List Of Americans Coordinating Bioweapons Research At Pentagon Biolabs In Ukraine

greatgameindia.com ^ | April 1, 2022 | GGI Staff

[ransomnote]

Russian military uncovered US-operated biolabs in Ukraine while conducting a special operation in the nation. Some very interesting findings in the form of list of Americans coordinating bioweapons research at Pentagon biolabs in Ukraine have been revealed as well.

Contents [hide]

• 1 Robert Pope
• 2 Rhys M. Williams
• 3 Joanna Wintrol
• 4 Steven L. Edwards
• 5 Lance Lippencott
• 6 David Mustra
• 7 Mary Guttieri
• 8 Nita Madhav
• 9 Scott Thornton

On Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) released new files procured by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, which include communications between American financier Hunter Biden – the son of US President Joe Biden – and figures engaged in biological research in Ukraine that his investment company aided in financing.

The documents revealed an intent to create a “Central Depository of Especially Dangerous Microorganisms in Kiev,” according to Russian MoD spokesperson Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, as well as ways to distribute biological agents via drone.

Russia’s MoD releases info on US involvement in Ukraine’s bioweapons research
© Photo : Russian Ministry of Defence

The emails disclosed the identities of numerous key American leaders from Metabiota and Black & Veatch, and also officials from the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), who were involved in biological research initiatives. Those named include:


Russia’s MoD releases info on US involvement in Ukraine’s bioweapons research
© Photo : Russian Ministry of Defence

Robert Pope

From 2017 to 2020, Pope served as the DTRA’s deputy director of operations, readiness, and exercises. He formerly worked at the Pentagon, the US Air Force European Command (USAFE), and the US Central Command (USCC). Pope was essential in the creation of radiochemical methods for monitoring international nuclear weapons treaties (Air Force Technical Application Center).

Between 2016 and 2019, Pope corresponded with Ukraine’s acting health minister, Ulana Suprun, an American-born Ukrainian who travelled to Ukraine to take part in the US-backed revolution in 2014.

Rhys M. Williams

Williams, who was formerly the agency’s director of development, test, and evaluation, ended up taking over for Pope as acting DTRA director in 2020. He oversaw the Pentagon’s project to establish capabilities for detecting, locating, and neutralizing foreign weapons of mass destruction and improvised explosive devices. Williams was also Assistant Deputy Administrator for Nonproliferation at the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which is in charge of the country’s nuclear arsenal.

Joanna Wintrol

At the Defense Threat Reduction Office of the US Embassy in Kiev, Wintrol oversaw DTRA programs in Ukraine until 2021.

According to emails released by the Ministry of Defense, she oversaw projects such as the UP-2 Project for “mapping highly infectious diseases in Ukraine,” including anthrax; the UP-4 Project for “risk assessment of particularly dangerous pathogens transmitted by birds in Ukraine during migration”; and the UP-8 Project for studying “spread of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine and the potential need for differential diagnosis of patients with suspected leptospirosis.” She also headed Project P-782, which investigated disease transmission through bats, according to previously disclosed records.

In early 2021, Wintrol switched to Chemical Security and Elimination (CSE). CSE was previously known as the Chemical Weapons Elimination (CWE) and Chemical Weapons Destruction (CWD) programs, according to a DTRA document. The effort “started in 1992 to build the capacity of the states of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to reduce the threat from chemical weapons (CW) by securing and eliminating CW stockpiles, chemical research capabilities, and production facilities, while also redirecting scientists to peaceful purposes,” the agency said.


Russia’s MoD releases info on US involvement in Ukraine’s bioweapons research
© Photo : Russian Ministry of Defence

Steven L. Edwards

Edwards has been the CEO of Black & Veatch, an American engineering business that has long been a Pentagon contractor for a range of building projects, since 2013. He joined the firm in 1978 and previously served as its Chief Operating Officer.

Black & Veatch has long been known to collaborate on Pentagon initiatives in Ukraine, but records procured by Russian forces earlier this month divulged the company’s role in supervising biological programs in the country, including the UP-8 project, which analyses Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, and hantaviruses.

Lance Lippencott

Since 2011, he has served as the project manager and biological project coordinator for Black & Veatch in Ukraine. He informed the Kansas City Business Journal in August 2021 that his efforts in Ukraine on airborne biological agents had aided Black & Veatch in developing a system for cleaning air of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, the pathogen that induces COVID-19. Lippencott is a West Point graduate of the United States Army Military Academy.

A report from Ukraine’s Kherson region’s Security Service was included in one of the papers disclosed by the MoD, and it mentioned “a potential threat to the epidemiological and epizootic situation in our country that has recently come to light as a result of DTRA’s intentions through Black & Veatch to establish control over the functioning of Ukrainian microbiological laboratories that conduct research into particularly dangerous pathogens that can be used to create or upgrade new types of biological weapons.”

Another paper addressed to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense by Lippencott addresses the extension of the UP-8 project previously described.

David Mustra

“Issues of biomonitoring and transfer of information were supervised by David Mustra, who is closely associated with another Pentagon contractor, Metabiota,” Konashenkov said. “Previously, he led military bio-projects in Ukraine and Eastern Europe as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.”

Mustra was the firm’s biosafety recruitment manager in Ukraine, as well as the biosurveillance and control managers and the research and development director.


Russia’s MoD releases info on US involvement in Ukraine’s bioweapons research
© Photo : Russian Ministry of Defence

Mary Guttieri

Guttieri, who holds a doctorate in microbiology from UMass Amherst, served as Metabiota’s Executive Vice President from 2014 to 2019, and was formerly the company’s Vice President of Technology and Science Administration. At Labyrinth Global Health, she has become the head researcher.

Guttieri was the integrator of research programs for the US biology program in Ukraine, and she oversaw the implementation of biological programs involving the study of animals as disease vectors. 

Nita Madhav

Since 2019, Madhav has led Metabiota as its CEO. With a PhD in Public Health, she focuses in epidemiology and pandemics. The Russian Ministry of Defense, on the other hand, claims that there was no evidence in the records that she was in charge of any particular biological activities in Ukraine.

Scott Thornton

Between 2006 and 2016, Thorton worked for Metabiota as a senior microbiologist and lab start-up coordinator. He served as a research microbiologist and the chief of the Navy’s Threat Assessment Department for the past 20 years in the US Navy. Thornton “conducted research on disease agents of military relevance, especially enteric pathogens” at covert sites, as per his CV, one of which is in Cairo, Egypt.

Thornton advised local workers in DTRA projects in Ukraine on extremely hazardous pathogens and other epidemic disease-related concerns, and organized the update of reference labs in Ukraine to biosafety level 3 (BSL-3), which can be used to research contagious agents or toxins that can be spread via the air and induce potentially deadly infections.

[Captain Walker]

Anyone siding with Russia in this conflict has more than a few screws loose.

I'm not taking Russia's side here; I'm simply making observations. Unfortunately, because the American government has routinely lied to the American people in the run-up to entering hostilities (see: our foreign policy for the last thirty years), it has demonstrated that it is no longer entitled to our unquestioning fealty.

Disregarding, for a moment, the side-splitting spectacle of the United States government lecturing one country on the moral crime of invading another, we are still left to try to reconcile two competing explanations of Russia's invasion of Ukraine; that I'm supposed to reflexively believe my own government's version of events is no longer a viable option.

[David Chase]

So the entire World is lying.

U.K.
U.S.
Ukraine.
France.
Poland.
Finland.
All Baltic States.
Slovakia.
Czech Republic.
Israel.
Spain.
Hungary.

Everyone is lying except for…….wait for it……..Russia and China!!! Yippee!

The drive in the mind of a Conspiracy Theorist to keep the Conspiracy alive must be very powerful.

[DugwayDuke]

Captain Walker wrote: “But if the United States government was running bio labs in Ukraine that were active when Ukraine was invaded, the presence of these active bio labs is enough of a threat to Russia to provide Putin with sufficient moral cause to launch the Russian invasion into Ukraine.”

These bio labs were no threat to Russia. These ‘bio’ labs were established to reduce the threat to Russia. Putin is only using these labs as an excuse and you’re falling for his rhetoric.

https://www.dtra.mil/

[DugwayDuke]

David Chase wrote: “Once again we find ourselves trying to talk Conspiracy Theorist down from the ledge.”

Conspiracy theorists have great fun believing that they are smarter than anyone else because they see things others don’t. Conspiracy theorists will talk themselves down when they perceive that isn’t true.

No one can answer why hundreds of thousands of health care professionals would be complicit in these theories. Or why Donald Trump would develop a vaccine that kills his supporters.

[Captain Walker]

These bio labs were no threat to Russia. These ‘bio’ labs were established to reduce the threat to Russia.

I'm not sure what your second sentence here means. (I am taking this as a normal typo and that you mean that the labs were established to reduce the threat from Russia; please correct me if I am wrong.)

You or I may be willing to accept the official US government narrative of what these labs are in Ukraine for; that's your call to make.

However, I think we could agree that if we were a country that was repeatedly disparaged by our government, we might be less willing to accept on blind faith these same words.

(In other words, I don't think we are in a position to point the finger at Putin if he decides to follow Ronald Reagan's maxim to "Trust but verify".)

[DugwayDuke]

aptain Walker wrote: “I’m not sure what your second sentence here means. (I am taking this as a normal typo and that you mean that the labs were established to reduce the threat from Russia; please correct me if I am wrong.)”

These labs were already, for the most part, in place when the Russian empire collapsed. The scientists working in these labs suddenly became unemployed. They went from being well paid to facing poverty. Consequently, there was a real threat that the scientist there could be enticed by Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc., to continue their work in those countries. The US and other countries decided to take over these labs and give these scientists new jobs where we could control their research. It was far cheaper to employ them in their own countries than to bring them to the US. Generally speaking staying in their own countries was preferred by these scientists.

This program has been well known for almost 30 years. Therefore this program reduces the threat to the US, European Union, Russia, etc. Read the link I provided.

Putin knows this but he is only using this as an excuse. Amazing that you would believe Putin.

[Captain Walker]

This program has been well known for almost 30 years. Therefore this program reduces the threat to the US, European Union, Russia, etc. Read the link I provided.

How would you know if one of the dynamics hadn't changed? (What was the point of the absolute shutdown of any news dissemination on Hunter Biden's laptop and his role in Ukraine?)

[DugwayDuke]

Captain Walker wrote: “How would you know if one of the dynamics hadn’t changed? (What was the point of the absolute shutdown of any news dissemination on Hunter Biden’s laptop and his role in Ukraine?)”

Use logic and common sense. Putin has long wanted to return Ukraine to the Soviet Empire. After all, he said the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the biggest catastrophe of the 20th century. Putin sees himself as the one to restore Russian greatness.

The question should be why has the media found a new interest in Biden’s laptop?

[bitt]

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[ptsal]

That is exactly what Vlad is doing.
Confront DCwith the truth.

[rmlew]

Useful idiots for the KGB should learn what the

[rmlew]

Pro-Russian lies from pro-Kremlin Indians. Have you no shame?
Look up the 1991 Nunn-Lugar Act

[ransomnote]

Amazing that you would believe Putin.
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Actually worse that you believe our treasonous MSM, Congress and Biden. I mean, those people have been openly destroying our nation but you support them vigorously and working to kill President Trump through capital punishment/false accusations.

After your vigorous support for the clot shots and Fauci/CDC, I’m not surprised to see you supporting traitors.

[ransomnote]

When did you become a Biden loyalist? Long after you fell in love the the MSM destroying our country, I’m sure. But when did you decide to just join hands with the Deep State?

[Candor7]

you can say that again..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNZlGpI-GTg

[Fred Nerks]

I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Frank Sinatra)???

[Publius]

Tony Bennett

[Candor7]

You said I could say that again, LOL.

[rmlew]

When did you become a Biden loyalist? Long after you fell in love the the MSM destroying our country, I’m sure. But when did you decide to just join hands with the Deep State?
The Biden family on the payroll of a pro-Russian oligarch for years. I opposed virtually everything Biden has done and voted for Trump in 2020.
Ukraine isn't about Trump or Biden. It's about Russia invading a neighboring country, one whose sovereignty and borders we promised to protect. It is about prevent World War 3 in ensuring that the Putin can't try this in the Baltics.

[dforest]

Back up your claim. The article does not state that. That is how false info gets spread.