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US official confirms: US keeps Wuhan-like dangerous pathogen bio-laboratories in Ukraine. Tells us repeatedly they're not bio-weapons...and then spends a lot of time worrying the Russians will hit them, releasing dangerous pathogens.
2022-02-28
One wonders if the usual American suspects — like Anthony Fauci, MD — worked with Russian labs as well.... It seems in character, somehow, and goodness knows the Russians have serious experience on the subject.
[TheBulletin] The Russian invasion of Ukraine may put at risk a network of US-linked labs in Ukraine that work with dangerous pathogens, said Robert Pope, the director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, a 30-year-old Defense Department program that has helped secure the former Soviet Union’s weapons of mass destruction and redirect former bioweapons facilities and scientists toward peaceful endeavors.

The pathogens with which the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program labs work are generally kept frozen, so they can’t replicate and become infectious. The risk the pathogens pose would increase if a building lost power and suffered damage. "If you lose the electrical power, the pathogens in the freezers warm up," he said. "If the ventilation system is damaged, or the building itself is damaged, and these now ambient-temperature pathogens are able to escape the facility, then they can be potentially infectious in the region around the facility."

Although Russian officials and media have misrepresented the US-supported labs in Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in disinformation campaigns, Pope doesn’t believe the Russians will deliberately aim weapons at the labs during the invasion.
Disinformation is information they don't want you to know and that harms their interests.
"I think the Russians know enough about the kinds of pathogens that are stored in biological research laboratories that I don’t think they would deliberately target a laboratory," Pope said. "But what I do have concerns about is that they would ... be accidentally damaged during this Russian invasion."

The invasion could also provide fodder for new disinformation narratives around the labs, Pope feared. The Russians, he said, "could potentially go to one of these facilities and fabricate something that they call evidence of nefarious activity at the facility."
In other words, collect damning evidence of the work being done there. Read between the lines.
Posted by:Omomolet Phutch9064

#2  ISTR after the USSR fell, one of the initiatives was to keep funding Soviet labs so the knowledge didn't go elsewhere. Are these labs the legacy of that policy?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-02-28 11:26  

#1  So full of shit. They've been lying to you about everything, for years. About their work on Wuhan and their bioweapons work in dozens of countries around the globe.

In the last 24 hours, all "Defense Threat Reduction Office" PDF files from the embassy website (https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defense-threat-reduction-office/biological-threat-reduction-program/) were removed without any explanation.

Fortunately, all of the documents detailing contracts related to the bioweapons labs run by the US were archived by internet sleuths:

https://newspunch.com/us-embassy-quietly-deletes-all-ukraine-bioweapon-lab-documents-online-media-blackout/
Posted by: Jease Elmuth4657   2022-02-28 02:32  

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