Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military and biological activity…
⚡️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection…
Russian Defence Ministry continues to analyse US and its allies military and biological activity in Ukraine and other regions of the world.
I would like to point out that the information we publish has been heard by the foreign media, despite strict Western censorship. Authoritative international publications such as The Times, The Guardian, The New York Post, Sky News published the information on the most high-profile topics: safety violations in American biolaboratories, the enhancement of 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 U.S. State Department launched an active outreach campaign to neutralise Russian accusations that US military biologists had violated the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention. An important role of the International Science and Technology Centre (ISTC), which is under U.S. control, plays an important role in this effort.
This organisation funds Internet activities to combat information about U.S. biolaboratories in Ukraine and to promote a positive perception of Washington’s projects in the post-Soviet space. The ISTC has signed a contract with Wooden Horse Strategies, a U.S. consulting firm.
The contractual documents provide for the posting of relevant material at least eight times a month, as well as the monitoring of ‘pro-Russian’ publications on this topic appearing online and promptly responding to them, including blocking access.
In addition, the operation of United States biolaboratories in Ukraine raises more and more questions among ordinary citizens and political figures in the United States itself.
For example, U.S. presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. harshly criticised the military biological activities of the U.S. Government.
According to his statement, former U.S. President Nixon unilaterally declared the termination of the biological weapons program in 1969, but the existing developments were not destroyed. In order to take the U.S. military out of the picture, all available information and materials were transferred to the National Institute of Health.
Kennedy emphasised the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in biological weapons operations, the first of which was Operation Paperclip. Thus, specialists from Japan and Nazi Germany were brought to the United States after World War II to ‘transfer expertise’ in military biological research. The purpose of the project was, ‘…to develop an experimental weapons programme and to bring in Japanese scientists who are the only ones who have ever used biological weapons…’.
Let me remind you that the Japanese developers paid special attention to the use of biological formulations and the mechanisms of vector-borne disease transmission and spread.
In this regard, it is no coincidence that the research organisations of the U.S. Ministry of Defence are interested in studying the main species of mosquitoes and ticks that carry epidemically significant infections such as Rift Valley fever, West Nile fever and Dengue fever.
We have already noted that such research is being carried out in specialised organisations, both within the United States and in biolaboratories located overseas, where more than 100 species of mosquitoes and ticks are being studied together.
Dual-use production facilities, such as Oxitec biotechnology company, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, could be used to mass-produce vectors.
U.S. military specialists have been successful in adapting and growing vectors collected from their natural habitat.
The methods they have developed make it possible to produce mosquitoes and ticks infected with arboviruses in the laboratory.
Please note that this research activity is accompanied by deterioration of the epidemic situation and expansion of vector habitats. In this case we are talking about the formation of artificial centres of natural focal infections. Given the uncontrolled nature of vector spread, entire countries and regions may be involved in the epidemic process.
For example, 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 established in five federal districts. Another mosquito species (Culex modestus), a vector 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 was noted in the European Union countries. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, more people infected with Dengue fever were registered in Europe in 2022 than in the previous decade. West Nile fever also peaked with more than 1,000 cases, 92 of them fatal. The facts of Zika fever infection associated with mosquito bites were first recorded in France.
Thus, the work of U.S. military biologists is aimed at the formation of ‘artificially managed epidemics’ and is not controlled within the framework of the BWC and the UN Secretary-General’s mechanism for investigating the use of biological weapons.
In the course of the special military operation documents, which prove the activity of the U.S. Department of Defence’s research institutions in Ukraine, have been discovered.
Earlier we briefed you on Walter Reed Army Institute of Research activity. We have already pointed out, that due to an extensive network of branches the institute acts as a supplier of epidemically significant pathogens. The Russian Defence Ministry presented documents, which prove the Institute’s employees involvement in gathering efforts of the Ukrainian citizens and AFU servicemen biomaterial in the course of warfare in Donbass region from 2014 to 2022.
Today, I would like to focus on activities of the U.S. Navy laboratories (the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit or NAMRU). Three of seven U.S. Navy laboratories are located outside USA territories, namely in Italy, Сambodia and Peru. The NAMRU organises its work on establishment of interconnected branches and offices in regions with unfavourable epidemiological situation.
Only Asian branch of the NAMRU-2 in Phnom Penh analyses over 5,000 pathogens samples, the same number is gathered in South Africa.
Since April 2023 employees of the African branch (NAMRU-6) work undercover of a civilian organisation – Latin American branch of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The NAMRU-6 plans to expand its activity on the Argentina territory, where one laboratory is to be modernised. to the maximum biosafety level BSL-4.
Non-profit organisation Heath security partners train new employees for research in the new laboratory.
Since 2019 the NAMRU-3 is stationed on Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy.
The laboratory employees, including entomologists, microbiologists and infectious disease doctors, conduct research in natural foci of particularly dangerous infectious diseases (Ebola, dengue, malaria) in Egypt, Ghana and Djibouti.
It should be noted that the Navy’s biological warfare unit in Italy works under the three US strategic commands – Central, European, and Africa, and its primary purpose is ‘…to study, monitor and detect diseases of military significance…’
Thus, the efforts of the NAMRU foreign branches is fully in line with U.S. national interests and strategic planning documents in the field of biosecurity and is aimed at controlling the biological situation in the areas, where NATO military contingents are stationed.
The NAMRU foreign branches activity is not limited only to gathering and shipment of pathogens. Yet again, the Pentagon is trying to promote the interests of large American pharmaceutical companies, which are the main sponsors of the Democratic Party’s election campaigns.
Pay attention to the U.S. Department of Defence document containing the sign for service use only, acquired during operative actions in liberated Ukrainian territories. The document dated 2015 describes clinical trial systems for medicines against viral fevers. The document’s authors, including members of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, planned to establish a mobile rapid response unit designed to test new medicines at US military bases around the world.
The project included the establishment of a mobile research infrastructure and the training of medical staff. Standardised protocols for human clinical trials and medical product registration applications have been developed.
The algorithms were to be practised in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility and then extended to all overseas NAMRU branches.
Thus, the Pentagon planned to use the United States military to test unregistered medical products on local populations and then have them approved by regulatory bodies in the interest of so-called Big pharma.
To that end, a network of subordinate biolaboratories and intermediary organisations such as Metabiota were planned to be used.
Pay attention to the commercial offer of the company Metabiota marked confidential, which was discovered among the documents in a Ukrainian biolaboratories. The proposal is addressed to the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and relates to infectious diseases specialists training in Kenya and Uganda.
The document proves that the Pentagon’s Defence Threat Reduction Agency, Department of Homeland Security, and, to give an illusion of humanitarian engagement, U.S. Agency for International Development, as well as a number of European Union organisations, have been involved in pathogens research in countries of the African continent.
Metabiota’s involvement in the study of the H7N9 avian influenza virus was confirmed, as well as its leading role in the Predict project, which studied new strains of coronaviruses and captured bats that carry them in the natural environment.
At the same time, the representatives of Metabiota themselves admit that, in fact, they are engaged in networking to ensure the work of the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies abroad.
The Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre (USTC) and other U.S. Department of Defence contractors were actively involved in these activities.
We will look in more detail at their role in the implementation of the American military-biological programme, which has led to the deterioration of the epidemic situation in many regions of the world in the next briefing.
WtR