-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- -----Original Message----- From: Scarecrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eagle List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, 26 January 2000 19:00 Subject: [TheEagle-L] US money - Soviet germs http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/012500russia-us-germ.html U.S. Aid Is Diverted to Germ Warfare, Russian Scientists Say Related Article U.S. Helps Russia Turn Germ Center to Peace Uses By JUDITH MILLER Some of the American money awarded to support Russia's civilian biological research was secretly shifted to Biopreparat, a shadowy organization that once directed the Soviet Union's germ warfare program, several Russian scientists say. American officials, who for five years have walked a delicate line in providing aid to Russia, remain suspicious about the activities of Biopreparat, which has been reborn as a state-owned drug company. The Americans are concerned because of its continuing secrecy and because it is led by the same military and intelligence officers who spearheaded and concealed the Soviet Union's biological weapons programs during the cold war. Separately, Clinton administration officials acknowledged that the United States had been less than meticulous in the mid-1990's in enforcing its ban on aid to Biopreparat. Records show that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Agency for International Development made grants in that period that benefited Biopreparat. Administration officials said today that they had tightened their procedures. "There's been a learning curve," one administration official said. A spokesman for the space agency said it would investigate whether any American aid money had been diverted to the organization and would withhold $1.6 million in assistance until Moscow accounted for its spending of previous grants. Officials at A.I.D. said they had not been aware of Biopreparat's history and should have checked with national security officials before approving aid to a joint venture that involved the organization. Russian biologists familiar with Biopreparat said its director, Gen. Yuri T. Kalinin, had shifted at least 10 percent of several NASA grants intended for biological research in space to his organization. General Kalinin has headed Biopreparat since its inception in 1973, and Western officials say he is the focal point of concern among American and British intelligence analysts about whether Moscow has fully given up research into germ warfare and what Acting President Vladimir V. Putin will decide. "The Russian government is facing a key test," said Amy E. Smithson, a defense expert at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, who said Russian scientists had told her in confidence about diversions of money. "Either Putin will support the old guard of biological cold warriors, exemplified by Kalinin and his cronies, or scientists who want to put their biological warfare knowledge to peaceful use." Asked today about the scientist's accusations, a spokesman for Biopreparat declined to comment. Neither General Kalinin, a former intelligence officer, nor any senior Biopreparat official who was active in the Soviet germ warfare program would agree to talk about Biopreparat's current or past activities. <snip> More at the site Scarecrow -- Scarecrow's Search For Truth .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.-> http://www.colaw.net/scarecrow.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the fastest and easiest way to backup your files and, access them from anywhere. Try @backup Free for 30 days. Click here for a chance to win a digital camera. http://click.egroups.com/1/337/3/_/8160/_/948866405/ -- Easily schedule meetings and events using the group calendar! -- http://www.egroups.com/cal?listname=theeagle-l&m=1 <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
