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 ;)
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.
4. TMC Operating Locations
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"
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).
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
$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.
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
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."
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
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
"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"
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?
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
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)
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?
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?
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
"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"
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
"Despite Russia's repeated calls, Washington refrains from providing specific, comprehensive information on military and biological activities outside the national territory"
"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"
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
(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
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)
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. "DOJ subpoenaed EcoHealth’s communications (inlcuding WeChat) with, at least, Dr. Shi. This subpoena included both Dr. Shi’s official WIV email address & her Hotmail"
2. “DoJ subpoena for genetic sequences, docs — almost complete”
Yi Gang Tong confrimed again the 2017 isolation date for MpCov-GX.
He experimented with it, but did not write a paper, and they did not upload the sequence until 8th Feb 2022, just after the beginning of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic