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“Polit­i­cal language…is designed to make lies sound truth­ful and mur­der respectable, and to give an appear­ance of solid­i­ty to pure wind.”

— George Orwell, 1946

EVERYTHING MR. EMORY HAS BEEN SAYING ABOUT THE UKRAINE WAR IS ENCAPSULATED IN THIS VIDEO FROM UKRAINE 24

Mr. Emory has launched a new Patre­on site. Vis­it at: Patreon.com/DaveEmory  

FTR#1238 This pro­gram was record­ed in one, 60-minute seg­ment.

Intro­duc­tion: This pro­gram con­tin­ues our cov­er­age of the Ukraine war. The title comes from the late, bril­liant polit­i­cal come­di­an Mort Sahl’s 1976 auto­bi­og­ra­phy Heart­land. One of New Orleans DA Jim Gar­rison’s inves­ti­ga­tion of the assas­si­na­tion of the JFK.

In Con­sor­tium News, Joe Lau­ria presents Pen­ta­gon intel­li­gence which, like the infor­ma­tion pre­sent­ed by Bill Arkin in the Newsweek piece we cov­ered in FTR#1237, lays out infor­ma­tion fun­da­men­tal­ly in con­trast to what De Bret­ton-Gor­don has voiced and which Joe Biden has tak­en at face val­ue.

” . . . . Reuters report­ed: ‘The Unit­ed States has not yet seen any con­crete indi­ca­tions of an immi­nent Russ­ian chem­i­cal or bio­log­i­cal weapons attack in Ukraine but is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing streams of intel­li­gence for them, a senior U.S. defense offi­cial said.’ It quot­ed the Pen­ta­gon offi­cial as say­ing, ‘There’s no indi­ca­tion that there’s some­thing immi­nent in that regard right now.’. . .”

Hamish de Bret­ton Gor­don – the same fig­ure who was warn­ing the world about Russ­ian forces releas­ing COVID-Ebo­la from a Ukrain­ian bio­lab – is now warn­ing of impend­ing Russ­ian chem­i­cal attacks. And when it comes to mak­ing bogus claims about chem­i­cal attacks, de Bret­ton Gor­don isn’t lack­ing in expe­ri­ence, hav­ing set the table for false-flag chem­i­cal attacks in Syr­ia: “ . . . . Oth­er forms of evi­dence were also col­lect­ed on-the-ground by de Bret­ton-Gor­don, and pro­vid­ed to a num­ber of offi­cial inves­ti­ga­tions into chem­i­cal attacks. In at least one instance – an OPCW/UN Joint Inves­tiga­tive Mech­a­nism (JIM) probe into a pur­port­ed chem­i­cal strike in Talmenes, April 2014 – videos sub­mit­ted by CBRN Task­force, a shady orga­ni­za­tion he found­ed in Alep­po, were found to show clear signs of fal­si­fi­ca­tion. . . .”

Oleh Tihany­bok, leader of the OUN/B suc­ces­sor orga­ni­za­tion Svo­bo­da, orig­i­nal­ly orga­nized by Andriy Paru­biy.

Joe Biden has tak­en the inflam­ma­to­ry, weaponized rhetoric and pro­pa­gan­da dis­sem­i­nat­ed by the likes of Hamish de Bret­ton-Gor­don and obe­di­ent media out­lets at face val­ue.

His uncrit­i­cal embrace of this apoc­a­lyp­tic ver­biage sets the stage for World War III.

Con­sum­mate­ly iron­ic is Biden’s use of the terms “cyn­i­cal” and “obscene” in his dis­missal of the valid­i­ty of Putin’s stat­ed war goal of “De-Naz­i­fi­ca­tion.”

As will be detailed in forth­com­ing pro­grams and posts, then Vice-Pres­i­dent Joe Biden was involved with the net­work­ing through which the Svo­bo­da orga­ni­za­tion and Andriy Paru­biy effect­ed the Maid­an coup.

As the point man in U.S.-Ukrainian rela­tions, Biden bears great respon­si­bil­i­ty for the ascent of the Nazi ele­ments dom­i­nant in con­tem­po­rary Ukraine.

Igor Kolo­moisky is the oli­garch who: Was the pri­ma­ry financier of Zelensky’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign; Owned the tele­vi­sion net­work on which Zelen­sky devel­oped his pub­lic persona—leading to his ascent to the pres­i­den­cy of Ukraine; Was a pri­ma­ry financier of the Azov Bat­tal­ion, one of the most impor­tant Nazi units in the Ukrain­ian mil­i­tary and the par­ent orga­ni­za­tion of the Nation­al Druzhy­na Mili­tia (which served as elec­tion mon­i­tors for Zelensky’s bal­lot run).

Kolo­moisky also main­tained a con­trol­ling inter­est in Buris­ma, the nat­ur­al gas com­pa­ny on which Hunter Biden served as a direc­tor.

Mod­ern Times: Cel­e­bra­tion of the 75th Anniver­sary of the 14th Waf­fen SS Divi­sion in Lviv, Ukraine in sum­mer of 2018. THIS is what lurks beneath the thin facade of Zelen­sky’s democ­ra­cy.

It was his posi­tion as a direc­tor of Buris­ma that was the foun­da­tion of his devel­op­ment of an appar­ent U.S./Ukrainian bio­log­i­cal war­fare pro­gram, involv­ing Pen­ta­gon financ­ing and heav­i­ly over­lap­ping the ele­ments fig­ur­ing in Mr. Emory’s “Oswald Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy” expose.

Although heav­i­ly spun–as would be expect­ed from a Dai­ly Mail article–our con­clud­ing sto­ry not only has impor­tant impli­ca­tions for the war in Ukraine, but also res­onates with our long series on “The Oswald Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy.”

We note that there are sig­nif­i­cant con­nec­tions between the agency over­see­ing the Ukrain­ian projects and insti­tu­tions impli­cat­ed in the appar­ent “bio-skull­dug­gery” sur­round­ing the U.S. bio­log­i­cal war­fare gam­bit involv­ing what Mr. Emory has termed “The Oswald Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy.” This is dis­cussed in: FTR#‘s 1157–1159, 1170, 1183 through 1193, and 1215.

The essence of the “Oswald Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy” gam­bit con­cerns the DTRA and Pen­ta­gon fund­ing of bat-borne coro­n­avirus research at the Wuhan Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy, much of it through Peter Dasza­k’s Eco­Health Alliance. Once the research was com­plete, it result­ed in pub­li­ca­tion which includ­ed the genome of the bat virus­es being researched. Using tech­nol­o­gy dis­cussed below, the virus­es were then syn­the­sized from scratch and pop­u­la­tion groups were vec­tored with the same viral strains being researched by the WIV. 

It turns out that Hunter Biden–a mem­ber of the board of direc­tors at Burisma–was instru­men­tal in secur­ing fund­ing for Eco­Health Alliance part­ner Metabio­ta, described in a screen shot of an e‑mail as being “to the DOA what Palan­tir is to CIA.”

Both Eco­Health Alliance and Metabio­ta have been involved with bat-borne coro­n­avirus at the WIV.

Note that–” . . . . ‘His [Hunter Biden’s] father was the Vice Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States and in charge of rela­tions with Ukraine.’ . . .”

Pre­vi­ous­ly we have not­ed then Vice-Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s close rela­tion­ship with U.S. Ambas­sador Geof­frey Pyatt and Ukraina­ian fas­cist Andriy Paru­biy dur­ing the Maid­an coup, which cen­tered on false-flag sniper killings from build­ings con­trolled by Svo­bo­da (for­mer­ly the Social Nation­al Par­ty of Ukraine, found­ed by Paru­biy.)

1. In Con­sor­tium News, Joe Lau­ria presents Pen­ta­gon intel­li­gence which, like the infor­ma­tion pre­sent­ed by Bill Arkin in the Newsweek piece we cov­ered in FTR#1237, lays out infor­ma­tion fun­da­men­tal­ly in con­trast to what De Bret­ton-Gor­don has voiced and which Joe Biden has tak­en at face val­ue.

“Pen­ta­gon Drops Truth Bomb to Stave Off War with Rus­sia” by Joe Lau­ria; Con­sor­tium News; 3/23/2022.

 . . . . No Evi­dence of Chem­i­cals

The sec­ond arti­cle direct­ly under­mines Biden’s dra­mat­ic warn­ing about a false flag chem­i­cal attack. Reuters report­ed: “The Unit­ed States has not yet seen any con­crete indi­ca­tions of an immi­nent Russ­ian chem­i­cal or bio­log­i­cal weapons attack in Ukraine but is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing streams of intel­li­gence for them, a senior U.S. defense offi­cial said.”

It quot­ed the Pen­ta­gon offi­cial as say­ing, “There’s no indi­ca­tion that there’s some­thing immi­nent in that regard right now.” Nei­ther The New York Times nor The Wash­ing­ton Post pub­lished the Reuters arti­cle, which appeared in the more obscure U.S. News and World Report. 

Nev­er let the facts get in the way of a good sto­ry — even if it could lead to the most dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences in his­to­ry.

2. Hamish de Bret­ton Gor­don – the same fig­ure who was warn­ing the world about Russ­ian forces releas­ing COVID-Ebo­la from a Ukrain­ian bio­lab – is now warn­ing of impend­ing Russ­ian chem­i­cal attacks. And when it comes to mak­ing bogus claims about chem­i­cal attacks, de Bret­ton Gor­don isn’t lack­ing in expe­ri­ence, hav­ing set the table for false-flag chem­i­cal attacks in Syr­ia:

• “ . . . . Almost as soon as Oba­ma imple­ment­ed his ill-fat­ed “red line” pol­i­cy vow­ing an Amer­i­can mil­i­tary response if the Syr­i­an army attacked the West­ern-backed oppo­si­tion with chem­i­cal weapons, Al Qae­da-aligned oppo­si­tion fac­tions came forth with claims of mass casu­al­ty sarin and chlo­rine bomb­ings of civil­ians. The result was a series of US-UK mis­sile strikes on Dam­as­cus and a pro­longed cri­sis that near­ly trig­gered the kind of dis­as­trous regime change war that had desta­bi­lized Iraq and Libya. . . .”
• “ . . . . In each major chem­i­cal weapons event, signs of stag­ing and decep­tion by the armed Syr­i­an oppo­si­tion were present. As a for­mer US ambas­sador in the Mid­dle East told jour­nal­ist Charles Glass, ‘The ‘red line’ was an open invi­ta­tion to a false-­flag oper­a­tion.’. . .”
• “ . . . . Ele­ments of decep­tion were espe­cial­ly clear in the April 7, 2018 inci­dent in the city of Douma, when an anti-gov­ern­ment mili­tia on the brink of defeat claimed civil­ians had been mas­sa­cred in a chlo­rine attack by the Syr­i­an army. . . .”
• “ . . . . Vet­er­an inspec­tors from the Orga­ni­za­tion for the Pro­hi­bi­tion of Chem­i­cal Weapons (OPCW) found no evi­dence that the Syr­i­an army had car­ried out any such attack, how­ev­er, sug­gest­ing the entire inci­dent had been staged to trig­ger West­ern inter­ven­tion. Their report was sub­se­quent­ly cen­sored by orga­ni­za­tion man­age­ment, and the inspec­tors were sub­ject­ed to a cam­paign of smears and intim­i­da­tion. . . .”
• “ . . . . Through­out the Syr­i­an con­flict, a self-pro­claimed ‘chem­i­cal war­rior’ named Hamish de Bret­ton-Gor­don was inti­mate­ly involved in numer­ous chem­i­cal weapons decep­tions that sus­tained the war and ratch­eted up pres­sure for West­ern mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion. . . . .”
• “ . . . . This Feb­ru­ary 24, just moments after Russia’s mil­i­tary entered Ukraine, de Bret­ton-Gor­don sur­faced again in British media to claim that Rus­sia was prepar­ing a chem­i­cal attack on Ukrain­ian civil­ians. He has since demand­ed that Ukraini­ans be pro­vid­ed with a guide he wrote called, ‘How To Sur­vive A Chem­i­cal Attack.’ . . . .”
• “ . . . . With­in just three hours, he [Bret­ton-Gor­don] had a fiery op-edpre­pared for The Guardian, demand­ing the US and Europe ‘show their steel in the face of Putin’s aggres­sion.’ Warn­ing that Vladimir Putin was “much more will­ing to face off with NATO” than before, de Bret­ton-Gor­don charged that the West ‘stood back and watched in Syr­ia,’ and ‘it must not do the same in Ukraine.’ . . . .”
• “ . . . . ‘Syr­ia shows what hap­pens when you turn a blind eye and are too heav­i­ly influ­enced by peaceniks,’ de Bret­ton-Gor­don ful­mi­nat­ed. ‘Those of us involved in inter­ven­tions in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 30 years…we look at Syr­ia and know we should have done bet­ter. That knowl­edge should inform our response to Putin’s aggres­sion now.’ . . . .”
• “ . . . . In real­i­ty, Wash­ing­ton and its allies did not stand back and watch in Syr­ia; it waged a decade-long proxy war employ­ing jihadist para­mil­i­taries and airstrikes on Dam­as­cus, then occu­pied oil-pro­duc­ing por­tions of the coun­try and sub­ject­ed its cit­i­zens to crip­pling sanc­tions, which to this day deprive them of food, elec­tric­i­ty and vital med­ical sup­plies . . . .”
• “ . . . . Of all peo­ple, de Bret­ton-Gor­don – whose Twit­ter pro­file once iden­ti­fied him as a mem­ber of 77th Brigade, the British Army’s offi­cial psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare divi­sion– is unique­ly placed to know of these hor­rors. After all, he played a piv­otal role in pro­mot­ing and extend­ing the dirty war through the man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion sur­round­ing chem­i­cal weapons inci­dents. . . .”
• “ . . . . As The Gray­zone has revealed, the involve­ment of de Bret­ton-Gor­don in the Syr­i­an con­flict dates back to at least 2013, when by his own admis­sion he was engagedin a covert effort to smug­gle soil sam­ples out of the oppo­si­tion-occu­pied areas. This work would have inevitably placed him in extreme­ly close quar­ters with jihadist ele­ments rak­ing in West­ern fund­ing while ben­e­fit­ing from NATO train­ing and weapons. . . .”
• “ . . . . Con­tem­po­rary media reports reveal the UK’s MI6 was engaged in a sam­ple-gath­er­ing effort in the coun­try at the very time de Bret­ton-Gor­don was inside Syr­ia, strong­ly sug­gest­ing his link­age to the for­eign intel­li­gence agency. One arti­cle makes abun­dant­ly clear the pur­pose of the soil-sam­ple exer­cise was to push the US into inter­ven­ing by prov­ing gov­ern­ment cul­pa­bil­i­ty for alleged chem­i­cal weapons attacks. . . .”
• “ . . . . Oth­er forms of evi­dence were also col­lect­ed on-the-ground by de Bret­ton-Gor­don, and pro­vid­ed to a num­ber of offi­cial inves­ti­ga­tions into chem­i­cal attacks. In at least one instance – an OPCW/UN Joint Inves­tiga­tive Mech­a­nism (JIM) probe into a pur­port­ed chem­i­cal strike in Talmenes, April 2014 – videos sub­mit­ted by CBRN Task­force, a shady orga­ni­za­tion he found­ed in Alep­po, were foundto show clear signs of fal­si­fi­ca­tion. . . .”
• “ . . . . On more than one occa­sion, how­ev­er, de Bret­ton-Gor­don has direct­ly involved West­ern jour­nal­ists in MI6’s soil gath­er­ing efforts. For instance, dur­ing a 2014 pod­cast inter­view with Wilton Park, an NGO fund­ed by the UK For­eign Office, de Bret­ton-Gor­don boast­edof his respon­si­bil­i­ty for a sto­ry in the Times of Lon­don alleg­ing a Syr­i­an chem­i­cal attack in the town of Sheikh al-Maq­sood. . . .”
• “ . . . . ‘In March last year there was a report­ed sarin attack in Sheikh al-Maq­sood and I helped the Times – chap called Antho­ny Lloyd who very sad­ly got shot two weeks ago – to cov­er this sto­ry and tried to get sam­ples to the UK for analy­sis … I won’t go into the details of that,’ he recalled. . . .”
• “ . . . . Then-Prime Min­is­ter David Cameron invokedthe Sheikh al-Maq­sood inci­dent to increase pres­sure on Dam­as­cus, cit­ing ‘the pic­ture as described to me by the Joint Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee’ as the basis for his asser­tion of a chem­i­cal attack against the town by the Syr­i­an army. . . .”
• “ . . . . The most dan­ger­ous claims advanced by Ukrain­ian pro­pa­gan­dists have been rein­forced by the sup­posed author­i­ty of de Bret­ton-Gor­don, who has arguedthat Russ­ian chem­i­cal strikes were absolute­ly inevitable, based his pre­dic­tion on his opin­ion that Moscow ‘has no morals or scru­ples.’ . . . .”
• “ . . . . The self-styled chem­i­cal weapons expert has even cau­tioned that Putin could deploy nuclear weaponsor cre­ate a pan­dem­ic ‘more dead­ly than Covid’ with an Ebo­la weapon. He has fur­ther spec­u­lat­ed that Russ­ian forces may unleash a dead­ly virus seized from one of sev­er­al Pen­ta­gon-fund­ed bio­labs in Ukraine, then blame it on the US. . . .”
• “ . . . . In a typ­i­cal media appear­ance, on March 10th, de Bret­ton Gor­don told London’s LBC radio show that ‘noth­ing is off the table at this stage.’ Among the hor­rors he fore­cast was the use of white phos­pho­rous ‘to set towns and cities on fire.’. . .”
• “ . . . . Now, de Bret­ton-Gor­don has resur­faced at the cen­ter of the aggres­sive push for esca­la­tion with a nuclear armed Rus­sia. If his role in Syr­ia is any guide, a series of cyn­i­cal decep­tions could be on the way. . . .”

 “British intel­li­gence operative’s involve­ment in Ukraine cri­sis sig­nals false flag attacks ahead” by Kit Klaren­berg; The Gray­zone; 03/24/2022

Shad­owy UK intel fig­ure Hamish de Bret­ton-Gor­don was at the fore­front of chem­i­cal weapons decep­tions in Syr­ia. Now in Ukraine, he’s up to his old tricks again.

With Wash­ing­ton and its NATO allies forced to watch from the side­lines as Russia’s mil­i­tary advances across East­ern Ukraine and encir­cles Kiev, US and British offi­cials have resort­ed to a trou­bling tac­tic that could trig­ger a mas­sive esca­la­tion. Fol­low­ing sim­i­lar claims by his Sec­re­tary of State and ambas­sador the Unit­ed Nations, US Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden has declared that Rus­sia will pay a “severe price” if it uses chem­i­cal weapons in Ukraine.

The warn­ings ema­nat­ing from the Biden admin­is­tra­tion con­tain chill­ing echoes of those issued by the admin­is­tra­tion of Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma through­out the US-led dirty war on Syr­ia.

Almost as soon as Oba­ma imple­ment­ed his ill-fat­ed “red line” pol­i­cy vow­ing an Amer­i­can mil­i­tary response if the Syr­i­an army attacked the West­ern-backed oppo­si­tion with chem­i­cal weapons, Al Qae­da-aligned oppo­si­tion fac­tions came forth with claims of mass casu­al­ty sarin and chlo­rine bomb­ings of civil­ians. The result was a series of US-UK mis­sile strikes on Dam­as­cus and a pro­longed cri­sis that near­ly trig­gered the kind of dis­as­trous regime change war that had desta­bi­lized Iraq and Libya.

In each major chem­i­cal weapons event, signs of stag­ing and decep­tion by the armed Syr­i­an oppo­si­tion were present. As a for­mer US ambas­sador in the Mid­dle East told jour­nal­ist Charles Glass, “The ‘red line’ was an open invi­ta­tion to a false-­flag oper­a­tion.”

Ele­ments of decep­tion were espe­cial­ly clear in the April 7, 2018 inci­dent in the city of Douma, when an anti-gov­ern­ment mili­tia on the brink of defeat claimed civil­ians had been mas­sa­cred in a chlo­rine attack by the Syr­i­an army.

Vet­er­an inspec­tors from the Orga­ni­za­tion for the Pro­hi­bi­tion of Chem­i­cal Weapons (OPCW) found no evi­dence that the Syr­i­an army had car­ried out any such attack, how­ev­er, sug­gest­ing the entire inci­dent had been staged to trig­ger West­ern inter­ven­tion. Their report was sub­se­quent­ly cen­sored by orga­ni­za­tion man­age­ment, and the inspec­tors were sub­ject­ed to a cam­paign of smears and intim­i­da­tion.

Through­out the Syr­i­an con­flict, a self-pro­claimed “chem­i­cal war­rior” named Hamish de Bret­ton-Gor­don was inti­mate­ly involved in numer­ous chem­i­cal weapons decep­tions that sus­tained the war and ratch­eted up pres­sure for West­ern mil­i­tary inter­ven­tion.

This Feb­ru­ary 24, just moments after Russia’s mil­i­tary entered Ukraine, de Bret­ton-Gor­don sur­faced again in British media to claim that Rus­sia was prepar­ing a chem­i­cal attack on Ukrain­ian civil­ians. He has since demand­ed that Ukraini­ans be pro­vid­ed with a guide he wrote called, “How To Sur­vive A Chem­i­cal Attack.”

How to Sur­vive a Chem­i­cal or Bio­log­i­cal Attack – this is Free – please dis­sem­i­nate as wide­ly as pos­si­ble to civil­ians in #Ukraine & sur­round­ing coun­tries https://t.co/tkV4Nb3PaO— Hamish DBG (@HamishDBG) March 22, 2022

…

Hours after war erupts, a “chem­i­cal war­rior” demands West­ern esca­la­tion

Fol­low­ing months of fevered spec­u­la­tion about an impend­ing Russ­ian inva­sion of Ukraine, when it final­ly came to pass on the ear­ly morn­ing of Feb­ru­ary 24th, most were caught entire­ly by sur­prise. Media out­lets and pun­dits scram­bled to get their sto­ries straight, while West­ern lead­ers rushed to con­struct a cohe­sive ‘response’.

By con­trast, Hamish de Bret­ton-Gor­don, a British army vet­er­an iden­ti­fied by UK media as a “for­mer spy,” was in no such mud­dle. With­in just three hours, he had a fiery op-ed pre­pared for The Guardian, demand­ing the US and Europe “show their steel in the face of Putin’s aggres­sion.” Warn­ing that Vladimir Putin was “much more will­ing to face off with NATO” than before, de Bret­ton-Gor­don charged that the West “stood back and watched in Syr­ia,” and “it must not do the same in Ukraine.”

“Syr­ia shows what hap­pens when you turn a blind eye and are too heav­i­ly influ­enced by peaceniks,” de Bret­ton-Gor­don ful­mi­nat­ed. “Those of us involved in inter­ven­tions in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 30 years…we look at Syr­ia and know we should have done bet­ter. That knowl­edge should inform our response to Putin’s aggres­sion now.”

In real­i­ty, Wash­ing­ton and its allies did not stand back and watch in Syr­ia; it waged a decade-long proxy war employ­ing jihadist para­mil­i­taries and airstrikes on Dam­as­cus, then occu­pied oil-pro­duc­ing por­tions of the coun­try and sub­ject­ed its cit­i­zens to crip­pling sanc­tions, which to this day deprive them of food, elec­tric­i­ty and vital med­ical sup­plies.

Of all peo­ple, de Bret­ton-Gor­don – whose Twit­ter pro­file once iden­ti­fied him as a mem­ber of 77th Brigade, the British Army’s offi­cial psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare divi­sion – is unique­ly placed to know of these hor­rors. After all, he played a piv­otal role in pro­mot­ing and extend­ing the dirty war through the man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion sur­round­ing chem­i­cal weapons inci­dents.

Manip­u­la­tion, absur­di­ties and obvi­ous fraud

As The Gray­zone has revealed, the involve­ment of de Bret­ton-Gor­don in the Syr­i­an con­flict dates back to at least 2013, when by his own admis­sion he was engaged in a covert effort to smug­gle soil sam­ples out of the oppo­si­tion-occu­pied areas. This work would have inevitably placed him in extreme­ly close quar­ters with jihadist ele­ments rak­ing in West­ern fund­ing while ben­e­fit­ing from NATO train­ing and weapons.

Con­tem­po­rary media reports reveal the UK’s MI6 was engaged in a sam­ple-gath­er­ing effort in the coun­try at the very time time de Bret­ton-Gor­don was inside Syr­ia, strong­ly sug­gest­ing his link­age to the for­eign intel­li­gence agency. One arti­cle makes abun­dant­ly clear the pur­pose of the soil-sam­ple exer­cise was to push the US into inter­ven­ing by prov­ing gov­ern­ment cul­pa­bil­i­ty for alleged chem­i­cal weapons attacks.

Oth­er forms of evi­dence were also col­lect­ed on-the-ground by de Bret­ton-Gor­don, and pro­vid­ed to a num­ber of offi­cial inves­ti­ga­tions into chem­i­cal attacks. In at least one instance – an OPCW/UN Joint Inves­tiga­tive Mech­a­nism (JIM) probe into a pur­port­ed chem­i­cal strike in Talmenes, April 2014 – videos sub­mit­ted by CBRN Task­force, a shady orga­ni­za­tion he found­ed in Alep­po, were found to show clear signs of fal­si­fi­ca­tion.

De Bret­ton-Gor­don threw his chem­i­cal weapons exper­tise into fur­ther doubt when he told British media that any com­mon refrig­er­a­tor could be trans­formed into a chem­i­cal weapon, false­ly claim­ing that R22 refrig­er­ant cylin­ders con­tained mate­r­i­al for impro­vised chlo­rine bombs. “Some­body could go to a waste site where peo­ple chuck away fridges [in the UK] and get a whole bunch of those things and blow them up,” the sup­posed arms spe­cial­ist claimed.

Hamish made the fol­low claims regard­ing house­hold fridges and chlo­rine bombs: https://t.co/VJUOyW1UAR … he is still reg­u­lar­ly used by UK media @haynesdeborah @bbclysedoucet @F1onaHill pic.twitter.com/ytgQqdbjIp— Piers Robin­son (@PiersRobinson1) August 9, 2019

De Bret­ton Gor­don has gone as far as claim­ing to a British tabloid that Rus­sia could deploy mis­siles and hand grenades con­tain­ing the high­ly dead­ly Sovi­et-era chem­i­cal agent Novi­chok “in any future war with the West.”

Such absurd com­men­tary and sub­terfuge has done noth­ing to dent de Bretton-Gordon’s cred­i­bil­i­ty, how­ev­er. His main­stream pro­file has only grown over time, with out­lets invari­ably pre­sent­ing him as a coura­geous human rights defend­er risk­ing his life to train local doc­tors and res­cue work­ers.

On more than one occa­sion, how­ev­er, de Bret­ton-Gor­don has direct­ly involved West­ern jour­nal­ists in MI6’s soil gath­er­ing efforts. For instance, dur­ing a 2014 pod­cast inter­view with Wilton Park, an NGO fund­ed by the UK For­eign Office, de Bret­ton-Gor­don boast­ed of his respon­si­bil­i­ty for a sto­ry in the Times of Lon­don alleg­ing a Syr­i­an chem­i­cal attack in the town of Sheikh al-Maq­sood.

“In March last year there was a report­ed sarin attack in Sheikh al-Maq­sood and I helped the Times – chap called Antho­ny Lloyd who very sad­ly got shot two weeks ago – to cov­er this sto­ry and tried to get sam­ples to the UK for analy­sis … I won’t go into the details of that,” he recalled.

Then-Prime Min­is­ter David Cameron invoked the Sheikh al-Maq­sood inci­dent to increase pres­sure on Dam­as­cus, cit­ing “the pic­ture as described to me by the Joint Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee” as the basis for his asser­tion of a chem­i­cal attack against the town by the Syr­i­an army.

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Months before war, US trains Ukraini­ans in the threat of “tar­get­ed weapons of mass destruc­tion attacks”

Back in May 2021, the State Depart­ment announced that Wash­ing­ton had con­duct­ed a “vir­tu­al train­ing exer­cise” with “part­ners” in Kiev, includ­ing domes­tic secu­ri­ty ser­vices, law enforce­ment, and first respon­ders, to “iden­ti­fy, respond to, and inves­ti­gate assas­si­na­tions involv­ing weapons of mass destruc­tion,” due to “recent events in Europe” high­light­ing “the real threat of gov­ern­ment-sanc­tioned, tar­get­ed weapons of mass destruc­tion attacks.”

Along the way, Ukraini­ans were tutored in “[iden­ti­fy­ing] the med­ical symp­toms that indi­cate WMD mate­r­i­al use, the attack cycle involved in WMD assas­si­na­tion attempts, and the spe­cif­ic mea­sures that enable safe and secure detec­tion and response to WMD inci­dents.”

Quite why this instruc­tion was giv­en at this par­tic­u­lar time is unclear, as was the “recent events in Europe” to which the press release referred. Per­haps the State Depart­ment was allud­ing to the alleged novi­chok poi­son­ing of the Russ­ian oppo­si­tion fig­ure Alex­ei Naval­ny in August 2020. On what grounds that failed assas­si­na­tion neces­si­tat­ed a grand, mul­ti-agency train­ing exer­cise in deal­ing with “tar­get­ed WMD attacks” is anyone’s guess.

What­ev­er the pur­pose of the US train­ing pro­gram was, Ukrain­ian secu­ri­ty per­son­nel can now claim they have the train­ing to iden­ti­fy the pre­cise “med­ical symp­toms that indi­cate WMD mate­r­i­al.”

This is sig­nif­i­cant, because ever since the con­flict began, Kiev has exhib­it­ed an end­less enthu­si­asm for lying, hav­ing dis­tort­ed or even out­right con­coct­ed events and facts whole-cloth to advance its objec­tives on count­less occa­sions.

The most dan­ger­ous claims advanced by Ukrain­ian pro­pa­gan­dists have been rein­forced by the sup­posed author­i­ty of de Bret­ton-Gor­don, who has argued that Russ­ian chem­i­cal strikes were absolute­ly inevitable, based his pre­dic­tion on his opin­ion that Moscow “has no morals or scru­ples.”

The self-styled chem­i­cal weapons expert has even cau­tioned that Putin could deploy nuclear weapons or cre­ate a pan­dem­ic “more dead­ly than Covid” with an Ebo­la weapon. He has fur­ther spec­u­lat­ed that Russ­ian forces may unleash a dead­ly virus seized from one of sev­er­al Pen­ta­gon-fund­ed bio­labs in Ukraine, then blame it on the US.

From Syr­ia to Ukraine, it is hap­pen­ing again

In a typ­i­cal media appear­ance, on March 10th, de Bret­ton Gor­don told London’s LBC radio show that “noth­ing is off the table at this stage.” Among the hor­rors he fore­cast was the use of white phos­pho­rous “to set towns and cities on fire.”

Jus­ti­fy­ing his cer­tain­ty, de Bret­ton-Gor­don force­ful­ly assert­ed, “the only way to take a large city or town ulti­mate­ly is to use chem­i­cal weapons.” He point­ed to Syr­ia to prove his point – but with­out ref­er­enc­ing his own piv­otal role in esca­lat­ing that con­flict through the manip­u­la­tion of evi­dence and sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly bereft fear-mon­ger­ing in the media.

Now, de Bret­ton-Gor­don has resur­faced at the cen­ter of the aggres­sive push for esca­la­tion with a nuclear armed Rus­sia. If his role in Syr­ia is any guide, a series of cyn­i­cal decep­tions could be on the way.

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3. Joe Biden has tak­en the inflam­ma­to­ry, weaponized rhetoric and pro­pa­gan­da dis­sem­i­nat­ed by the likes of Hamish de Bret­ton-Gor­don and obe­di­ent media out­lets at face val­ue.

His uncrit­i­cal embrace of this apoc­a­lyp­tic ver­biage sets the stage for World War III.

• “ . . . . Mr Biden replied: “It would trig­ger a response in kind, whether or not, you’re ask­ing whether Nato would cross, we’d make that deci­sion at the time.”
• “ . . . . Nato has said it will pro­vide Ukraine with equip­ment to pro­tect against chem­i­cal, bio­log­i­cal, radi­o­log­i­cal as well as nuclear weapons. Mr Biden said before he left on his Euro­pean trip that there was a ‘real threat’ of Rus­sia using chem­i­cal weapons. The Krem­lin has pre­vi­ous­ly ordered the use of chem­i­cal weapons in Syr­ia, and has poi­soned crit­ics such as Alex­ei Naval­ny and for­mer Russ­ian spy Sergei Skri­pal and his daugh­ter. . . .”

“Joe Biden says Nato would respond ‘in kind’ to Russ­ian use of chem­i­cal weapons” by Graeme Massie; The Inde­pen­dent; 03/24/2022

Joe Biden says that Nato would respond “in kind” if Vladimir Putin used chem­i­cal weapons in Ukraine.

The pres­i­dent spoke after a day of sum­mits in Bel­gium with Nato allies, the Euro­pean Union and G7 part­ners.

Mr Biden was asked if chem­i­cal weapons were used in Ukraine, “would that trig­ger a mil­i­tary response from Nato”.

Mr Biden replied: “It would trig­ger a response in kind, whether or not, you’re ask­ing whether Nato would cross, we’d make that deci­sion at the time.”

Dur­ing the meet­ings Mr Biden also said he sup­port­ed expelling Rus­sia from the G20 eco­nom­ic group, and that if it is not pos­si­ble Ukraine should be able to attend meet­ings.

. . . . Nato has said it will pro­vide Ukraine with equip­ment to pro­tect against chem­i­cal, bio­log­i­cal, radi­o­log­i­cal as well as nuclear weapons.

Mr Biden said before he left on his Euro­pean trip that there was a “real threat” of Rus­sia using chem­i­cal weapons.

The Krem­lin has pre­vi­ous­ly ordered the use of chem­i­cal weapons in Syr­ia, and has poi­soned crit­ics such as Alex­ei Naval­ny and for­mer Russ­ian spy Sergei Skri­pal and his daugh­ter.

4. Con­sum­mate­ly iron­ic is Biden’s use of the terms “cyn­i­cal” and “obscene” in his dis­missal of the valid­i­ty of Putin’s stat­ed war goal of “De-Naz­i­fi­ca­tion.”

As will be detailed in forth­com­ing pro­grams and posts, then Vice-Pres­i­dent Joe Biden was involved with the net­work­ing through which the Svo­bo­da orga­ni­za­tion and Andriy Paru­biy effect­ed the Maid­an coup.

As the point man in U.S.-Ukrainian rela­tions, Biden bears great respon­si­bil­i­ty for the ascent of the Nazi ele­ments dom­i­nant in con­tem­po­rary Ukraine.

“Ral­ly­ing Allies, Biden Says Putin ‘Can­not Remain in Pow­er’ ” by Michael D. Shear, David E. Sanger, Michael Lev­en­son; The New York Times; 3/27/2022.

. . . . While declar­ing that “the Russ­ian peo­ple are not our ene­my,” Mr. Biden unleashed an angry tirade against Mr. Putin’s claim that the inva­sion of Ukraine was intend­ed to “de-Naz­i­fy” the coun­try. Mr. Biden called that jus­ti­fi­ca­tion “a lie,” not­ing that Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­sky of Ukraine is Jew­ish and that his father’s fam­i­ly was killed in the Holo­caust.

“It’s just cyn­i­cal,” Mr. Biden said. “He knows that. And it’s also obscene.”. . .

5. Igor Kolo­moisky is the oli­garch who: Was the pri­ma­ry financier of Zelensky’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign; Owned the tele­vi­sion net­work on which Zelen­sky devel­oped his pub­lic persona—leading to his ascent to the pres­i­den­cy of Ukraine; Was a pri­ma­ry financier of the Azov Bat­tal­ion, one of the most impor­tant Nazi units in the Ukrain­ian mil­i­tary and the par­ent orga­ni­za­tion of the Nation­al Druzhy­na Mili­tia (which served as elec­tion mon­i­tors for Zelensky’s bal­lot run).

Kolo­moisky also main­tained a con­trol­ling inter­est in Buris­ma, the nat­ur­al gas com­pa­ny on which Hunter Biden served as a direc­tor.

It was his posi­tion as a direc­tor of Buris­ma that was the foun­da­tion of his devel­op­ment of an appar­ent U.S./Ukrainian bio­log­i­cal war­fare pro­gram, involv­ing Pen­ta­gon financ­ing and heav­i­ly over­lap­ping the ele­ments fig­ur­ing in Mr. Emory’s “Oswald Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy” expose.

“Busi­ness­men accused of Ukraine mon­ey laun­der­ing gave mil­lions to New York char­i­ties by Isabel Vin­cent and Kathi­anne Boniel­lo; The New York Post, 3/6/2021.

. . . Kolo­moisky, who built his for­tune dur­ing the law­less years imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the fall of the Sovi­et Union, report­ed­ly has a con­trol­ling inter­est in Buris­ma, the Ukrain­ian oil and gas com­pa­ny which put Pres­i­dent Biden’s son, Hunter, on its board of direc­tors in 2014 at a salary of $50,000 per month. . . .

6. Although heav­i­ly spun–as would be expect­ed from a Dai­ly Mail article–this sto­ry not only has impor­tant impli­ca­tions for the war in Ukraine, but also res­onates with our long series on “The Oswald Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy.”

We note that there are sig­nif­i­cant con­nec­tions between the agency over­see­ing the Ukrain­ian projects and insti­tu­tions impli­cat­ed in the appar­ent “bio-skull­dug­gery” sur­round­ing the U.S. bio­log­i­cal war­fare gam­bit involv­ing what Mr. Emory has termed “The Oswald Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy.” This is dis­cussed in: FTR#‘s 1157–1159, 1170, 1183 through 1193, and 1215.

The essence of the “Oswald Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy” gam­bit con­cerns the DTRA and Pen­ta­gon fund­ing of bat-borne coro­n­avirus research at the Wuhan Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy, much of it through Peter Dasza­k’s Eco­Health Alliance. Once the research was com­plete, it result­ed in pub­li­ca­tion which includ­ed the genome of the bat virus­es being researched. Using tech­nol­o­gy dis­cussed below, the virus­es were then syn­the­sized from scratch and pop­u­la­tion groups were vec­tored with the same viral strains being researched by the WIV. 

It turns out that Hunter Biden–a mem­ber of the board of direc­tors at Burisma–was instru­men­tal in secur­ing fund­ing for Eco­Health Alliance part­ner Metabio­ta, described in a screen shot of an e‑mail as being “to the DOA what Palan­tir is to CIA.”

Both Eco­Health Alliance and Metabio­ta have been involved with bat-borne coro­n­avirus at the WIV.

Note that–” . . . . ‘His [Hunter Biden’s] father was the Vice Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States and in charge of rela­tions with Ukraine.’ . . .”

Pre­vi­ous­ly we have not­ed then Vice-Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s close rela­tion­ship with U.S. Ambas­sador Geof­frey Pyatt and Ukraina­ian fas­cist Andriy Paru­biy dur­ing the Maid­an coup, which cen­tered on false-flag sniper killings from build­ings con­trolled by Svo­bo­da (for­mer­ly the Social Nation­al Par­ty of Ukraine, found­ed by Paru­biy.)

High­lights of the Dis­cus­sion:

• ” . . . . The com­man­der of the Russ­ian Nuclear, Bio­log­i­cal and Chem­i­cal Pro­tec­tion Forces, claimed there was a ‘scheme of inter­ac­tion between US gov­ern­ment agen­cies and Ukrain­ian bio­log­i­cal objects’ and point­ed to the ‘financ­ing of such activ­i­ties by struc­tures close to the cur­rent US lead­er­ship, in par­tic­u­lar the invest­ment fund Rose­mont Seneca, which is head­ed by Hunter Biden.’. . .”
• ” . . . . Moscow’s claim that Hunter Biden helped finance a US mil­i­tary ‘bioweapons’ research pro­gram in Ukraine is at least par­tial­ly true, accord­ing to new emails obtained exclu­sive­ly by DailyMail.com. . . .”
• ” . . . . emails from Hunter’s aban­doned lap­top show he helped secure mil­lions of dol­lars of fund­ing for Metabio­ta, a Depart­ment of Defense con­trac­tor spe­cial­iz­ing in research on pan­dem­ic-caus­ing dis­eases that could be used as bioweapons. . . .”
• ” . . . . Metabio­ta has been an offi­cial part­ner of Eco­Health Alliance since 2014, accord­ing to its web­site. . . .”
• ” . . . . He also intro­duced Metabio­ta to an alleged­ly cor­rupt Ukrain­ian gas firm, Buris­ma, for a ‘sci­ence project’ involv­ing high biose­cu­ri­ty lev­el labs in Ukraine . . . .”
• ” . . . . Emails and defense con­tract data reviewed by DailyMail.com sug­gest that Hunter had a promi­nent role in mak­ing sure Metabio­ta was able to con­duct its pathogen research just a few hun­dred miles from the bor­der with Rus­sia. . . .”
• ” . . . . Metabio­ta has worked in Ukraine for Black & Veatch, a US defense con­trac­tor with deep ties to mil­i­tary intel­li­gence agen­cies, which built secure labs in Ukraine that ana­lyzed killer dis­eases and bioweapons. . . .”
• ” . . . . Hunter was also par­tic­u­lar­ly involved in Metabio­ta’s oper­a­tions in Ukraine. Hunter’s pitch­es to investors claimed that they not only orga­nized fund­ing for the firm, they also helped it ‘get new cus­tomers’ includ­ing ‘gov­ern­ment agen­cies in case of Metabio­ta’. . . .”
• ” . . . . For­mer senior CIA offi­cer Sam Fad­dis, who has reviewed emails on Hunter’s lap­top, told DailyMail.com that the offer to help assert Ukraine’s inde­pen­dence was odd for a biotech exec­u­tive [Metabio­ta vice-pres­i­dent Mary Gut­tieri]. ‘It rais­es the ques­tion, what is the real pur­pose of this ven­ture? It’s very odd,’ he said. . . .”
• ” . . . . Gut­tieri had a lead­ing role in Metabio­ta’s Ukraine oper­a­tions, meet­ing with oth­er com­pa­ny exec­u­tives and US and Ukrain­ian mil­i­tary offi­cials in Octo­ber 2016 to dis­cuss ‘coop­er­a­tion in sur­veil­lance and pre­ven­tion of espe­cial­ly dan­ger­ous infec­tious dis­eases, includ­ing zoonot­ic dis­eases in Ukraine and neigh­bor­ing coun­tries’ accord­ing to a 2016 report by the Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­ter in Ukraine. . . .”
• ” . . . . Four days after Gut­tier­i’s April 2014 email, Buris­ma exec­u­tive Vadym Pozharskyi wrote to Hunter reveal­ing that the then-Vice Pres­i­den­t’s son had pitched a ‘sci­ence project’ involv­ing Buris­ma and Metabio­ta in Ukraine. ‘As I under­stand the Metabio­ta was a sub­con­tract to prin­ci­pal con­tac­tor of the DoD B&V [Black & Veatch]. . . .”
• ” . . . . Fad­dis told DailyMail.com that the attempt to get Metabio­ta to form a part­ner­ship with Buris­ma was a per­plex­ing and wor­ry­ing rev­e­la­tion. ‘His father was the Vice Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States and in charge of rela­tions with Ukraine. So why was Hunter not only on the board of a sus­pect Ukrain­ian gas firm, but also hooked them up with a com­pa­ny work­ing on bioweapons research?’ Fad­dis said. . . .”
• ” . . . . ‘The DoD posi­tion is that  . . . . this is pan­dem­ic ear­ly warn­ing research. We don’t know for sure that’s all that was going on. . . .”
• ” . . . . Gov­ern­ment spend­ing records show the Depart­ment of Defense award­ed an $18.4million con­tract to Metabio­ta between Feb­ru­ary 2014 and Novem­ber 2016, with $307,091 ear­marked for ‘Ukraine research projects’. . . .”
• ” . . . . The US Defense Threat Reduc­tion Agency (DTRA) also com­mis­sioned B&V to build a Bio­log­i­cal Safe­ty Lev­el 3 lab­o­ra­to­ry in Odessa, Ukraine in 2010, which ‘pro­vid­ed enhanced equip­ment and train­ing to effec­tive­ly, safe­ly and secure­ly iden­ti­fy espe­cial­ly dan­ger­ous pathogens’ accord­ing to a com­pa­ny press release. Such labs are used to ‘study infec­tious agents or tox­ins that may be trans­mit­ted through the air and cause poten­tial­ly lethal infec­tions,’ the US Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices says. . . .”
• ” . . . . In anoth­er sign of the deep ties between Metabio­ta and the Depart­ment of Defense, Hunter’s RSTP busi­ness part­ner Rob Walk­er said he would ‘have a friend reach out to DoD on the down low’, in order to prove the com­pa­ny’s bona fides to top prospec­tive investors Gold­man Sachs and Mor­gan Stan­ley in Octo­ber 2014. . . .”
• ” . . . . Metabio­ta also has close ties to the Wuhan Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy (WIV), sus­pect­ed to be the source of the COVID-19 out­break. WIV was a hotspot for con­tro­ver­sial ‘gain of func­tion’ research that can cre­ate super-strength virus­es. Chi­nese sci­en­tists per­formed gain of func­tion research on coro­n­avirus­es at the WIV, work­ing along­side a US-backed orga­ni­za­tion Eco­Health Alliance that has since drawn intense scruti­ny over its coro­n­avirus research since the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. Researchers from the Wuhan insti­tute, Metabio­ta and Eco­Health Alliance pub­lished a study togeth­er in 2014 on infec­tious dis­eases from bats in Chi­na, which notes that tests were per­formed at the WIV. Shi Zhengli, the WIV Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Infec­tious Dis­eases who became dubbed the ‘bat lady’ for her cen­tral role in bat coro­n­avirus research at the lab, was a con­trib­u­tor to the paper. . . .”

“EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden DID help secure mil­lions in fund­ing for US con­trac­tor in Ukraine spe­cial­iz­ing in dead­ly pathogen research, lap­top emails reveal, rais­ing more ques­tions about the dis­graced son of then vice pres­i­dent” by JOSH BOSWELL; Dai­ly Mail [UK]; 3/25/2022.

The Russ­ian gov­ern­ment held a press con­fer­ence Thurs­day claim­ing that Hunter Biden helped finance a US mil­i­tary ‘bioweapons’ research pro­gram in Ukraine

How­ev­er the alle­ga­tions were brand­ed a brazen pro­pa­gan­da ploy to jus­ti­fy pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s inva­sion of Ukraine and sow dis­cord in the US

But emails and cor­re­spon­dence obtained by DailyMail.com from Hunter’s aban­doned lap­top show the claims may well be true

The emails show Hunter helped secure mil­lions of dol­lars of fund­ing for Metabio­ta, a Depart­ment of Defense con­trac­tor spe­cial­iz­ing in research on pan­dem­ic-caus­ing dis­eases

He also intro­duced Metabio­ta to an alleged­ly cor­rupt Ukrain­ian gas firm, Buris­ma, for a ‘sci­ence project’ involv­ing high biose­cu­ri­ty lev­el labs in Ukraine 

The pres­i­den­t’s son and his col­leagues invest­ed $500,000 in Metabio­ta through their firm Rose­mont Seneca Tech­nol­o­gy Part­ners 

They raised sev­er­al mil­lion dol­lars of fund­ing for the com­pa­ny from invest­ment giants includ­ing Gold­man Sachs 

Moscow’s claim that Hunter Biden helped finance a US mil­i­tary ‘bioweapons’ research pro­gram in Ukraine is at least par­tial­ly true, accord­ing to new emails obtained exclu­sive­ly by DailyMail.com.

The com­man­der of the Russ­ian Nuclear, Bio­log­i­cal and Chem­i­cal Pro­tec­tion Forces, claimed there was a ‘scheme of inter­ac­tion between US gov­ern­ment agen­cies and Ukrain­ian bio­log­i­cal objects’ and point­ed to the ‘financ­ing of such activ­i­ties by struc­tures close to the cur­rent US lead­er­ship, in par­tic­u­lar the invest­ment fund Rose­mont Seneca, which is head­ed by Hunter Biden.’

Intel­li­gence experts say the Russ­ian mil­i­tary lead­er’s alle­ga­tions were a brazen pro­pa­gan­da ploy to jus­ti­fy pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s inva­sion of Ukraine and sow dis­cord in the US.

But emails from Hunter’s aban­doned lap­top show he helped secure mil­lions of dol­lars of fund­ing for Metabio­ta, a Depart­ment of Defense con­trac­tor spe­cial­iz­ing in research on pan­dem­ic-caus­ing dis­eases that could be used as bioweapons.

He also intro­duced Metabio­ta to an alleged­ly cor­rupt Ukrain­ian gas firm, Buris­ma, for a ‘sci­ence project’ involv­ing high biose­cu­ri­ty lev­el labs in Ukraine.

And although Metabio­ta is osten­si­bly a med­ical data com­pa­ny, its vice pres­i­dent emailed Hunter in 2014 describ­ing how they could ‘assert Ukraine’s cul­tur­al and eco­nom­ic inde­pen­dence from Rus­sia’ – an unusu­al goal for a biotech firm.

Emails and defense con­tract data reviewed by DailyMail.com sug­gest that Hunter had a promi­nent role in mak­ing sure Metabio­ta was able to con­duct its pathogen research just a few hun­dred miles from the bor­der with Rus­sia.

The project turned into a nation­al secu­ri­ty lia­bil­i­ty for Ukraine when Russ­ian forces invad­ed the coun­try last month.

Metabio­ta has worked in Ukraine for Black & Veatch, a US defense con­trac­tor with deep ties to mil­i­tary intel­li­gence agen­cies, which built secure labs in Ukraine that ana­lyzed killer dis­eases and bioweapons.

Ear­li­er this month US offi­cials warned con­gress that ‘Russ­ian forces may be seek­ing to gain con­trol’ of these ‘bio­log­i­cal research facil­i­ties’, prompt­ing fears that dead­ly and even engi­neered pathogens could fall into Russ­ian hands.

Hunter and his col­leagues at his invest­ment firm Rose­mont Seneca Tech­nol­o­gy Part­ners (RSTP) rou­tine­ly raised mil­lions of dol­lars for tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies, hop­ing the firms would take off and make them all for­tunes.

Metabio­ta was one of those firms. Emails between Hunter and his col­leagues excit­ed­ly dis­cuss how the com­pa­ny’s mon­i­tor­ing of med­ical data could become an essen­tial tool for gov­ern­ments and com­pa­nies look­ing to spot out­breaks of infec­tious dis­eases.

The pres­i­den­t’s son and his col­leagues invest­ed $500,000 in Metabio­ta through their firm Rose­mont Seneca Tech­nol­o­gy Part­ners.

They raised sev­er­al mil­lion dol­lars of fund­ing for the com­pa­ny from invest­ment giants includ­ing Gold­man Sachs.

But emails show Hunter was also par­tic­u­lar­ly involved in Metabio­ta’s oper­a­tions in Ukraine.

Hunter’s pitch­es to investors claimed that they not only orga­nized fund­ing for the firm, they also helped it ‘get new cus­tomers’ includ­ing ‘gov­ern­ment agen­cies in case of Metabio­ta’.

He and his busi­ness part­ner Eric Schw­erin even dis­cussed sub­let­ting their office space to the firm in April 2014, their emails reveal.

That month, Metabio­ta vice pres­i­dent Mary Gut­tieri wrote a memo to Hunter out­lin­ing how they could ‘assert Ukraine’s cul­tur­al and eco­nom­ic inde­pen­dence from Rus­sia’.

‘Thanks so much for tak­ing time out of your intense sched­ule to meet with Kathy [Dimeo, Metabio­ta exec­u­tive] and I on Tues­day. We very much enjoyed our dis­cus­sion,’ Gut­tieri wrote.

‘As promised, I’ve pre­pared the attached memo, which pro­vides an overview of Metabio­ta, our engage­ment in Ukraine, and how we can poten­tial­ly lever­age our team, net­works, and con­cepts to assert Ukraine’s cul­tur­al and eco­nom­ic inde­pen­dence from Rus­sia and con­tin­ued inte­gra­tion into West­ern soci­ety.’

For­mer senior CIA offi­cer Sam Fad­dis, who has reviewed emails on Hunter’s lap­top, told DailyMail.com that the offer to help assert Ukraine’s inde­pen­dence was odd for a biotech exec­u­tive.

‘It rais­es the ques­tion, what is the real pur­pose of this ven­ture? It’s very odd,’ he said.

Gut­tieri had a lead­ing role in Metabio­ta’s Ukraine oper­a­tions, meet­ing with oth­er com­pa­ny exec­u­tives and US and Ukrain­ian mil­i­tary offi­cials in Octo­ber 2016 to dis­cuss ‘coop­er­a­tion in sur­veil­lance and pre­ven­tion of espe­cial­ly dan­ger­ous infec­tious dis­eases, includ­ing zoonot­ic dis­eases in Ukraine and neigh­bor­ing coun­tries’ accord­ing to a 2016 report by the Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­ter in Ukraine.

At the time, Hunter was serv­ing as a board mem­ber of Ukrain­ian gas firm Buris­ma, owned by for­mer top gov­ern­ment offi­cial and alleged­ly cor­rupt bil­lion­aire Miko­lay Zlochevsky.

Four days after Gut­tier­i’s April 2014 email, Buris­ma exec­u­tive Vadym Pozharskyi wrote to Hunter reveal­ing that the then-Vice Pres­i­den­t’s son had pitched a ‘sci­ence project’ involv­ing Buris­ma and Metabio­ta in Ukraine.

‘Please find few ini­tial points to be dis­cussed for the pur­pos­es of ana­lyz­ing the poten­tial of this as you called, ‘Sci­ence Ukraine’ project,’ Pozharskyi wrote.

‘As I under­stand the Metabio­ta was a sub­con­tract to prin­ci­pal con­tac­tor of the DoD B&V [Black & Veatch].

‘What kind of part­ner­ship Metabio­ta is look­ing for in Ukraine? From poten­tial non-gov­ern­men­tal play­er in Kiev? Rebuilt the ties with respec­tive min­istries in Ukraine, and on the basis of that rein­state the financ­ing from the B&V? Or they look for part­ner­ship in man­ag­ing projects in Ukraine, PR with Gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tions here, financ­ing of the projects?’

Fad­dis told DailyMail.com that the attempt to get Metabio­ta to form a part­ner­ship with Buris­ma was a per­plex­ing and wor­ry­ing rev­e­la­tion.

‘His father was the Vice Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States and in charge of rela­tions with Ukraine. So why was Hunter not only on the board of a sus­pect Ukrain­ian gas firm, but also hooked them up with a com­pa­ny work­ing on bioweapons research?’ Fad­dis said.

‘It’s an obvi­ous Russ­ian pro­pa­gan­da attempt to take advan­tage of this. But it does­n’t change the fact that there does seem to be some­thing that needs to be explored here.

‘The DoD posi­tion is that there’s noth­ing nefar­i­ous here, this is pan­dem­ic ear­ly warn­ing research. We don’t know for sure that’s all that was going on.

‘But the ques­tion still remains: why is Hunter Biden in the mid­dle of all this? Why is the dis­graced son of the vice pres­i­dent at the heart of this – the guy with no dis­cernible skills and a cocaine habit.’

Pozharsky said in his email to Hunter that he had encoun­tered such bio­log­i­cal research projects before in his for­mer job as a Ukrain­ian gov­ern­ment offi­cial, and claimed that B&V worked on ‘sim­i­lar or the same projects’ as the pro­posed con­tract for Metabio­ta.

Gov­ern­ment spend­ing records show the Depart­ment of Defense award­ed an $18.4million con­tract to Metabio­ta between Feb­ru­ary 2014 and Novem­ber 2016, with $307,091 ear­marked for ‘Ukraine research projects’.

The US Defense Threat Reduc­tion Agency (DTRA) also com­mis­sioned B&V to build a Bio­log­i­cal Safe­ty Lev­el 3 lab­o­ra­to­ry in Odessa, Ukraine in 2010, which ‘pro­vid­ed enhanced equip­ment and train­ing to effec­tive­ly, safe­ly and secure­ly iden­ti­fy espe­cial­ly dan­ger­ous pathogens’ accord­ing to a com­pa­ny press release.

Such labs are used to ‘study infec­tious agents or tox­ins that may be trans­mit­ted through the air and cause poten­tial­ly lethal infec­tions,’ the US Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices says.

B&V was award­ed a fur­ther five-year $85million con­tract in 2012.

Emails and defense con­tract data reviewed by DailyMail.com sug­gest that Hunter had a promi­nent role in mak­ing sure Metabio­ta was able to con­duct its pathogen research just a few hun­dred miles from the bor­der with Rus­sia.

In anoth­er sign of the deep ties between Metabio­ta and the Depart­ment of Defense, Hunter’s RSTP busi­ness part­ner Rob Walk­er said he would ‘have a friend reach out to DoD on the down low’, in order to prove the com­pa­ny’s bona fides to top prospec­tive investors Gold­man Sachs and Mor­gan Stan­ley in Octo­ber 2014.

RSTP was a sub­sidiary of Rose­mont Cap­i­tal, an invest­ment com­pa­ny found­ed by Hunter and for­mer Sec­re­tary of State John Ker­ry’s step­son Chris Heinz in 2009.

Metabio­ta also has close ties to the Wuhan Insti­tute of Virol­o­gy (WIV), sus­pect­ed to be the source of the COVID-19 out­break.

WIV was a hotspot for con­tro­ver­sial ‘gain of func­tion’ research that can cre­ate super-strength virus­es.

Chi­nese sci­en­tists per­formed gain of func­tion research on coro­n­avirus­es at the WIV, work­ing along­side a US-backed orga­ni­za­tion Eco­Health Alliance that has since drawn intense scruti­ny over its coro­n­avirus research since the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Researchers from the Wuhan insti­tute, Metabio­ta and Eco­Health Alliance pub­lished a study togeth­er in 2014 on infec­tious dis­eases from bats in Chi­na, which notes that tests were per­formed at the WIV.

Shi Zhengli, the WIV Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Emerg­ing Infec­tious Dis­eases who became dubbed the ‘bat lady’ for her cen­tral role in bat coro­n­avirus research at the lab, was a con­trib­u­tor to the paper.

Metabio­ta has been an offi­cial part­ner of Eco­Health Alliance since 2014, accord­ing to its web­site.