its bioweapons production via a massive new civilian program, known as Biopreparat,
that employed fifty thousand personnel scattered across fifty-two separate facilities.
In October 1979, a West German newspaper run by Soviet émigrés ran a vague story alleging that an explosion in a military factory in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) had released deadly bacteria, killing as many as a thousand. The story swiftly drew attention from other Western newspapers and eventually the U.S. government, because if Soviet factories were producing biological weapons, they were doing so in contravention of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
Not so, Moscow swiftly retorted. Yes, an outbreak
Despite the lack of any significant new information, this became one of the hot news stories in the past week, and experts like Anthony Fauci recently expressed that he supported an open investigation into the Covid origins and was “not convinced” of a natural origin.
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