Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian investigative journalist and Middle East correspondent. Over the past two years, she has published a series of exposé reports on arms smuggling. Last year she came under pressure from the Bulgarian National Security Agency and was fired from her job at the Bulgarian newspaper Trud Daily without explanation. Despite this, Dilyana continues her investigations. Her current report provides an overview of the Pentagon’s active development of biological weapons.
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, prepared her SPECIAL REPORT for Natural Blaze
The US Army routinely produces deadly viruses, bacteria and toxins in direct contravention of the UN Biological Weapons Convention. There are hundreds of thousands of involuntary people systematically exposed to dangerous pathogens and other incurable diseases. Biological warfare scientists, using diplomatic cover, test artificial viruses in Pentagon biolaboratories in 25 countries. These US biolabs are funded by the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) as part of the $2.1 billion Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) and are located in former Soviet Union countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa.
The Lugar Centre is a Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia. It is located just 17km from the US military airbase at Vaziani in the capital Tbilisi. Biologists from the US Army Medical Research Unit in Georgia (USAMRU-G) as well as private contractors work here to carry out the military programme. The biosafety level 3 lab is accessible only to U.S. citizens with security clearance. They are granted diplomatic immunity under the 2002 US-Georgia Defence Cooperation Agreement.
Pentagon contractors produce biological agents under diplomatic cover
Three private US companies – CH2M Hill, Battelle and Metabiota – are operating a US biolaboratory in Tbilisi. In addition to the Pentagon, these private contractors conduct biological research for the CIA and various other government agencies.
Pentagon biolaboratories spread disease in Ukraine
Ukraine has no control over military biolaboratories on its territory. According to a 2005 agreement between the US Department of Defense and the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, the Ukrainian government is prohibited from publicly disclosing classified information about the US program, and Ukraine is required to transfer dangerous pathogens for biological research to the US Department of Defense (DOD).
One of the Pentagon’s laboratories is in Kharkiv, where at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers died of a flu-like virus and 200 more were hospitalised in just two days in January 2016. The Ukrainian government has not reported the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers in Kharkiv. As of March 2016, 364 deaths have been reported in Ukraine (81.3% caused by swine flu A (H1N1) pdm09, the same strain that caused the global pandemic in 2009).
According to DNR intelligence, the lethal virus was leaked from a US biolaboratory in Kharkiv.
Botulinum toxin as well as anthrax, brucellosis and tularemia have been tested as bioweapons by the US army in the past. Although the US bioweapons programme was officially discontinued in 1969, documents show that military experimentation never ended. The Pentagon is now producing and testing live biological agents at the same military facility as before, Dugway Proving Ground.
Ethnic biological weapons (biogenetic weapons) are theoretical weapons aimed primarily at harming people of certain ethnic groups, or genotypes.
Although the research and development of ethnic bioweapons has never been officially confirmed publicly, documents show that the US collects biological material from certain ethnic groups – Russians and Chinese.
The US Air Force specifically collected RNA and synovial tissue samples from the Russians, raising fears in Moscow about a covert US ethnic bioweapons programme.
In addition to the Russians, the US is collecting biological material from both healthy and cancer patients in China. The National Cancer Institute has collected biological samples from 300 people from the Chinese cities of Linxian, Zhengzhou and Chengdu. Another federal project called Serum Metabolic Biomarkers discovery study of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in China includes analysis of 349 serum samples collected from Chinese patients.
Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines biological experimentation as a war crime. However, the US is not a state party to the international treaty and cannot be prosecuted for its war crimes.
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