Response to Pentagon denial re Bio-weapons at Lugar Center in Georgia

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> "The accusations you outlined are totally absurd and likely an invention of the fanciful Russian disinformation campaign against the west," Defense Department spokesperson Eric Pahon said on Friday. "The United States is not developing biological weapons in the Lugar Center.

These are also not US facilities."

The Lugar Laboratory in Tbilisi & the Veterinary Laboratory Support Station in Marnuelli, Georgia were created under the U.S. Government’s Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP); ie.

Lugar Laboratory was created by the US and is in part or completely funded (see below) by the US through DOD/DTRA.

https://ge.usembassy.gov/dtra-cooperation-georgia-lugar/

While these facilities claim to serve as a Public Health Research and reference facility there is also a research component performed under the auspices of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research as US Army Medical Research Unit -Georgia (USAMR-G.)

This Anthrax work is an example of the research performed there & published in an American Society for Microbiology journal.

2017: Ten Genome Sequences of Human and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the Country of Georgia, &performed by USAMRU-G at The Lugar Center. Pentagon program in Georgia.

https://mra.asm.org/content/5/19/e00256-17.full

>Earlier this week, former Georgian State Security Minister Igor Giorgadze said during a press-conference in Moscow that he has reports about deaths that could be the result of vaccine tests in the US-funded laboratory known as the Lugar Center.

Deaths were possibly related to research with Gilead anti-Hepatitis C drug in a human research study involving the CDC Foundation under the auspices of a project to provide free treatment to Georgians with Hepatitis C. In 2015 details were published in CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Key strategies, activities, and outcomes before implementation of a nationwide hepatitis C elimination program — Georgia, 2011–2015

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6428a2.htm

>Pahon said on Friday that the Lugar Center is owned and operated by the Georgian National Center for Disease Control and Public Health and is a joint human and veterinary public health facility.

While Georgia NCDC is listed as the active entity the work aligns closely with bio-weapon research:

FOR EXAMPLE: Project Title “Epidemiology of febrile illnesses caused by Dengue viruses and other Arboviruses in Georgia” TAP 8, DTRA; Project duration: 01.04.2014 – 01.04.2015.

a).Project goal: The overall goal of this proposal is to study the ecology of dengue viruses and other Arboviruses (WNV, TBEV, CHIK, HFRSV, and CCHFV), the epidemiology of fevers caused by these pathogens.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180117220641/http:/www.ncdc.ge/Category/Article/1480

>The Lugar Center's mission is to contribute to protection of citizens from biological threats, promote public and animal health through infectious disease detection, epidemiological surveillance and research for the benefit of Georgia, the Caucasus region and the global community, Pahon added.

So far two DOD-related funding sources have been identified:

Medical Command DOD --Technology Management Company Inc TMC Global

Funded 2016-2021; $3.8 million

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DOD) --Ch2M Hill, Inc

Funded 2011 - 2018; $1.73 million *

• Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) in "Georgia" - mapped to State of Georgia in U.S. but most likely Lugar Laboratory since part of BTRP.

https://govtribe.com/award/federal-idv-award/indefinite-delivery-contract-w81xwh16d0022

https://govtribe.com/award/federal-contract-award/delivery-order-hdtra108d0008-0002

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