@ErrataRob Here's a comment from a 2007 review of DoD program doi.org/10.17226/12005, indicating that DoD piggybacked research into bioweapon pathogens into reluctant nations by tying funding to local disease research with bioweapon research 
@ErrataRob 2/ clearly there are biolabs with non-sinister purposes. But wouldn't one ordinarily expect biolabs associated with disease control to be funded or supported through WHO or CDC or that type of organization, not DoD? So why the huge DoD role in Ukraine biolabs?
@ErrataRob 3/ Same report said that one important reason for US involvement in biolabs was to enable US DoD to directly obtain pathogen strains without having to submit to external scrutiny or "questions" that would "unnecessarily delay transfer". Maybe those questions should be asked
@ErrataRob 4/ 2007 report complained that they were now encountering "difficulties" in dealing with Russia govt, which had "suspicions over DoD motivations". But rather than resolving suspicions, they decided to "terminate almost all activities in Russia".
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