Pentagon bio-weapons

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian investigative journalist and Eye E Correspondent. Over the last 2 years she has published a series of reports on weapons smuggling to ISIS in Syrian arab republic. In the past twelvemonth she came under pressure from the Bulgarian National Security Agency and was fired from her job in the Bulgarian newspaper Trud Daily, without explanation. Despite this, Dilyana continues her investigations. The following written report, first published on S Front, provides an overview of the Pentagon's secretive development of biological weapons in bio-labs around the world.

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The US Regular army regularly produces mortiferous viruses, bacteria and toxins in direct violation of the UN 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 cover test man-fabricated viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world. These U.s.a. bio-laboratories are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ 2.ane billion military plan - Cooperative Biological Engagement Plan (CBEP) - and are located in former Soviet Union countries such every bit Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle E, South East asia and Africa.

Pentagon's Biolabs


The Lugar Center, Republic of Georgia

The Lugar Heart, Republic of Georgia

Vaziani Air Base

The Usa Army has been deployed to Vaziani Armed forces Air Base, 17 km away from the Pentagon bio-laboratory at the Lugar Eye.

Georgia is a Testing Ground For Bioweapons

The Lugar Center is the Pentagon bio laboratory in Georgia. It is located merely 17 km away from the US Vaziani military airbase in the capital Tbilisi. Tasked with the military program are biologists from the The states Army Medical Enquiry Unit-Georgia (USAMRU-G) along with individual contractors. The Bio-prophylactic Level iii Laboratory is accessible only to US citizens with security clearance. They are accorded diplomatic amnesty under the 2002 US-Georgia Understanding on defense cooperation.

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Defense Agreement

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

Information obtained from the Usa federal contracts registry clarifies some of the military activities at the Lugar Center - amidst them enquiry on bio-agents (anthrax, tularemia) and viral diseases (e.g. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever), and the collection of biological samples for future experiments.

Pentagon Contractors Produce Bio Agents Under Diplomatic Comprehend

The Defense Threat Reduction Bureau (DTRA) has outsourced much of the work under the armed services program to private companies, which are not held answerable to Congress, and which tin can operate more freely and movement effectually the rule of police force. Usa civilian personnel performing piece of work at the Lugar Center have also been given diplomatic amnesty, although they are non diplomats. Hence, private companies can perform piece of work, under diplomatic cover, for the US government without being under the direct control of the host state - in this example the Republic of Georgia. This practice is often used by the CIA to provide cover for its agents.

DTRA contractors

Iii private American companies piece of work at the US bio-laboratory in Tbilisi - CH2M Colina, Battelle and Metabiota. In addition to the Pentagon, these private contractors perform biological enquiry for the CIA and various other authorities agencies.

CH2M Hill has been awarded $341.5 million DTRA contracts under the Pentagon'due south programme for bio-laboratories in Georgia, Republic of uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Eastern asia. One-half of this sum ($161.1 million) is allocated to the Lugar Center under the Georgian contract.

According to CH2M Colina, the U.s.a. Company has secured biological agents and employed former bio-warfare scientists at the Lugar Centre. These are scientists who are working for some other American company involved in the military program in Georgia - Battelle Memorial Institute.

Equally a $59 1000000 subcontractor at the Lugar Center, Battelle has extensive feel in research on bio-agents, as the company has already worked on the U.s. Bio-weapons Programme under 11 previous contracts with the United states of america Army (1952-1966).

Contractors

Source: The states Ground forces Activities in the United states of america, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. Two, 1977, p. 82

The private visitor performs work for the Pentagon's DTRA bio laboratories in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. Battelle conducts enquiry, development, testing, and evaluation using both highly toxic chemicals and highly pathogenic biological agents for a wide range of Usa government agencies. Information technology has been awarded some $2 billion federal contracts in total, and ranks 23 on the Top 100 U.s.a. government contractors list.

The CIA-Battelle Project Clear Vision

Projection Articulate Vision (1997 and 2000), a joint investigation by the CIA and the Battelle Memorial Constitute, under a contract awarded past the Agency, reconstructed and tested a Soviet-era anthrax bomblet in gild to exam its broadcasting characteristics. The projection's stated goal was to assess bio-agents broadcasting characteristics of bomblets. The undercover CIA-Battelle functioning was omitted from the The states Biological Weapons Convention declarations submitted to the UN.

Anthrax spores under microscope

Anthrax spores under microscope

Top Secret Experiments

Battelle has operated a Elevation Secret Bio laboratory (National Biodefense Assay 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 million federal contract (2006 - 2016) and some other $17.3 million contract (2015 -2026) past DHS.

NBACC

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NBACC is classified as a United states of america Meridian Secret facility.

Among the hush-hush experiments performed by Battelle at NBACC, are: Cess of pulverization dissemination technology, Assessment of chance posed by aerosolized toxins, and Assessment of virulence of B. Pseudomallei (Meliodosis) every bit a function of droplets particle in not-human primates. Melioidosis has the potential to be developed as a biological weapon, hence it is classed as a category B. Bioterrorism Agent. B. Pseudomallei was studied by the Usa as a potential bioweapon in the past.

Biowarfare scientists

Besides the war machine experiments at the Lugar Eye in Georgia, Battelle has already produced bioterrorism agents at the Biosafety Level 4 NBACC Top Secret Laboratory at Fort Detrick in the US. An NBACC presentation lists 16 enquiry priorities for the lab, including to characterize classical, emerging and genetically-engineered pathogens for their BTA (biological threat agent) potential; appraise the nature of nontraditional, novel and not-endemic consecration of disease from potential BTA; and to aggrandize aerosol-challenge 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 Company Metabiota Inc. has been awarded $xviii.iv meg 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 before and during the Ebola crunch in West Africa, and was awarded $3.1 million (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'south project at the epicenter of the Ebola crunch, where 3 U.s. biolabs are situated.

Ebola Crisis

A July 17, 2014 report, drafted past the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, accused Metabiota Inc. of failing to bide by an existing agreement on how to study exam results and for bypassing the Sierra Leonean scientists working there. The report besides raised the possibility that Metabiota was culturing blood cells at the lab, something the report said was dangerous, as well equally misdiagnosing healthy patients. All of those allegations were denied past Metabiota.

Lugar Center

2011, the Lugar Middle, Andrew C. Weber (on the correct) - United states Assistant Secretary of Defence (2009-2014), United states of america DoD Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response (2014-2015), is currently a Metabiota (U.s. contractor) employee.

Military 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 Sensation about Barcoding of Sand Flies in Georgia and Caucasus'. The projection covered a larger geographic area exterior of Georgia - the Caucasus region. In 2014-2015 Phlebotomine sand fly species were collected under another project, 'Surveillance Piece of work on Astute Febrile Illness' and all (female person) sand flies were tested to determine their infectivity rate. A tertiary project, also including sand flies collection, studied the characteristics of their salivary glands.

A biting fly

A biting wing in a bathroom in Tbilisi, Georgia

Every bit a result, Tbilisi has been infested with biting flies since 2015. These bitter insects live indoors, in bathrooms, all year long, which was not the typical beliefs of these species in Georgia previously (unremarkably the Phlebotomine fly flavor in Georgia is exceptionally short - from June to September). Local people complain of existence bitten by these newly-appeared flies while naked in their bathrooms. They too take a strong resistance to common cold and can survive even in sub-zero temperatures in the mountains.

Biting Flies in Dagestan, Russia

Since the starting time of the Pentagon project in 2014, flies like to those in Georgia have appeared in neighboring Dagestan (Russia). Co-ordinate to local people, they seize with teeth and cause rashes. Their breeding habitats are business firm drains.

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

Flies from the Phlebotomine family behave dangerous parasites in their saliva which they transmit through a bite to humans. The disease, 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 Afghanistan, and if left untreated the astute grade of Leishmoniasis tin can be fatal.

A 1967 United states of america Army study 'Arthropods of medical importance in Asia and the European USSR' lists all local insects, their distribution and the diseases that they comport. Bitter flies, which live in drains, are likewise listed in the document. Their natural habitat, though, is the Philippines, not Georgia or Russian federation.

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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 Fly Fever tests were performed on humans according to a declassified US Army report - 'Us Army Activities in the United states of america, Biological Warfare Programs, 1977, vol. II, p. 203'. During Operation Whitecoat, volunteers were exposed to bites past infected sand flies. Operation Whitecoat was a bio-defence medical research program carried out by the Us Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, betwixt 1954 and 1973.

Despite the official termination of the U.s.a. bio-weapons program, in 1982 USAMRIID performed an experiment to see if sand flies and mosquitoes could be vectors of Rift Valley Virus, Dengue, Chikungunya and Eastern Equine Encephalitis - viruses which the U.s.a. Regular army researched for their potential equally 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 report, American bio warfare scientists carried out a number of experiments on insects. These operations were part of US Entomological Warfare under the Program for Biological Weapons of the US.

The Pentagon: How to Impale 625,000 People For Just $0.29 Toll Per Death

A US Regular army study in 1981 compared two scenarios - xvi simultaneous attacks on a metropolis past A. Aegypti mosquitoes, infected with Yellow Fever, and Tularemia aerosol attack, and assessed their effectiveness in terms of cost 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 disease vector in biological warfare.

Operation Big Fizz: i one thousand thousand A. Aegypti mosquitoes were produced, ane/3 were placed in munitions and dropped from shipping, or dispersed on the ground. The mosquitoes survived the airdrop and actively sought out human blood.

history of field testing

Evaluation of Entomological Warfare equally a potential Danger to the US and European NATO nations, Us Army, March 1981 Report

Operation May Day: Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes were dispersed through basis-based methods in Georgia, United states, during a United states of america Army operation codenamed May Day.

Operation May Day

Parts of the 1981 US Army report such every bit the "Mass product of Aedes Aegypti" have not been declassified, potentially meaning that the project is all the same ongoing.

Aedes Aegypti, likewise known every bit xanthous fever musquito, take been widely used in US war machine operations. The aforementioned species of mosquitoes are declared to be the vectors of dengue, chikungunya and the Zika virus, which causes genetic malformations in newborns

Operation Bellweather: The US Regular army Chemic Research and Development Command, Biological Weapons Branch, studied outdoor mosquito bitter activity 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 air.

Operation Bellweather

For reference: OutdoorMosquito Biting Activity Studies,Project Bellweather I, 1960, Technical Report, United states Army, Dugway Proving Basis

Military Experiments With Tropical Mosquitoes and Ticks in Georgia

Such species of mosquitoes and fleas (studied in the past under the US Entomological Warfare Program) have also been collected in Georgia and tested at the Lugar Center.

Under the DTRA project 'Virus and Other Arboviruses in Georgia' in 2014, the never-before-seen tropical mosquito Aedes albopictus was detected for the start time and after an absence of decades (lx years), the beingness of Aedes Aegypti musquito was confirmed in west Georgia.

Aedes Albopictus

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

These tropical mosquitoes Aedes Albopictus, having never been seen before in Georgia, take also been detected in neighboring Russian federation (Krasnodar) and Turkey. According to information provided by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, their spread is unusual for this role of the world.

Aedes Albopictus distribution

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Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes have been distributed only in Georgia, southern Russian federation and northern Turkey. They were detected for the start time in 2014 after the start of the Pentagon program at the Lugar Heart.

Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes

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

Anthrax Outbreak in Georgia and NATO Human Trials

In 2007 Georgia concluded its policy of having compulsory annual livestock anthrax vaccination. As a result, the morbidity rate of the disease reached its meridian in 2013. The aforementioned year NATO started human-based anthrax vaccine tests at the Lugar Center in Georgia.

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In 2007, despite the anthrax outbreak, the Georgian government terminated compulsory vaccination for 7 years. 2013 saw NATO begin homo 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 U.s.a. Ground forces in the past. Despite the Pentagon's claims that its programme is merely defensive, there are facts to the contrary. In 2016 at the Lugar Center American scientists carried out inquiry on the 'Genome Sequence of the Soviet/Russian Bacillus anthracis Vaccine Strain 55-VNIIVViM', which was funded by the The states Defence Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program in Tbilisi, and administered by Metabiota (the The states contractor nether the Pentagon program in Georgia).

In 2017 the DTRA funded farther enquiry - 'Ten Genome Sequences of Human and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the State of Georgia' - which was performed by USAMRU-Chiliad at the Lugar Heart.

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 illness was first characterized in Crimea in 1944 and given the proper name Crimean hemorrhagic fever. It was so later recognized in 1969 as the crusade of affliction in Congo, thus resulting in the current name of the disease. In 2014 34 people became infected (including a 4-year old kid) with CCHF. Iii of them died. The same year, Pentagon biologists studied the virus in Georgia under the DTRA project 'Epidemiology of febrile illnesses caused past 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 Veterinarian Department report, but one tick from all of the collected species from the infected villages tested positive for the disease. Despite the claims of local authorities that the virus was transmitted to humans from animals, all animal blood samples were negative as well. 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 Dna databases for future studies at the Lugar Center under the Pentagon projection 'Assessing the Seroprevalence and Genetic Diversity of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) and Hantaviruses in Georgia'.

Symptoms of CCHF

Military machine Bio-lab Blamed For Deadly CCHF Outbreak in Afghanistan

237 cases of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) take also been reported across Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, 41 of which were fatal as of December 2017. According to Transitional islamic state of afghanistan'south 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

Afghanistan is one of 25 countries across the world with Pentagon bio-laboratories on their territory. The project in Afghanistan is role of the Us bio-defence program - Cooperative Biological Date Program (CBEP), which is funded past the Defense Threat Reduction Bureau (DTRA). The DTRA contractors, working at the Lugar Center in Georgia, CH2M Colina and Battelle, have also been contracted for the program in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan. CH2M Loma has been awarded a $10.iv million contract (2013-2017). The Pentagon contractors in Transitional islamic state of 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 Eastward Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and other mortiferous diseases. Notwithstanding, the precise ways these viruses are transmitted to humans are currently unknown. Numerous studies accept been performed under the DTRA Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) in a search for mortiferous pathogens of armed services importance in bats.

Pentagon bats

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

euthanizing bats

Bats have been blamed for the deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa (2014-2016). However, no conclusive bear witness 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 Us

Center East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) offset appeared in 2012 and is thought to take originated in bats and spread directly to humans and/or camels. However, similar Ebola, the precise ways the virus spreads are unknown.

i,980 cases with 699 deaths caused by MERS-CoV were reported in 15 countries across the world (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 one of the viruses that have been engineered by the The states and studied by the Pentagon, as well every bit flu and SARS. Confirmation of this do is Obama's 2014 temporary ban on government funding for such 'dual-use' inquiry. The moratorium was lifted in 2017 and experiments have continued. Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) experiments are legal in the Us.

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 amanuensis and was developed as such in the by by the US. Still, the Pentagon's research on tularemia continues, besides equally on possible vectors of the bacteria such as ticks and rodents, which crusade the disease. The DTRA has launched a number of projects on Tularemia forth with other peculiarly dangerous pathogens in Georgia.

Particularly Dangerous Pathogens (EDPs), or select agents, represent 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 following Pentagon projects: Epidemiology and Ecology of Tularemia in Georgia (2013-2016) (lx,000 vectors were nerveless for strain isolates and genome research); Epidemiology of Human Tularemia in Georgia; and Human being Illness Epidemiology and Surveillance of Peculiarly Dangerous Pathogens in Georgia (study of select agents amid patients with undifferentiated fever and hemorrhagic fever/septic daze).

Human Tularemia

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

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Tularemia is one of the bio-weapons that the U.s.a. Army developed in the by.

Source: 1981 US Ground forces Report

Pentagon Bio-laboratories Spread Diseases in Ukraine

11 Pentagon Biolabs

11 Pentagon Biolaboratories in Ukraine and around Russia. Click to see total-size image

The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded xi bio-laboratories in Ukraine, which as well borders on Russia:

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The United states Military Programme is Sensitive Data

Ukraine has no control over the military bio-laboratories on its ain territory. According to the 2005 Agreement between the US Department of Defense and the Ministry of Wellness of Ukraine, the Ukrainian regime is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the US program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the Usa DoD dangerous pathogens for biological research. The Pentagon has been granted admission to sure country secrets of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement:

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Biowarfare Scientists Under Diplomatic Embrace

Among the set of bilateral agreements betwixt the US and Ukraine is the establishment of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) - an international organization 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 past twenty years the STCU has invested over $285 one thousand thousand in funding and managing some 1,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the development of weapons of mass destruction.

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The US personnel in Ukraine piece of work nether diplomatic embrace.

364 Ukrainians Died From Swine Flu

One of the Pentagon laboratories is located in Kharkiv, where in Jan 2016 at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers died from a influenza-similar virus in merely ii days, with 200 more being hospitalized. The Ukrainian government did not report on the expressionless Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths were reported across Ukraine (81.3 % caused by Swine Flu A (H1N1) pdm09 - the aforementioned strain which caused the world pandemic in 2009).

Ukraine Swine Flu

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

Constabulary Investigate Infection With Incurable Disease

Late terminal year, a highly suspicious Hepatitis A infection spread rapidly in just few months across South East Ukraine, where well-nigh 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 metropolis of Mykolaiv as of January 2018. Local police have launched an investigation into "infection with human immunodeficiency virus and other incurable diseases." Three years ago more than than 100 people in the same city became infected with Cholera. Both diseases are alleged to accept spread through contaminated drinking water.

In the summertime of 2017, 60 people with Hepatitis A were admitted to hospital in the city of Zaporizhia. The cause of this outbreak is nonetheless 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 November 2017. The virus was isolated in contaminated drinking water. 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 Russian federation Hitting By New Highly Virulent Cholera Infection

In 2011 Ukraine was hitting by a cholera outbreak. 33 patients were reportedly hospitalized for severe diarrhea. A second outbreak struck the country in 2014 when more than than 800 people all across Ukraine were reported to take 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 high genetic similarity to the strains reported in Ukraine, hit Moscow in 2014. Co-ordinate to a 2014 Russian Research Anti-Plaque Institute genetic written report, the cholera strain isolated in Moscow was similar to the bacteria which caused the epidemic in neighboring Ukraine.

Southern Research Institute, 1 of the US contractors working at the bio-laboratories in Ukraine, has projects on Cholera, too every bit on Influenza and Zika - all pathogens of military importance to the Pentagon.

Forth with Southern Research Institute, ii other private American companies operate military bio-labs in Ukraine - Black & Veatch and Metabiota.

DTRA contractors Ukraine

Blackness & Veatch Special Project Corp. was awarded $198.7 million in DTRA contracts to build and operate bio-laboratories in Ukraine (under two 5-year contracts in 2008 and 2012 totaling $128.5 1000000), every bit well every bit in Germany, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Thailand, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Armenia.

Metabiota has been awarded a $18.iv one thousand thousand federal contract under the program in Georgia and Ukraine. This US company was also contracted to perform piece of work for the DTRA before and during the Ebola crisis in West Africa, including $3.one million (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone.

Southern Research Institute has been a prime subcontractor nether the DTRA program in Ukraine since 2008. The company was also a prime Pentagon contractor in the by, nether the United states Biological Weapons Program for research and development of bio-agents, with 16 contracts between 1951 and 1962.

Fort Detrick Contracts

Source: U.s. Army Activities in the U.s.a., Biological Warfare Programs, vol. II, 1977, p. 82

Soviet Defector Produced Anthrax For The Pentagon

Anthrax defector

Bacillus anthracis, magnified more than than 12,000 times

Southern Research Plant was also a subcontractor on a Pentagon program for anthrax research in 2001. The prime contractor being Advanced Biosystems, whose president at that fourth dimension 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 Managing director of Biopreparat, where he oversaw a program for biological weapon facilities and was the Soviet Matrimony's primary practiced on anthrax. Afterwards his revolt to the Us, he was engaged on Pentagon research projects.

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

Southern Research Institute lobbied the United states Congress and The states Section of Land hard for "issues related to inquiry and development for Usa intelligence" and "defense related inquiry and development." The lobbying activities coincided with the start of the Pentagon projects on bio-labs in Ukraine and other former Soviet states.

The company paid $250,000 for lobbying then-Senator Jeff Sessions in 2008-2009 (currently the US Attorney Full general appointed by Donald Trump), when the establish was awarded a number of federal contracts.

Jeff Sessions

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

Watson Donald

For a 10-year flow (2006-2016) Southern Inquiry Plant paid $ane.28 million for lobbying the United states Senate, House of Representatives, the Land Department and the Department of Defense force (DoD). Senator Jeff Sessions' adjutant on Capitol Hill, Watson Donald, is now a Senior Director at Southern Research Found.

Police force 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 Wellness confirmed a further 90 new cases, with 8 deaths, of botulinum toxin poisoning (1 of the nearly poisonous biological substances known). According to local health regime, the cause of the outbreak was food poisoning, into which police launched an investigation.

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

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

1 gm of The Toxin Can Kill equally Many as 1 One thousand thousand People

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Botulinum neurotoxin poses a major bio-weapon threat because of its extreme authorisation, ease of production and transport. It causes muscles paralyses, respiratory failure and ultimately expiry if not treated immediately. A single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled tin impale more than one one thousand thousand people. It could be disseminated via aerosol, or past contamination of h2o and/ or food supplies.

The Pentagon Produces Live Viruses, Bacteria & Toxins

Botulinum Toxin was tested equally a bio-weapon past the Usa Ground forces in the past, as well as Anthrax, Brucella and Tularemia. Although the The states bio-weapons programme was officially terminated in 1969, documents show that the military machine experiments never ended. Presently the Pentagon produces and tests live bio-agents at the aforementioned military facility as information technology did in the past - Dugway Proving Ground.

Electric current Field Tests

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Capabilities Written report 2012, West Desert Exam Center

Past Field Tests

Biological field testing

Source: 1977 US Army Report , p. 135

Bioweapons Manufactory in The US

The U.s.a. Regular army produces and tests bio-agents at a special war machine facility located at Dugway Proving Ground (West Desert Test Center, Utah), as proven in a 2012 U.s.a. Army Report. The facility is overseen past the Army Test and Evaluation Command.

The Life Sciences Division (LSD) at Dugway Proving Ground is tasked with the production of bio-agents. According to the Regular army report, scientists from this segmentation 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. Regular army at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, U.s.

Source: Capabilities Study 2012, West Desert Test Middle

The Life Sciences Division consists of an Aerosol Technology branch and a Microbiology Co-operative. The Aerosol Engineering Branch aerosolizes biological agents and simulants. The Microbiology co-operative produces toxins, leaner, viruses and agent-similar organisms which are used in chamber 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 test materials.

After the bio-agents are produced, the scientists claiming 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 US Army produces, possesses and tests aerosols of the most 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 date dorsum to 2007 when an unspecified quantity of the toxin was procured for the Department of the Ground forces by the same visitor - Metabiologics. Co-ordinate to the 2012 Due west Desert Examination Center Written report, the military machine facility performs tests with Botulinum Neurotoxin Aerosol, as well equally with aerosolized Anthrax, Yersinia pestis, and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus (VEE).

Containment Aerosol Chamber

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, West Desert Test Center

Outdoor Field Test Programs at Dugway Proving Basis

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

Capapbilities Report

Source: Capabilities Study 2012, West Desert Exam 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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Powder Dissemination.

Dissemination on the test grid.

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Dissemination on the test grid.

The United states of america Army report lists numerous dissemination techniques, including via bio-aerosol sprayers. Such sprayers, chosen Micronair disseminators, have already been adult by the U.s. Army and tested at Dugway Proving Ground. Co-ordinate to the documents, they tin can exist vehicle-mounted, or worn as a backpack with a pump organisation, which can exist fitted to the unit of measurement to increase the accurateness of the release. Micronair sprayers can release l to 500 mL of bio-liquid simulant per minute from 12 L tanks.

Aerosol Sprayers.

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Aerosol Sprayers.

The United states of america Stole Bacteria From Saddam Hussein's Bio Weapons Mill

Bacillus thuringiensis is an insect pathogen that is widely used every bit a bio-pesticide. B. thuringiensis (BT) Al Hakam was nerveless in Iraq by the United nations Special Commission led by the US in 2003. It is named after Al Hakam - Republic of iraq'south bio-weapons production facility. Apart 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 bacteria was collected by the US in Republic of iraq. Co-ordinate 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 encompass stories of single-cell protein and bio-pesticides - as well as strains that could be used to produce BW agents, were recovered from a scientist'south residence in Iraq in 2003.

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Bacillus thuringiensis

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

DTRA project

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The Defense force Threat Reduction Bureau (DTRA) federal projection for laboratory analysis and field tests with bacteria.

The tests are performed on Kirtland Air Force Base (Kirtland is the home of the Air Forcefulness Materiel Command's Nuclear Weapons Center). Here weapons are being tested, pregnant that the field tests with biological simulants (bacteria) also fall into this grouping.

The DTRA contractor on this projection - Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Enquiry Found (LBERI) - operates an Animal Bio-safe three Level (ABSL-3) laboratory, which has Select Agent status. The facility is designed to conduct bioaerosol studies. The visitor has been awarded a 5-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.

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 (Bacteria)

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

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field testing

Source: US Army Activities in the Usa, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. II, 1977, p. 125-126

Field Tests in Chechnya

The Defense Threat Reduction Bureau (DTRA), which runs the The states military programme at the Lugar Eye in Georgia, is alleged to have already performed field tests with an unknown substance in Chechnya, Russia. In the bound of 2017 local citizens reported a drone disseminating white pulverization close to the Russian edge with Georgia. Neither the Georgian edge police, nor the United states of america personnel operating on the Georgia-Russian federation border, commented on this data.

$nine.ii 1000000 Us Military Projection on Russia-Georgia Edge

DTRA has full access to the Russia-Georgia border, granted nether a armed services program chosen 'Georgia Country Edge Security Project'. The activities related to the project have been outsourced to a private American company - Parsons Government Services International. DTRA has previously contracted Parsons for similar border security projects in Lebanon, Hashemite kingdom of jordan, Libya and Syria. Parsons have been awarded a $ix.two million contract nether the Pentagon border security project on the Russian federation-Georgia border.

Lugar Center Tbilisi

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

Usa Defense Bureau Tests GM Insects to Transmit GM Viruses

The Pentagon has invested at least $65 one thousand thousand in gene editing. The Usa Defense Avant-garde Inquiry Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded 7 enquiry teams to develop tools for genome engineering in insects, rodents and leaner under DARPA'southward Safe Gene program, using a novel CRISPR-Cas9 applied science.

Darpa engineering

insect weapon

Under another military program - Insect Allies - GM insects are engineered to transfer modified genes to plants. The $10.3 million DARPA project includes both gene editing in insects and in the viruses that they transmit. Ecological Niche-preference Engineering is a third ongoing war machine plan for genome technology in insects. The Pentagon's stated objective is to engineer GM organisms and so that they can resist sure temperatures, change their habitat and food sources.

ecological engineering

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Genetically Engineered Humans

Too gene editing in insects and in the viruses they transmit, the Pentagon wants to engineer humans likewise.

genome engineering

DARPA Avant-garde Tools for Mammalian Genome Engineering Project seeks to create a biological platform inside the human being trunk, using information technology to evangelize new genetic information, and thus altering humans at the Dna level.

DARPA wants to insert an boosted 47thursday artificial chromosome into human cells. This chromosome will evangelize new genes that will be used for engineering science the human torso. SynPloid Biotek LLC has been awarded ii contracts under the programme totaling $1.1 one thousand thousand (2015-2016 - $100,600 for the start phase 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 United states invested approximately $820 million in synthetic biology inquiry, Defense beingness a major correspondent. Much of the military projects on constructed biological science are classified, amidst them are a number of classified studies by the secretive JASON grouping of U.s.a. war machine advisors - e.g. Emerging Viruses and Genome Editing for the Pentagon, and Synthetic Viruses for the National Counterterrorism Eye.

JASON is an contained scientific advisory group that provides consulting services to the U.Southward. regime on matters of defense, science and technology. It was established in 1960 and about of their resulting JASON reports are classified. For administrative purposes, JASON's 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 $27.4 meg in contracts with the DoD.

Although the JASON Reports are classified, another United states Air Force study titled Biotechnology: Genetically Engineered Pathogens, sheds some light on what the secretive JASON group has researched - v groups of genetically engineered pathogens that tin can exist used equally bio-weapons. These are binary biological weapons (a lethal combination of two viruses), host swapping diseases (animal viruses that 'bound' to humans, similar the Ebola virus), stealth viruses, and designer diseases. Designer diseases can be engineered to target a sure ethnic group, meaning that they tin be used every bit ethnic bio-weapons.

Ethnic 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 development of ethnic bio-weapons have never been publicly confirmed, documents testify that the US collects biological textile from certain indigenous groups - Russians and Chinese.

The US Air Force has been specifically collecting Russian RNA and synovial tissue samples, raising fears in Moscow of a covert US ethnic 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 Communist china. The National Cancer Institute has nerveless biological samples from 300 subjects from Linxian, Zhengzhou, and Chengdu in China. While another federal project, titled 'Serum Metabolic biomarkers discovery study of Esophageal Squamous Jail cell Carcinoma in China', includes assay of 349 serum samples which have been collected from Chinese patients.

Linxian, Zhengzhou

The U.s. National Cancer Institute has been collecting biological material from patients of the Chinese Cancer Hospital in Beijing.

Chinese biological material has been nerveless under a series of federal projects, including saliva and cancer tissue. Amongst 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 cases of UGI cancer, Genotype 50 SNP'S for DNA samples from the Cancer Hospital, Beijing, Genotypes from 3,000 cases of gastric cancer and 3,000 controls (salubrious patients) in Beijing.

How The Pentagon Helped Tobacco Companies to Profit From Ebola

The Defense force Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested $100 million in vaccine production from tobacco plants.

The companies involved in the project are owned 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 one thousand thousand program Blue Angel was launched as a response to the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. Medicago was awarded $21 million to produce x,000 1000000 doses of an flu vaccine within one month.

Blueish Angel program manager Dr. John Julias explains: "Although there are multiple plant species and other organisms being explored as alternative protein production platforms, the US Government has continued to brand an investment in tobacco-based manufacturing."

Tobacco plants

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The plant-based vaccine production method works by isolating a specific antigen protein that triggers a human immune response from the targeted virus. A factor from the protein is transferred to bacteria, which is used to infect plants. The plants and then kickoff producing the protein that volition be used for vaccinations.

It is not clear why the Pentagon chooses to invest in vaccines produced from tobacco plants, from among all other institute species they explored. Medicago, co-owned by Philip Morris, paid $495,000 for lobbying the Section of Defense force, Congress and the Department of Wellness and Homo Services for "funding to advance technology to support public health preparedness applications." The Pentagon funded tobacco companies to develop new technology and to profit from vaccines.

Biological Experiments Are War Crimes

Article viii of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines biological experiments as state of war crimes. The United states, however, is non a state party to the international treaty, and cannot be held answerable for its state of war crimes.