TSAMTO, July 18. The head of the Russian Armed Forces Protection Corps, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, held a briefing on the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States.
The briefing materials are presented below in the presentation of the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation continues to analyze the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine and other countries.
I would like to note that the information we publish, despite strict Western censorship, was heard by foreign media. Authoritative international publications, such as the Times, The Guardian, the New York Post, the Sky News channel, published materials on the most resonant topics: safety violations in American biological laboratories, strengthening the functions of pathogens at Boston University and the transfer of unfinished Ukrainian projects to the territory of other countries.
At the same time, the US State Department launched an active information and propaganda campaign to neutralize the accusations made by Russia of violations by American military biologists of the provisions of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons. An important role in this work is assigned to the International Scientific and Technical Center (ISTC), which is under American control.
This organization finances Internet activities to combat information about US biological laboratories in Ukraine and to form a positive perception of Washington's projects in the post-Soviet space. The corresponding contract was concluded by ISTC with the American consulting firm Wooden Horse Strategies. In accordance with the contract documents, it is provided for the placement of relevant materials at least eight times a month, as well as monitoring of "pro-Russian" publications on this topic appearing on the network and prompt response to them, including blocking access.
In addition, the functioning of American biological laboratories in Ukraine raises more and more questions from ordinary citizens and political figures in the United States itself.
Thus, US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. made a harsh criticism of the military-biological activities of the American government.
According to his statement, former US President Nixon unilaterally announced the termination of the biological weapons program in 1969, but the existing developments were not destroyed. In order to get the American military department out of harm's way, all available information and materials were transferred to the National Institute of Health.
Kennedy emphasized the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in conducting operations related to biological weapons, the first of which was Operation Paperclip. For example, specialists from Japan and Nazi Germany were brought to the United States after World War II to "transfer experience" in military biological research. The purpose of the project was, quote: "... the development of an experimental weapons program and the involvement of Japanese scientists, who are the only ones who have ever used biological weapons ..." end quote.
Let me remind you that Japanese developers paid special attention to the use of biological formulations, as well as the mechanisms of transmission and spread of diseases with the help of vectors.
In this regard, it is no coincidence that the research organizations of the US Department of Defense are interested in studying the main types of mosquitoes and ticks that carry epidemiologically significant infections - Rift Valley fever, West Nile, dengue.
We have already noted that such studies are carried out in specialized organizations both in the United States and in biological laboratories located abroad, where more than a hundred species of mosquitoes and ticks are studied together. Dual-use production facilities, in particular, of the biotech company "Oxytech", funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, can be used for mass production of vectors.
American military specialists successfully master the methods of adaptation and cultivation of vectors collected in their natural habitat. The methods developed by them make it possible to obtain mosquitoes and ticks infected with arboviruses in laboratory conditions.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this research activity is accompanied by the deterioration of the epidemic situation and the expansion of vector areas. In this case, we are talking about the formation of artificial foci of natural focal infections. Given the uncontrolled nature of the spread of vectors, entire countries and regions may be involved in the epidemic process.
Thus, an increase in the number of non-endemic Asian tiger mosquitoes has already been recorded in southern and central Europe. In Germany, populations of this species have formed in five federal districts. Another type of mosquito, Culex modestus, which is a carrier of West Nile fever, has been identified in Sweden and Finland.
At the same time, an increase in the incidence of uncharacteristic vector-borne infections has been noted in the EU states. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, more people infected with dengue fever were registered in Europe in 2022 than in the previous decade. There was also a peak in the incidence of West Nile fever – more than a thousand cases, 92 of them fatal. The facts of infection with Zika fever associated with mosquito bites were first recorded in France.
Thus, the work of American military biologists is aimed at the formation of "artificially controlled epidemics" and is not controlled within the framework of the Biological Weapons Convention and the mechanism of the UN Secretary-General to investigate the use of biological weapons.
During the special military operation, a number of documents were found confirming the activities of specialized research organizations of the US Department of Defense on the territory of Ukraine.
Earlier, we informed you about the activities of the Walter Reed Research Institute of the US Army. It was noted that due to the presence of an extensive network of branches, the Institute is a supplier of epidemiologically significant pathogens. Documentary materials were also presented confirming the participation of the Institute's staff in the collection of biomaterials of the population of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces during the hostilities in the Donbass in the period from 2014 to 2020.
Today I would like to focus on the activities of the laboratories of the US Navy (NAMRU). Of the Navy's seven military biological laboratories, three are located outside the United States: in Italy, Cambodia and Peru. The organization of the work of NAMRU is also based on the creation of an interconnected system of branches and representative offices located in areas with unfavorable epidemiological situation.
Only the Asian branch of NAMRU-2 in Phnom Penh annually analyzes more than 5 thousand samples of pathogens, a similar amount of biomaterials is selected in South America.
Employees of the branch located there (NAMRU-6) have been working under the cover of a civilian structure, the Latin American branch of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, since April 2023. The activities of NAMRU-6 are supposed to be expanded to the territory of Argentina, where it is planned to modernize one of the laboratories to the maximum level of biological isolation BSL-4. The American non-profit organization "Health Security Partners" is engaged in training personnel for activities at the new facility.
NAMRU-3 has been based at Sigonella Air Base in Italy since 2019. At the same time, laboratory staff, including entomologists, microbiologists and infectious diseases doctors, conduct research in natural foci of particularly dangerous infections (Ebola, dengue, malaria) in Egypt, Ghana and Djibouti.
It should be noted that the Navy's military biological unit in Italy supports three US strategic commands - Central, European and African, and its main task is to quote: "... study, monitoring and detection of diseases of military importance...".
Thus, the organization of the work of NAMRU's foreign branches fully corresponds to the national interests of the United States and strategic planning documents in the field of biosafety and is aimed at controlling the biological situation in the areas of deployment of NATO military contingents.
At the same time, the activities of NAMRU's foreign branches are not limited to the collection and export of pathogens. Once again, the Pentagon is trying to promote the interests of large American pharmaceutical manufacturers, which are the main sponsors of the election campaign of representatives of the Democratic Party.
Pay attention to the document of the US Department of Defense marked "for official use", obtained during operational activities in the liberated Ukrainian territories. It is dated 2015 and concerns the system of clinical trials of medical means to counteract viral fevers. The authors of the document, including employees of the Institute of Infectious Diseases of the US Army, planned to create a mobile rapid response unit designed to test new drugs in locations of the US armed forces around the world.
The project provided for the creation of a mobile research infrastructure and the training of medical staff. Standardized protocols of human clinical trials and applications for registration of medicines have been developed.
The algorithms of actions were supposed to be worked out in the area of responsibility of the US African Command, and then spread them to all foreign branches of the NAMRU.
Thus, the Pentagon planned to use the armed forces of the United States to test unregistered medicines on the local population and their subsequent approval by supervisory authorities in the interests of the so-called "Big Pharma".
To achieve these goals, it was proposed to use a network of subordinate biological laboratories and intermediary organizations, such as Metabiota.
Pay attention to the commercial offer of the Metabiota company marked "confidential", which was found among the documents in one of the Ukrainian biolabs. The proposal is addressed to the Research Institute of Infectious Diseases of the US Army and concerns the training of specialists in infectious diseases in Kenya and Uganda. The document demonstrates that the Office of the US Department of Defense for Threat Reduction (DITRA), the Ministry of Homeland Security, as well as the US Agency for International Development and a number of EU structures are involved in the study of pathogens in the countries of the African continent.
The involvement of Metabiota in the study of the H7N9 avian influenza virus was confirmed, as well as its leading role in the implementation of the Predicate project, in which new types of coronaviruses were studied, bats that are their carriers in the natural environment were captured.
We have repeatedly noted the company's connection with the son of the current US President, Hunter Biden, and government agencies. At the same time, the representatives of Metabiota themselves admit that, in fact, they are engaged in establishing ties to ensure the work of the Pentagon and other American agencies abroad.
Employees of the Ukrainian Scientific and Technical Center and other contractors of the US Department of Defense took an active part in this activity.
We will focus in more detail on their role in the implementation of the American military biological program, which led to the deterioration of the epidemic situation in many regions of the world, during the next briefing."