Russia Suspected Of Developing Ebola-Based Biological Weapons

The Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, is suspected of developing biological weapons using the lethal Ebola virus and the related Marburg virus, British website the Mirror reported, quoting an unidentified former United Kingdom intelligence officer and French nonprofit organization OpenFacto.

The project has a codename of Toledo, a possible reference to a Spanish city which was devastated by a plague in 1598, or Toledo, Ohio, which was hard hit by the Spanish influenza epidemic in 1918, according to a report by OpenFacto published Dec. 22.

The Mirror’s source and OpenFacto said the Toledo project comes out Russia’s work on developing a vaccine for Ebola. It was created through the 48^th Central Research Institute of the country’s defense department and is a direct affiliate of the 33^rd Central Research Institute.

The 33^rd Central Research Institute is believed responsible for recent developments of the novichok nerve agents, created by the old Soviet Union from the 1970s to early 1990s and suspected in poisonings of former Russian military officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal on the streets of Salisbury, England, in 2018 and Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in August.

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{Matzav.com}