US Funded Biological Weapons
“Border guards in the Siberian city of Perm demanded to search the U.S. government aircraft carrying the delegation, which also included Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). The senators, members of the Foreign Relations Committee, were in Russia as part of a weeklong visit of warhead storage facilities in the former Soviet Union, part of a U.S.-funded program to secure or destroy nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.”
LA Times 2005
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-29-fg-plane29-story.html