MOSCOW, Dec 25 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Russian Defence Ministry, disclosed yesterday, information of U.S. high-ranking participants in the military biological studies in Ukraine, many of whom are associated with U.S. intelligence services or pharmaceutical companies.
The ministry has a document with names of all the key U.S. officials supervising Ukraine’s military biological programmes, Igor Kirillov, chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said during a briefing.
The participants include Kenneth Myers, former director of the Defence Threat Reduction Agency with the U.S. Department of Defence; Tara O’Toole, executive vice president of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm, controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency; Thomas Frieden, former director of the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and others, according to Kirillov.
The executors of the military biological programmes are the Ukrainian Mechnikov Anti-Plague Research Institute, the Institute of Veterinary Medicine, and the Lviv Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene, he said.
Kirillov said in June that, the Pentagon admitted the United States had supported 46 biological research facilities in Ukraine.
