Pentagon bio-weapons

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian investigative announcer and Middle East Correspondent. Over the last two 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 chore in the Bulgarian newspaper Trud Daily, without caption. Despite this, Dilyana continues her investigations. The post-obit report, get-go published on South Forepart, provides an overview of the Pentagon's secretive development of biological weapons in bio-labs effectually the earth.

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The US 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-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world. These US bio-laboratories are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ ii.1 billion military program - Cooperative Biological Appointment Program (CBEP) - and are located in former Soviet Spousal relationship countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, Due south Eastern asia and Africa.

Pentagon's Biolabs


The Lugar Center, Republic of Georgia

The Lugar Center, Commonwealth of Georgia

Vaziani Air Base

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

Georgia is a Testing Ground For Bioweapons

The Lugar Center is the Pentagon bio laboratory in Georgia. It is located just 17 km away from the The states Vaziani armed forces airbase in the capital Tbilisi. Tasked with the armed forces program are biologists from the US Army Medical Research Unit-Georgia (USAMRU-G) along with private contractors. The Bio-safety Level 3 Laboratory is accessible only to United states of america citizens with security clearance. They are accorded diplomatic immunity under the 2002 Us-Georgia Understanding on defence cooperation.

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Defense Agreement

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

Information obtained from the US federal contracts registry clarifies some of the war machine activities at the Lugar Eye - amidst them research on bio-agents (anthrax, tularemia) and viral diseases (eastward.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 Agency (DTRA) has outsourced much of the work under the war machine program to private companies, which are not held answerable to Congress, and which tin can operate more freely and move around the dominion of constabulary. US noncombatant personnel performing work at the Lugar Center have likewise been given diplomatic immunity, although they are not diplomats. Hence, individual companies can perform piece of work, under diplomatic cover, for the US authorities without beingness under the straight control of the host land - in this case the Republic of Georgia. This practice is oftentimes used by the CIA to provide cover for its agents.

DTRA contractors

Three private American companies piece of work at the US bio-laboratory in Tbilisi - CH2M Colina, Battelle and Metabiota. In improver 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 program for bio-laboratories in Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Due east Asia. Half of this sum ($161.ane million) is allocated to the Lugar Centre under the Georgian contract.

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

Equally a $59 million subcontractor at the Lugar Centre, Battelle has extensive experience in research on bio-agents, equally the company has already worked on the US Bio-weapons Programme under eleven previous contracts with the US Army (1952-1966).

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Source: The states Regular army Activities in the Usa, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. 2, 1977, p. 82

The private visitor performs piece of work for the Pentagon'southward DTRA bio laboratories in Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Transitional islamic state of 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 US authorities agencies. It has been awarded some $2 billion federal contracts in total, and ranks 23 on the Peak 100 Usa 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 Institute, nether a contract awarded past the Agency, reconstructed and tested a Soviet-era anthrax bomblet in order to test its broadcasting characteristics. The project's stated goal was to appraise bio-agents dissemination characteristics of bomblets. The hugger-mugger CIA-Battelle operation was omitted from the United states Biological Weapons Convention declarations submitted to the UN.

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Anthrax spores nether microscope

Top Clandestine Experiments

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

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NBACC is classified as a US Tiptop Surreptitious facility.

Amid the hugger-mugger experiments performed past Battelle at NBACC, are: Cess of powder dissemination technology, Assessment of hazard posed by aerosolized toxins, and Assessment of virulence of B. Pseudomallei (Meliodosis) as a part of aerosol particle in non-human primates. Melioidosis has the potential to be adult as a biological weapon, hence it is classed as a category B. Bioterrorism Agent. B. Pseudomallei was studied by the US as a potential bioweapon in the by.

Biowarfare scientists

Besides the military experiments at the Lugar Center in Georgia, Battelle has already produced bioterrorism agents at the Biosafety Level 4 NBACC Acme Secret Laboratory at Fort Detrick in the U.s.. An NBACC presentation lists 16 research priorities for the lab, including to narrate classical, emerging and genetically-engineered pathogens for their BTA (biological threat agent) potential; assess the nature of nontraditional, novel and not-endemic induction of disease from potential BTA; and to expand aerosol-challenge testing chapters for non-human primates.

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Scientists engineer pathogens at the NBACC lab.

Pentagon Biolabs at The epicenter of The Ebola Crisis

The United states Company Metabiota Inc. has been awarded $xviii.four million federal contracts under the Pentagon'southward 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 Westward Africa, and was awarded $3.i 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'due south project at the epicenter of the Ebola crisis, where three United states of america biolabs are situated.

Ebola Crisis

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

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

Armed services Experiments on Biting Insects

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

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Biting Flies in Georgia

In 2014 The Lugar Centre 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 exterior of Georgia - the Caucasus region. In 2014-2015 Phlebotomine sand fly species were nerveless nether another project, 'Surveillance Piece of work on Acute Febrile Illness' and all (female person) sand flies were tested to determine their infectivity rate. A third projection, also including sand flies collection, studied the characteristics of their salivary glands.

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A biting fly in a bathroom in Tbilisi, Georgia

Equally a result, Tbilisi has been infested with biting flies since 2015. These biting insects live indoors, in bathrooms, all year long, which was non the typical beliefs of these species in Georgia previously (normally the Phlebotomine fly season in Georgia is exceptionally short - from June to September). Local people complain of being bitten by these newly-appeared flies while naked in their bathrooms. They also have a strong resistance to common cold and can survive even in sub-zero temperatures in the mountains.

Bitter Flies in Dagestan, Russia

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

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

Flies from the Phlebotomine family carry unsafe parasites in their saliva which they transmit through a seize with teeth to humans. The affliction, which these flies carry, is of high interest to the Pentagon. In 2003 during the The states 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 form of Leishmoniasis can be fatal.

A 1967 U.s.a. Army study 'Arthropods of medical importance in Asia and the European USSR' lists all local insects, their distribution and the diseases that they deport. Biting flies, which live in drains, are also listed in the certificate. Their natural habitat, though, is the Philippines, not Georgia or Russia.

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'Arthropods of medical importance in Asia and the European USSR', US Regular 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 United states of america Army written report - 'Usa Army Activities in the The states, Biological Warfare Programs, 1977, vol. 2, p. 203'. During Operation Whitecoat, volunteers were exposed to bites by infected sand flies. Performance Whitecoat was a bio-defence force medical enquiry program carried out by the U.s. Regular army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, between 1954 and 1973.

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

Killer Insects

A. Aegypti

The Pentagon has a long history in using insects equally 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 function 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 Cost Per Death

A United states of america Army written report in 1981 compared ii scenarios - 16 simultaneous attacks on a urban center by A. Aegypti mosquitoes, infected with Yellow Fever, and Tularemia aerosol attack, and assessed their effectiveness in terms of cost and casualties.

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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 use every bit a illness vector in biological warfare.

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

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Evaluation of Entomological Warfare every bit a potential Danger to the U.s.a. and European NATO nations, US Army, March 1981 Report

Functioning May Day: Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes were dispersed through ground-based methods in Georgia, United states, during a Usa Army performance codenamed May Day.

Operation May Day

Parts of the 1981 US Army report such as the "Mass production of Aedes Aegypti" have non been declassified, potentially meaning that the project is still ongoing.

Aedes Aegypti, besides known as yellow fever mosquito, have been widely used in United states of america 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 Ground forces Chemical Research and Development Command, Biological Weapons Co-operative, studied outdoor mosquito biting activeness in a number of field tests at Dugway Proving Footing, 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

Armed forces Experiments With Tropical Mosquitoes and Ticks in Georgia

Such species of mosquitoes and fleas (studied in the by nether the Usa Entomological Warfare Program) have also been collected in Georgia and tested at the Lugar Middle.

Under the DTRA project 'Virus and Other Arboviruses in Georgia' in 2014, the never-before-seen tropical mosquito Aedes albopictus was detected for the first fourth dimension and later an absenteeism of decades (60 years), the being of Aedes Aegypti mosquito was confirmed in west Georgia.

Aedes Albopictus

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

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

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 later the start of the Pentagon program at the Lugar Middle.

Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes

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

Anthrax Outbreak in Georgia and NATO Human Trials

In 2007 Georgia concluded its policy of having compulsory almanac livestock anthrax vaccination. As a result, the morbidity rate of the disease reached its tiptop in 2013. The same yr 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 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 past the US Ground forces in the by. Despite the Pentagon'south claims that its program is only defensive, there are facts to the contrary. In 2016 at the Lugar Center American scientists carried out research on the 'Genome Sequence of the Soviet/Russian Bacillus anthracis Vaccine Strain 55-VNIIVViM', which was funded past the US Defense force Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program in Tbilisi, and administered by Metabiota (the US contractor under the Pentagon program in Georgia).

In 2017 the DTRA funded further research - 'Ten Genome Sequences of Human and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the Country of Georgia' - which was performed by USAMRU-Yard at the Lugar Center.

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

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is acquired by infection through a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus). The disease was offset characterized in Crimea in 1944 and given the name Crimean hemorrhagic fever. Information technology was then later recognized in 1969 as the cause of illness in Congo, thus resulting in the current proper noun of the disease. In 2014 34 people became infected (including a 4-year old child) with CCHF. Iii of them died. The aforementioned year, Pentagon biologists studied the virus in Georgia under the DTRA project 'Epidemiology of febrile illnesses caused by Dengue viruses and other Arboviruses in Georgia'. The project included tests on patients with fever symptoms and the drove 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 still unknown. According to the local Veterinary Department report, merely 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 creature blood samples were negative besides. The lack of infected ticks and animals is inexplicable given the sharp increment of CCHF human cases in 2014, significant that the outbreak was not natural and the virus was spread intentionally.

In 2016 some other 21,590 ticks were collected for DNA databases for time to come studies at the Lugar Heart nether the Pentagon project 'Assessing the Seroprevalence and Genetic Diversity of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) and Hantaviruses in Georgia'.

Symptoms of CCHF

War machine Bio-lab Blamed For Mortiferous CCHF Outbreak in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan

237 cases of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) accept also been reported across Afghanistan, 41 of which were fatal every bit of December 2017. Co-ordinate to Afghanistan's Ministry of Health, 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 near the border 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 part of the The states bio-defense program - Cooperative Biological Appointment Program (CBEP), which is funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The DTRA contractors, working at the Lugar Center in Georgia, CH2M Hill and Battelle, take as well been contracted for the program in Afghanistan. CH2M Hill 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 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 mortiferous diseases. However, 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 deadly pathogens of armed services importance in bats.

Pentagon bats

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

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

Engineering science Deadly Viruses is Legal in the U.s.a.

Eye Due east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) first appeared in 2012 and is thought to have originated in bats and spread directly to humans and/or camels. However, like Ebola, the precise ways the virus spreads are unknown.

1,980 cases with 699 deaths caused by MERS-CoV were reported in fifteen 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 accept been engineered past the US and studied by the Pentagon, besides equally influenza and SARS. Confirmation of this practice is Obama's 2014 temporary ban on government funding for such 'dual-use' enquiry. The moratorium was lifted in 2017 and experiments take connected. 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 past by the U.s.. Yet, the Pentagon's enquiry on tularemia continues, equally well as 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 peculiarly dangerous pathogens in Georgia.

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

Human Tularemia

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

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Tularemia is one of the bio-weapons that the Usa Regular army developed in the past.

Source: 1981 US Army Study

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 also borders on Russian federation:

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The United states of america Military Plan is Sensitive Information

Ukraine has no command over the military machine bio-laboratories on its ain territory. Co-ordinate to the 2005 Agreement between the US Section of Defense and the Ministry building of Wellness of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive data nigh the Us program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the U.s.a. DoD unsafe pathogens for biological research. The Pentagon has been granted admission to certain state secrets of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their understanding:

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Biowarfare Scientists Under Diplomatic Cover

Among the ready of bilateral agreements between the US and Ukraine is the institution of the Science and Applied science Middle in Ukraine (STCU) - an international system funded mainly by the US government which has been accorded diplomatic status. The STCU officially supports projects of scientists previously involved in the Soviet biological weapons program. Over the past 20 years the STCU has invested over $285 million in funding and managing some i,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the development of weapons of mass devastation.

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The United states personnel in Ukraine work under diplomatic comprehend.

364 Ukrainians Died From Swine Flu

One of the Pentagon laboratories is located in Kharkiv, where in January 2016 at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers died from a flu-similar virus in just two days, with 200 more beingness hospitalized. The Ukrainian government did not written report on the dead Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths were reported beyond Ukraine (81.3 % acquired by Swine Influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 - the aforementioned strain which acquired the world pandemic in 2009).

Ukraine Swine Flu

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According to Donetsk People'south Commonwealth (DPR) intelligence information, the U.s.a. bio-lab in Kharkiv leaked the deadly virus.

Police Investigate Infection With Incurable Illness

Tardily final year, a highly suspicious Hepatitis A infection spread rapidly in just few months across South Due east Ukraine, where most of the Pentagon biolabs are located.

hundreds infected hepatitis A

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37 people have been hospitalized for Hepatitis A in the Ukrainian metropolis of Mykolaiv every bit of January 2018. Local police accept launched an investigation into "infection with human immunodeficiency virus and other incurable diseases." Three years ago more than 100 people in the same city became infected with Cholera. Both diseases are alleged to have spread through contaminated drinking water.

In the summer of 2017, 60 people with Hepatitis A were admitted to hospital in the city of Zaporizhia. The cause of this outbreak is 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. One of the Pentagon bio-labs located in Kharkiv was blamed for the deadly Flu outbreak a year ago that claimed the lives of 364 Ukrainians.

Ukraine And Russia Hit By New Highly Virulent Cholera Infection

In 2011 Ukraine was hit past a cholera outbreak. 33 patients were reportedly hospitalized for severe diarrhea. A 2d outbreak struck the country in 2014 when more than 800 people all beyond Ukraine were reported to have contracted the illness. 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 agent Vibrio cholera, with a loftier genetic similarity to the strains reported in Ukraine, hit Moscow in 2014. According to a 2014 Russian Research 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 Usa contractors working at the bio-laboratories in Ukraine, has projects on Cholera, too as on Influenza and Zika - all pathogens of war machine importance to the Pentagon.

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

DTRA contractors Ukraine

Black & Veatch Special Project Corp. was awarded $198.7 million in DTRA contracts to build and operate bio-laboratories in Ukraine (under 2 5-year contracts in 2008 and 2012 totaling $128.5 million), also as in Federal republic of germany, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Thailand, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Armenia.

Metabiota has been awarded a $xviii.four million federal contract under the plan in Georgia and Ukraine. This US company was also contracted to perform work for the DTRA before and during the Ebola crisis in W Africa, including $3.1 million (2012-2015) for piece of work in Sierra Leone.

Southern Inquiry Institute has been a prime number subcontractor under the DTRA plan in Ukraine since 2008. The company was also a prime Pentagon contractor in the by, nether the United states of america Biological Weapons Programme for inquiry and development of bio-agents, with 16 contracts betwixt 1951 and 1962.

Fort Detrick Contracts

Source: United states of america Army Activities in the US, 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 as well a subcontractor on a Pentagon program for anthrax inquiry in 2001. The prime contractor being Advanced Biosystems, whose president at that time was Ken Alibek (a former Soviet microbiologist and biological warfare adept from Kazakhstan who defected to the US in 1992).

Ken Alibek

Ken Alibek was the First Deputy Director of Biopreparat, where he oversaw a program for biological weapon facilities and was the Soviet Union's main expert on anthrax. Later on his defection 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 US Congress and US Department of Country hard for "issues related to research and development for Us intelligence" and "defense related enquiry 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 and so-Senator Jeff Sessions in 2008-2009 (currently the US Chaser Full general appointed past Donald Trump), when the plant was awarded a number of federal contracts.

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Us Attorney Full general Jeff Sessions, US Senator for Alabama (1997-2017)

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For a ten-year period (2006-2016) Southern Inquiry Establish paid $1.28 1000000 for lobbying the US Senate, House of Representatives, the State Department and the Section of Defense (DoD). Senator Jeff Sessions' aide on Capitol Hill, Watson Donald, is now a Senior Managing director at Southern Research Institute.

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 farther 90 new cases, with 8 deaths, of botulinum toxin poisoning (one of the about poisonous biological substances known). Co-ordinate to local wellness authorities, 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 bachelor during the 2016-2017 outbreak.

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

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

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Botulinum neurotoxin poses a major bio-weapon threat because of its extreme potency, ease of production and send. It causes muscles paralyses, respiratory failure and ultimately expiry if non treated immediately. A single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled can kill more than one 1000000 people. It could exist disseminated via aerosol, or past contamination of water and/ or food supplies.

The Pentagon Produces Alive Viruses, Bacteria & Toxins

Botulinum Toxin was tested as a bio-weapon by the U.s.a. Regular army in the past, too as Anthrax, Brucella and Tularemia. Although the Us bio-weapons program was officially terminated in 1969, documents show that the armed forces experiments never ended. Presently the Pentagon produces and tests live bio-agents at the same armed forces facility equally it did in the by - Dugway Proving Ground.

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Capabilities Study 2012, West Desert Exam Center

Past Field Tests

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Bioweapons Manufacturing plant in The US

The US Army produces and tests bio-agents at a special military facility located at Dugway Proving Ground (Westward Desert Exam Centre, Utah), as proven in a 2012 Us Army Report. The facility is overseen past the Regular army Test and Evaluation Command.

The Life Sciences Division (LSD) at Dugway Proving Basis is tasked with the production of bio-agents. According to the Regular 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 past the US Army at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, U.s.a.

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, West Desert Test Center

The Life Sciences Sectionalisation consists of an Aerosol Applied science branch and a Microbiology Branch. The Aerosol Technology Branch aerosolizes biological agents and simulants. The Microbiology branch produces toxins, bacteria, viruses and agent-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.

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A post-production laboratory dries and mills test materials.

Subsequently the bio-agents are produced, the scientists challenge them at containment droplets chambers.

Technicians disseminate live biological agents

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Technicians disseminate alive biological agents for identification sensitivity tests.

Technicians disseminate live biological agents.

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Aerosol Experiments With Botulinum Neurotoxin And Anthrax

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

The experiments engagement back to 2007 when an unspecified quantity of the toxin was procured for the Department of the Army by the same company - Metabiologics. According to the 2012 Westward Desert Test Centre Report, the armed services facility performs tests with Botulinum Neurotoxin Droplets, too as with aerosolized Anthrax, Yersinia pestis, and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus (VEE).

Containment Aerosol Chamber

Source: Capabilities Written report 2012, West Desert Exam Center

Outdoor Field Test Programs at Dugway Proving Footing

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

Capapbilities Report

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, West Desert Exam Center

Dissemination of contaminants

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Broadcasting of contaminants for biological/chemical tests.

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Liquid Dissemination.

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Liquid Broadcasting.

Powder Dissemination.

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Powder Dissemination.

Dissemination on the test grid.

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Dissemination on the test grid.

The US Army report lists numerous broadcasting techniques, including via bio-aerosol sprayers. Such sprayers, called Micronair disseminators, have already been adult by the US Army and tested at Dugway Proving Ground. According to the documents, they tin be vehicle-mounted, or worn every bit a haversack with a pump arrangement, which tin can be fitted to the unit of measurement to increment the accurateness of the release. Micronair sprayers can release 50 to 500 mL of bio-liquid simulant per infinitesimal from 12 L tanks.

Aerosol Sprayers.

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Aerosol Sprayers.

The US Stole Bacteria From Saddam Hussein'due south 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 by the United nations Special Commission led by the US in 2003. Information technology is named after Al Hakam - Iraq'south bio-weapons production facility. Autonomously from Pentagon field tests, this bacterium is also used in the U.s. for the production of GM corn, which is resistant to pests. Photos posted by the CIA prove that the bacteria was collected past the US in Iraq. According to the CIA, the vials containing bio-pesticide were recovered from an Al Hakam scientist's home.

CIA: A total of 97 vials - including those with labels consistent with the Al Hakam embrace stories of unmarried-cell poly peptide and bio-pesticides - as well equally strains that could exist used to produce BW agents, were recovered from a scientist'due 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 leaner stolen from Saddam Hussein'due south bio-weapons factory in Iraq.

DTRA project

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

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

The DTRA contractor on this project - Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Plant (LBERI) - operates an Animal Bio-safety iii Level (ABSL-3) laboratory, which has Select Agent status. The facility is designed to bear bioaerosol studies. The company 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 of operations.

Some of the tests are performed in a wind tunnel.

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Some of the tests are performed in a current of air tunnel.

Field Tests With Biological Simulants (Leaner)

What the Pentagon is currently doing is exactly what it did in the past, pregnant that its bio-weapons program was never terminated. The United 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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Source: US Army Activities in the US, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. Ii, 1977, p. 125-126

Field Tests in Chechnya

The Defence force Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which runs the US armed forces plan at the Lugar Center in Georgia, is alleged to have already performed field tests with an unknown substance in Chechnya, Russia. 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 US personnel operating on the Georgia-Russian federation border, commented on this information.

$9.2 Million U.s. Armed services Projection on Russia-Georgia Border

DTRA has full admission to the Russian federation-Georgia border, granted under a military program chosen 'Georgia Land Border Security Project'. The activities related to the projection have been outsourced to a private American company - Parsons Government Services International. DTRA has previously contracted Parsons for similar border security projects in Lebanon, Jordan, Libya and Syria. Parsons have been awarded a $ix.2 million contract nether the Pentagon border security project on the Russia-Georgia border.

Lugar Center Tbilisi

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

US Defense Agency Tests GM Insects to Transmit GM Viruses

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

Darpa engineering

insect weapon

Nether another armed services programme - Insect Allies - GM insects are engineered to transfer modified genes to plants. The $x.3 million DARPA projection includes both gene editing in insects and in the viruses that they transmit. Ecological Niche-preference Applied science is a third ongoing military plan for genome engineering in insects. The Pentagon's stated objective is to engineer GM organisms so that they can resist certain temperatures, modify their habitat and food sources.

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Genetically Engineered Humans

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

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

DARPA wants to insert an additional 47thursday artificial chromosome into human being cells. This chromosome will evangelize new genes that will be used for engineering the human body. SynPloid Biotek LLC has been awarded two contracts under the program totaling $1.ane million (2015-2016 - $100,600 for the offset stage of the inquiry; 2015-2017 - $999,300 for piece of work which is not specified in the federal contracts registry). The visitor has only two employees and no previous record on bio-research.

Top Underground Research on Synthetic Viruses

Between 2008 and 2014, the United states of america invested approximately $820 million in synthetic biology research, Defense existence a major correspondent. Much of the military machine projects on constructed biological science are classified, among them are a number of classified studies by the secretive JASON group of US armed services advisors - due east.m. Emerging Viruses and Genome Editing for the Pentagon, and Constructed Viruses for the National Counterterrorism Middle.

JASON is an independent scientific advisory group that provides consulting services to the U.South. government on matters of defense force, scientific discipline and technology. It was established in 1960 and most of their resulting JASON reports are classified. For authoritative purposes, JASON'southward projects are run past the MITRE Corporation, which has contracts with the Defense Section, CIA and the FBI. Since 2014 MITRE has been awarded some $27.four million in contracts with the DoD.

Although the JASON Reports are classified, some other US Air Forcefulness study titled Biotechnology: Genetically Engineered Pathogens, sheds some light on what the secretive JASON group has researched - 5 groups of genetically engineered pathogens that tin can be used as bio-weapons. These are binary biological weapons (a lethal combination of two viruses), host swapping diseases (animate being viruses that 'spring' to humans, similar the Ebola virus), stealth viruses, and designer diseases. Designer diseases can be engineered to target a certain ethnic group, pregnant that they can exist used as indigenous 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 research and development of ethnic bio-weapons have never been publicly confirmed, documents show that the Usa collects biological material from certain ethnic 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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Autonomously from Russians, the US has been collecting biological cloth from both salubrious and cancer patients in Mainland china. The National Cancer Found 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 Cell Carcinoma in China', includes analysis of 349 serum samples which have been nerveless from Chinese patients.

Linxian, Zhengzhou

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

Chinese biological fabric has been collected under a series of federal projects, including saliva and cancer tissue. Amidst them, Genotyping DNA Samples from Lymphoma cases and from controls (good for you patients), chest cancer tissue blocks from breast cancer patients, saliva samples of 50 families who accept iii or more cases of UGI cancer, Genotype 50 SNP'Due south for Dna samples from the Cancer Hospital, Beijing, Genotypes from 3,000 cases of gastric cancer and iii,000 controls (healthy patients) in Beijing.

How The Pentagon Helped Tobacco Companies to Profit From Ebola

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested $100 1000000 in vaccine product from tobacco plants.

The companies involved in the projection are owned past 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 by British American Tobacco. Currently they are producing Flu and Ebola vaccines from tobacco plants.

The $100 meg program Blue Angel was launched as a response to the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. Medicago was awarded $21 one thousand thousand to produce 10,000 1000000 doses of an influenza vaccine inside one month.

Blue Affections plan manager Dr. John Julias explains: "Although at that place are multiple plant species and other organisms being explored as alternative poly peptide production platforms, the U.s. Government has connected to brand an investment in tobacco-based manufacturing."

Tobacco plants

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The plant-based vaccine product method works by isolating a specific antigen protein that triggers a human allowed response from the targeted virus. A gene from the protein is transferred to leaner, which is used to infect plants. The plants then start producing the protein that will be used for vaccinations.

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

Biological Experiments Are War Crimes

Article eight of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines biological experiments as war crimes. The US, however, is not a state party to the international treaty, and cannot be held accountable for its war crimes.