The truth about Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian ‘bio labs’.
“Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca investment fund financed the Pentagon’s military biological program in Ukraine, said Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian Armed Forces.”
The Russian Defense Ministry knows how to stir up the interest of the right-leaning news media in the United States — just mention Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
Russia for years has been seeding the ground to claim that the United States set up biowarfare labs in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics — claims that have been revived as part of the invasion of Ukraine. As part of his media presentation, Igor Kirillov of the Russian armed forces alleged the labs were part of the U.S. plot to study the natural immunity of the population to identify the most dangerous pathogen for people in the region.
The Defense Ministry released a complex-looking flow chart with spaghetti lines depicting not only the involvement of Hunter Biden but financier George Soros in the alleged financing of “bioweapons labs.” But the reference to Hunter Biden was catnip to the right-leaning media. Reporters immediately dug into their copies of Biden’s laptop, supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019, and dredged up emails that they suggested validated the Russian report.
HUNTER BIDEN HE IS A REAL BIG BOSS CONTROL THE BIO LABs.
.The incoming materials allow us to trace the scheme of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian biological objects. Attention is drawn to the involvement in the financing of these activities of structures close to the current US leadership, in particular the Rosemont Seneca investment fund, which is headed by Hunter Biden,” s
烏克蘭的生物實驗室與獵人敗登無關?..
如今獵人敗登行蹤成謎? 無論是否他已經逃離烏克蘭的亞述鋼鐵廠? .
根據以色列反情報小組情報蒐集分析認為Hunter Biden,已經受重傷不排除有被他人殺死滅口的嫌疑?
因為HB,掌握太多有關生物實驗室的機密資料,有朝1日HB.落網吐實情,變成汙點證人,為求自保而出賣相關人士,謀求自己的利益,況且他的父親是現任美國總統,有特權會掩護HUNTER BINDER.所以不排除在烏克蘭馬立坡鋼鐵廠內起衝突時他們中間發生口角爭吵甚至於打架動用武器? 使得HUNTER BINDER 受傷?.
20220509.-11.美國新聞媒體一路從烏克蘭羅馬尼亞緊追JILL BIDEN.專機至華盛頓機場但是都被警察包圍阻擋無法採訪報導? HUNTER BINDER .真的是行蹤成謎?
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A US-led project the Cooperative Threat Reduction programme helps former Soviet states like Ukraine to transform old Soviet labs into state-of-the-art biological facilities. The work is undertaken by various American firms, which received a contract from the Pentagon. Metabiota is among one of the subcontractors that did the work in Ukraine. It received an investment from a private equity firm with connections to Hunter Biden, The Washington Post report says.
The other US firm Black & Veatch, which finds a mention in the RT story, were hired by the US defence department to enhance disease diagnosis. Both Metabiota and Black & Veatch have “performed a variety of training, renovation, and equipping projects competitively awarded by the Cooperative Threat Reduction programme to support Ukrainian critical human and veterinarian public health infrastructure needs. The work has always centred on improving the health, safety and well-being of the Ukrainian people”, Andrea Chaney, a Defense Threat Reduction Agency spokesperson told the newspaper.
However, The New York Post published a story that said that Russia’s assertion was based on truth, according to the emails they reviewed, which were allegedly recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop.So does Hunter Biden have no connection to Ukraine?
 Here is the official stuff, the Russian ministry of defense published it , how the bio labs in ukraine were financed. soros and hunter biden are involved .source : the defense ministry and ria novosti.under control by Hunter Biden.etc...\.
Tucker Carlsons Segment On His Shows Investigation Into U.S. Funding Of "Biolabs" In Ukraine & Reporting By The Daily Mail & National Pulse About Hunter Bidens Involvement In Securing Funds For These Labs. "Theres clearly something going on here & we have the right to know."
俄羅斯國防部坦承：基輔(Kyiv)和車尼哥夫(Chernihiv)正在進行「有計劃的重組軍隊」。接近1/3篇幅再次提及美國資助烏克蘭生物實驗室相關訊息,而且直接點名美國總統拜登(Joe Biden)的兒子杭特(Hunter Biden)有「密切關係」。
俄國國防部揭露,從烏克蘭生物實驗室員工處收集到大量有關美國在烏克蘭秘密軍事和生物活動的文件,經俄軍「三防(輻射、化學和生物)」部隊專家研究,確定參與生化武器組件的「特定人士」,指向美國國防部和軍事承包商。其中美國總統拜登之子被「直接聯繫」在一起。
俄方指控烏國生物軍事行動是依據五角大廈的命令,進行具特別危險性感染病毒株的研究；實驗室對受測者隱瞞可能對生命有嚴重風險的訊息。在一次「特殊的軍事行動」後，烏克蘭生物實驗室停止相關的調查研究。俄軍更表示掌握基輔政權使用無人機攜帶和噴灑致命危險物質計劃的證據,認為基輔考慮使用相關生物武器攻擊頓巴斯(Donbas)和俄羅斯。
俄羅斯國防部20220331日公布了現任美國總統拜登之子(Hunter Biden)跟美國國防部「減少威脅局」員工,五角大廈及在烏克蘭的承包商的部分通訊文件,證實拜登之子參與了美國在烏克蘭的生物實驗計畫。
減少威脅局」原名Defense Threat Reduction Agency，簡稱DTRA，是美國國防部(五角大廈)轄下的機構之一。西方媒體報導也證實了這些訊息。曝光的信件內容顯示,杭特為「博萊克威奇」(Black and Veach)與「梅塔比奧塔」(Metabiota)這兩家承包商爭取資金,為他們金援在烏克蘭進行的病原體研究發揮了重要作用。
「博萊克威奇」是五角大廈的長期承包商,負責各種研究計畫,該公司長期以來一直為五角大廈在烏克蘭進行的工作項目效力。俄軍在202203月稍早時查獲的檔案顯示,該公司負責監督烏克蘭的生物計畫。
記錄中同時顯示,美國國防部在烏克蘭進行的工作項目絕非科學研究。「梅塔比奧塔」公司副總裁的一封郵件內容則顯示,該公司的工作主要是保障烏克蘭經濟和文化獨立性,擺脫俄羅斯的影響。
俄軍「輻射、化學和生物防護部隊」司令基里洛夫(Igor Kirillov)中將周四在一項特別簡報會上表示，DTRA官員波普(Robert Pope)是烏克蘭生物研究項目的「關鍵人物之一」，也是「在基輔建立一個特別危險微生物中央儲藏庫」想法的發起人。
美國五角大廈在烏克蘭進行的生物研究計畫由DTRA駐基輔辦公室主任溫特羅(Joanna Wintrol)負責協調,直到2020年8月她才離開。溫特羅直接監督了UP-4、UP-6和UP-8研究專案,專門研究致命病原體,包括炭疽,剛果-克里米亞熱和鉤端螺旋體病等。
基里洛夫指出,跟美國機構的聯絡人是烏克蘭前衛生部長蘇普蘭(Ulyana Suprun)，她本人是美國公民,主要的中間人是私人承包商「博萊克威奇」，五角大廈的另一家承包商「梅塔比奧塔」也參與其中。
這名中將表示,現任美國總統拜登之子杭特登在「依靠在烏克蘭境內創造病原體發財方面發揮了重要作用」,並特別鎖定拜登跟「博萊克威奇」與「梅塔比奧塔」高管之間的多封電子郵件。
梅塔比奧塔」副總裁被描述為「亨特．拜登的密友」。基里洛夫又說,西方媒體已經證實了這些電子郵件的真實性。「今日俄羅斯」指出上述所指的「西方媒體」可能是指英國《每日郵報》。
每日郵報》引述相關電子郵件和信件指出,杭特幫助五角大廈承包商「梅塔比奧塔」獲得了數百萬美元的融資,同時他還跟合夥人一起向該公司投資了50萬美元。
「今日俄羅斯」稱已曝光的一份檔案顯示,「梅塔比奧塔」對烏克蘭的興趣超過了研究和賺錢的範圍。該公司一名高管在2014年4月給杭特的備忘錄中寫道：「我們應盡量研究出如何能夠不動聲色的利用我們的團隊,網路和概念,來維護烏克蘭的文化和經濟獨立於俄羅斯，讓烏國繼續融入西方社會。」
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.基里洛夫其後展示出的一份備忘錄,會讓基輔當局也對這些生物實驗室感到擔憂。2017年烏克蘭安全局(SBU)赫爾松部門的一封信件稱,DTRA與「博萊克威奇」打算「控制對烏克蘭微生物實驗室的運作。這些實驗室對特別容易感染的病原體進行研究，而這些病原體可用於製造新型生化武器或使其現代化」。
基里洛夫提到2019年6月烏克蘭衛生部公共衛生中心的一份「保密文件」 ，該文件要求「包括受試者死亡」等「嚴重事件」等必須在24小時內向美國生物倫理當局報告。
基里洛夫說「我們不排除上述美、烏兩國官方的研究計畫只是冰山一角。實際上，有志願者的確感染了剛果-克里米亞熱病毒、漢他病毒和鉤端螺旋體病的病原體。美國視烏克蘭人民的生命如草芥,同時把他們拿來當白老鼠進行生物和醫學實驗。」
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First of all, as we have previously documented, these are not bioweapons labs, but biological research facilities focused on better detecting, diagnosing and monitoring infectious-disease outbreaks. Second, random emails can be easily misinterpreted without additional reporting.
We’ve dug into the records and discussed the deals in question with people involved. The reporting from those news outlets is false. Hunter Biden has come under scrutiny for business deals in places such as Ukraine and China that took place while his father was vice president. But he was not “financing” these labs. In fact, he was not part of a decision to invest in a company at the center of the Russian allegations, he did not profit from it as he was kicked out of the investment firm over cocaine allegations, and the company made little money from its tiny bit of business in Ukraine.
The Pentagon program.There are several layers to this story, so let’s peel the onion. There is a U.S.-led project, known as the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, to help former Soviet republics transform old labs which had once been integrated into the Soviet biological weapons program into state-of-the-art civilian biological research facilities. Various American companies received contracts from the Pentagon to do that work. One of those subcontractors — a relatively minor one called Metabiota — did some work in Ukraine. That firm received an investment from a private equity firm associated with Hunter Biden.
That investment had nothing to do with the labs in Ukraine. But the Russian Defense Ministry’s flow chart is a good illustration of how tenuous connections can be made to look sinister. Underneath Hunter Biden, the chart shows a box with Soros. A line then connects Soros to Gilead Sciences, a U.S. biopharmaceutical company that was a Pentagon subcontractor. The line eventually leads to the Ukrainian Health Ministry and the labs.
![]() ..Soros Fund Management, an investment firm founded by Soros in 1970, as recently as 2010 owned shares of Gilead, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, along with hundreds of other stocks. But that’s it. “We have no affiliation with George Soros — any assertion otherwise is completely false,” said Chris Ridley, a Gilead spokesman. His statement is confirmed by the most recent SEC filing by Soros Fund Management, as well as by Laura Silber, a Soros spokesperson.
Now let’s examine the alleged Hunter Biden connection. The flow chart shows a line from Hunter Biden to “Rosemont Seneca,” which in turn is connected to Metabiota, which advises governments and companies on health epidemics. There’s also a line connecting Metabiota to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), an arm of the Pentagon, which initially funded the Ukrainian labs. The line from Metabiota then traces to the labs.
The DTRA line to Metabiota is a tacit admission by the Russians that Pentagon funding played a role in the company’s work. The United States and Ukraine in 2005 had signed an agreement under which the Defense Department, at no cost to Ukraine, would assist the Ministry of Health in building and maintaining the labs. The United States “has invested approximately $200 million in Ukraine since 2005, supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites,” the Defense Department said in a fact sheet released this month.
A San Francisco technology company
Metabiota, which is based in San Francisco, was founded by Nathan Wolfe, a prominent virologist. The firm essentially acted as a staffing agency, helping identify people who could be hired to work in high-level biological research labs and providing research mentoring, according to a company official. Another U.S. firm, Black & Veatch, was hired by the Defense Department under a contract aimed at enhancing disease diagnosis, mainly to build labs; Metabiota was one of its subcontractors.
There are only diagnostic laboratories for routine human and animal health requirements akin to any standard U.S.-based public-facing diagnostic laboratory,” said Andrea Chaney, a DTRA spokesperson. “For many years, the companies Black & Veatch, Metabiota, and Gilead Sciences have performed a variety of training, renovation, and equipping projects competitively awarded by the Cooperative Threat Reduction program to support Ukrainian critical human and veterinarian public health infrastructure needs. The work has always centered on improving the health, safety and well-being of the Ukrainian people.”
Dangerous pathogens are kept in freezers in these labs, so U.S. officials have expressed concern that a loss of electrical power due to the war could allow for their escape — concerns that Russia has used to underscore its claims that these are military bioweapons labs working for the United States.
Federal contracting records show Metabiota also received $18.4 million from DTRA between 2014 and 2017, under a competitively bid contract. Just $307,091 is listed as earmarked for “Ukraine research projects.” The company had a significantly bigger contract at the time with DTRA in Tanzania, focused on controlling the spread of Rift Valley fever.
An investment firm tied to Hunter Biden
So where’s Hunter Biden in all of this? Let’s start with an investment vehicle called Rosemont Seneca Partners. It was founded by Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz in 2009. That firm in turn had a stake in an independent firm called Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP), which invested in emerging technology companies.
Through his stake in Rosemont Seneca, Biden was a member of RSTP and would have benefited from successful investments. But he was not on the committee making decisions on investments, according to an investor at the time, who asked not to be identified because he was disclosing confidential business information.
When Metabiota had the DTRA contract, the company was transitioning from a nonprofit to a profit-making enterprise and sought funding from Wall Street and Silicon Valley investors. In early 2014, RSTP invested $500,000 in what is known as the seed round — a new company’s initial effort to raise capital, according to the investor. Later that year, RSTP contributed another $10 million, according to a 2014 confidential memo on Metabiota’s investments obtained by The Fact Checker. That gave RSTP 13.4 percent ownership of the company. The memo said Metabiota was not expected to achieve consistent profitability until 2017.
These investments were not related to the U.S.-funded labs in Ukraine. Instead, investors such as RSTP were betting on a new idea — selling insurance to protect businesses against a global pandemic.
Any company seeking to raise money in the private equity market needs “a story” to lure investors, who hope to score big if the company eventually sells shares to the public. The Ebola virus outbreak in 2014 had raised corporate fears of a global pandemic. Metabiota’s “story” was that the data collected by the firm’s epidemiologists and researchers around the world provided an early-warning system on emerging biothreats and could be used to create an insurance product that would shield companies — or even entire countries — from a global economic downturn during a pandemic.
There was not much money that could be earned with Metabiota’s contracts to place researchers in labs. But the insights that could be gained from being on the ground were considered valuable. “The DOD contract was a loss leader intended to build a knowledge base,” the investor said, using a business term for selling a product or service at a price that is not profitable in hopes of generating additional business.
Most of the company’s work was in African countries, according to the confidential deal memo. Regarding Ukraine, the 44-page memo only mentions that the company had an office in the country, which will “implement a research project in Ukraine aimed at understanding the threat of tularemia and anthrax” and “develop and implement a public awareness campaign to mitigate the threat of African swine fever.” A person familiar with the Ukraine contract at the time said it employed about five local nationals and one expat.
Hunter Biden’s ouster
Moreover, by the time the document was written, on Nov. 18, 2014, Hunter Biden was already in hot water with his colleagues. A month earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that he had been discharged that February from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine use. Biden had not disclosed the discharge to RSTP members and so in early 2015 he was eased out of the firm, the investor said. RSTP in 2016 rebranded itself Pilot Growth Equity.
We were marketing our funds to investors, positioning our management as having a certain level of character,” the investor said. “We would not be able to raise money from investors” if Biden had remained a member of RSTP. So Biden was removed from the RSTP Management Company and RSTP Fund I, which included the Metabiota investment. After that point, he had no economic interest or ownership interest in either entity.
Chris Clark, an attorney for Hunter Biden, did not respond to repeated queries. Archived RSTP webpages show that Biden was removed from the “team” page between 2014 and 2015, even as his business partner Devon Archer remained.
Pilot Growth Equity invested a total of $11.39 million in the fund and still owns 10.8 percent of Metabiota, according to a Dec. 31, 2020, investment sheet viewed by The Fact Checker. The 2014 investment memo optimistically anticipated an initial public offering by 2017, but that did not happen. Even with the coronavirus pandemic, hopes for a booming insurance market to protect companies from such events have not panned out. Wolfe, in a 2020 interview with Wired magazine, said not a single company ever bought an insurance contract.
“Our current value of the [Pilot Growth Equity] investment is $1.1 million,” the investor said. “So this was a big money loser.”
In a statement to The Fact Checker, Metabiota said: “Metabiota worked in Ukraine until 2020, providing training to help improve local capacity to detect and respond to health threats. We’re concerned about the disinformation and the impact it may have on the safety of scientists working to support public health in Ukraine and worldwide.”
Russian disinformation spreads
In other words, Hunter Biden was barely involved in the RSTP deal. Moreover, the investment had nothing to do with the Ukraine labs. But Hunter Biden’s laptop contains some emails that discuss the pending investment.
Those emails led to reporting in the right-wing media that did not initially mention the source of the original allegation — the Russian Defense Ministry. And the journey of this false storyline from Moscow to U.S. media offers yet another reminder of how disinformation spreads in this polarized modern era.
The National Pulse, a website run by former associates of former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon, on Thursday published an account based on some of the laptop emails about 12 hours after the Russian Defense Ministry made its presentation. There is no mention of the Russian claim. Raheem Kassam, editor in chief, insisted to The Fact Checker that he was unaware of the Russian allegations until five minutes before publication, when he did a quick Google check.
Carlson then cited the National Pulse reporting that night on his show. He also made no mention of the Russian Defense Ministry allegations, though in another part of his monologue he said he had spoken to “someone with direct firsthand knowledge of this topic,” who claimed that the United States had moved “bioweapons research offshore” to Ukraine because it was too dangerous to conduct in the United States. Maybe it’s just a coincidence but that’s also what Kirillov, the Russian official, had claimed that morning. Carlson did not respond to a request for comment.
The Daily Mail on Friday followed up with a more detailed look at the Biden emails mentioning Metabiota. This article acknowledged the Russian presentation but declared “emails and correspondence obtained by DailyMail.com from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show the claims may well be true.” That same approach was taken by the New York Post in article published on Saturday. The New York Post did not respond to a request for comment, while a Daily Mail spokesman said: “We stand by our reporting.”
One of the laptop emails shows Hunter Biden contacting an official at Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company where he was a board director, in April 2014 about the possibility of a “science project” involving Metabiota. The reply email from the Burisma official indicates some skepticism and confusion about what Biden was pitching.
In the early months of 2014, political tensions in Ukraine had risen sharply. The Ukrainian president had resigned in February and fled to Russia. Within weeks, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed Crimea.
In response, the Defense Department issued a “stop-work” order on Black & Veatch’s contract and Metabiota was scrambling to find work for its local scientists and researchers, the person familiar with the contract said. Biden briefly tried to use his connections to help the firm, but nothing came of his outreach. The work ended in June 2014 and was not revived until the political situation calmed down a year later — after RSTP had cut ties with Biden.
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