US Biological Warfare Program in the Spotlight Again

[loyola llothta]

This is a scoop to bring the US biological warfare effort back into the spotlight. On Sept. 11, Russian media reported that the Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research laboratory, a research facility for high-level biohazard agents located near Tbilisi, Georgia, has used human beings for conducting biological experiments.

Former Minister of State Security of Georgia Igor Giorgadze said about it during a news conference in Moscow, urging US President Donald Trump to launch an investigation. He has lists of Georgians who died of hepatitis after undergoing treatment in the facility in 2015 and 2016. Many passed away on the same day. The declassified documents contain neither the indication of the causes of deaths nor real names of the deceased. According to him, the secret lab run by the US military was established during the tenure of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. The viruses could spread to neighboring countries, including Russia, Igor Giorgadze warned.

The laboratory’s work is tightly under wraps. Only US personnel with security clearance have access to it. These people are accorded diplomatic immunity under the 2002 US-Georgia Agreement on defense cooperation.

Eurasia Review reported that in 2014 the Lugar Center was equipped with a special plant for breeding insects to enable launching the Sand Fly project in Georgia and the Caucasus. In 2014-2015 years, the bites of sand flies such as Phlebotomins caused a fever. According to the source,

“today the Pentagon has a great interest to the study of Tularemia, also known as the fever of rabbits, which is also equated with biological weapons. Distributors of such a disease can be mites and rodents”.

It makes remember the statement made by Nikolai Patrushev, Head of Russia’s Security Council, in 2015.


He warned about the threat stemming from biological weapons laboratories that operate on the territories of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He specifically mentioned the Richard G. Lugar Center in Georgia.

The US has bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world, including the post-Soviet space. They are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Foreign inspectors are denied access to them. It should be noted that independent journalist investigations have been made public to confirm the fact that the US military conducts secret research to pose a threat to environment and population. Jeffrey Silverman, an American journalist who has lived in Georgia for many years, is sure the Richard Lugar Center, as well as other labs, is involved in secret activities to create biological weapons. Georgia and Ukraine have been recently hit by mysterious disease outbreaks, with livestock killed and human lives endangered. The US military operates the Central Reference Laboratory in Kazakhstan since 2016. There have public protests against the facility.

In 2013 a Chinese Air Force Colonel Dai Xu accused the US government of creating a new strain of bird flu now afflicting parts of China as a biological warfare attack. According to him, the American military released the H7N9 bird flu virus into China in an act of biological warfare. It has been reported that the source of Ebola virus in West Africa were US bio-warfare labs.

Russian experts do not exclude the possibility of the use of a stink-bug by the US military as a biological weapon. A couple of years ago, mosquitoes with Zika virus have been spotted in Russia and South Ossetia to cause outbreaks of human and animal flu.

The US activities violate the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), a legally binding treaty that outlaws biological arms. It effectively prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, retention, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons and is a key element in the international community’s efforts to address the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In force since 1975, the convention has 181 states-parties today. The BWC reaffirms the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the biological weapons use. In 1969, US President Richard Nixon formally ended all offensive aspects of the US biological warfare program. In 1975, the US ratified both the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the BWC.

Negotiations on an internationally binding verification protocol, which would include on-site inspections by an independent authority to the BWC, took place between 1995 and 2001. The US did not sign up. Its refusal to become a party to the verification mechanisms makes any attempt to enhance the effectiveness of the BWC doomed. A Review Conference is held every five years to discuss the convention’s operation and implementation. The last one, which convened in November 2016, was a frustration with minimal agreement on the final document and no substantive program of work to do before the next event takes place in 2021. There is little hope the BWC will ever be strengthened to have teeth. With no verification mechanism, the US military bio-warfare labs will always be a matter of concern. The issue is serious enough to be included into global security architecture. The UN General Assembly is the right place to raise it. Its 73rd session will open on September 18

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

It should always be in the spotlight.

Evil ass country

 

[Hannibal Fox]

Sounds interesting.

This the original article?

Don't think it's been picked up my anyone else only thing I found was an article two days ago.

 

[loyola llothta]

Sounds interesting.

This the original article?

Don't think it's been picked up my anyone else only thing I found was an article two days ago.

Im not sure

 

[loyola llothta]

Sounds interesting.

This the original article?

Don't think it's been picked up my anyone else only thing I found was an article two days ago.

Spoiler

The original source of this article is Strategic Culture Foundation

 

[Hannibal Fox]

Spoiler

The original source of this article is Strategic Culture Foundation

Thanks

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

It should always be in the spotlight.

Evil ass country

Russia literally just spilled that shyt all over England trying to kill one person and ended up hospitalizing 5 other people and killing a bystander

fukk outta here.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Sounds interesting.

This the original article?

Don't think it's been picked up my anyone else only thing I found was an article two days ago.

Bruh.

Sputnik is Russian state media
Sputnik (news agency) - Wikipedia

and TASS is LITERALLY the Russian Government's official media page
TASS - Wikipedia

 

[Hannibal Fox]

Bruh.

Sputnik is Russian state media
Sputnik (news agency) - Wikipedia

and TASS is LITERALLY the Russian Government's official media page
TASS - Wikipedia

Totally forgot about this thread, until op quoted me.

Just found it strange no other agencies had picked it up, other than those two the other was the strategic culture foundation, hadn't had a chance to read the articles proper.

The BBC and Al Jazeera are examples of "state" media.

 

[loyola llothta]

Bruh.

Sputnik is Russian state media
Sputnik (news agency) - Wikipedia

and TASS is LITERALLY the Russian Government's official media page
TASS - Wikipedia

Russia literally just spilled that shyt all over England trying to kill one person and ended up hospitalizing 5 other people and killing a bystander

fukk outta here.

Here come the agent.... Napoleon

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Here come the agent.... Napoleon

son, you LITERALLY posted Russian propaganda in the same month that the UK charged Russian Military Intelligence officers for acting as assassins.

Miss me with the bullshyt.

 

[Red Shield]

No doubt the usa most likely has bio wep labs in eastern europe.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Russia literally just spilled that shyt all over England trying to kill one person and ended up hospitalizing 5 other people and killing a bystander

fukk outta here.

Do you have proof of this or do you just take whatever red scare propaganda the US & UK put out there to justify ballooning defense budgets?

son, you LITERALLY posted Russian propaganda in the same month that the UK charged Russian Military Intelligence officers for acting as assassins.

Miss me with the bullshyt.

As opposed to the corporate media propaganda that you put out there that got us into dumb wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and everywhere else the defense contractors and bankers declare war.

 

[EndGame]

Napolean the "pro-black" America loving Patriot. What a fukking clown.

 

[HarlemHottie]

Bruh.

Sputnik is Russian state media
Sputnik (news agency) - Wikipedia

and TASS is LITERALLY the Russian Government's official media page
TASS - Wikipedia

Information is information, doesn't matter the source. Instead of discounting a (perfectly plausible) claim, let's do our googles and see what we find.

Two reputable sources confirm the existence of one "Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Tbilisi".

1. an announcement from a US Army source

Spoiler

A ceremony was conducted to rename the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory to the Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research and break ground on the new administrative building Aug. 12.

The ceremony was attended by the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs Zurab Tchiaberashvili, director of the Lugar Center Anna Zhvania, NSC Secretary Giga Bokeria, other deputy Ministers and representatives from other Georgian Institutes. Senator Richard Lugar, ASD (NCB) Andy Weber, CDA Bridget Brink and Col. Ralph Erickson, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research commander, also participated in the ceremony.

The naming honors the visionary leadership of Senator Lugar.

The administrative building will house the administrative staffs for the Center for Public Health Research, Georgian National Center for Disease Control, U.S. Centers for Disease Control Global Disease Detection Program, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

USAMRMC: News: Georgia lab receives new name

2. an announcement of intent posted at NCBI

Spoiler

The dissolution of the Soviet Union left behind many scientists still working to study pathogens using antiquated protocols in unsafe laboratories. To address this situation, the CTR program began improving laboratory infrastructure, establishing biosafety and biosecurity programs, and training scientists in modern techniques, with emphasis on biosurveillance and safe containment of especially dangerous pathogens. In the Republic of Georgia, this effort culminated in the construction of a modern containment laboratory, the Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Tbilisi to house both isolated especially dangerous pathogens as well as the research to be conducted on these agents.

Building Infectious Disease Research Programs to Promote Security and Enhance Collaborations with Countries of the Former Soviet Union

So the place exists. The question is, why are we hearing about it now? Possibilities include Georgia legit being nervous about the shyt, or Russia trynna put a wedge between Georgia (used to be in the Soviet Union and had a war against Russia in 2008) and the US. But the place definitely exists and is a CDC playground, confirmed. Don't argue dumb shyt. It's unbecoming.