Biological weapons: to find and liquidate

The Internet portal “The world and we” published the materials several times in which it was told about the dangerous experiments which are carried out by the USA in territories of some countries of the former USSR and laboratories where causative agents of the most dangerous diseases are grown up. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs already officially warned the USA about inadmissibility of further escalation in this question and need urgently to stop work of such “enterprises”.

Still on May 18, 2011 in the material “Mikheil Saakashvili by means of the USA continues to threaten with viruses” it was told that, according to the French journalists, Georgia under cover of implementation of the program on prevention of distribution of the biological weapon works over creation of various viruses at the territory. In particular microbiologists and virologists of the USA (institute of medical researches of infectious diseases of Army of the USA (USAMRIID, Fort-Detrik) and Georgia (Institute of bacterial viruses, microbiology and virology of Tbilisi, Georgia) conduct researches of causative agents of cholera and new methods of their identification.”(Quote end).

On June 8, 2012, Valentin Yevstigneyev, the lieutenant general in resignation, the former head of department of biological protection published on our portal the material “Dead threat: BIOMISSILE DEFENCE in the American way”. In particular, it was spoken in it:

According to statements of experts, the internal threat increases in the USA which proceeds from activity of own scientific institutions which have acquired from the state the right to work with “list” biological agents. According to the published data, as of 2006 in the USA there were more than 400 such establishments officially. Special concern is caused with that process of expansion of biodangerous laboratory base left from under control of the authorities. Thus even FBI can't precisely define the number of laboratories of high level of biological safety operating in the country.

Experts draw a conclusion that the centres created to solve counteraction problems to bioterrorism, became a source of new threats and not only in scales of the USA. Owing to weak control there were possible facts of loss and theft of dangerous microbes and viruses, acts of “post” bioterrorism with the use of the causative agent of anthrax, attempt of receiving access to technologies and dangerous activators from mentally unbalanced citizens, criminal and other socially dangerous persons.

Similar "liberties" are not only an internal affair of the USA, but also a subject of attention of international law.


Since 1992 the territories of the countries of the former USSR got to the sphere of BIOMISSILE DEFENCE. In Washington they are traditionally considered as a potential source of dangerous pathogens and technologies of creation of the bioweapons and also the experts possessing the corresponding theoretical preparation and practical skills. Now the partners of the USA within this program are the sovereign states on perimeter of Russia: Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. In Kyrgyzstan the general control of a turn in the country of potentially dangerous biomaterials is exercised by Canada.

According to foreign experts, in the long term “umbrella” of BIOMISSILE DEFENCE has to extend for borders of the CIS. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda, and further India, Iraq, Tanzania and the Republic of South Africa have to get to a zone of its covering. The general expenses of the Pentagon on these purposes in 2012 will make more than 260 million dollars.

The USA doesn't hide satisfaction of already reached results: Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan already transferred the national collections of pathogenic microorganisms to the Institute of pathology of Air Forces of the USA. Tbilisi presented to Americans all collections of cultures of anthrax, brucellosis, plague and a tulyaremiya, Baku “shared” the unique cultures of plague, anthrax, cholera and other dangerous diseases, Astana provided a collection of plague and anthrax cultures.

Thus experts speak about reorientation of the former Soviet republics to the American standards of sanitary and epidemiologic supervision and proceeding creation of the centres of the biological monitoring supervised by the USA.

In other words, our next neighbours assign to Americans the right to estimate the level of biological threats in the territory and to make decisions on application of the appropriate measures of counteraction.

For example, the data which have appeared in the press on functioning of the Georgian-American laboratory in Alekseyevka headed by the former head of an intelligence service of Georgia of A.Zhvania specifies that their fears aren't the groundless point. Thus its work is supervised personally by the adviser of the Minister of Defence of the USA for nuclear, chemical and defensive programs E. Weber. It is known that in this centre the military personnel of army of the USA works and experiments are made in the conditions of the strictest privacy.
The Armenian Erkramas edition assumes that the researches on fighting application of biological striking means are made in laboratory.

The chief health officer of Russia G. Onishchenko spoke about participation of the Georgian-American centre in Alekseyevka to distribution of a virus of the African plague of pigs in the Russian regions in one of recent performances. According to this situation the experts give two most probable versions: the technogene accident which has entailed the leakage of a gene-modified culture and intended actions of Georgia (for example, dumping to the river Inguri of carcasses of the pigs who have lost from a virus), aiming causing the ecological damage of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Russia.

Thus the centre in Alekseyevka is not the only establishment near borders of Russia where Americans can conduct researches in the field of biological weapons creation. In a foreign press there were messages on creation of similar laboratories on the basis of anti-plague stations in Baku and Simferopol, and also in the Kazakhstan scientific centre of quarantine and zoogenous infections of M. Aykimbayev in Alma-Ata. (Quote end)

Today the Russian diplomats have following claims to the USA:

– The USA claims without adducing any proof that Russia violates the obligations under the prohibition of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention;

– the American side doesn't provide any proofs to it;

– at the same time the USA block creation of the verification mechanism within the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention which would allow to eliminate “American concerns” completely;

–there are questions to the USA “in connection with an involvement of a number of the American organizations into large-scale biological activity of double application”;

– such organizations operate on a side of the resolved by international law – results of their activity “can be used in the purposes contradicting the article I of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention”;

– probably, some objects being under jurisdiction or control of the USA, participating in military biological programs, still aren't destroyed and not redone to the peace purposes as that is demanded by article II of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention;

– at last, the main thing – “serious concern is caused also by biological activity of the Ministry of Defence of the USA near the Russian borders.

Thus, the increase of threats of distribution in the territory of Russia of epidemics of the most dangerous and possibly while absolutely unknown diseases are available for which understandably still there are no ways of treatment.

In the conditions of lack of effective international control behind activity of such laboratories it would be inexcusable optimism to consider that Americans are capable and will use such development only “for the sake of mankind”.

Proceeding scandal with the exposures made by the former employee of CIA Edward Snowden, says that, on the contrary, the USA use the means being at their disposal for achievement of the objectives which is very far from ideals of democracy and observance of human rights.

It is known that item 4 of Article 2 of the Charter of the UN says: "All Members of the United Nations abstain in their international relations from threat of force or its application as against territorial integrity or political independence of any state, and otherwise, incompatible with the purposes of the United Nations".

There is an impression that by means of creation of a ring of laboratories on creation of the biological weapons the USA would like if not to bypass then as much as possible to level a letter and the content of these provisions as establish the aggression fact with use of the biological weapon in the interests can be very difficult. In turn, it can always create temptation to use such weapon for a probable aggressor.

At the same time it is fondly to believe that Russia will observe infinitely long as near its borders the threat of distribution and use of the biological weapons accrues.

It isn't excluded that in time of “August war 08.08.08” the Russian intelligence services obtained authentic data on works which are kept in the territory of Georgia in this direction. It allows to supervise for the time being a situation peace diplomatic methods.

By the way, it would be logical quite reasonable the carrying out of parliamentary investigation of parliament of Georgia about legality of work of laboratory in Alekseyevka.

However, if such laboratories continue to function in defiance of the international agreements in this area, it will be quite reasonable to put Article 51 of the Charter of the UN into practice. And it says:

- The present Charter doesn't mention an inalienable right to individual or collective self-defence if there is an armed attack on the Member of the Organization, until then while the Security council won't take the measures necessary for maintenance of an international peace and safety. The measures taken by Members of the Organization at implementation of this right to self-defence, have to be immediately reported to Security council and shouldn't mention powers at all and responsibility of Security council, according to the present Charter, concerning undertaking at any time such actions what it will consider necessary for maintenance or restoration of an international peace and safety.

Thus, in case of authentic and checked information on plans of use of the biological weapons, especially in the light of carrying out the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the Russian intelligence services will have the right to take preventive measures for threat elimination in the presence of the relevant political decision of the country leaders.

And the speech is not about military operations in traditional understanding. It is known that there are other ways, in particular, special operations.
Other question is how the as disclosure of information will affect on activity of such secret laboratories on without much damped image of the United States of America as the world centre of democracy and protection of human rights.