, American bio warfare scientists carried out a number of experiments on insects. These operations were part of Us Entomological Warfare under the Plan for Biological Weapons of the U.s.a..

The Pentagon: How to Kill 625,000 People For Just $0.29 Cost Per Death

A US Army study in 1981 compared two scenarios - xvi simultaneous attacks on a city by A. Aegypti mosquitoes, infected with Yellowish Fever, and Tularemia droplets assail, and assessed their effectiveness in terms of toll and casualties.

Yellow Fever memo

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Performance Big Itch: Field tests were performed to determine coverage patterns and survivability of the tropical rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis for use as a illness vector in biological warfare.

Operation Big Buzz: 1 million A. Aegypti mosquitoes were produced, one/3 were placed in munitions and dropped from aircraft, or dispersed on the basis. The mosquitoes survived the airdrop and actively sought out human blood.

history of field testing

Evaluation of Entomological Warfare every bit a potential Danger to the United states of america and European NATO nations, Usa Army, March 1981 Report

Operation May Mean solar day: Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes were dispersed through ground-based methods in Georgia, United states of america, during a US Army functioning codenamed May Day.

Operation May Day

Parts of the 1981 U.s.a. Army report such as the "Mass production of Aedes Aegypti" accept not been declassified, potentially meaning that the project is all the same ongoing.

Aedes Aegypti, also known as yellow fever musquito, have been widely used in United states of america military operations. The aforementioned species of mosquitoes are alleged to be the vectors of dengue, chikungunya and the Zika virus, which causes genetic malformations in newborns

Operation Bellweather: The US Ground forces Chemic Enquiry and Development Command, Biological Weapons Branch, studied outdoor mosquito biting activeness in a number of field tests at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, in 1960. Virgin female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which had been starved, were tested upon troops out in the open up air.

Operation Bellweather

For reference: OutdoorMosquito Bitter Activity Studies,Project Bellweather I, 1960, Technical Report, US Regular army, Dugway Proving Ground

Military Experiments With Tropical Mosquitoes and Ticks in Georgia

Such species of mosquitoes and fleas (studied in the by nether the United states Entomological Warfare Program) have likewise been nerveless in Georgia and tested at the Lugar Center.

Nether the DTRA project 'Virus and Other Arboviruses in Georgia' in 2014, the never-before-seen tropical mosquito Aedes albopictus was detected for the get-go time and after an absence of decades (60 years), the being of Aedes Aegypti mosquito was confirmed in west Georgia.

Aedes Albopictus

Aedes Albopictus is a vector of many viral pathogens, Xanthous fever virus, Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika.

These tropical mosquitoes Aedes Albopictus, having never been seen earlier in Georgia, have also been detected in neighboring Russia (Krasnodar) and Turkey. According to data provided by the European Center for Affliction Prevention and Command, their spread is unusual for this part of the world.

Aedes Albopictus distribution

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Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes take been distributed simply in Georgia, southern Russia and northern Turkey. They were detected for the kickoff time in 2014 after the showtime of the Pentagon program at the Lugar Center.

Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes

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Under another DTRA project, 'Epidemiology and Ecology of Tularemia in Georgia' (2013-2016), 6,148 ground ticks were nerveless; v,871 were nerveless off cattle and 1,310 fleas and 731 ticks were caught. In 2016 a further 21,590 ticks were collected and studied at the Lugar Heart.

Anthrax Outbreak in Georgia and NATO Human Trials

In 2007 Georgia ended its policy of having compulsory annual livestock anthrax vaccination. Equally a result, the morbidity charge per unit of the disease reached its peak in 2013. The same year NATO started human-based anthrax vaccine tests at the Lugar Centre in Georgia.

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In 2007, despite the anthrax outbreak, the Georgian authorities terminated compulsory vaccination for seven years. 2013 saw NATO brainstorm human trials on a new anthrax vaccine in Georgia.

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Pentagon Enquiry on Russian Anthrax

Anthrax is one of the bio agents weaponized by the The states Army in the past. Despite the Pentagon's claims that its program is only defensive, there are facts to the contrary. In 2016 at the Lugar Center American scientists carried out research on the 'Genome Sequence of the Soviet/Russian Bacillus anthracis Vaccine Strain 55-VNIIVViM', which was funded by the US Defense Threat Reduction Bureau'southward (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Plan in Tbilisi, and administered by Metabiota (the US contractor under the Pentagon program in Georgia).

In 2017 the DTRA funded farther inquiry - '10 Genome Sequences of Homo and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the Country of Georgia' - which was performed past USAMRU-G at the Lugar Center.

34 People Intentionally-Infected With Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Georgia

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is caused by infection through a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus). The affliction was beginning characterized in Crimea in 1944 and given the proper noun Crimean hemorrhagic fever. It was and then later recognized in 1969 as the cause of illness in Congo, thus resulting in the current name of the disease. In 2014 34 people became infected (including a 4-twelvemonth quondam child) with CCHF. Three of them died. The same year, Pentagon biologists studied the virus in Georgia under the DTRA project 'Epidemiology of febrile illnesses caused by Dengue viruses and other Arboviruses in Georgia'. The project included tests on patients with fever symptoms and the collection of ticks, as possible vectors of CCHFV for laboratory assay.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

CCHF Cases in Humans

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The cause of the CCHF outbreak in Georgia is still unknown. According to the local Veterinary Department written report, only ane tick from all of the collected species from the infected villages tested positive for the disease. Despite the claims of local government that the virus was transmitted to humans from animals, all animal claret samples were negative also. The lack of infected ticks and animals is inexplicable given the sharp increase of CCHF human cases in 2014, meaning that the outbreak was not natural and the virus was spread intentionally.

In 2016 another 21,590 ticks were collected for Deoxyribonucleic acid databases for future studies at the Lugar Center nether the Pentagon project 'Assessing the Seroprevalence and Genetic Multifariousness of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) and Hantaviruses in Georgia'.

Symptoms of CCHF

Armed forces Bio-lab Blamed For Deadly CCHF Outbreak in Afghanistan

237 cases of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) have likewise been reported across Afghanistan, 41 of which were fatal as of December 2017. According to Afghanistan's Ministry of Wellness, most of the cases have been registered in the upper-case letter Kabul, where 71 cases have been reported with thirteen fatalities, and in the province of Herat near the edge with Iran (67 cases).

CCHF cases Afghanistan

CCHF outbreak bio-lab

Transitional islamic state of afghanistan is one of 25 countries beyond the world with Pentagon bio-laboratories on their territory. The project in Afghanistan is part of the United states of america bio-defense program - Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), which is funded past the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The DTRA contractors, working at the Lugar Center in Georgia, CH2M Hill and Battelle, accept also been contracted for the program in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan. CH2M Hill has been awarded a $10.four million contract (2013-2017). The Pentagon contractors in Afghanistan and Georgia are the same, and so are the diseases which are spreading among the local population in both countries.

Why The Pentagon Collects And Studies Bats

Bats are allegedly the reservoir hosts to the Ebola Virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and other deadly diseases. However, the precise ways these viruses are transmitted to humans are currently unknown. Numerous studies have been performed under the DTRA Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) in a search for deadly pathogens of military importance in bats.

Pentagon bats

221 bats were euthanized at the Lugar Centre for enquiry purposes in 2014.

euthanizing bats

Bats have been blamed for the deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa (2014-2016). However, no conclusive evidence of exactly how the virus 'jumped' to humans has ever been provided, which raises suspicions of intentional and not natural infection.

Engineering Deadly Viruses is Legal in the U.s.

Middle Eastward respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outset appeared in 2012 and is idea to take originated in bats and spread directly to humans and/or camels. Withal, like Ebola, the precise ways the virus spreads are unknown.

one,980 cases with 699 deaths caused by MERS-CoV were reported in xv countries across the earth (as of June 2017).

MERS deaths

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3 to 4 out of every 10 patients reported with MERS have died.

MERS-CoV is ane of the viruses that have been engineered by the Usa and studied by the Pentagon, too as influenza and SARS. Confirmation of this practice is Obama's 2014 temporary ban on government funding for such 'dual-use' research. The moratorium was lifted in 2017 and experiments have continued. Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) experiments are legal in the United states of america.

Such experiments aim to increase the transmissibility and/or virulence of pathogens.

Tularemia as Bioweapon

Tularemia, also known as Rabbit Fever, is classified as a bioterrorism agent and was developed as such in the by by the The states. However, the Pentagon'south inquiry on tularemia continues, besides equally on possible vectors of the bacteria such as ticks and rodents, which cause the disease. The DTRA has launched a number of projects on Tularemia along with other especially dangerous pathogens in Georgia.

Especially Dangerous Pathogens (EDPs), or select agents, stand for a major concern for public health globally. These highly pathogenic agents have the potential to exist weaponized, with proof of their military importance seen through the post-obit Pentagon projects: Epidemiology and Environmental of Tularemia in Georgia (2013-2016) (threescore,000 vectors were collected for strain isolates and genome inquiry); Epidemiology of Human Tularemia in Georgia; and Human being Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance of Especially Dangerous Pathogens in Georgia (study of select agents amidst patients with undifferentiated fever and hemorrhagic fever/septic stupor).

Human Tularemia

F. Tularensis is a highly infectious bacterium and has the potential to exist weaponized for utilize through aerosol attacks.

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Tularemia is 1 of the bio-weapons that the The states Regular army developed in the past.

Source: 1981 US Army Report

Pentagon Bio-laboratories Spread Diseases in Ukraine

11 Pentagon Biolabs

11 Pentagon Biolaboratories in Ukraine and around Russia. Click to run across full-size image

The DoD Defense force Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in Ukraine, which too borders on Russia:

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The United states War machine Programme is Sensitive Information

Ukraine has no command over the military bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Understanding between the US Section of Defence force and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information virtually the US programme and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the Usa DoD dangerous pathogens for biological research. The Pentagon has been granted access to sure state secrets of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement:

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Biowarfare Scientists Under Diplomatic Cover

Among the set of bilateral agreements between the US and Ukraine is the establishment of the Science and Technology Centre in Ukraine (STCU) - an international system funded mainly by the Us government which has been accorded diplomatic status. The STCU officially supports projects of scientists previously involved in the Soviet biological weapons program. Over the by 20 years the STCU has invested over $285 one thousand thousand in funding and managing some ane,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the development of weapons of mass destruction.

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The US personnel in Ukraine work under diplomatic cover.

364 Ukrainians Died From Swine Flu

Ane of the Pentagon laboratories is located in Kharkiv, where in January 2016 at least xx Ukrainian soldiers died from a influenza-like virus in merely two days, with 200 more being hospitalized. The Ukrainian authorities did not report on the expressionless Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths were reported beyond Ukraine (81.3 % caused past Swine Flu A (H1N1) pdm09 - the aforementioned strain which acquired the world pandemic in 2009).

Ukraine Swine Flu

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According to Donetsk People's Commonwealth (DPR) intelligence data, the US bio-lab in Kharkiv leaked the mortiferous virus.

Law Investigate Infection With Incurable Disease

Tardily last year, a highly suspicious Hepatitis A infection spread rapidly in merely few months across South East Ukraine, where most of the Pentagon biolabs are located.

hundreds infected hepatitis A

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37 people accept been hospitalized for Hepatitis A in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv as of Jan 2018. Local police force take launched an investigation into "infection with human immunodeficiency virus and other incurable diseases." Three years ago more than 100 people in the same city became infected with Cholera. Both diseases are declared to accept spread through contaminated drinking h2o.

In the summer of 2017, 60 people with Hepatitis A were admitted to hospital in the city of Zaporizhia. The cause of this outbreak is all the same unknown.

In the Odessa region, 19 children from an orphanage were hospitalized for hepatitis A in June 2017.

29 cases of Hepatitis A were reported in Kharkiv in Nov 2017. The virus was isolated in contaminated drinking h2o. One of the Pentagon bio-labs located in Kharkiv was blamed for the deadly Flu outbreak a year ago that claimed the lives of 364 Ukrainians.

Ukraine And Russia Hit Past New Highly Virulent Cholera Infection

In 2011 Ukraine was hit by a cholera outbreak. 33 patients were reportedly hospitalized for severe diarrhea. A second outbreak struck the country in 2014 when more than 800 people all across Ukraine were reported to have contracted the disease. In 2015 at to the lowest degree 100 new cases were registered in the city of Mykolaiv alone.

Mariupol and Mykolaiv

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Vibrio Cholera

A new highly virulent variant of the cholera agent Vibrio cholera, with a loftier genetic similarity to the strains reported in Ukraine, striking Moscow in 2014. Co-ordinate to a 2014 Russian Enquiry Anti-Plaque Establish genetic study, the cholera strain isolated in Moscow was similar to the bacteria which caused the epidemic in neighboring Ukraine.

Southern Research Constitute, one of the US contractors working at the bio-laboratories in Ukraine, has projects on Cholera, as well as on Influenza and Zika - all pathogens of military importance to the Pentagon.

Forth with Southern Research Plant, two other private American companies operate military bio-labs in Ukraine - Blackness & Veatch and Metabiota.

DTRA contractors Ukraine

Black & Veatch Special Projection Corp. was awarded $198.7 one thousand thousand in DTRA contracts to build and operate bio-laboratories in Ukraine (nether two 5-year contracts in 2008 and 2012 totaling $128.five meg), as well as in Germany, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Thailand, Federal democratic republic of ethiopia, Vietnam and Armenia.

Metabiota has been awarded a $18.4 million federal contract under the program in Georgia and Ukraine. This US visitor was also contracted to perform work for the DTRA before and during the Ebola crisis in Westward Africa, including $3.1 million (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone.

Southern Research Institute has been a prime subcontractor under the DTRA programme in Ukraine since 2008. The visitor was also a prime Pentagon contractor in the past, under the US Biological Weapons Programme for inquiry and development of bio-agents, with 16 contracts between 1951 and 1962.

Fort Detrick Contracts

Source: US Army Activities in the United states of america, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. II, 1977, p. 82

Soviet Defector Produced Anthrax For The Pentagon

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Bacillus anthracis, magnified more than 12,000 times

Southern Inquiry Institute was besides a subcontractor on a Pentagon plan for anthrax research in 2001. The prime number contractor being Advanced Biosystems, whose president at that time was Ken Alibek (a former Soviet microbiologist and biological warfare expert from Kazakhstan who defected to the US in 1992).

Ken Alibek

Ken Alibek was the First Deputy Director of Biopreparat, where he oversaw a programme for biological weapon facilities and was the Soviet Marriage's principal skillful on anthrax. After his defection to the United states of america, he was engaged on Pentagon research projects.

$250,000 For Lobbying Jeff Sessions For "Research For US Intelligence"

Southern Enquiry Plant lobbied the US Congress and US Section of State hard for "issues related to research and development for U.s.a. intelligence" and "defense related research and evolution." The lobbying activities coincided with the start of the Pentagon projects on bio-labs in Ukraine and other erstwhile Soviet states.

The visitor paid $250,000 for lobbying then-Senator Jeff Sessions in 2008-2009 (currently the United states of america Attorney General appointed by Donald Trump), when the institute was awarded a number of federal contracts.

Jeff Sessions

US Attorney Full general Jeff Sessions, U.s.a. Senator for Alabama (1997-2017)

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For a 10-year period (2006-2016) Southern Research Institute paid $1.28 million for lobbying the The states Senate, Business firm of Representatives, the State Section and the Department of Defense (DoD). Senator Jeff Sessions' aide on Capitol Colina, Watson Donald, is now a Senior Director at Southern Research Institute.

Police Investigate Botulism Toxin Poisoning in Ukraine

115 Botulism cases, with 12 deaths, were reported in Ukraine in 2016.

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In 2017 the Ukrainian Ministry of Health confirmed a further 90 new cases, with viii deaths, of botulinum toxin poisoning (one of the almost poisonous biological substances known). According to local health government, the cause of the outbreak was food poisoning, into which police launched an investigation.

The Ukrainian government stopped supplying antidote in 2014 and no botulism vaccines in stock were available during the 2016-2017 outbreak.

Botulism is a rare and extremely unsafe affliction acquired by a toxin produced past the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

1 gm of The Toxin Tin Kill as Many as 1 Million People

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Botulinum neurotoxin poses a major bio-weapon threat because of its extreme potency, ease of production and transport. It causes muscles paralyses, respiratory failure and ultimately death if not treated immediately. A single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled can kill more one million people. It could be disseminated via aerosol, or by contamination of water and/ or nutrient supplies.

The Pentagon Produces Live Viruses, Leaner & Toxins

Botulinum Toxin was tested as a bio-weapon by the US Ground forces in the past, as well as Anthrax, Brucella and Tularemia. Although the The states bio-weapons plan was officially terminated in 1969, documents show that the military experiments never ended. Presently the Pentagon produces and tests live bio-agents at the same military facility as it did in the past - Dugway Proving Basis.

Current Field Tests

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Capabilities Report 2012, W Desert Exam Eye

Past Field Tests

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Source: 1977 US Regular army Report , p. 135

Bioweapons Factory in The US

The United states Army produces and tests bio-agents at a special military facility located at Dugway Proving Ground (West Desert Test Heart, Utah), as proven in a 2012 United states of america Army Report. The facility is overseen by the Army Test and Evaluation Control.

The Life Sciences Division (LSD) at Dugway Proving Footing is tasked with the production of bio-agents. According to the Regular army written report, scientists from this partitioning produce and examination aerosolized bio-agents at Lothar Saloman Life Sciences Test Facility (LSTF).

Dugway Proving Ground

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Biological Agents produced by the U.s.a. Army at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United states

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, W Desert Examination Center

The Life Sciences Sectionalisation consists of an Aerosol Applied science branch and a Microbiology Branch. The Droplets Technology Branch aerosolizes biological agents and simulants. The Microbiology branch produces toxins, bacteria, viruses and amanuensis-like organisms which are used in bedchamber and field testing.

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A large 1500 L fermentator.

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A large 1500 L fermentator.

post-production laboratory

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A post-product laboratory dries and mills examination materials.

After the bio-agents are produced, the scientists challenge them at containment aerosol chambers.

Technicians disseminate live biological agents

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Technicians disseminate live biological agents for identification sensitivity tests.

Technicians disseminate live biological agents.

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Technicians disseminate

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Aerosol Experiments With Botulinum Neurotoxin And Anthrax

Documents evidence that the United states Army produces, possesses and tests aerosols of the nearly lethal toxin in the world - Botulinum Neurotoxin. In 2014 the Section of the Army purchased 100 mg of Botulinum Toxin from Metabiologics for tests at Dugway Proving Ground.

The experiments appointment back to 2007 when an unspecified quantity of the toxin was procured for the Department of the Army by the same company - Metabiologics. Co-ordinate to the 2012 West Desert Test Center Report, the military facility performs tests with Botulinum Neurotoxin Aerosol, as well as with aerosolized Anthrax, Yersinia pestis, and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus (VEE).

Containment Aerosol Chamber

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, Westward Desert Exam Center

Outdoor Field Test Programs at Dugway Proving Ground

The states Army documents and photos show that the Pentagon has developed various dissemination methods for bioterrorism attacks, including via explosives.

Capapbilities Report

Source: Capabilities Written report 2012, W Desert Examination Center

Dissemination of contaminants

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Dissemination of contaminants for biological/chemical tests.

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Liquid Dissemination.

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Liquid Dissemination.

Powder Dissemination.

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Pulverization Broadcasting.

Dissemination on the test grid.

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Broadcasting on the test grid.

The US Army report lists numerous dissemination techniques, including via bio-aerosol sprayers. Such sprayers, called Micronair disseminators, accept already been developed by the US Regular army and tested at Dugway Proving Ground. Co-ordinate to the documents, they tin be vehicle-mounted, or worn as a backpack with a pump system, which can exist fitted to the unit to increase the accuracy of the release. Micronair sprayers tin release 50 to 500 mL of bio-liquid simulant per infinitesimal from 12 L tanks.

Aerosol Sprayers.

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Aerosol Sprayers.

The US Stole Bacteria From Saddam Hussein'south Bio Weapons Mill

Bacillus thuringiensis is an insect pathogen that is widely used as a bio-pesticide. B. thuringiensis (BT) Al Hakam was collected in Iraq by the UN Special Commission led by the U.s.a. in 2003. It is named subsequently Al Hakam - Iraq'southward bio-weapons production facility. Autonomously from Pentagon field tests, this bacterium is also used in the US for the production of GM corn, which is resistant to pests. Photos posted past the CIA prove that the leaner was collected by the US in Iraq. According to the CIA, the vials containing bio-pesticide were recovered from an Al Hakam scientist's home.

CIA: A full of 97 vials - including those with labels consistent with the Al Hakam cover stories of single-cell protein and bio-pesticides - as well every bit strains that could be used to produce BW agents, were recovered from a scientist's residence in Iraq in 2003.

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Bacillus thuringiensis

Information from the The states federal contracts registry shows that the Pentagon performs tests using the bacteria stolen from Saddam Hussein'due south bio-weapons factory in Iraq.

DTRA project

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The Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) federal project for laboratory analysis and field tests with bacteria.

The tests are performed on Kirtland Air Force Base (Kirtland is the home of the Air Strength Materiel Control's Nuclear Weapons Centre). Here weapons are being tested, meaning that the field tests with biological simulants (leaner) besides fall into this group.

The DTRA contractor on this projection - Lovelace Biomedical and Ecology Research Constitute (LBERI) - operates an Beast Bio-safe 3 Level (ABSL-3) laboratory, which has Select Agent status. The facility is designed to conduct bioaerosol studies. The visitor has been awarded a five-year contract for field tests with biological simulants at Kirtland Air Force Base.

Kirtland Air Force Base.

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Kirtland Air Force Base of operations.

Some of the tests are performed in a wind tunnel.

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Some of the tests are performed in a wind tunnel.

Field Tests With Biological Simulants (Leaner)

What the Pentagon is currently doing is exactly what it did in the past, meaning that its bio-weapons program was never terminated. The US Army performed 27 field tests with such biological simulants, involving the public domain from 1949 to 1968, when President Nixon officially announced the finish of the program.

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Source: US Ground forces Activities in the U.s.a., Biological Warfare Programs, vol. Ii, 1977, p. 125-126

Field Tests in Chechnya

The Defence force Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which runs the US armed services program at the Lugar Center in Georgia, is declared to have already performed field tests with an unknown substance in Chechnya, Russia. In the leap of 2017 local citizens reported a drone disseminating white powder close to the Russian border with Georgia. Neither the Georgian border police, nor the US personnel operating on the Georgia-Russia edge, commented on this information.

$9.two Million United states Armed services Project on Russia-Georgia Border

DTRA has full access to the Russian federation-Georgia border, granted under a military program chosen 'Georgia Land Border Security Project'. The activities related to the projection have been outsourced to a private American company - Parsons Regime Services International. DTRA has previously contracted Parsons for similar edge security projects in Lebanon, Hashemite kingdom of jordan, Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya and Syria. Parsons have been awarded a $9.2 million contract under the Pentagon border security project on the Russia-Georgia border.

Lugar Center Tbilisi

Local citizens in Chechnya noticed a UAV sprayer near the Russian border with Georgia in 2017.

US Defense Agency Tests GM Insects to Transmit GM Viruses

The Pentagon has invested at least $65 million in gene editing. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded 7 research teams to develop tools for genome engineering in insects, rodents and bacteria nether DARPA'due south Safe Factor program, using a novel CRISPR-Cas9 technology.

Darpa engineering

insect weapon

Nether another armed services programme - Insect Allies - GM insects are engineered to transfer modified genes to plants. The $10.three million DARPA project includes both cistron editing in insects and in the viruses that they transmit. Ecological Niche-preference Technology is a third ongoing military program for genome technology in insects. The Pentagon's stated objective is to engineer GM organisms so that they tin resist certain temperatures, change their habitat and nutrient sources.

ecological engineering

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Genetically Engineered Humans

Besides cistron editing in insects and in the viruses they transmit, the Pentagon wants to engineer humans too.

genome engineering

DARPA Advanced Tools for Mammalian Genome Technology Projection seeks to create a biological platform inside the human body, using information technology to evangelize new genetic data, and thus altering humans at the DNA level.

DARPA wants to insert an additional 47th artificial chromosome into human cells. This chromosome will deliver new genes that volition exist used for engineering the man torso. SynPloid Biotek LLC has been awarded two contracts under the programme totaling $1.ane meg (2015-2016 - $100,600 for the first stage of the research; 2015-2017 - $999,300 for work which is not specified in the federal contracts registry). The company has only two employees and no previous record on bio-research.

Top Secret Research on Synthetic Viruses

Between 2008 and 2014, the U.s.a. invested approximately $820 million in synthetic biology research, Defence being a major contributor. Much of the military projects on constructed biology are classified, among them are a number of classified studies by the secretive JASON group of The states military machine advisors - e.chiliad. Emerging Viruses and Genome Editing for the Pentagon, and Synthetic Viruses for the National Counterterrorism Eye.

JASON is an independent scientific advisory group that provides consulting services to the U.S. authorities on matters of defense, science and engineering. It was established in 1960 and almost of their resulting JASON reports are classified. For administrative purposes, JASON'south projects are run by the MITRE Corporation, which has contracts with the Defense Department, CIA and the FBI. Since 2014 MITRE has been awarded some $27.iv million in contracts with the DoD.

Although the JASON Reports are classified, another United states Air Force study titled Biotechnology: Genetically Engineered Pathogens, sheds some low-cal on what the secretive JASON group has researched - v groups of genetically engineered pathogens that can be used as bio-weapons. These are binary biological weapons (a lethal combination of two viruses), host swapping diseases (creature viruses that 'spring' to humans, like the Ebola virus), stealth viruses, and designer diseases. Designer diseases can be engineered to target a certain ethnic group, meaning that they can be used as ethnic bio-weapons.

Indigenous Bioweapons

Ethnic biological weapon (biogenetic weapon) is a theoretical weapon that aims to primarily harm people of specific ethnicities, or genotypes.

Although officially the inquiry and evolution of ethnic bio-weapons have never been publicly confirmed, documents show that the Us collects biological textile from certain indigenous groups - Russians and Chinese.

The US Air Forcefulness has been specifically collecting Russian RNA and synovial tissue samples, raising fears in Moscow of a covert US indigenous bio-weapons program.

Synovial tissue

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Apart from Russians, the US has been collecting biological material from both healthy and cancer patients in People's republic of china. The National Cancer Institute has collected biological samples from 300 subjects from Linxian, Zhengzhou, and Chengdu in China. While another federal projection, titled 'Serum Metabolic biomarkers discovery study of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in China', includes assay of 349 serum samples which take been collected from Chinese patients.

Linxian, Zhengzhou

The The states National Cancer Institute has been collecting biological fabric from patients of the Chinese Cancer Hospital in Beijing.

Chinese biological material has been collected under a series of federal projects, including saliva and cancer tissue. Amid them, Genotyping Dna Samples from Lymphoma cases and from controls (healthy patients), breast cancer tissue blocks from breast cancer patients, saliva samples of 50 families who have 3 or more than cases of UGI cancer, Genotype 50 SNP'Southward for Deoxyribonucleic acid samples from the Cancer Hospital, Beijing, Genotypes from 3,000 cases of gastric cancer and iii,000 controls (salubrious patients) in Beijing.

How The Pentagon Helped Tobacco Companies to Profit From Ebola

The Defence Advanced Enquiry Projects Bureau (DARPA) has invested $100 million in vaccine product from tobacco plants.

The companies involved in the projection are endemic by the biggest American tobacco companies - Mediacago, Inc. is co-owned by Philip Morris and Kentucky BioProcessing is a subsidiary of Reynolds American, which is endemic by British American Tobacco. Currently they are producing Flu and Ebola vaccines from tobacco plants.

The $100 million program Bluish Angel was launched as a response to the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. Medicago was awarded $21 million to produce 10,000 million doses of an influenza vaccine inside 1 month.

Blueish Angel plan manager Dr. John Julias explains: "Although there are multiple plant species and other organisms beingness explored as alternative poly peptide production platforms, the The states Government has continued to make an investment in tobacco-based manufacturing."

Tobacco plants

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The found-based vaccine product method works past isolating a specific antigen protein that triggers a man immune response from the targeted virus. A gene from the poly peptide is transferred to bacteria, which is used to infect plants. The plants then start producing the protein that will be used for vaccinations.

It is non articulate why the Pentagon chooses to invest in vaccines produced from tobacco plants, from among all other plant species they explored. Medicago, co-endemic by Philip Morris, paid $495,000 for lobbying the Department of Defense, Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services for "funding to advance technology to support public wellness preparedness applications." The Pentagon funded tobacco companies to develop new engineering science and to profit from vaccines.

Biological Experiments Are War Crimes

Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines biological experiments as state of war crimes. The U.s., however, is not a state party to the international treaty, and cannot exist held answerable for its war crimes.