{"id":1720,"date":"2026-06-14T18:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:39:38","slug":"new-declassified-docs-give-tulsi-gabbard-last-laugh-on-ukrainian-biolabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"New Declassified Docs Give Tulsi Gabbard Last Laugh On Ukrainian Biolabs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified intelligence about a constellation of biological laboratories in Ukraine on Friday, four years after members of Congress and biodefense officials criticized her for expressing concerns about them.<\/p>

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The new documents in Ukraine. The map reveals that a lab in Odessa, a city with a population of more than one million people, has a lab with stored biological weapons from the defunct Soviet Union biological weapons program. Viruses in storage include anthrax, tularemia, tuberculosis, Swine Fever, New Castles Disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, the Plague, and Rickettsia, the documents show.<\/p>

\u201cDespite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration\u2019s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth,\u201d Gabbard said in a statement. \u201cODNI will continue to work closely with partners across the government to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain to end dangerous Gain-of-Function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world.\u201d<\/p>

Gabbard is pushing to declassify documents in the public interest in her final days in office, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported last week. Gabbard announced on May 22 that she would step down to care for her husband following his cancer diagnosis. Her last day is slated to be June 19. Trump announced on Thursday he had picked New York attorney and former SEC chairman Jay Clayton to replace her. (RELATED: Senate Moving Heaven And Earth To Confirm Trump\u2019s DNI Pick)<\/strong><\/p>

The Odessa lab and four others in Ukraine are biosafety level three labs (BSL-3), the second highest level of containment, which is usually reserved for virulent pathogens.<\/p>

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Another lab in the battered city of Kharkiv on the Russian border had reported biosafety problems in 2019 in rooms handling Brucella bacteria, the intelligence shows. The documents also mention anthrax.<\/p>

\u201cThe Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine (IECVM) in Kharkiv probably houses at least some dangerous pathogens and almost certainly remains vulnerable to long-standing Russian information operations, seizure or damage,\u201d the declassified intelligence community document reads.<\/p>

Under an initiative called the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), the Pentagon has sought to decommission the Soviet biological weapons program by securing the program\u2019s deadly pathogens and occupying its former bioweaponeers with civilian infectious diseases research. Forty labs in Ukraine received BTRP funding as of the 2010s, according to the documents.<\/p>

The U.S. built new labs in Ukraine too, the documents reveal.<\/p>

But the newly declassified documents reveal that some of the labs conduct gain-of-function research, research that makes pathogens more infectious or deadly in the lab. Most biodefense experts consider gain-of-function research to be \u201cdual use.\u201d It has civilian applications, but could it could also be weaponized for more nefarious applications in the wrong hands. Many of the labs have permits for handing \u201cespecially dangerous pathogens.\u201d One project involved highly pathogenic avian influenza, a virus with a 50% fatality rate.<\/p>

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Gabbard\u2019s office described some of this research as \u201csupposed public health initiatives\u201d in a press release Friday, citing new intelligence unearthed by American spy agencies. Gabbard has issued new guidance to the intelligence community directing increased collection on laboratories and facilities overseas.<\/p>

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American collaborators of the BTRP in Ukraine include the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, the hub of America\u2019s biological weapons program before President Richard Nixon signed the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972. Partners also include Metabiota, a contractor with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that has faced scrutiny for repeated lapses in biosafety, its role in a USAID-backed scientific collaboration on novel coronaviruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and its connection to Hunter Biden\u2019s investment firm, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners.<\/p>

The Trump administration shuttered USAID last year.<\/p>

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In March 2022, roughly one month after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Gabbard expressed concerns about the security of biolabs in Ukraine and called for a ceasefire.<\/p>