Washington Continues to Violate 1972 Treaty on Bio-Warfare
The U.S. government has refused to
provide the veterans who were subjected to chem-bio experimentation with
still classified documents that would expose America’s continuing use
of dangerous and often lethal substances for warfare.
Coupled with the refusal by the U.S.
military to provide affected veterans with the requested files on
America’s chem-bio warfare program is the Pentagon's recent disclosure
that live anthrax samples were sent from the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving
Ground in Utah to all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
Guam, and nine nations - Canada, Japan, Britain, South Korea, Australia,
Italy, Norway, Germany, and Switzerland.
It is known that Dugway was the
originating source of the deadly aerosolized anthrax that was dispersed
using the U.S. postal system in the weeks following the 9/11 attack in
2001. The Dugway Proving Ground in Utah is the location of the
government's only aerosolized anthrax production facility in the
country. It was from this facility that aerosolized anthrax spores were
sent to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
(USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland for use in the postal system
attacks in 2001.
Fort Detrick was the facility where the
"Ames strain" variety of the pathogen was originally produced. It was
then sent to Dugway where it was aerosolized for maximum dispersal and
widespread casualties, including a number of civilian deaths carried out
by the Pentagon's top secret "PROJECT JEFFERSON." One of the goals of
PROJECT JEFFERSON was the use of the sorting machines and pressurized
rollers employed by the U.S. postal system to contaminate envelopes that
would spread the spores around the United States.
In violation of the 1972 BWC, the United
States continues to conduct dubious research into the use of anthrax and
other deadly pathogens for warfare. The federal government continues to
fund the expansion of bio-safety levels 3 and 4 (BSL-3 and BSL-4)
laboratories across the country: Boston University, the University of
Texas in Galveston, Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, Battelle
Memorial Institute in Ohio, Lawrence Livermore Labs in California, and
Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Los Alamos is also a major
nuclear weapons research center. All the biological warfare research is
funded under the rubric of “bio defenses” and guise of “homeland
security.”
