Pentagon bio-weapons

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian investigative journalist and Center East Contributor. Over the terminal two years she has published a serial of reports on weapons smuggling to ISIS in Syria. In the past year she came nether pressure from the Bulgarian National Security Bureau and was fired from her job in the Bulgarian newspaper Trud Daily, without caption. Despite this, Dilyana continues her investigations. The post-obit report, first published on Southward Front, provides an overview of the Pentagon'due south secretive evolution of biological weapons in bio-labs effectually the world.

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The US Army regularly produces deadly 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 encompass test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world. These U.s.a. bio-laboratories are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Bureau (DTRA) under a $ 2.i billion war machine program - Cooperative Biological Date Program (CBEP) - and are located in former Soviet Union countries such every bit Georgia and Ukraine, the Heart Eastward, Southward Eastern asia and Africa.

Pentagon's Biolabs


The Lugar Center, Republic of Georgia

The Lugar Center, Republic of Georgia

Vaziani Air Base

The US Ground forces 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. Information technology is located but 17 km abroad from the US Vaziani armed services airbase in the capital Tbilisi. Tasked with the armed forces programme are biologists from the US Regular army Medical Research Unit-Georgia (USAMRU-G) along with private contractors. The Bio-rubber Level 3 Laboratory is accessible only to US citizens with security clearance. They are accorded diplomatic immunity under the 2002 U.s.-Georgia Agreement on defense force cooperation.

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Defense Agreement

The The states-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 US federal contracts registry clarifies some of the military activities at the Lugar Center - among them research on bio-agents (anthrax, tularemia) and viral diseases (eastward.yard. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever), and the drove of biological samples for future experiments.

Pentagon Contractors Produce Bio Agents Under Diplomatic Cover

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has outsourced much of the work under the military program to private companies, which are not held answerable to Congress, and which tin can operate more freely and motion around the rule of law. US civilian personnel performing piece of work at the Lugar Center have too been given diplomatic amnesty, although they are non diplomats. Hence, private companies can perform piece of work, under diplomatic embrace, for the Us regime without being under the directly command of the host land - in this example the Democracy of Georgia. This practice is ofttimes used past the CIA to provide comprehend for its agents.

DTRA contractors

Three private American companies work at the United states bio-laboratory in Tbilisi - CH2M Hill, Battelle and Metabiota. In addition to the Pentagon, these private contractors perform biological enquiry for the CIA and various other government agencies.

CH2M Hill has been awarded $341.5 million DTRA contracts under the Pentagon's plan for bio-laboratories in Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Eastern asia. Half of this sum ($161.1 meg) is allocated to the Lugar Center nether the Georgian contract.

Co-ordinate to CH2M Hill, the Us Company has secured biological agents and employed former bio-warfare scientists at the Lugar Eye. These are scientists who are working for another American company involved in the military program in Georgia - Battelle Memorial Institute.

As a $59 million subcontractor at the Lugar Middle, Battelle has extensive feel in inquiry on bio-agents, equally the company has already worked on the The states Bio-weapons Program under 11 previous contracts with the US Army (1952-1966).

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

The private company performs work for the Pentagon's DTRA bio laboratories in Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Republic of uganda, Tanzania, Republic of 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 US government agencies. Information technology has been awarded some $2 billion federal contracts in total, and ranks 23 on the Summit 100 Usa authorities contractors listing.

The CIA-Battelle Project Articulate Vision

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

Anthrax spores under microscope

Anthrax spores nether microscope

Acme Secret Experiments

Battelle has operated a Elevation Secret Bio laboratory (National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Centre - NBACC) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, under a U.s.a. Section of Homeland Security (DHS) contract for the final decade. The company has been awarded a $344.iv million federal contract (2006 - 2016) and another $17.three one thousand thousand contract (2015 -2026) by DHS.

NBACC

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NBACC is classified as a US Pinnacle Secret facility.

Among the secret experiments performed by Battelle at NBACC, are: Cess of pulverisation dissemination technology, Assessment of risk posed by aerosolized toxins, and Assessment of virulence of B. Pseudomallei (Meliodosis) as a function of droplets particle in non-human primates. Melioidosis has the potential to exist adult every bit a biological weapon, hence it is classed as a category B. Bioterrorism Agent. B. Pseudomallei was studied by the U.s.a. every bit a potential bioweapon in the by.

Biowarfare scientists

Besides the military 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 The states. An NBACC presentation lists 16 research 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 non-endemic induction of illness from potential BTA; and to expand 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.four meg federal contracts nether the Pentagon'due south DTRA program in Georgia and Ukraine for scientific and technical consulting services.

Metabiota services include global field-based biological threat inquiry, 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 crisis in W Africa, and was awarded $3.one million (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone - one 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 crisis, where 3 US biolabs are situated.

Ebola Crisis

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

Lugar Center

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

Military Experiments on Biting Insects

Entomological warfare is a blazon 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 about 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 nerveless nether another project, 'Surveillance Work on Acute Febrile Illness' and all (female person) sand flies were tested to determine their infectivity rate. A third project, also including sand flies collection, studied the characteristics of their salivary glands.

A biting fly

A bitter fly in a bathroom in Tbilisi, Georgia

Equally 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 behavior of these species in Georgia previously (normally the Phlebotomine fly season in Georgia is exceptionally curt - from June to September). Local people mutter of being bitten by these newly-appeared flies while naked in their bathrooms. They besides accept a strong resistance to cold and tin can survive even in sub-cipher temperatures in the mountains.

Biting Flies in Dagestan, Russian federation

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

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Flies in Georgia (on the left). The same fly in Dagestan (on the correct)

Flies from the Phlebotomine family acquit dangerous parasites in their saliva which they transmit through a bite to humans. The illness, which these flies behave, is of high involvement to the Pentagon. In 2003 during the US invasion of Iraq, American soldiers were severely bitten past sand flies and contracted Leishmoniasis. The affliction is native to Iraq and Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, and if left untreated the acute form of Leishmoniasis can be 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 carry. Bitter flies, which live in drains, are too listed in the document. 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 Ground forces report, 1967

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Functioning Whitecoat: Infected Flies Tested to Seize with teeth Humans

In 1970 and 1972, Sand Fly Fever tests were performed on humans according to a declassified US Army report - 'US Regular army Activities in the Usa, Biological Warfare Programs, 1977, vol. Two, p. 203'. During Operation Whitecoat, volunteers were exposed to bites by infected sand flies. Operation Whitecoat was a bio-defense force medical enquiry program carried out by the US Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, between 1954 and 1973.

Despite the official termination of the US bio-weapons plan, in 1982 USAMRIID performed an experiment to encounter if sand flies and mosquitoes could be vectors of Rift Valley Virus, Dengue, Chikungunya and Eastern Equine Encephalitis - viruses which the U.s. 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 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 Kill 625,000 People For But $0.29 Cost Per Death

A US Army report in 1981 compared two scenarios - 16 simultaneous attacks on a urban center by A. Aegypti mosquitoes, infected with Yellow Fever, and Tularemia droplets attack, and assessed their effectiveness in terms of price and casualties.

Yellow Fever memo

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Operation Big Itch: Field tests were performed to decide coverage patterns and survivability of the tropical rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis for employ as a affliction vector in biological warfare.

Operation Big Buzz: 1 million A. Aegypti mosquitoes were produced, 1/3 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 as a potential Danger to the US and European NATO nations, Usa Army, March 1981 Report

Functioning May 24-hour interval: Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes were dispersed through basis-based methods in Georgia, USA, during a US Army performance codenamed May 24-hour interval.

Operation May Day

Parts of the 1981 US Ground forces report such as the "Mass production of Aedes Aegypti" have not been declassified, potentially meaning that the projection is still ongoing.

Aedes Aegypti, also known equally yellow fever mosquito, have been widely used in The states armed services operations. The same species of mosquitoes are alleged to be the vectors of dengue, chikungunya and the Zika virus, which causes genetic malformations in newborns

Functioning Bellweather: The US Army Chemical Research and Evolution Command, Biological Weapons Co-operative, studied outdoor mosquito biting activity in a number of field tests at Dugway Proving Basis, 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 Written report, Us Army, Dugway Proving Ground

Military Experiments With Tropical Mosquitoes and Ticks in Georgia

Such species of mosquitoes and fleas (studied in the by under the US Entomological Warfare Program) have also been nerveless 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 afterward an absenteeism of decades (60 years), the existence of Aedes Aegypti mosquito was confirmed in west Georgia.

Aedes Albopictus

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

These tropical mosquitoes Aedes Albopictus, having never been seen earlier in Georgia, have as well been detected in neighboring Russian federation (Krasnodar) and Turkey. Co-ordinate to data provided by the European Centre for Illness Prevention and Command, their spread is unusual for this part of the earth.

Aedes Albopictus distribution

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Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes have been distributed only in Georgia, southern Russia and northern Turkey. They were detected for the first time in 2014 after the start of the Pentagon programme at the Lugar Center.

Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes

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Nether some other DTRA project, 'Epidemiology and Environmental of Tularemia in Georgia' (2013-2016), 6,148 ground ticks were collected; v,871 were collected 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 Center.

Anthrax Outbreak in Georgia and NATO Human Trials

In 2007 Georgia ended its policy of having compulsory annual livestock anthrax vaccination. Equally a event, the morbidity rate of the disease reached its summit in 2013. The same yr NATO started homo-based anthrax vaccine tests at the Lugar Centre 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 human trials on a new anthrax vaccine in Georgia.

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Pentagon Research on Russian Anthrax

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

In 2017 the DTRA funded further research - '10 Genome Sequences of Man and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the Country of Georgia' - which was performed by USAMRU-M 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 disease was first characterized in Crimea in 1944 and given the name Crimean hemorrhagic fever. It was then later recognized in 1969 as the cause of affliction in Congo, thus resulting in the current proper name of the disease. In 2014 34 people became infected (including a 4-year onetime child) with CCHF. 3 of them died. The same year, Pentagon biologists studied the virus in Georgia nether 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 analysis.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

CCHF Cases in Humans

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

In 2016 some other 21,590 ticks were nerveless for DNA databases for future studies at the Lugar Middle under the Pentagon project 'Assessing the Seroprevalence and Genetic Diversity of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) and Hantaviruses in Georgia'.

Symptoms of CCHF

Military Bio-lab Blamed For Mortiferous CCHF Outbreak in Afghanistan

237 cases of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) have also been reported beyond Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, 41 of which were fatal as of December 2017. According to Afghanistan's Ministry building of Wellness, most of the cases have been registered in the capital Kabul, where 71 cases have been reported with 13 fatalities, and in the province of Herat most the border with Iran (67 cases).

CCHF cases Afghanistan

CCHF outbreak bio-lab

Afghanistan is ane of 25 countries across the globe with Pentagon bio-laboratories on their territory. The project in Afghanistan is role of the Usa bio-defense program - Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), which is funded by the Defense force Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The DTRA contractors, working at the Lugar Center in Georgia, CH2M Hill and Battelle, take also been contracted for the program in Afghanistan. CH2M Loma has been awarded a $10.4 one thousand thousand 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. Withal, the precise means these viruses are transmitted to humans are currently unknown. Numerous studies have been performed nether 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 Eye for research purposes in 2014.

euthanizing bats

Bats have been blamed for the deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa (2014-2016). Withal, 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 Usa

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

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

MERS deaths

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

MERS-CoV is i of the viruses that have been engineered past the US and studied by the Pentagon, also as influenza and SARS. Confirmation of this practice is Obama's 2014 temporary ban on regime 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 increment the transmissibility and/or virulence of pathogens.

Tularemia equally Bioweapon

Tularemia, likewise known as Rabbit Fever, is classified as a bioterrorism agent and was developed equally such in the by by the US. However, the Pentagon'southward research on tularemia continues, too 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 along with other specially dangerous pathogens in Georgia.

Peculiarly Dangerous Pathogens (EDPs), or select agents, correspond a major concern for public wellness globally. These highly pathogenic agents have the potential to be weaponized, with proof of their war machine importance seen through the following Pentagon projects: Epidemiology and Ecology of Tularemia in Georgia (2013-2016) (60,000 vectors were collected for strain isolates and genome research); Epidemiology of Human being Tularemia in Georgia; and Human Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance of Especially Dangerous Pathogens in Georgia (study of select agents amongst patients with undifferentiated fever and hemorrhagic fever/septic daze).

Human Tularemia

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

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Tularemia is one of the bio-weapons that the US Army developed in the past.

Source: 1981 US Army Report

Pentagon Bio-laboratories Spread Diseases in Ukraine

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11 Pentagon Biolaboratories in Ukraine and around Russia. Click to see full-size paradigm

The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in Ukraine, which as well borders on Russian federation:

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The Usa Armed services Plan is Sensitive Information

Ukraine has no control over the military bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Understanding between the Us Department of Defense force and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the The states program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the Us DoD dangerous pathogens for biological enquiry. The Pentagon has been granted access to certain country secrets of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement:

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Biowarfare Scientists Under Diplomatic Cover

Among the prepare of bilateral agreements between the US and Ukraine is the establishment of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) - an international organization funded mainly past the The states authorities which has been accorded diplomatic status. The STCU officially supports projects of scientists previously involved in the Soviet biological weapons program. Over the past 20 years the STCU has invested over $285 meg 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 Usa personnel in Ukraine work nether diplomatic cover.

364 Ukrainians Died From Swine Influenza

Ane of the Pentagon laboratories is located in Kharkiv, where in January 2016 at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers died from a flu-like virus in only ii days, with 200 more being hospitalized. The Ukrainian regime did not report on the dead Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths were reported across Ukraine (81.3 % acquired by Swine Influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 - the same strain which acquired the world pandemic in 2009).

Ukraine Swine Flu

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According to Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) intelligence data, the Usa bio-lab in Kharkiv leaked the deadly virus.

Police Investigate Infection With Incurable Disease

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

hundreds infected hepatitis A

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37 people take been hospitalized for Hepatitis A in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv as of January 2018. Local police have launched an investigation into "infection with human immunodeficiency virus and other incurable diseases." Iii years agone more than 100 people in the aforementioned metropolis became infected with Cholera. Both diseases are declared to have spread through contaminated drinking water.

In the summer of 2017, threescore people with Hepatitis A were admitted to infirmary in the metropolis of Zaporizhia. The crusade of this outbreak is still 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. Ane of the Pentagon bio-labs located in Kharkiv was blamed for the deadly Influenza outbreak a year agone that claimed the lives of 364 Ukrainians.

Ukraine And Russian federation Hit By New Highly Virulent Cholera Infection

In 2011 Ukraine was striking by a cholera outbreak. 33 patients were reportedly hospitalized for severe diarrhea. A second outbreak struck the state in 2014 when more than 800 people all across Ukraine were reported to have contracted the disease. In 2015 at least 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 amanuensis Vibrio cholera, with a high genetic similarity to the strains reported in Ukraine, striking Moscow in 2014. According to a 2014 Russian Enquiry Anti-Plaque Institute genetic study, the cholera strain isolated in Moscow was similar to the bacteria which caused the epidemic in neighboring Ukraine.

Southern Research Institute, 1 of the U.s. 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.

Along with Southern Research Institute, two other individual American companies operate military bio-labs in Ukraine - Black & Veatch and Metabiota.

DTRA contractors Ukraine

Black & Veatch Special Projection Corp. was awarded $198.7 1000000 in DTRA contracts to build and operate bio-laboratories in Ukraine (under two 5-twelvemonth contracts in 2008 and 2012 totaling $128.5 1000000), likewise as in Federal republic of germany, Azerbaijan, Republic of cameroon, Thailand, Federal democratic republic of ethiopia, Vietnam and Armenia.

Metabiota has been awarded a $xviii.4 million federal contract under the program in Georgia and Ukraine. This United states company was also contracted to perform piece of work for the DTRA earlier and during the Ebola crisis in West Africa, including $iii.ane one thousand thousand (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone.

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

Fort Detrick Contracts

Source: The states Army Activities in the Usa, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. II, 1977, p. 82

Soviet Defector Produced Anthrax For The Pentagon

Anthrax defector

Bacillus anthracis, magnified more than 12,000 times

Southern Enquiry Institute was also 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 Republic of kazakhstan who defected to the Us in 1992).

Ken Alibek

Ken Alibek was the First Deputy Director of Biopreparat, where he oversaw a plan for biological weapon facilities and was the Soviet Union'due south principal expert on anthrax. After his defection to the US, he was engaged on Pentagon inquiry projects.

$250,000 For Lobbying Jeff Sessions For "Inquiry For The states Intelligence"

Southern Inquiry Institute lobbied the US Congress and United states of america Department of State difficult for "problems related to inquiry and development for Usa intelligence" and "defence related inquiry and evolution." The lobbying activities coincided with the first of the Pentagon projects on bio-labs in Ukraine and other former Soviet states.

The company paid $250,000 for lobbying and so-Senator Jeff Sessions in 2008-2009 (currently the US Chaser General appointed past Donald Trump), when the institute was awarded a number of federal contracts.

Jeff Sessions

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, US Senator for Alabama (1997-2017)

Watson Donald

For a x-yr period (2006-2016) Southern Enquiry Plant paid $1.28 million for lobbying the US Senate, House of Representatives, the State Department and the Department of Defense (DoD). Senator Jeff Sessions' aide on Capitol Colina, Watson Donald, is at present a Senior Director at Southern Research Plant.

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 xc new cases, with 8 deaths, of botulinum toxin poisoning (ane of the most poisonous biological substances known). According to local wellness authorities, the crusade 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 disease acquired past a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

1 gm of The Toxin Can Kill every bit Many as 1 Million People

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Botulinum neurotoxin poses a major bio-weapon threat because of its extreme authorization, ease of production and transport. It causes muscles paralyses, respiratory failure and ultimately death if non treated immediately. A single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled can impale more than than one million 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 as a bio-weapon by the US Army in the past, also as Anthrax, Brucella and Tularemia. Although the United states of america bio-weapons program was officially terminated in 1969, documents show that the war machine experiments never ended. Presently the Pentagon produces and tests live bio-agents at the aforementioned armed services facility as it did in the past - Dugway Proving Basis.

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Capabilities Report 2012, West Desert Test Center

Past Field Tests

Biological field testing

Source: 1977 Us Army Report , p. 135

Bioweapons Factory in The U.s.

The US Ground forces produces and tests bio-agents at a special military facility located at Dugway Proving Ground (West Desert Test Eye, Utah), every bit proven in a 2012 U.s.a. Regular army Report. The facility is overseen by the Army Examination and Evaluation Command.

The Life Sciences Sectionalisation (LSD) at Dugway Proving Footing is tasked with the product of bio-agents. Co-ordinate to the Army report, scientists from this sectionalization produce and test aerosolized bio-agents at Lothar Saloman Life Sciences Test Facility (LSTF).

Dugway Proving Ground

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Biological Agents produced by the Us Army at Dugway Proving Basis, Utah, USA

Source: Capabilities Study 2012, West Desert Exam Center

The Life Sciences Sectionalization consists of an Aerosol Engineering branch and a Microbiology Branch. The Droplets Technology Branch aerosolizes biological agents and simulants. The Microbiology co-operative produces toxins, bacteria, viruses and amanuensis-like 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-production laboratory dries and mills test materials.

After the bio-agents are produced, the scientists challenge them at containment droplets 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 bear witness that the Us Ground forces produces, possesses and tests aerosols of the most lethal toxin in the globe - Botulinum Neurotoxin. In 2014 the Section of the Regular 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 Section of the Army by the aforementioned company - Metabiologics. According to the 2012 Westward Desert Examination Center Study, the armed services facility performs tests with Botulinum Neurotoxin Aerosol, every bit 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

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

Capapbilities Report

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, West Desert Test Center

Dissemination of contaminants

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Broadcasting of contaminants for biological/chemic tests.

Dissemination of contaminants 2

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Liquid Dissemination.

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Liquid Dissemination.

Powder Dissemination.

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Pulverization Dissemination.

Dissemination on the test grid.

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Broadcasting on the test filigree.

The Usa Ground forces report lists numerous broadcasting techniques, including via bio-aerosol sprayers. Such sprayers, called Micronair disseminators, have already been developed by the US Ground forces and tested at Dugway Proving Ground. Co-ordinate to the documents, they can exist vehicle-mounted, or worn every bit a backpack with a pump organisation, which can exist fitted to the unit of measurement to increase the accuracy of the release. Micronair sprayers can release 50 to 500 mL of bio-liquid simulant per minute from 12 L tanks.

Aerosol Sprayers.

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Aerosol Sprayers.

The US Stole Bacteria From Saddam Hussein's Bio Weapons Factory

Bacillus thuringiensis is an insect pathogen that is widely used as a bio-pesticide. B. thuringiensis (BT) Al Hakam was collected in Iraq past the UN Special Commission led past the US in 2003. Information technology is named after Al Hakam - Republic of iraq's 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 by the CIA evidence that the bacteria was collected past the The states in 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 embrace stories of single-cell protein and bio-pesticides - as well as strains that could exist used to produce BW agents, were recovered from a scientist's residence in Iraq in 2003.

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Bacillus thuringiensis

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

DTRA project

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The Defence force Threat Reduction Agency (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 Force Materiel Command's Nuclear Weapons Center). Here weapons are being tested, meaning that the field tests with biological simulants (leaner) as well fall into this group.

The DTRA contractor on this projection - Lovelace Biomedical and Ecology Research Institute (LBERI) - operates an Animal Bio-safety 3 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 air current tunnel.

Field Tests With Biological Simulants (Bacteria)

What the Pentagon is currently doing is exactly what it did in the past, pregnant 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 plan.

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Source: US Army Activities in the US, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. 2, 1977, p. 125-126

Field Tests in Chechnya

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

$ix.2 Million US Military Project on Russia-Georgia Edge

DTRA has full admission to the Russia-Georgia edge, granted nether a military programme called 'Georgia Land 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 edge security projects in Lebanon, Jordan, Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya and Syrian arab republic. Parsons have been awarded a $nine.2 one thousand thousand contract nether the Pentagon border security projection on the Russia-Georgia border.

Lugar Center Tbilisi

Local citizens in Chechnya noticed a UAV sprayer near the Russian edge 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 Usa Defense Advanced Enquiry Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded 7 inquiry teams to develop tools for genome engineering in insects, rodents and bacteria nether DARPA's Safe Factor program, using a novel CRISPR-Cas9 technology.

Darpa engineering

insect weapon

Under another armed forces plan - 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 Applied science is a third ongoing military programme for genome applied science in insects. The Pentagon'south stated objective is to engineer GM organisms so that they tin resist certain temperatures, change their habitat and food sources.

ecological engineering

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Genetically Engineered Humans

Likewise gene editing in insects and in the viruses they transmit, the Pentagon wants to engineer humans as well.

genome engineering

DARPA Advanced Tools for Mammalian Genome Engineering Project seeks to create a biological platform inside the human body, using it to evangelize new genetic data, and thus altering humans at the Deoxyribonucleic acid level.

DARPA wants to insert an additional 47th artificial chromosome into human cells. This chromosome volition evangelize new genes that will exist used for engineering the human body. SynPloid Biotek LLC has been awarded 2 contracts nether the program totaling $1.1 meg (2015-2016 - $100,600 for the first phase of the inquiry; 2015-2017 - $999,300 for work which is non specified in the federal contracts registry). The company has only 2 employees and no previous tape on bio-research.

Top Secret Research on Synthetic Viruses

Between 2008 and 2014, the United States invested approximately $820 1000000 in synthetic biology enquiry, Defense being a major contributor. Much of the military projects on synthetic biological science are classified, amongst them are a number of classified studies by the secretive JASON grouping of Usa military advisors - e.thousand. Emerging Viruses and Genome Editing for the Pentagon, and Synthetic Viruses for the National Counterterrorism Centre.

JASON is an independent scientific advisory group that provides consulting services to the U.S. government on matters of defence force, science and applied science. It was established in 1960 and about of their resulting JASON reports are classified. For authoritative purposes, JASON'southward 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 million in contracts with the DoD.

Although the JASON Reports are classified, another Usa Air Forcefulness report titled Biotechnology: Genetically Engineered Pathogens, sheds some light on what the secretive JASON group has researched - 5 groups of genetically engineered pathogens that can be used equally bio-weapons. These are binary biological weapons (a lethal combination of two viruses), host swapping diseases (beast viruses that 'jump' to humans, like the Ebola virus), stealth viruses, and designer diseases. Designer diseases tin be engineered to target a certain ethnic group, meaning that they can exist used as ethnic bio-weapons.

Ethnic Bioweapons

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

Although officially the enquiry and development of ethnic bio-weapons take never been publicly confirmed, documents evidence that the The states collects biological material from sure indigenous groups - Russians and Chinese.

The U.s.a. Air Force has been specifically collecting Russian RNA and synovial tissue samples, raising fears in Moscow of a covert United states of america indigenous bio-weapons plan.

Synovial tissue

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Apart from Russians, the US has been collecting biological cloth from both healthy and cancer patients in China. The National Cancer Plant has collected biological samples from 300 subjects from Linxian, Zhengzhou, and Chengdu in China. While some other federal project, titled 'Serum Metabolic biomarkers discovery study of Esophageal Squamous Prison cell Carcinoma in Communist china', includes analysis of 349 serum samples which have been collected from Chinese patients.

Linxian, Zhengzhou

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

Chinese biological textile has been nerveless under a serial of federal projects, including saliva and cancer tissue. Among them, Genotyping DNA Samples from Lymphoma cases and from controls (good for you 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'South for DNA samples from the Cancer Hospital, Beijing, Genotypes from 3,000 cases of gastric cancer and 3,000 controls (healthy patients) in Beijing.

How The Pentagon Helped Tobacco Companies to Profit From Ebola

The Defence Avant-garde Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested $100 meg in vaccine production 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 owned past British American Tobacco. Currently they are producing Flu and Ebola vaccines from tobacco plants.

The $100 million programme Blue 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 within 1 calendar month.

Bluish Angel plan manager Dr. John Julias explains: "Although there are multiple plant species and other organisms being explored equally 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 man immune response from the targeted virus. A gene from the poly peptide is transferred to leaner, which is used to infect plants. The plants then start producing the protein that will be used for vaccinations.

It is not articulate why the Pentagon chooses to invest in vaccines produced from tobacco plants, from among all other found species they explored. Medicago, co-owned by Philip Morris, paid $495,000 for lobbying the Department of Defence force, Congress and the Department of Health and Human being Services for "funding to advance technology to back up public wellness preparedness applications." The Pentagon funded tobacco companies to develop new applied 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 equally war crimes. The US, nonetheless, is non a state political party to the international treaty, and cannot exist held accountable for its war crimes.