18.01.2018 Author: Henry Kamens
Richard
E. Lugar: Body of Evidence Suggests New US Biological Warfront Opening
Column: Politics
Region: Caucasus
Country: Georgia
Many
in Russia and Arab countries suspect that they are likely the target of such
research. Russian Senator Klintsevich claims that “It is no secret that
different ethnic groups react to biological weapons in different ways and that
is why the West is meticulously collecting material all across Russia.”
In
short, this and other labs, in Kenya, Thailand and Ukraine are not preparing
weapons for future use by its favoured terrorists but by stockpiling them for a
rainy day: using them itself: conducting its own biological terrorism against
its friends rather than its enemies. It is no accident that it partners with
the Army Medicine’s US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command in carrying
out infectious disease surveillance and research, purportly develop better
diagnostics, treatments and vaccines. Naturally all this is in violation of the
Bio Weapons Convention, but that is a moot issue when the research is
outsourced to Grey Zones as Georgia, under the flimsy guise of human and animal
health.
Each
State Party to this Convention undertakes
never in any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire
or retain:
Microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin or method
of production, of types and in quantities that have no justification for
prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes Weapons, equipment or means
of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in
armed conflict.
One
of the people who ended up in a hospital for investigating what is going on in
the Richard E. Lugar Centre is Jeffrey Silverman, who has lived in Georgia for
over 25 years, and thought he had seen it all until the nature of this lab
became clear. He has contributed some of his thoughts and experience to the
book “Putin’s
Praetorians”, written by NEO and Veterans Today contributor Phil
Butler.
Silverman
has brought to our attention a message he received from someone who apparently
wrote to him out-of-the-blue. He recognised this message as the action of
someone with a story to tell, who may have difficulty making the right people
hear it.
Given
the contents, this might be surprising in some countries, but not in Georgia.
Killing
Hope – “Survival is Insufficient”
The
message is from one Per Have. It reads:
“Dear
Mr. Silverman,
I
am writing to you after having read Putin’s Praetorians, and in particular your
chapter.
Being
a retired veterinarian specialising in animal virus diseases I am particularly
interested in the spread of the devastating virus disease of pigs known as
African Swine Fever (ASF). This infection had its origin in warthogs and other
indigenous pigs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
ASF
was introduced into Portugal and Spain around 1960, but has since been
eliminated from the Iberian Peninsula. Quite surprisingly, it then surfaced in
Cuba and other Caribbean islands at the beginning of the ’70s, where it proved
to be detrimental to pig farming and the livelihood of poor people. It was
suspected that it was introduced to cause economic damage by anti-Castro rebels
supported by CIA (as mentioned in W, Blum, and “Killing Hope”).
