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The Pentagon has spent at least [$161 million][162] on the Lugar Center in Tbilisi under a contract with the private American contractor – CH2M Hill. This is half of the total sum of [$ 361.4 million][163] that the company had been awarded to operate Pentagon bio-laboratories in Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan and South East Asia.
[162]: <https://govtribe.com/award/federal-contract-award/delivery-order-hdtra108d0008-0002>
[163]: <https://govtribe.com/contract/idv/hdtra108d0008>
According toCH2M Hill,the US company has secured biological agents and employed former bio warfare scientists at The Lugar Center. These are scientists who are working for another American company involved in the military program in Georgia – Battelle Memorial Institute.
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Battelle as a $59 million subcontractor at the Lugar Center has extensive experience in research on bio-agents, as the company has already worked on the US Bio-weapons Program under [11 previous contracts with the US Army][166] in the past. [Source: US Army Activities in the US, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. II, 1977, p. 82][166]
[166]: <https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB58/RNCBW_USABWP.pdf>
The same company also worked for the CIA under the [Project Clear Vision][167] (1997-200) Its stated goal was to reconstruct a Soviet-era anthrax bomblet in order to test its dissemination characteristics. The clandestine CIA-Battelle operation was omitted from the US Biological Weapons Convention declarations submitted to the UN.
[167]: <https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/world/us-germ-warfare-research-pushes-treaty-limits.html>
[![][168]][169]The inauguration of the Lugar Center in Tbilisi in 2011. Andrew C. Weber (on the right) –then US Assistant Secretary of Defense (2009-2014), US DoD Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response (2014-2015), is currently a Metabiota ( the US contractor) employee.
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The US Company Metabiota Inc. has been awarded [$23.9 million in federal contracts][170] under the Pentagon’s DTRA program in Georgiaand Ukrainefor scientific and technical consulting services. Metabiota had been contracted to perform work for DTRA befor and during the Ebola crisis in West Africa and was awarded [$3.2 million (2012-2015) for work in Sierra Leone ][171]at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.
[170]: <https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra114c0104>
[171]: <https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra112c0024>
[![][172]][173]Metabiota worked on a Pentagon’s project at the epicenter of the Ebola crisis, where three US biolabs are located.
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Journalist expelled from the European Parliament for confronting US official on bioweapons
I asked US Assistant Secretary of Health Robert Kadlec for a comment during a conference on biological weapons at the European Parliament in Brussels and was immediately expelled from the conference.
> How a journalist gets expelled from the European Parliament when asking the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Health questions about the Pentagon bio laboratories around Russia, China and Iran.
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> Публикувахте от [Dilyana Gaytandzhieva][174] в Сряда, 7 март 2018 г.
[174]: <https://www.facebook.com/dilyana.gaytandzhieva>
Ethnic Bioweapons
Documents reveal some of the projects funded by the Pentagon. Among them projects related to Russia. The US Air Force has been specifically collecting [Russian RNA and synovial tissue samples][175] raising fears in Moscow of a covert US ethnic bio-weapons program.
[175]: <https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=5891545db8f955e347e3493a9575e7df&tab=core&tabmode=list&>
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[![][178]][179]Source: fbo.gov
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The Pentagon has also studied the [Russian Anthrax Strain][180] at the Lugar Center for which Russia has a vaccine, [a Russian Yersinia pestis Strain][181] (which causes plague), as well as the [Genome sequence of the Russian Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus strain][182].
[180]: <https://mra.asm.org/content/4/6/e01401-16.full>
[181]: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CP006792>
[182]: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KY484030>
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