Thread on TMC, Ukraine, Georgia, Biolabs, DoD

1. Warning

Please Ignore this thread, or at least don't expect it to be coherent or have any conclusions, I am creating it as a way of collating links to free up browser memory (too many open tabs ;) Image
2. Technology Management Company, Inc.

govtribe.com/vendors/techno…
3. TMC

The presentation of TMC projects from the 1990s & early 2000s outlined activities in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia & Ukraine related to disarmament and disposal of nuclear and chemical weapons, as well as biological research data collection totaling over $14 million. ImageImageImageImage
4. TMC Operating Locations Image
5. TMC Archived Web Pages - Uzbekistan

"TMC’s Deputy Program Manager for Science (Dr. Jeein Chung) & Senior Science Coordinator (Dr. Mariam Lekveishvili) developed a capacity building program focused on biosafety and surveillance of infectious diseases"

web.archive.org/web/2017110406…
6. TMC Archived Web Pages - Uzbekistan 2

2017 – TMC new contract

3 year contract overseen by US DoD & Government of Uzbekistan.

TMC supports Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) in Uzbekistan to promote biological safety & security

web.archive.org/web/2019030815…
7. TMC Blurb

For 20 years, TMC has provided governments with the expertise & practical support they need to accomplish missions in challenging environments in over 80 countries

Robert Delaney, TMC’s VP:

“TMC is extremely proud of our continued support to the US government"
8. TMC Uzbek Grant (2017)

Apr 10, 2017

Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source Contract to Technology Management Company, to implement science engagements in Uzbekistan to promote biological safety and security of especially dangerous pathogens (EDPs).

govtribe.com/opportunity/fe… Image
9. Biodefense Science Engagement in Uzbekistan

globalbiodefense.com/2017/04/14/bio…

Connected to Project 53

scjs.org.uk/2016/09/27/pro… ImageImageImageImage
10. Project 53

The objectives of CBRN CoE P53 are to provide specialized training on bio-safety and bio-security in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Work will start in September 2016 and complete by December 2018.
11. TMC - Georgia 1 (Dod/TMC) 3 years (2017)

TMC to custom design & development of a multi-functional Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). TMC will integrate the new LIMS in 21 different facilities located throughout the Republic of Georgia

web.archive.org/web/2017051900…
12. TMC - Georgia 2

Charles Randolph, TMC’s President & COO

Contract with Walter Reed Institute of Research (WRAIR).

Scientific & technical support to WRAIR’s US Medical Research Directorate – Georgia (USAMRD-G) unit in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

web.archive.org/web/2016103003… ImageImage
Break Time - TBC
13. Georgia - 3

Introduction

Documents leaked to Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva indicate that the US Embassy to Tbilisi is involved in the trafficking of frozen human blood & pathogens as diplomatic cargo for a secret military program

15. TMC - Ukraine & Georgia Security Projects

DTRA - Nuclear- WMD - Border Control

web.archive.org/web/2016020607… Image
16. TMC Extracts US contractors from Georgia

"TMC was able to quickly and safely evacuate U.S. contractors out of Tbilisi Georgia during the Georgia/Russia conflict in 2008"

Emergency Transport

web.archive.org/web/2015122515…
17. Biological Reference Laboratories Staffing

(Central Asia)

The 5 Biological Reference Labs serve as research facilities for the detection & disposal of chemical & biological weapons as well as the discovery of diseases related to exposure to them

web.archive.org/web/2015082821…
18. Cooperative Biological Engagement Program

For USAMRIID, TMC provides administrative, clinical medical research & lab support to advance program goals to engage and train host-country science personnel in identification & diagnosis of EDPs.

web.archive.org/web/2016081104… Image
19. Continued - TMC Georgia & Azerbaijan

In Georgia and Azerbaijan, USAMRIID-led teams of local scientists employed by TMC conduct bio-essay studies, focused on influenza and other pathogens active in the region.
20. Continued - TMC - Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

In Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, teams of scientists employed by TMC train medical & lab personnel in lab safety & security, use of advance lab equipment and pathogen tracking systems, and advanced pathogen analysis methodologies.
21. TMC - Cooperative Biological Engagement Program in Central Asia and the Caucuses

web.archive.org/web/2016081022… ImageImage
22. TMC - Afghanistan

TMC built and managed a warehouse on the border of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. TMC procured locally manufactured construction supplies for this warehouse and managed the request from U.S. troops for the commodities.

web.archive.org/web/2015082821…
23. TMC - Nuclear Waste

Temporary Nuclear Waste Storage and Processing Facilities Design and Construction

Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation (AMEC) Program

web.archive.org/web/2016081103…
24. TMC - Oak Ridge National Lab - Nuclear Work

TMC provides travel, meeting, and interpretation support to Oak Ridge National Laboratory for fissile materials control and non-proliferation programs in the Former Soviet Republics and China.

web.archive.org/web/2015123112…
25. TMC - Counter Narcotics

TMC Operations and Logistics contract award.

$975 million dollar IDIQ contract overseen by US Air Force, Air Combat Command (ACC), Acquisition Management &Integration Center (AMIC), based out of Newport News, Virginia.

web.archive.org/web/2016020502…
26. TMC - Ukraine

TMC Expands on Success in Ukraine

Chernobyl and WMD & non-proliferation projects over 20 years in several Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries including Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, & Kazakhstan

web.archive.org/web/2016052904…
27. TMC Summary

Close links to DTRA, Pentagon, CIA, DoD, main work in ex Soviet States, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical WMD, Labs, Support, etc.
28. Allegations against TMC

" given the fact that the TMC was involved in recruitment and data analysis, it can be assumed that it was also a front for the work of US intelligence services."

archive.ph/i5eAN
29. Spanish update on some of the claims

diario16.com/operacion-covi…
30. TMC, Bechtel, DTRA, Georgia

Bechtel, TMC, Bio Weapons Lab and Collateral Financial Damage to US Taxpayer

archive.ph/sZhgP
31. Ukraine Update

DTRA - Battelle, Jacobs, CH2M Hill, Lugar Lab

DTRA CTRIC III – BTRP UKRAINE

7 January 2022 to DTRA by CH2M HILL

Countering Especially Dangerous Pathogen Threats in Ukraine

Contract: HDTRA118D0007
Task Order: HDTRA120F0054

mega.nz/file/W1sRAIqD#…

Lugar ImageImageImage
32. Battelle Image
33. Battelle 2 Image
34. Ukraine Facilities List Image
35. EDPs (Especially Dangerous Pathogens)

Collection and Shipment to the US Image
36. CH2M Hill, Battelle, and Metabiota

Georgia & Ukraine

37. CH2M Hill, Battelle, Metabiota (Grant Amounts)

38. "Jacobs" the 4th Company involved

"an engineering company which tests bioweapon dissemination systems at Dugway"

39. The Overall Plan Revealed in an FOIA Email

42. Scroll back from end of this thread if you have the time and inclination

43. Conclusion

I said there would be none, but clearly this thread leads into an earlier one:

45. Some insights into the documents posted (1)

Short thread looking at Indonesia NAMRU 2 Scandal and Egypt Rift Fever claims

46. The next section is mainly trawling through a slew of documents which have been released relating to the US biolabs issue, with some brief comments.
47. Certain Documents of Interest

Submitted to the latest formal consultative meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Biological Weapons Convention in 2022

meetings.unoda.org/meeting/65052/…
48. Statement by the Head of the delegation of the
Russian Federation at the Consultative meeting of
the States Parties to the BTWC under BTWC Article V

Summarizes the situation in September 2022

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImage
49. Questions for the United States regarding compliance with obligations under Article IV

Regarding the dodgy US Patents (screenshots)
and the US Response

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImageImage
50. More comments and questions on the patents

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImage
51. A set of Intriguing Slides (1)

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImageImage
52. A set of Intriguing Slides (2)

Black and Veatch
2015 Ukraine Security Services Report on BTRP
Metabiota Involvement
Destruction of Documentary Evidence

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImageImage
53. Questions regarding the above slides and facts Image
54. Scans of the original diplomatic notes exchanged between Russia and the US with annexes (June 2022)

(preceding the Russian Federation’s request for an
Article V Consultative Meeting under the
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention)

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… Image
55. Questions for US (1)

"Such non-transparency & deliberate classification of research, potentially prohibited under agreements on non-proliferation of biological weapons, creates conditions for unhindered violation of the obligations under the BTWC"

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImage
56. Final Two Questions in above document

1. What explains the necessity of centralization of collections & transfer of strains of dangerous pathogens isolated in the territory of Ukraine to the USA? (Good Question)

2. Why are the results of works restricted and confidential? Image
57. Questions to Ukraine - Slides Set 1

1. Anti Plague Institute - Odessa (2018)
2. List of Pathogens held at above institute
3. Questions relating to strains held and research
4. Lack of Information about research carried out

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImageImage
58. Questions to Ukraine -Slides Set 2

1. DTRA BTRP contract
2. Glanders, Tularemia, Anthrax, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Hantaviruses, Measles, Rubella
3. African Swine Fever, Classical Swine Fever, Avian Influenza, Newcastle Disease, Q Fever.
4. Work near Russian Borders ImageImageImageImage
59. Questions to Ukraine - Slide (Final)

Ukraine - US biological collaboration network included:

Ukraine Ministry of Defense and USAMRIID ImageImage
60. 3 Final Questions from above document

1. What research was carried out at Odessa Institute which held so many pathogens?

2. Why is there no documented evidence about the state of all the strains held?

3. Why were certain strains studied under BTRP (e.g. TAP 6- Glanders)? Image
61. Yet more questions for Ukraine

1. STUC projects (network) and possible dual use projects

2. Financing and Risks (Personnel)

3. STCU document confirming Us biological activities in Ukraine

4. Safety violations & leaks of pathogens at Ukraine Labs

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImageImage
62. Questions to Ukraine regarding compliance with
obligations under Part 2 of Article I

1. EDPs carried by migratory birds (Ukraine-Russia)

2. UP-8 - Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever & Hantaviruses

3. UP-2 - Tularemia, Anthrax

4. UP-1 - Rickettsia, Coxiella

DTRA, CDC, NMRC ImageImageImageImage
63. Continued

5. Lugar Lab, Georgia & Ukraine Joint Research on diseases carried by bats

6. TAP-6 Project African Swine Fever (areas bordering Russia)

7. Evidence of Ukraine's interest in obtaining delivery systems for biowarfare agents (spraying aerosols with Turkish Drones) ImageImageImage
64. By the way, if you can't access the PDF just input the name of the pdf in the link, e.g. "G2248068" here:

in the "Job Number" search field:

documents.un.org/prod/ods.nsf/h…
65. Questions to Ukraine regarding observation of the obligations under Part 2 of Article I (1)

Summarizes Russia's concerns about:

1. UP-4 (potential economic damage from bird flu)

2. UP-8 - Crimean Congo hemorrhagic Fever

3. UP-2 and UP-6 Projects

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImage
66. Questions to Ukraine regarding observation of the obligations under Part 2 of Article I (2)

4. Bat Virus Research P-781 «Risk of New Infections from Insectivorous Bats in Georgia and Ukraine».
& P-382, P444, P-568.

5. TAP- 6 Project - African Swine Fever and Wild Boar ImageImage
67. Questions about the possibility of using aerosol dispersion systems with a payload of over 20 litres in Turkish Bayraktar Dones at 300km

Suggested by "Motor Sich" December 2021

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…

In news here

nordicmonitor.com/2022/09/russia…

and

bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/03/31/ukr… ImageImageImageImage
68. Talking of Drones

Yesterday's News

DPR Chief warns Ukrainian forces use drone-dropped chemical weapons

archive.ph/ViTZa
69. Back to... Questions to Ukraine regarding compliance with obligations under Part 1 of Article I

1. The crux of the matter (screenshot 1)

2. Stockpiling of dangerous pathogens (enumerated) Screenshot 2

3. Why so many pathogens?

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImage
70. Continued from above document

4. Anomalies in viruses chosen for research which point to DTRA biowarfare interest (Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Hantaviruses, Anthrax, Tularemia, Glanders) rather than what Ukraine Health Focus would be concerned with (Measles, Rubella) Image
71. Summing up

Why would US military agencies like DTRA, Walter Reed Army Institute, Naval Medical Research Center, Ukraine Ministry of Defense study avian influenza, African swine fever, Newcastle disease in Ukraine? Image
72. Three Specific Questions Raised

1. what kind of activity involving pathogen materials was conducted in the Anti-Plague Institute on more than 2,000 storage units of pathogenic biomaterial?
2. Why no documentation from Odessa Lab?
3. Why study certain pathogens in Ukraine? Image
73. So many questions, so few answers...

Questions to Ukraine &the United States in
connection with the information provided in the
framework of the confidence-building measures of the
BTWC in the context of the activities of
biological labs in Ukraine

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
74. Why did Ukraine not report certain activities?

In light of certain already established facts concerning Ukraine and US joint biological research activities in Ukraine... ImageImage
75. Lack of Clarity, Lack of Information

Forms B & F (Ukraine Declarations)

Lack of Information on extra-territorial Biological activities by US

Stonewalling by US of Russian proposals to include extra territorial declarations relating to military &biological activity in BTWC ImageImage
76. Jesus, I wish I was being paid for this research!
77. Summary of All Questions for Ukraine

1. We already saw those three questions (1,2,3)

2. Questions 4,5, 6 - Accumulation of pathogens, research focus

3. UP1, UP-2, UP-8 Projects & Drones

4. Pathogen Safety concern questions

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImageImage
78. Summary of Questions for United States

All seem quite valid to me...

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… Image
79. Responses (1)

Georgia Denies Everything!

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImage
80. Responses (2)

US Denies Everything!

"Assertions made by Russia which form the basis of its request for an Article V consultative meeting, are unfounded & based upon mischaracterization of official documents & legitimate, peaceful scientific studies"

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
81. Extended Technical Briefing by United States

"My name is Kevin Garrett, and I am the Deputy Director of the Biological Threat Reduction Program, which I will refer to as “BTRP”

He goes on to clarify and explain the Program in Ukraine and elsewhere

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
82. Russian Response

The Russian response to the statements of Ukraine & US mainly claim that specific points went unanswered &"are an attempt to avoid answers to specific, clearly formulated questions concerning provisions of Articles I & IV of BTWC

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
83. Further Russian Response (1)

The ostensibly "open and transparent" nature of the cooperation that the U.S. is trying to convince the world of is nothing more than hypocrisy.

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
84. Further Russian Response (2)

"Despite Russia's repeated calls, Washington refrains from providing specific, comprehensive information on military and biological activities outside the national territory"

Four Whys and a What...

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… Image
85. Russian Statement

"we note that the overwhelming majority of the claims put forward by Russia have gone unanswered. As stated in the final report of the Consultative Meeting, it was not possible to reach consensus on the questions we raised"

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… Image
86. On the Goals and Objectives of U.S.-Ukraine
Cooperation in Ensuring Sanitary &
Epidemiological Welfare of the Population

Not only has the epidemiological situation in Ukraine not improved, it has become one of the worst in the WHO European Region

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImage
87. Good Point This One

The most urgent public health problems in Ukraine include vaccine preventable diseases: measles, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, the spread of tuberculosis and HIV infection, outbreaks of dangerous infections, including cholera

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…

BUT.. Image
88. Presentation

(on the sanitary & epidemiological situation in Ukraine)

Ukraine's real public health challenges (see slides) were ignored by DTRA, who instead chose to focus on pathogen collection & research related to biowarfare & biodefence

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/… ImageImageImageImage
89. Will take another well deserved break soon

But first the mega documents submitted by Russia with details of the claims

1. 204 Pages - Unofficial Translation

documents.unoda.org/wp-content/upl…
90. Document 2 (184 Pages) with English Translations

documents.unoda.org/wp-content/upl…
91. Document 3 (184 Pages)

documents.unoda.org/wp-content/upl…
92. Final Report of the Formal Consultative Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention

"No consensus was reached regarding the outcome of the Formal Consultative Meeting"

documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
93. Summary of US & Ukraine Biolabs (52 Pages)

The activities of the biological laboratories of the US
Department of Defense in Ukraine (with specific details of Ukrainian Labs)

files.oprf.ru/storage/image_… Image
94. Next Section includes recently posted documents of interest to the dedicated researcher into US bio programs in ex-Soviet States (i.e. me ;)

Starting with Nov 2022 Yandex Disk which I am having trouble opening

2022-11-26_briefing_RKhBZ - documents

disk.yandex.ru/d/Bxa0q9WZkBsW…
95. If you can open and view the documents included please let me know?
96. American biodefense and engineering companies involved in Ukraine (linked to DoD)

(December 14, 2022)

Black & Veatch
CH2M (Hill) (Jacobs Group)
Battelle

telegra.ph/Amerikanskie-k…

Archived: archive.ph/8wOpY

Use Google Chrome Right Click Translate to English
97. Employees of the companies & UKR institutions

(Dec 14, 2022)

Photos, Bios, Emails

telegra.ph/Sotrudniki-kom…

Archived: archive.ph/ITt0C
98. January 30, 2023 Briefing (Russia)

Briefing on the analysis of documents related to military biological activities of the United States
January 30, 2023

telegra.ph/Brifing-po-ana…

Archived: archive.ph/nWYri
99. Russian Analysis of @JudicialWatch redacted FOIA

This reveals a lot of the redacted sections

mega.nz/file/wzYi1SqB#…
99. Three RTFs shared by @EIGARBARINO in his thread

1. mega.nz/file/kuhg2ZDC#…

2. mega.nz/file/YvpCAQDB#…

3. mega.nz/file/gzhxgQxK#…

They relate to experiments to enhance soldier's endurance mainly using certain compounds
100. I translated them using Yandex Doc Tool

ЗВІТ is a report into Ukrainian military's research on humans of the drug "Antimotoma" (extract of Amaranth) An energy booster commercialized in Ukraine.

It works quite well!
101. RTF document 2

РЕЗУЛЬТАТИ is about clinical trials of water-soluble C60 fullerenes to reduce skeletal muscle fatigue of personnel, carried out at Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,

Yuri Prilutsky
Lt Col NIKOLAICHUK
Major MIKOLAICHUK
102. RTF Document 3

ЗАТВЕРДЖУЮ is a follow up study on dosing military volunteers with water-soluble C60 fullerenes and then forcing them to do up to 20,000 Squats

Ouch!

Approved by Head of research center at "The Military Institute", Colonel Igor PAMPUKHA
103. Organizations and Institutions (Ukraine Labs)

December 14, 2022

with details of their connections to

"Black and Witch (sic) Special Project Corp"

LOL

mega.nz/file/BmJQgCjY#…
104. Time for a Break, Mammoth Thread!

12 hours today I think, in two shifts...

"Everything Takes Time, Time Takes Everything"
105. Tweet 94 referenced a recent Yandex disk dump with documents and images which many could not open perhaps due to cyrillic characters and zip programs.

Thanks to @a_nineties the docs are available on mega:

1. mega.nz/folder/qVx23Tp…

2. Some images

mega.nz/folder/XIZBTKI…

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