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Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian investigative journalist and Middle E Correspondent. Over the concluding 2 years she has published a series of reports on weapons smuggling to ISIS in Syria. In the past yr she came under pressure from the Bulgarian National Security Bureau and was fired from her job in the Bulgarian newspaper Trud Daily, without explanation. Despite this, Dilyana continues her investigations. The following report, kickoff published on S Front end, provides an overview of the Pentagon'due south secretive evolution of biological weapons in bio-labs effectually the world.

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The Usa Army regularly produces deadly viruses, leaner 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 unsafe pathogens and other incurable diseases. Bio warfare scientists using diplomatic encompass exam human being-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries beyond the world. These Usa bio-laboratories are funded by the Defense force Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) nether a $ ii.one billion military programme - Cooperative Biological Date Program (CBEP) - and are located in erstwhile Soviet Union countries such equally Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle Due east, South East Asia and Africa.

The Lugar Center, Commonwealth of Georgia

The United states of america Army has been deployed to Vaziani Military Air Base, 17 km away from the Pentagon bio-laboratory at the Lugar Heart.

Georgia is a Testing Ground For Bioweapons

The Lugar Center is the Pentagon bio laboratory in Georgia. It is located merely 17 km away from the US Vaziani war machine airbase in the capital Tbilisi. Tasked with the war machine program are biologists from the Us Regular army Medical Research Unit-Georgia (USAMRU-Thou) along with individual contractors. The Bio-safety Level three Laboratory is accessible only to United states citizens with security clearance. They are accorded diplomatic immunity under the 2002 US-Georgia Agreement on defence cooperation.

The Usa-Georgia agreement accords diplomatic status to the Us military and civilian personnel (including diplomatic vehicles), working on the Pentagon plan in Georgia.

Information obtained from the U.s.a. federal contracts registry clarifies some of the military machine activities at the Lugar Heart - amid them enquiry on bio-agents (anthrax, tularemia) and viral diseases (east.thou. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever), and the collection of biological samples for futurity experiments.

Pentagon Contractors Produce Bio Agents Under Diplomatic Cover

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has outsourced much of the work under the military programme to individual companies, which are not held accountable to Congress, and which tin operate more freely and movement around the rule of police force. US noncombatant personnel performing work at the Lugar Centre have besides been given diplomatic immunity, although they are non diplomats. Hence, private companies can perform work, under diplomatic cover, for the United states of america government without being nether the straight control of the host state - in this case the Republic of Georgia. This practice is oft used by the CIA to provide embrace for its agents.

3 private American companies work at the United states of america bio-laboratory in Tbilisi - CH2M Loma, Battelle and Metabiota. In addition to the Pentagon, these individual contractors perform biological research for the CIA and various other government agencies.

CH2M Hill has been awarded $341.5 meg DTRA contracts under the Pentagon'south program for bio-laboratories in Georgia, Republic of uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan, South East Asia. Half of this sum ($161.ane million) is allocated to the Lugar Middle nether the Georgian contract.

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

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

Source: US Army Activities in the US, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. Two, 1977, p. 82

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

The CIA-Battelle Project Articulate Vision

Project Articulate Vision (1997 and 2000), a articulation investigation past the CIA and the Battelle Memorial Establish, under a contract awarded by the Bureau, reconstructed and tested a Soviet-era anthrax bomblet in club to test its dissemination characteristics. The projection's stated goal was to assess bio-agents dissemination characteristics of bomblets. The hugger-mugger CIA-Battelle operation was omitted from the US Biological Weapons Convention declarations submitted to the Un.

Anthrax spores under microscope

Peak Secret Experiments

Battelle has operated a Top Undercover Bio laboratory (National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Middle - NBACC) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, under a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contract for the last decade. The company has been awarded a $344.iv million federal contract (2006 - 2016) and another $17.three 1000000 contract (2015 -2026) by DHS.

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NBACC is classified as a US Top Secret facility.

Amid the secret experiments performed past Battelle at NBACC, are: Assessment of powder dissemination engineering science, Cess of take chances posed by aerosolized toxins, and Assessment of virulence of B. Pseudomallei (Meliodosis) every bit a function of droplets particle in not-human primates. Melioidosis has the potential to exist adult as a biological weapon, hence it is classed as a category B. Bioterrorism Agent. B. Pseudomallei was studied by the United states equally a potential bioweapon in the past.

Likewise the military experiments at the Lugar Center in Georgia, Battelle has already produced bioterrorism agents at the Biosafety Level 4 NBACC Top Secret Laboratory at Fort Detrick in the US. An NBACC presentation lists 16 research priorities for the lab, including to narrate classical, emerging and genetically-engineered pathogens for their BTA (biological threat amanuensis) potential; appraise the nature of nontraditional, novel and non-endemic induction of affliction from potential BTA; and to expand droplets-challenge testing capacity for non-homo primates.

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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 $18.four million federal contracts nether the Pentagon's DTRA plan in Georgia and Ukraine for scientific and technical consulting services.

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

Metabiota Inc. had been contracted past the Pentagon to perform work for DTRA before and during the Ebola crisis in W Africa, and was awarded $iii.ane million (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone - one of the countries at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.

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

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

2011, the Lugar Middle, Andrew C. Weber (on the correct) - US Assistant Secretary of Defence force (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.

Biting Flies in Georgia

In 2014 The Lugar Center was equipped with an insect facility and launched a projection 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 wing species were collected under another projection, 'Surveillance Work on Astute Febrile Illness' and all (female) sand flies were tested to make up one's mind their infectivity rate. A tertiary projection, also including sand flies collection, studied the characteristics of their salivary glands.

A biting wing in a bathroom in Tbilisi, Georgia

As a result, Tbilisi has been infested with bitter flies since 2015. These biting insects live indoors, in bathrooms, all yr long, which was non the typical behavior of these species in Georgia previously (unremarkably the Phlebotomine wing season in Georgia is uncommonly short - from June to September). Local people complain of beingness bitten by these newly-appeared flies while naked in their bathrooms. They likewise have a strong resistance to cold and can survive even in sub-zip temperatures in the mountains.

Biting 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.

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

Flies from the Phlebotomine family carry unsafe parasites in their saliva which they transmit through a bite to humans. The disease, which these flies carry, is of loftier involvement to the Pentagon. In 2003 during the US invasion of Iraq, American soldiers were severely bitten by sand flies and contracted Leishmoniasis. The affliction is native to Iraq and Afghanistan, and if left untreated the astute form of Leishmoniasis can be fatal.

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

'Arthropods of medical importance in Asia and the European USSR', U.s. Army report, 1967

Operation 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 Regular army written report - 'US Army Activities in the Usa, Biological Warfare Programs, 1977, vol. 2, p. 203'. During Operation Whitecoat, volunteers were exposed to bites by infected sand flies. Operation Whitecoat was a bio-defense force medical research programme carried out by the United states of america Ground forces at Fort Detrick, Maryland, betwixt 1954 and 1973.

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

Killer Insects

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 nether the Program for Biological Weapons of the US.

The Pentagon: How to Impale 625,000 People For But $0.29 Cost Per Death

A U.s. Army report in 1981 compared ii scenarios - 16 simultaneous attacks on a city past A. Aegypti mosquitoes, infected with Yellow Fever, and Tularemia aerosol attack, and assessed their effectiveness in terms of cost and casualties.

Functioning Large Itch: Field tests were performed to make up one's mind coverage patterns and survivability of the tropical rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis for use as a disease vector in biological warfare.

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

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

Operation May Day: Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes were dispersed through footing-based methods in Georgia, USA, during a United states Army operation codenamed May Twenty-four hours.

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

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

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

For reference: OutdoorMosquito Bitter Action Studies,Projection Bellweather I, 1960, Technical 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 nether the The states Entomological Warfare Plan) have besides been collected in Georgia and tested at the Lugar Center.

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

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

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

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Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes have been distributed only in Georgia, southern Russia and northern Turkey. They were detected for the first fourth dimension in 2014 after the first of the Pentagon plan at the Lugar Eye.

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

Anthrax Outbreak in Georgia and NATO Human Trials

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

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

Pentagon Research on Russian Anthrax

Anthrax is one of the bio agents weaponized by the US Ground forces in the past. Despite the Pentagon'southward claims that its plan is merely defensive, there are facts to the contrary. In 2016 at the Lugar Eye American scientists carried out inquiry on the 'Genome Sequence of the Soviet/Russian Bacillus anthracis Vaccine Strain 55-VNIIVViM', which was funded by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Programme in Tbilisi, and administered by Metabiota (the U.s.a. contractor under the Pentagon plan in Georgia).

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

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

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

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The cause of the CCHF outbreak in Georgia is nonetheless unknown. According to the local Veterinary Department study, merely one tick from all of the nerveless species from the infected villages tested positive for the disease. Despite the claims of local authorities that the virus was transmitted to humans from animals, all animal blood samples were negative also. The lack of infected ticks and animals is inexplicable given the precipitous increase of CCHF human being cases in 2014, meaning that the outbreak was non natural and the virus was spread intentionally.

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

Military Bio-lab Blamed For Deadly CCHF Outbreak in Afghanistan

237 cases of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) take also been reported across Afghanistan, 41 of which were fatal equally of December 2017. According to Afghanistan's Ministry of Wellness, most of the cases have been registered in the capital letter Kabul, where 71 cases have been reported with xiii fatalities, and in the province of Herat almost the border with Iran (67 cases).

Afghanistan is one of 25 countries across the world with Pentagon bio-laboratories on their territory. The project in Afghanistan is office of the U.s. bio-defence program - Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), which is funded past the Defence Threat Reduction Bureau (DTRA). The DTRA contractors, working at the Lugar Middle in Georgia, CH2M Hill and Battelle, accept also been contracted for the program in Afghanistan. CH2M Hill has been awarded a $10.4 million contract (2013-2017). The Pentagon contractors in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan and Georgia are the same, then 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. Nevertheless, the precise means these viruses are transmitted to humans are currently unknown. Numerous studies have been performed under the DTRA Cooperative Biological Engagement Programme (CBEP) in a search for deadly pathogens of military importance in bats.

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

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

Engineering Deadly Viruses is Legal in the Usa

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

ane,980 cases with 699 deaths caused past MERS-CoV were reported in 15 countries across the globe (as of June 2017).

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

MERS-CoV is one of the viruses that have been engineered by the US and studied past the Pentagon, every bit well as flu and SARS. Confirmation of this practice is Obama'due south 2014 temporary ban on government funding for such 'dual-utilise' enquiry. 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 every bit Bioweapon

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

Specially Unsafe Pathogens (EDPs), or select agents, represent a major concern for public health globally. These highly pathogenic agents have the potential to exist weaponized, with proof of their war machine importance seen through the post-obit 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 Tularemia in Georgia; and Human Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance of Especially Dangerous Pathogens in Georgia (written report of select agents among patients with undifferentiated fever and hemorrhagic fever/septic daze).

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

Tularemia is one of the bio-weapons that the U.s. Regular army developed in the by.

Source: 1981 Usa Army Report

Pentagon Bio-laboratories Spread Diseases in Ukraine

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

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

The US Military Program is Sensitive Information

Ukraine has no control over the armed forces bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Agreement between the United states Department of Defense force and the Ministry building of Health of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the Us plan and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the US DoD dangerous pathogens for biological research. The Pentagon has been granted access to certain land secrets of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their understanding:

Biowarfare Scientists Under Diplomatic Cover

Amidst the set of bilateral agreements betwixt the United states of america and Ukraine is the institution of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) - an international organization funded mainly by the U.s.a. 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 1,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the evolution of weapons of mass destruction.

The US personnel in Ukraine work nether diplomatic encompass.

364 Ukrainians Died From Swine Influenza

One of the Pentagon laboratories is located in Kharkiv, where in January 2016 at least twenty Ukrainian soldiers died from a flu-similar virus in just two days, with 200 more being hospitalized. The Ukrainian government did non report on the dead Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths were reported across Ukraine (81.three % caused past Swine Flu A (H1N1) pdm09 - the aforementioned strain which caused the world pandemic in 2009).

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

Police force Investigate Infection With Incurable Disease

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

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37 people have been hospitalized for Hepatitis A in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv equally of January 2018. Local police have launched an investigation into "infection with homo immunodeficiency virus and other incurable diseases." Iii years agone more than 100 people in the same urban center 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 urban center of Zaporizhia. The cause of this outbreak is all the same unknown.

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

29 cases of Hepatitis A were reported in Kharkiv in November 2017. The virus was isolated in contaminated drinking water. 1 of the Pentagon bio-labs located in Kharkiv was blamed for the mortiferous Flu outbreak a twelvemonth agone that claimed the lives of 364 Ukrainians.

Ukraine And Russia Hit By New Highly Virulent Cholera Infection

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

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A new highly virulent variant of the cholera agent Vibrio cholera, with a high genetic similarity to the strains reported in Ukraine, striking Moscow in 2014. According to a 2014 Russian Research Anti-Plaque Institute genetic study, the cholera strain isolated in Moscow was similar to the leaner which caused the epidemic in neighboring Ukraine.

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

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

Blackness & Veatch Special Projection Corp. was awarded $198.seven million in DTRA contracts to build and operate bio-laboratories in Ukraine (under two 5-year contracts in 2008 and 2012 totaling $128.5 1000000), as well every bit in Federal republic of germany, Azerbaijan, Republic of cameroon, Thailand, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Armenia.

Metabiota has been awarded a $18.4 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 crunch in Due west Africa, including $three.1 million (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone.

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

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

Soviet Defector Produced Anthrax For The Pentagon

Bacillus anthracis, magnified more than 12,000 times

Southern Enquiry Institute was also a subcontractor on a Pentagon programme for anthrax research in 2001. The prime contractor being Advanced Biosystems, whose president at that fourth dimension was Ken Alibek (a quondam Soviet microbiologist and biological warfare proficient from Kazakhstan who defected to the United states of america in 1992).

Ken Alibek was the Starting time Deputy Director of Biopreparat, where he oversaw a plan for biological weapon facilities and was the Soviet Marriage'southward main proficient on anthrax. Later his revolt to the United states of america, he was engaged on Pentagon enquiry projects.

$250,000 For Lobbying Jeff Sessions For "Research For United states Intelligence"

Southern Research Institute lobbied the US Congress and U.s. Section of State hard for "bug related to research and development for US intelligence" and "defense related research and development." The lobbying activities coincided with the start of the Pentagon projects on bio-labs in Ukraine and other quondam Soviet states.

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

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

For a x-twelvemonth period (2006-2016) Southern Enquiry Institute paid $1.28 one thousand thousand for lobbying the US Senate, House of Representatives, the State Department and the Department of Defense (DoD). Senator Jeff Sessions' adjutant on Capitol Hill, Watson Donald, is at present a Senior Director at Southern Inquiry Institute.

Constabulary Investigate Botulism Toxin Poisoning in Ukraine

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

In 2017 the Ukrainian Ministry of Health confirmed a further xc new cases, with viii deaths, of botulinum toxin poisoning (one of the most poisonous biological substances known). According to local wellness regime, the cause of the outbreak was food poisoning, into which law launched an investigation.

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

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

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

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

The Pentagon Produces Live Viruses, Bacteria & Toxins

Botulinum Toxin was tested equally a bio-weapon past the US Regular army in the past, as well as Anthrax, Brucella and Tularemia. Although the US bio-weapons program was officially terminated in 1969, documents show that the armed services experiments never ended. Presently the Pentagon produces and tests live bio-agents at the aforementioned military facility equally it did in the past - Dugway Proving Ground.

Electric current Field Tests

Capabilities Study 2012, W Desert Exam Center

Past Field Tests

Source: 1977 Usa Regular army Report , p. 135

Bioweapons Manufacturing plant in The US

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

The Life Sciences Sectionalization (LSD) at Dugway Proving Ground is tasked with the production of bio-agents. According to the Army study, scientists from this division produce and test aerosolized bio-agents at Lothar Saloman Life Sciences Exam Facility (LSTF).

Biological Agents produced by the US Army at Dugway Proving Basis, Utah, The states

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, West Desert Test Center

The Life Sciences Division consists of an Aerosol Engineering science branch and a Microbiology Branch. The Aerosol Technology Branch aerosolizes biological agents and simulants. The Microbiology branch produces toxins, leaner, 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 postal service-production laboratory dries and mills test materials.

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

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Technicians disseminate alive biological agents for identification sensitivity tests.

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Aerosol Experiments With Botulinum Neurotoxin And Anthrax

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

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

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, West Desert Test Center

Outdoor Field Exam Programs at Dugway Proving Ground

United states of america Regular army documents and photos prove that the Pentagon has developed diverse dissemination methods for bioterrorism attacks, including via explosives.

Source: Capabilities Report 2012, W Desert Test Center

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Broadcasting of contaminants for biological/chemical tests.

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Liquid Broadcasting.

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Broadcasting on the test grid.

The Usa Army report lists numerous dissemination techniques, including via bio-aerosol sprayers. Such sprayers, called Micronair disseminators, have already been adult past the The states Ground forces and tested at Dugway Proving Ground. According to the documents, they tin can be vehicle-mounted, or worn as a haversack with a pump arrangement, which can be fitted to the unit 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.

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Aerosol Sprayers.

The Us Stole Leaner 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 UN Special Commission led by the The states in 2003. It is named after Al Hakam - Iraq'due south bio-weapons production facility. Apart from Pentagon field tests, this bacterium is also used in the US for the production of GM corn, which is resistant to pests. Photos posted by the CIA bear witness that the bacteria was collected by the US in Iraq. According to the CIA, the vials containing bio-pesticide were recovered from an Al Hakam scientist's home.

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

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

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

The tests are performed on Kirtland Air Forcefulness 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 (bacteria) also autumn into this group.

The DTRA contractor on this project - Lovelace Biomedical and Ecology Research Institute (LBERI) - operates an Animal Bio-prophylactic three Level (ABSL-3) laboratory, which has Select Agent status. The facility is designed to acquit bioaerosol studies. The company has been awarded a 5-year contract for field tests with biological simulants at Kirtland Air Forcefulness Base.

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Kirtland Air Force Base.

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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 programme was never terminated. The Usa Army performed 27 field tests with such biological simulants, involving the public domain from 1949 to 1968, when President Nixon officially appear the terminate of the program.

Source: The states Ground forces Activities in the US, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. 2, 1977, p. 125-126

Field Tests in Chechnya

The Defence force Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which runs the United states of america military program at the Lugar Middle in Georgia, is alleged 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 shut 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.

$nine.ii One thousand thousand United states of america Military Projection on Russia-Georgia Border

DTRA has full access to the Russia-Georgia edge, granted under a war machine programme chosen 'Georgia Land Edge Security Project'. The activities related to the project have been outsourced to a individual American company - Parsons Government Services International. DTRA has previously contracted Parsons for similar border security projects in Lebanese republic, Jordan, Libya and Syria. Parsons accept been awarded a $9.two meg contract under the Pentagon border security project on the Russian federation-Georgia border.

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

US Defense Agency Tests GM Insects to Transmit GM Viruses

The Pentagon has invested at to the lowest degree $65 million in gene editing. The Us Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded 7 research teams to develop tools for genome engineering in insects, rodents and leaner under DARPA's Condom Gene programme, using a novel CRISPR-Cas9 technology.

Under another military program - Insect Allies - GM insects are engineered to transfer modified genes to plants. The $10.3 meg DARPA project includes both cistron editing in insects and in the viruses that they transmit. Ecological Niche-preference Engineering is a tertiary ongoing military program for genome engineering science in insects. The Pentagon'south stated objective is to engineer GM organisms so that they can resist certain temperatures, change their habitat and nutrient 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 as well.

DARPA Advanced Tools for Mammalian Genome Engineering Project seeks to create a biological platform within the homo body, using information technology to deliver new genetic information, and thus altering humans at the DNA level.

DARPA wants to insert an additional 47^thursday artificial chromosome into human cells. This chromosome will deliver new genes that will be used for applied science the human being trunk. SynPloid Biotek LLC has been awarded 2 contracts under the program totaling $1.1 meg (2015-2016 - $100,600 for the first phase of the research; 2015-2017 - $999,300 for work which is not specified in the federal contracts registry). The company has simply 2 employees and no previous record on bio-inquiry.

Pinnacle Clandestine Research on Synthetic Viruses

Betwixt 2008 and 2014, the United States invested approximately $820 million in synthetic biology enquiry, Defense being a major correspondent. Much of the military projects on constructed biology are classified, among them are a number of classified studies by the secretive JASON group of US military advisors - e.g. Emerging Viruses and Genome Editing for the Pentagon, and Synthetic Viruses for the National Counterterrorism Center.

JASON is an independent scientific advisory grouping that provides consulting services to the U.S. government on matters of defense, science 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 Department, CIA and the FBI. Since 2014 MITRE has been awarded some $27.4 one thousand thousand in contracts with the DoD.

Although the JASON Reports are classified, another US Air Strength study titled Biotechnology: Genetically Engineered Pathogens, sheds some low-cal on what the secretive JASON group has researched - five groups of genetically engineered pathogens that can exist used as bio-weapons. These are binary biological weapons (a lethal combination of 2 viruses), host swapping diseases (animal viruses that 'jump' to humans, similar the Ebola virus), stealth viruses, and designer diseases. Designer diseases can exist engineered to target a certain indigenous group, pregnant that they can be used equally 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 prove that the The states collects biological fabric from certain indigenous groups - Russians and Chinese.

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

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

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

Chinese biological material has been collected nether a serial of federal projects, including saliva and cancer tissue. Amidst them, Genotyping Deoxyribonucleic acid Samples from Lymphoma cases and from controls (healthy patients), breast cancer tissue blocks from chest cancer patients, saliva samples of 50 families who have 3 or more cases of UGI cancer, Genotype 50 SNP'S for DNA samples from the Cancer Infirmary, Beijing, Genotypes from iii,000 cases of gastric cancer and 3,000 controls (healthy patients) in Beijing.

How The Pentagon Helped Tobacco Companies to Profit From Ebola

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

The companies involved in the projection are owned by the biggest American tobacco companies - Mediacago, Inc. is co-owned past 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 program Blue Affections was launched equally a response to the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. Medicago was awarded $21 million to produce 10,000 million doses of an flu vaccine within one month.

Blue Affections program manager Dr. John Julias explains: "Although at that place are multiple constitute species and other organisms being explored every bit culling poly peptide production platforms, the US Regime has continued to make an investment in tobacco-based manufacturing."

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

It is non clear why the Pentagon chooses to invest in vaccines produced from tobacco plants, from among all other plant species they explored. Medicago, co-endemic by Philip Morris, paid $495,000 for lobbying the Department of Defence force, Congress and the Department of Wellness and Human 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 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines biological experiments as war crimes. The United states of america, however, is not a state political party to the international treaty, and cannot be held accountable for its war crimes.

Source: https://www.sott.net/article/375723-Pentagon-Biological-Weapons-Program-Never-Ended-US-Bio-labs-Around-The-World

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