Written By: Justin K.P.
For years, claims of U.S. funded biolabs in Ukraine were dismissed as a “conspiracy theory” or “Russian disinformation”.
But U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, on her way out, has declassified documents that suggest the U.S. was funding research facilities in Ukraine that contained “dangerous pathogens”.
In a press release, Gabbard wrote, “After months of searching through Intelligence Community holdings and files, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is revealing new evidence of longstanding United States government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries. These biolabs include labs in Ukraine, which may be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. For example, the Intelligence Community previously warned that a US-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage.”
The Press release added that, “Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight.”
One U.S. intelligence analysis released by Gabbard claimed that the Ukrainian Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine (IECVM) in Kharkiv, “probably houses at least some dangerous pathogens and almost certainly remains vulnerable to long-standing Russian information operations, seizure or damage”.
The intelligence assessment stated that “As of the early 2010s IECVM, held hundreds of pathogens and was one of forty Ukrainian-owned and operated laboratories that received assistance under the DOD’s Biological Threat Reduction program … IECVM as recently as 2019 had at least some biosafety and biosecurity deficiencies, most notably in rooms handling contagious Brucella bacteria” ( a bacterium that causes the infectious disease Brucellosis).
The intelligence analysis appeared to suggest that Russia was correct in accusing “the U.S. of BW work in a basement lab of that facility”, appearing to suggest that the facility contained “anthrax bacteria” and “Brucella bacteria” and that “information from 2012 indicates that at least IECVM’s virology building has a basement level”.
This assessment appears to be what the then Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, was referring to in 2022 when she said “Ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of” in response to the question “Does Ukraine have biological or chemical weapons”.
The documents allege that the U.S. helped build and support over 40 biolabs in Ukraine, which included “Especially Dangerous Pathogen (EDP) Certification” and “Repository of BW and disease-causing pathogens” including “Anthrax, tularemia, tuberculosis, Swine Fever, New Castles Disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, the Plague, Rickettsia”.
The document lists biolabs built by the U.S. in Ukraine in coordination with the U.S. company Black & Veatch, including the Kherson Diagnostic Laboratory, Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, Central Reference Laboratory (CRL) Ukrainian Research Antiplague Institute and the Zakarpartska Diagnostic Laboratory.
While none of these documents explicitly show that the U.S. backed biolabs in Ukraine were planning on using biological weapons, the fact that the U.S. was indeed funding biolabs which contained “dangerous pathogens” including “Anthrax, tularemia, tuberculosis, Swine Fever, New Castles Disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, the Plague, Rickettsia” and were apparently engaging in “Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight” shows that the claim was not fully a conspiracy theory.
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Why are we trying to prove that Tulsi Gabbard is 'a good guy'?! This is not new information, as your article points out - Victoria Nuland confirmed the existence of the labs 4 years ago. There is also a theory that Russian DNA was collected by these labs in order to make the bio-weapons deadlier to them. This wouldn't surprise me, give the Khazarians'/Zionists' pathological hatred for Slavs of any kind and Russians in particular.
It is claimed that these Biolabs are purely civil, however if this was true:-
● When did the American Department of Defense become responsible for matters of public health - in a foreign country?!
● Why were the papers relating to these Biolabs stored at the Ukrainian Department of Defense, and why was their destruction in a bonfire on the front lawn a top priority the moment Russia invaded?
● Why are a number of these labs only accessible to US citizens with security clearance?
● Why are the staff accorded diplomatic immunity?
● Why are staff and samples carried on diplomatic flights, exempt from border checks?
● Why does Ukraine have no control over them?
● Why is the Ukrainian government prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information?
● Why is Ukraine obliged to transfer dangerous pathogens to the US Department of Defense?
● Why has the Pentagon been granted access to certain state secrets of Ukraine in connection with the work being carried out in these labs?
● Why was one of Zelensky's first actions after the beginning of the SMO to order the destruction of vast quantities of documents and samples? One would have thought the president of Ukraine had more pressing demands on his time than preventing Russia getting hold of a new flu medicine!
● Why did the Pentagon keep denying its involvement, and spend many millions of dollars on a PR and censorship campaign?
● Why is there such a disproportionately high number in the Southeast of Ukraine, with its high concentration of ethnic Russians?
● Why has the US Air Force been specifically collecting Russian RNA and synovial tissue samples? And
● Why does the official USA Spend website show a payment to Ukrainian Biolabs to carry out "COVID 19 RESEARCH" a month before the pandemic started, and 3 months before it was named COVID 19?!