TSAMTO, October 9th. 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, said the head of the RCB protection troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.
Below are the briefing materials of Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, on the analysis of documents related to military biological activities of the United States, as presented by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"We have already noted that under the guise of providing assistance in the development of national health systems, countering threats of bioterrorism and the proliferation of biological weapons, many states in various regions of the world have fallen into the sphere of US military interests. At the same time, the US State Department takes an active part in bio-programs on the territory of foreign countries.
Documents confirming the direct participation of the State Department in the so-called "Biosafety Enhancement Program" initiated by former US President Obama were presented. The countries of the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa, as well as Ukraine, have been identified as priority areas for the implementation of the program.
Washington uses third-party performers to conceal customers and the goals of the research. These are contracting and intermediary organizations (Metabiota, C-H-Tu-EM-Hill, Eco-Health Alliance, more than 20 companies in total).
Non-profit and non-governmental organizations are actively used to "cover up" the actions of the State Department. According to the documents received, only within one year the sums allowing to ensure the participation of at least 80 contractors were spent on their financing.
The materials published by the Russian Ministry of Defense have been widely disseminated in foreign mass media.
A number of publications drew attention to the key role assigned to Ukraine in the Pentagon's military biological program. Thus, in the publication of the Greek edition of Banking News, it is noted that "…Ukraine occupies a central position and represents a territory of special geographical interest in the bio-program of the US Department of State...".
The Romanian information resource "Flax-24" announced Barack Obama's involvement in the promotion of American military biological programs abroad. The publication noted that "... the President of the United States provided assistance to the military biology program at the stage of connecting the State Department to this activity ...".
A number of media outlets in the Middle East region (Lebanon, Yemen, Syria) have published materials about the unjustified expansion of the network of American biological laboratories abroad. At the same time, the Lebanese publication An-Nahar noted that the geographical priorities of the United States in the Middle East are Iraq, Yemen and Jordan, drawing attention to the secretive nature of the military-biological activities of the United States.
Chinese experts, commenting on the briefing materials on the discovery of an underground biolab in Ridley (California), noted that "…The United States lacks proper control over the results of its dual-use research and development...".
I would like to note that after the publication by the Russian Federation of data on illegal biological experiments in a California laboratory, the American administration initiated an investigation procedure. Three congressional committees at once began studying the activities of the Prestige Biotech company, which rented premises where research prohibited by federal law was conducted.
The local administration tried to assign responsibility for organizing the activities of the biolab to China, but no convincing evidence of this was presented.
According to our information, Prestige Biotech is registered in the state of Nevada, and by "accidental" coincidence, the biological laboratory that became the subject of the investigation is located in close proximity to the base of the US Navy in Kings County.
Earlier, we presented a scheme for organizing military biological activities in the United States, in which the Navy plays the role of one of the main customers and coordinators of research.
According to the available documents, Prestige Biotech acquired more than 20 names of pathogenic microorganisms, laboratory equipment and animals for undeclared purposes. This is confirmed by the materials of an independent investigation conducted by the American human rights organization "Judicial Watch".
The documents obtained by this NGO prove the presence of dangerous biomaterials at the facility and their improper storage, as well as gross violation of sanitary standards when handling laboratory animals.
The fact that the FBI and the US Department of Health refused to provide the information they had about the activities of the laboratory indicates the closed nature of the work, and representatives of these agencies were summoned to the US Congress to provide confidential information.
We have repeatedly stressed the involvement of US law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and the CIA, in dual-use research, as well as Washington's desire to conceal the results of these works.
Pay attention to the document on the creation of a library of closed publications on chemical and biological protection, prepared by Morgan Minyard, an employee of the Office of Threat Reduction of the US Department of Defense (DITRA).
The Pentagon representative proposes to create an editorial committee that will "clean up" scientific works of interest to the American intelligence community for publication, as well as classify "dual-use" works that "... can cause irreparable damage to national security ..." and accumulate them in a separate repository with limited access.
As examples of studies that will be entered into the database, experiments to increase the lethality of the mouse smallpox virus and the determination of the genetic sequence encoding a new type of botulism toxin are given.
It is noted that the use of a library with closed information will allow the United States government "... to study the results of chemical and biological research in as much detail as possible, as well as to interact with certain performers and partners ...".
Such censorship of publications indicates Washington's desire to avoid public disclosure of results that run counter to US international obligations in the field of chemical and biological weapons.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has information about the creation of a secret Strategy in the United States to counter weapons of mass destruction.
The open (unclassified) part of the document was published on September 27, 2023. It specifies the provisions of the National Defense Strategy in the field of responding to threats to national security associated with the use of WMD.
According to the Pentagon, the Russian Federation, China, Iran and the DPRK consider weapons of mass destruction as a means of limiting the ability of the United States to achieve strategic goals during wars and military conflicts.
In accordance with the Strategy, Russia is described as a source of "acute threat" to American security in the medium and long term.
The People's Republic of China is defined as a "growing challenge". It is emphasized that Beijing has recently made significant progress in the modernization of strategic nuclear forces. The DPRK and Iran are identified as permanent threats.
According to the developers, the priority areas of activity of the US Department of Defense are:
- ensuring the protection of the national territory from external aggression with the use of WMD;
- unconditional deterrence of potential opponents from using it against the United States and its allies;
- creation of consolidated units capable of effectively conducting combat operations and winning in conditions of HCB infection.
At the same time, the Strategy sets the task of coordinating and increasing efforts to create means of protection against new chemical and biological threats.
Thus, by refusing to work on the verification protocol within the framework of the BTWC, the United States is creating administrative and technical structures that can be involved in dual-use research, including for offensive purposes.
I would like to note that Russian efforts to publicize illegal military biological activities of the United States and the deterioration of the epidemic situation in the locations of biological objects in the European region forced the American administration to withdraw dual-use research to African countries.
The documents at our disposal confirm the activities of key Pentagon contractors on the African continent – in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Uganda and South Africa. The customers from the American government are DITRA, the National Security Agency and the US State Department.
Earlier, we talked about unauthorized sampling by employees of Metabiota, a key Pentagon contractor, during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. The company's opaque working methods immediately raised questions from the World Health Organization. As a result of the illegal export of samples, live samples of the Ebola virus ended up in the Research Institute of Infectious Diseases of the US Army.
The natural deterioration of the morbidity situation in the areas where American biological facilities are located forces the governments of many African states to take a different look at the need and expediency of cooperation with the United States. So, in 2022, Metabiota's activities in Africa were discontinued, as the illegal methods of the company's work began to raise too many questions at the level of national governments.
The activity of the United States to establish global biological control is accompanied by the substitution of the provisions of the BTWC and other norms of international law with its own rules, which are developed in the American interests, supported by the collective West and imposed on third countries for implementation.
This can be traced in the work on specialized international platforms, when Western delegations pushed through decision-making only on the issues of interest to them, regardless of the priorities of other states. At the same time, attention is deliberately shifted to the consideration of secondary issues not directly related to the problems of non-proliferation of biological weapons, for example, such as the creation of various databases, ensuring gender equality, participation in BTWC events of youth organizations, etc.
Let me remind you that the Russian Federation has proposed a number of practical initiatives to strengthen the biological weapons non-proliferation regime and improve confidence-building measures under the Convention.
First of all, it is the resumption of negotiations on the development of a legally binding protocol to the BTWC with an effective verification mechanism that would include lists of pathogenic microorganisms, toxins, specialized equipment, and would be comprehensive.
The second is to expand the format of confidence–building measures by providing information on research and development in the field of biological protection carried out outside the national territory.
The third is the creation of a Scientific Advisory Committee to evaluate achievements in the fields of science and technology, which would have a wide geographical representation and equal rights of participants.
The fourth is the use of mobile biomedical detachments within the framework of the BTWC.
The practical implementation of our proposals will contribute to increasing the transparency of national biological programs and compliance with the requirements of the Convention by all participating States, including the United States, without exception.
The Russian Defense Ministry has already cited the names of participants in American military biological programs. Among them are officials of the Ministry of Defense, biotech corporations and Pentagon contractors.
Today we would like to add to this list representatives of government agencies and private companies of the USA and Ukraine involved in the implementation of dual-use research.
Thomas Wohl, Vice President and official representative of Black & Veatch in Ukraine, oversaw the implementation of the PAX electronic system for the management and control of biological agents and materials.
Kevin Olival, Vice President for Research at the Eco–Health Alliance contracting organization, was directly involved in the implementation of projects of the US Department of Defense to study zoonotic diseases transmitted by bats.
Mikhail Usatyi – Deputy Head of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since 2018, supervised the organization of work within the framework of DITRA projects in Ukraine.
Tatiana Kiryazova is the Executive Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Public Health Policy. Supervised joint pathogen research with the United States on the basis of the Ukrainian Research Anti-Plague Institute. Mechnikov in Odessa.
The information provided about the organizers and participants of military biological activities will be transferred to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Thus, questions about the military-biological activities of the United States and Ukraine still remain, and there are more of them. Since the Russian side convened a consultative meeting on Article 5 of the BTWC, no answers have been received to them that could resolve the situation.
We will continue to analyze the incoming documents and will inform you."
