If anyone has better sources on this subject, please share...
Just managed to quickly find some reading on this Russian intel... but I wish that I have better sources.
Calls mount for probe into US bio-labs after Russian claim (APRIL 2021)
Responding to a question about the origin of COVID-19,
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said recently that US-controlled biological laboratories appear mainly near Russian and Chinese borders. And there is good reason to believe the US is developing biological weapons in those labs, and that outbreaks of non-typical diseases have been reported around them.
The US has set up bio-labs in 25 countries and regions across the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia and former Soviet Union, with 16 in Ukraine alone. Some of the places where the labs are based have seen large-scale outbreaks of measles and other dangerous infectious diseases, the ministry said, citing media reports.
The Fort Detrick laboratory that handles high-level disease-causing materials, such as Ebola, in Fredrick, Maryland, was shut after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a cease and desist order against the organization in July 2019, media reported.
USA Today reported that since 2003, hundreds of incidents involving accidental contact with deadly pathogens have occurred in US bio-labs at home and abroad.
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COVID-19 origins-tracing hindered by politics not from China, but US: Chinese FM (APRIL 2021)
Zhao said he still remembers clearly that the last so-called open letter by scientists was published on March 4, and done by virtually the same group of people. It was also drafted by Jamie Metzl, senior fellow at the ATLANTIC COUNCIL think tank and previously serving on the US National Security Council and State Department, prior to the WHO releasing its virus origins-tracing report, while this one was released after the WHO issued its report.
Some netizens discussed that Metzl's role already demonstrated the letter is driven by geopolitics, not science. The other organizer is the data scientist in New Zealand, Gilles Demaneuf, while some of the other signatories do not have a medical background in data science, public affairs and security.
As for lab leaks, Zhao said field visits to China have shown that the virus being leaked from Chinese labs is extremely unlikely, but it is another story if clues and evidence were found in the rest of the world.
Zhao expressed hopes that countries including the US can adopt a scientific and cooperative altitude to working with the WHO on virus origins-tracing and invite WHO experts to conduct scientific research in their countries.
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, "US-controlled biological laboratories appear here and there in the world on a permanent basis. Strangely enough, they appear mainly near Russian and Chinese borders." He said Russia has every reason to believe the US is developing biological weapons in labs.
Zhao asked, "Why does the US build so many laboratories all over the world? What activities does the US military carry out in these laboratories and Fort Detrick base? Why does the US exclusively oppose the establishment of a verification mechanism under the Biological Weapons Convention? Are there any reasons why the US does not dare to allow these laboratories and bases to undergo international inspections?"
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