Global Wired丨 Former security officials in Ukraine broke the news that the United States leads the biological laboratory: you can't just listen to the official reply of the United States
Recently, Vasily Prozolov, a self-proclaimed former Ukrainian security official, revealed that the U.S.-led Ukrainian biological laboratory has long been engaged in secret research, and related research activities pose a potential threat to the people of Ukraine and other countries, while the Ukrainian people have long been ignorant of this. The content was widely reported in the Russian media. A xinhua reporter recently conducted a video interview with him.
"I'm worried about the virus leaking out of [these U.S.-led] labs that would be a disaster not only for Ukraine, but also for Europe as a whole." Prozorov said. He suggested sending an international team of experts to those biological laboratories for verification.
The Xinhua reporter was unable to verify the contents disclosed by Prozorov.
Kirillov, commander of the Russian radiation, chemical and biological protection forces, said on March 17 that documents obtained by the Russian Defense Ministry from Ukrainian biological laboratory staff show that the United States and its NATO allies have carried out biological military projects in Ukraine. Xinhua News Agency/Satellite News Agency
"Representatives of the Scientific Community of Ukraine
Also can't get into these facilities."
Prozorov said that he has worked in the Ukrainian State Security Service for a long time, and after 2014, he worked for four years at the Counter-Terrorism Center of the Ukrainian State Security Agency in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. In his work, he came into contact with a number of documents related to U.S. activities in the U.S. Biological Laboratory in Ukraine. "I am convinced that the activities of these laboratories in Ukraine pose a potential threat to the ukrainian people and to the people of other countries."
Prozorov said that according to the biosecurity cooperation agreement signed between the US Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in 2005, the United States first modernized some biological laboratories in Ukraine, and then completely incorporated the activities of these laboratories into its own leadership. "Since 2005, the United States has been working with Ukraine and has actively lobbied for the establishment of a central reference laboratory where all the most active strains and particularly dangerous infectious disease pathogens need to be collected."
Eventually, after 2014, the United States successfully lobbied Ukraine to create a repository of pathogens and extremely dangerous substances. "In fact, a large number of samples of infectious disease pathogens have been preserved there since the Soviet period. Samples of these infectious disease pathogens were estimated at $2 billion in 2010, and after 2014 the United States brought the most valuable samples to the United States. ”
"Later, representatives of the Ukrainian scientific community were also unable to access these facilities and ensure that there were no prohibited research activities there. They were not allowed to enter there at all, on the grounds that the labs were high-risk and high-level of confidentiality. At the same time, representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense and contractors can normally enter these laboratories for research and development work. ”
He said that some of the documents he had at his disposal, such as those on "UP-4" (UP is short for "Ukraine project") and "UP-5", had the names of the project leaders clearly and unmistakably written on them. "These people are not Ukrainian citizens, they are American researchers, specifically, they are doctors from the University of Louisville, the U.S. Army Institute of Infectious Diseases, and other medical institutions."
Kirillov, commander of the Russian radiation, chemical and biological protection forces, said on March 17 that documents obtained by the Russian Defense Ministry from Ukrainian biological laboratory staff show that the United States and its NATO allies have carried out biological military projects in Ukraine. Xinhua News Agency/Satellite News Agency
"The Ukrainian people don't know
They live next to dangerous pathogens."
Prozorov said the Ukrainian people have long been ignorant of the activities of these U.S.-Ukrainian cooperative biological laboratories. "Even if the parliamentarians of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine try to understand these issues, they have found nothing," he said. That is, confidential insider information about laboratory activities prevents legislature representatives from exploring the inside story. Ordinary Ukrainians live side by side with these laboratories and are completely unaware of the research on dangerous pathogens such as plague, cholera and anthrax in neighboring neighborhoods. ”
Speaking about the safety of these biological laboratories, Prozorov said that although there is no clear written record of laboratory leaks due to strict confidentiality systems, the surge in the number of infectious disease outbreaks in Ukraine since 2014 is true. "For example, measles, this disease has long been gone, but in 2018-2019 tens of thousands of people suffered from measles and died." Curious coincidence, the region where the (dominant) Ukrainian biology laboratory in the United States is located has the highest number of infected people. ”
According to Prozorov, the work plan of the U.S. laboratory in Ukraine is so large that people can only know part of the information about the activities of these laboratories. "However, the information we have identified and available clearly indicates that U.S. military scientists, representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense, and contractors have conducted biological weapons research in Ukraine, which may include selective efficacy studies, that is, studies that affect various types of genomes."
He believes that the objects affected by biological weapons can be roughly divided into three categories: people, animals and plants, so the manufacture of biological weapons does not necessarily require the cultivation of pathogens that can kill people, but may also cause a large number of deaths of animals and plants. The use of biological weapons to attack a country's three types of objects of influence would force the other side to make a huge effort to control the source of infection and the spread of the epidemic, and use massive resources to procure medicines, secure manpower, ensure hospital operations and build new medical centers, all of which would erode the country's economic and national defense strength. "So I think biological weapons are first and foremost offensive and aggressive weapons. Moreover, biological weapons are, of course, weapons for the commission of terrorist acts".
Kirillov, commander of the Russian radiation, chemical and biological protection forces, said on March 17 that documents obtained by the Russian Defense Ministry from Ukrainian biological laboratory staff show that the United States and its NATO allies have carried out biological military projects in Ukraine. Xinhua News Agency/Satellite News Agency
"An international commission should be established
Verification of these laboratories"
Existing public information shows that at the end of March 2019, Prozorov held a press conference in Moscow, the capital of Russia, and broke some information about the Ukrainian side. On the same day, Ukrainian media quoted the information service of the Ukrainian State Security Service as saying that Prozorov had been expelled on the grounds that he often drank alcohol during working hours.
Prozorov said he no longer worked for the Ugandan State Security Agency after 2018, but still had access to documents from his sources. "For example, I managed to get in touch with officials from the Ministry of Health, who provided me with relevant documents on this issue." "The documents I have at my disposal include what I got during my time at the Security Service, as well as what I obtained through my own sources after 2018. I have full confidence in the reliability of these documents and sources, and to that end I am willing to testify before court. ”
During World War II, the Japanese invasion of China set up Unit 731 in China to conduct biological and chemical weapons research. Prozorov said that Japan's research on such biological weapons has led to the death of many Chinese prisoners of war and civilians, and thousands of victims have become experimental products for Japanese virology and biology researchers. After the war, although the Khabarovsk court tried the officers of the Japanese Unit 731, the American side later took them all away. As far as I know, from the declassified information, they all started a new job at the Fort Detrick base, where the U.S. Department of Defense specializes in biological weapons research. So it's no surprise that Americans are now retracing the path of Japanese executioners. ”
Prozorov believes that the international community should require the United States to provide full information about the activities of relevant biological laboratories in Ukraine and in the territory of many former Soviet republics, and send an international team of experts to these biological laboratories for verification. "Not limited to the official response of the United States, an international commission with the participation of foreign representatives should be established to verify these laboratories ... If it turns out that the United States has carried out the research and development of new biological weapons, then the international community should impose the most severe sanctions on the United States, because this is explicitly prohibited by the Biological Weapons Convention. ”
"As far as I know, the U.S. side has shipped all the research results, strains and pathogen samples out of Ukraine. We should ask the United States and the Americans. Experts should be sent there (U.S.-led laboratories in Central Asia) and local governments and U.S. guardians should be required to allow international experts to enter the laboratory for verification, just as IAEA experts can verify nuclear facilities worldwide or OCEC experts can travel to countries to verify suspected possession of chemical weapons and facilities engaged in chemical weapons research and development. In addition, the Biological Weapons Convention should likewise have an international expert group and regulatory body. Unfortunately, similar institutions could not be formed because of the opposition of the United States, and that was the case. We have no choice but to send an international team of experts capable of verifying the truth. ”
Source: Xinhua News Agency