Eurasia note 104 - Assassinated General Was Inspecting Ukraine Bio Labs
Hunter Biden's pardon renews questions over his Metabiota pathogen unit
General investigating DoD/Biden-Metabiota biolabs killed in apartment bombing
President Joe Biden pardoned son Hunter for any crimes from 2014 on Dec 1
CIA press RFE/RL focused on Lt Gen Kirillov just five days before he died
Pentagon funded 46 labs in Ukraine for pathogen testing and research
Metabiota routed $ millions to Ukraine labs from weapons agency
Is someone cleaning up loose ends before president Joe leaves office?
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Dec 18, 2024
The Russian general investigating U.S. bio labs in Ukraine was killed on Dec 17 by TNT packed in an e-scooter parked outside his apartment.
Since we are at war, truth is the first casualty. Western media have branded Lt Gen Igor Kirillov the head of Russian chemical warfare or Putin’s "top nuke general."
Russia surely has plenty of scientists working on bugs and bombs but that was not Kirillov's job. He was in charge of Russia’s radiation, chemical and biological protection troops who work in cases of contamination.
Newsweek said his death rekindled "baseless conspiracies" that he spread "from his seat of power" (who writes this stuff!). Given what was done to us by the powerful in the name of the "safe and effective," it is natural to project the worst intentions onto one's adversary. Truth is painful though rarely as toxic.
U.S. bio labs were confirmed in March 2022 when U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland admitted in Congress: "Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of."
Fact checkers insist the labs are for the benefit of the birds and bees, to monitor animal diseases around the globe.
If it was harmless veterinary research into cow ticks and horse flies, as the U.S. military often claims, to make the world a better place, why did Nuland add: "We are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach."?
In June 2022 a Pentagon document revealed funding 46 laboratories, health facilities and diagnostic sites in Ukraine.
Russian claims
The most incendiary claim from Kirillov and his team is that the U.S. was testing pathogens that harmed specific ethnicities.
These weren't just Russian claims. China supported its call for a United Nations investigation. [1]
The reality is that research into pathogens is the ultimate "dual use weapon." There are beneficial reasons to conduct research, and nefarious with potential to weaponise bioweapons.
In the conventional logic of virology, in order to make a vaccine you must first collect the virus. Labs in Odesa were thus working with anthrax and plague, while others cultivated salmonella and eColi.
Finger pointing
On Dec 12 Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty published an article on "a restricted facility outside Moscow, showing equipment and infrastructure that experts say are typical of biological laboratories designed for work with the world's most dangerous known pathogens." It said the U.S. State Department in April assessed that "Russia maintains an offensive [biological weapons] program" in violation of the UN Biological Weapons Convention." [2]
The American broadcaster examined video of a tour by Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Russia's Security Council, touring the facility with Kirillov. RFE/RL also found "several open-source patents and scientific papers from the Sergiyev Posad and Kirov branches of the 48th Central Scientific Research Institute, related to the preparation and spread of aerosolized forms of pathogens."
This fingering of Lt Gen Kirillov came five days before his assassination, and a little more than two weeks after president Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter on Dec 1.
Ukraine’s Myrotvorets (“Peacemakers”) hit-list celebrated his killing with a red cross over his image. They had added his name in March 2022, three days after the his first announcements of U.S. biolabs.
It is legitimate to wonder if someone was determined to clean up loose ends before president Biden leaves office.
Recall that president Donald Trump was impeached after a Sep 2019 phone call with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he asked about Hunter Biden and the money trail.
Biden labs
What can't be denied is the shady connections to the Covid event, and to political finances. The money trail is revealing and may shed light on why Hunter's pardon applies retroactively to 2014.
The Pentagon subcontracted work to Hunter Biden's Metabiota, which calls itself a pathogen tracking firm.
With its extensive connections Metabiota — and thus the Biden family — sits in the midst of networks that connect U.S. bio weapon research with pandemic preparedness and both military and civilian agencies which were closely involved in managing Event Covid and the rollout of the mRNA gene therapy.
Metabiota was founded in 2015 by Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP), which later helped the company raise millions from Goldman Sachs and other investors.
Biden co-founded RSTP in 2009 with his associate Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz, stepson of special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry — in 2009. The fund was named after the Rosemont Farm, the Heinz family's estate near Pittsburgh.
Metabiota is run by Nathan Wolfe, a member of DARPA's Defense Science Research Council. Wolfe also sits on the editorial board of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and in 2014 Metabiota published a joint report on infectious diseases from bats, together with Wuhan Institute of Virology. Daszak played a role in offshoring gain of function research into zoonotic pathogens. [3]
Wolfe also founded Global Viral, since renamed to the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems, and authored “The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age” (2012) in which he acknowledges Jeffrey Epstein. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Military funding
It is established beyond doubt that Hunter Biden secured millions of dollars in financing for his biolabs contractor Metabiota to support the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA), known until 1996 as the Defense Special Weapons Agency.
Read on for money laundering, Ukraine as a garden shed for all kinds of nefarious activities, and the similar pathogen projects around the globe, especially in Africa.
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