January 20th, 2015 03:15 pm
EBOLAGATE 2014
Protests in Liberia
July 25, 2014 exa nurse from the Kenema city hospital in Sierra Leone went to the city's central market and made a fuss, a crowd gathered. The nurse told the audience that Ebola is a hoax, and doctors are experimenting on patients, deliberately spreading the fever through injections. According to Bloomberg, the police arrested the nurse. The authorities called her mentally ill, but riots broke out in the city and mass refusal of treatment.The crowd began to throw stones at the hospital, and the police responded with tear gas.
In connection with the rebellion of the local population, in September 2014, the American authorities sent about 3 thousand military personnel to Sierra Leone for compulsory treatment in the Kenema hospital and pacification of dissent. The entire population of the country (about 6 million people) was actually placed under house arrest for several days, demanding not to leave the house unless absolutely necessary, distributing bars of soap and searching their homes for hiding sick people.
The streets of Sierra Leone are empty
Simultaneously, in neighboring Liberia, on the central page of the Daily Observer newspaper, an article was published by Cyril Broderick, a professor at the University of Delaware, USA, a native of Liberia.
Broderick claims that Ebola is the result of a failed US military bioweapons laboratory experiment in Kenem, Sierra Leone. .
The US President allocated $ 750 million to fight the fever and build 17 hospitals in West Africa, but in January 2015 it turned out that most of the seven hospitals built in Liberia were empty, reports the Washington Post.
At the height of the epidemic, Liberian hospitals were admitting about 300 new cases each week. By November, when the first hospital was built, the number of cases dropped to 100 a week, in December - 10 cases a week, now the number of cases is close to zero. But by decision of the authorities, American hospitals will continue to be built.
Confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia
- Pharmaceutical company Mapp in the USA in September 2014 signed a contract for $24 million with a prospect of up to $42 million.
- The Canadian company Tekmira signed a contract with the US Department of Defense for $140 million.
Johnson&Johnson receives 100 million euros in grant to develop its Ebola vaccine
- The Obama administration has allocated 750 million to build hospitals in West Africa
- Global diagnostics developer and marketer Corgenix Medical Corporation, which has worked with Tulane University and UASMRIID, has awarded a $3.8 million contract to manufacture diagnostics equipment with the National Institutes of Health.
- The US State Department has ordered 160,000 protective suits from Lakeland Industries.
By the way, regarding protective suits - independent journalists drew attention to the NBC story about the transportation of a patient with Ebola fever - the footage shows how one of the escorts of the patient approaches him without a protective suit. This video further spurred rumors about the custom-made nature of the Ebola panic.
Like tuberculosis, but much weaker
"In 1989, the city of Reston, Virginia, which is 15 km from the White House, was at the epicenter of a biological disaster."
Thus begins the book of renowned science journalist Richard Preston, who has interviewed a dozen top US military virologists. The book is about the sudden mutation of Ebola in the monkey of one of the scientific laboratories in Reston. A few days later, 90 percent of the sick people died. The authorities had to mobilize a secret military force of soldiers and scientists to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus.
Ebola patient
Richard Preston's book "Hot Zone" went on sale in July 1995.Interestingly, decades later, in blood tests, some pig farmers in the Philippines were found to have antibodies to the virus with the same name "Ebola Reston". Farmers who tested positive for the virus did not care for the pigs or come into contact with their secretions.
Following the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa last year, WHO doctors said the strain was 97% similar to the Zairian virus, which is transmitted only in the fluid excreted by an infected person - toblood, feces, sweat, vomit, urine, semen, or breast milk . Through sexual contact, mucous membranes or contact with damaged skin of a healthy person.
In the certificate of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there is an addition in small print - the virus can get to a person through close contact, at a distance of a meter from the patient, for example, with a large drop when sneezing.
“Everyday contact is defined as a) being approximately 3 feet (1 meter) away or in the same room or care location for an extended period of time (e.g., medical staff, family members), without personal protective equipment... or b) short-term close contact (eg, handshake) without personal protective equipment At the same time, brief interactions, such as walking or moving around the hospital, are not everyday contact.
Another clarification from CDC: The Ebola virus is not airborne like influenza or measles, which are airborne and airborne. But droplets of Ebola virus are carried through the air like tuberculosis or smallpox at close range, or, as in the case of plague, through contact through sinks, handrails, door handles and other surfaces where secretions may have been left shortly before.
Doctors from the Canadian Public Health Agency told the BBC that macaques and pigs were kept in neighboring cages during the experiments. Pigs were first infected with the virus, and after eight days monkeys showed signs of the disease, although they were separated from pigs by an iron cage.Dr. Gary Kobinger believes that primates picked up the virus by inhaling droplets from pigs that were airborne for a while.
Studies have shown that the virus retains the greatest viability in liquids, for example, the sperm of an infected person is dangerous for 3 months after recovery. On hard surfaces (glass, steel, rubber) in the dark, the Ebola virus remains viable for 6 days. Although the effectiveness is reduced by 90% in the first 36 hours. In the case of exposure to UV rays, 3-4% of the virus survives, but this is enough for infection. The virus can be defeated by heating up to 60 degrees Celsius for 60 minutes, gamma radiation, alcohol-containing liquids, bleach or bleach in a certain concentration. Premises for the purpose of prevention are treated with hydrogen peroxide vapor.
For reference. In the case of tuberculosis, a sick person also emits small drops of sputum and saliva when coughing, sneezing, laughing, where tuberculosis microbes are contained, with these droplets they scatter around at a distance of up to 1.5 m and stay in the air for about 30-60 minutes; with air, they penetrate the lungs of people nearby. Drops of sputum also fall on the patient's clothes, linen, furniture, carpets, walls and floor of the room; they dry up and remain viable much longer than Ebola - six to eight months. Only in Russia in 2013, 83 thousand people fell ill with tuberculosis (total number of patients - 220 thousand) and 15.8 thousand people died (worldwide, 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis in 2013). About 500 million people are ill with influenza in the world every year, of which 500 thousand die (In Russia, 299 people died from SARS and influenza last year, according to Rosstat).
So far, tuberculosis remains the undisputed leader in mortality among all infectious diseases in the world.
Secret objects in the USA
The Diego Garcia air base on one of the Maldivian islands, with a size of 50 km of coastline and an area of 17 sq km, from where all the local residents were evicted in 2006. On the island isground control system for tracking objects in space Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance. The base is one of the key nodes for tracking satellites, one of five US GPS monitoring stations.
Dugway, Utah. The largest test site in the US. It was built by order of Franklin Roosevelt after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Over the past 60 years, the area of the landfill has increased to 800,000 hectares, roughly the size of Rhode Island, one and a half times the size of Moscow. All conditions have been created at the test site for testing chemical and biological weapons protection systems.
H AARP or American research project for the study of the ionosphere and auroras. The project was launched in the spring of 1997, in Hakone, Alaska. Is an joint project of the US Air Force and the University of Alaska. The scientists used a powerful high-frequency transmitter and a field of 180 antennas in the hope of gaining an advantage in observing the ionosphere. H and the stations conducted research on the possibility of improving radio communications, developing air and missile defense systems, and studying the nature of the ionosphere. In 2005, the object was used to create a man-made Northern Lights. 3.6 MW (the exact power is unknown), the area is about 13 hectares. Around HAARP concentrated rumors about the possible use of the facilityfor mind control, manipulation climate in individual countries.The project website says that the project equipmentcan only function if located in the aurora region, which is applicable only for Alaska. In May 2014, it became known that the US government decided to close the project within a month and develop others.
Cheyenne Mountain HQ Military base built in 1966 nearly 800m undergroundin a granite mountain with an underground labyrinth. The facility was built by the US Air Force Space Force. During the construction of the base, many problems arose, since the base's tasks included the ability to withstand an attack of several megatons of explosives. In addition to natural protection, 25-ton doors are installed on the base, and massive beds of military personnel are equipped with special springs that absorb the blast wave well.
Pine Gap, Lingiari, Australia. Joint project of Australia and the USA. The space station is located in the desert near the cityAlice Springs. The construction of the station began in 1966, but desert storms, heat and the lack of paved roads delayed construction until 1970. Pine Gap has eight radomes installed to protect the antennas, sparking rumors of a possible UFO connection. Here are units of organizations such as the CIA and the NSA, which get free access to video surveillance systems and control of potential threats, as well as collect data for further military strikes in the Eastern Hemisphere.In 2009 the AustralianDepartment of Defense announced plans to upgrade obsolete equipment at the facility, indicating Pine Gap has a bright future.
USAMRIID, Military US Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland. Since the Cold War, the US military laboratory with four levels of biological protection has been developing biological weapons based on dangerous strains of anthrax, Ebola, plague, smallpox, tularemia and others.deadly microbes developed by US Army scientists. After the end of the arms race since 1972, the institute has been developing means of protection against biological weapons and the development of vaccines. This is the only location in the US where a level 4 security lab has double door locks, a sophisticated filtration system capable of trapping microparticles, fumigation chambers, and the building itself is completely airtight. In 2015, it is planned to complete the construction of a new laboratory building (here in 2013, for an unknown reason, there was a strong fire, destroying most of the decoration), it is designed for 800 employees. The Level 4 laboratory will be the largest in the world. The building is resistant to pressure of 100 atm.
Airbase in Jacksonville, Florida. Hangar 511 is the Air Force's largest hangar, capable of housing 33 P3-C Orions, four C-130 Hercules and a helicopter unit. In the coming years, the P-8 Poseidon hull with a wingspan of 36 m will be based here. Sections of transparent polymer panels have been installed in the hangar, providing access to daylight. Designers have developed not sliding, but mega-doors made of fabric and rising up like blinds. Their size is 450 m in length and 18 m in height.
Raven Rock, Pennsylvania. The complex was built duringCold War, also known as Object "R" and "Pentagon Bunker". This bunker is designed to evacuate the country's top military officials in the event of a global catastrophe. Not far from this location in Virginia, there is a similar Mount Weather FEMA civilian evacuation center.
Mobile military camps in Iraq and Afghanistan (TDA), the brainchild of an engineering companyKBR. Deployment takes less than a month, designed for 600 troops. Each tent can accommodate 8 people. Constructed from PVC and composite materials. Each tent has air conditioning to withstand the sweltering heat in the Middle East. The camps operate a vacuum sewer cleaning system capable of purifying water to "nearly drinkable" levels.
Edwards AFB, California, built in 1942. It houses the US Air Force Flight Test Center and the NASA Research Center. The center is located next to a dry salt lake that can be used as an extension of the runway.
Wing Lajes Air Base, Portugal, Terceira Island. Serves as a filling station for aircraft that fly over the Atlantic Ocean.In 1953, the United States established its presence on the island. The base currently supports the US Air Force and allies in Europe. The island of volcanic rock is located a thousand miles off the coast of Portugal, small in size - 11 km from north to south. Because of this, only one airfield operates on it, the runway of which is divided into two parts - civil aircraft land and take off on one, and military aircraft on the other.
Nellis Air Force Base,Nevada. US Air Force Training Center. Created in 1940s. Here, in 2007, the largest in the United States was builtsolar power plant. More than 6 million cells for 72 thousand panels, base capacity of 30 million kWh of clean energy per year.
Anniston, Alabama, chemical waste storage facility. Since the 1960s, it has become one of six chemical weapons storage sites. Now it is a recycling baseexplosive charges from mortars filled with chemical agents.
submarine baseKings Bay, Georgia. East coast of the United States, since the 1980s, nuclear submarines have been based here. The cost of building the base was$ 1.3 billion, this is the largest project of the US Navy. The area of the base is 16,000 hectares, about a quarter of which are protected by swamps. A 700-meter dry dock has been built here, one of the largest in the world. In addition, the base has a magnetic block that allows you to jam the signal and remain invisible to the nuclear submarine during the following missions.
Thule. The most sinceNorthern US military facility located far beyond the Arctic Circle. It operates an early intrusion detection system capable of detecting any intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from Russia. To prevent the occurrence of difficulties during the operation of this base, it was built on a thick ice floe, and the entire electrical wiring and sewerage system was laid through the air, thus remaining always relatively warm and freely accessible.
Kwajalein Atoll.The Pacific base is located on more than 11 islands leased from the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This is an ideal location as it is completely isolated and free from radio communication systems that interfere. The workers who run the base and maintain the ballistic missiles have to travel long distances to get to different parts of the base, since the housing complex is not on every island.
It's no secret that there are more than one secret laboratory operating in the world today. Some labs develop projects designed to improve the world, while others improve new high-tech products before entering the market. In this review, we will lift the veil of secrecy over what is happening behind the closed doors of the secret laboratories of world famous companies.
1.Google X
Created in 2010, Google's research and development center, called Google X, is located in an unremarkable brick building near the company's headquarters. It is intended for the development of the so-called "Moonshot" technologies (the most incredible projects that require huge costs). Self-driving cars and Google Glas are two of the lab's most famous examples.
Today, Google X is developing about 100 projects, such as, for example, Internet-connected light bulbs and worker robots to perform routine tasks at home and in the office. Google X is also experimenting with the spread of the Internet (speeds up to 10 megabits per second) in remote areas of the world through a network of hot air balloons.
2. Apple Lab
At Apple's secret lab in Berlin, about 20 employees with technical, software, hardware and sales backgrounds are working on a self-driving car version for their company. They are assisted in this by the automaker Magna, which also manufactures parts for BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Moreover, the team is assisted from time to time by automotive experts from Tesla, Ford and Mercedes-Benz.
3. Amazon Lab
Amazon's secret lab in Cambridge, England, is improving drone delivery of orders 30 minutes after purchase. For the production of drones, 3D printing technology is used to speed up the process. Such Amazon Prime Service Air UAVs are able to rise to a height of 122 meters, where they use GPS to find the place of delivery and fly to it, delivering cargo weighing up to 2 kg at a distance of up to 24 km. At the same time, a special system allows them to avoid collision with obstacles.
4. Samsung Lab
To showcase the innovation program of its Creative Lab, Samsung announced three inventions at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show: a smart belt, a motion controller, and a smart watch band. The belt, dubbed WELT, tracks the wearer's waist size and also monitors the wearer's eating habits, how many steps they walk and how much time they spend sitting. Rink's motion controller is worn on the arm and allows its wearer to experience "a more intuitive and subtle way to interact with virtual reality." The TIPtalk watch allows the wearer to hear phone calls better in noisy environments. You just need to touch your finger to your ear.
5. Telstra Lab
Based in New South Wales, Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company, has built a fully shielded room in its secret lab, designed to block out all interference for perfect environment testing. Mobile lab tests and software updates help the company prevent costly mistakes. The purpose of testing is quality control.
6. eBay Lab
eBay's secret lab in San Jose, California is helping to revolutionize brick-and-mortar stores by enabling them to shop online. Known as Batcave, the lab and its 17 employees have already helped fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff, for example, open boutiques in New York and San Francisco equipped with technology such as smart locker rooms. The highlight of the boutiques will be a $300,000 5.2-meter "iWall" that will instantly respond to touch like a giant smartphone.
7. IKEA Lab
The Butchers' District in Copenhagen may seem like an odd place for a company lab, but this is where IKEA built "Space 10" - a center for research and exhibitions. Space 10 brings together artists, designers and technicians to develop various prototypes that are shown at exhibitions and workshops.
8. Laboratory feces
The Russian government once oversaw a secret fecal analysis lab. During the regime of Joseph Stalin, the Chekists collected the feces of Mao Tse-tung and other famous personalities, analyzing these excrement in order to "build psychological portraits" of people. Igor Atamanenko, a former Soviet agent, uncovered the project while researching the archives of the Russian secret service. The stool researchers believed they could get an idea of the psyche of those in whom the intelligence officers were interested. For example, a high level of tryptophan meant that the person was calm and available for recruitment. On the other hand, a lack of potassium was seen as a sign of nerves and insomnia. Nikita Khrushchev froze the project and closed the secret laboratory.
9. Thomas Jefferson Laboratory
As Matt Scheidt, head of the renovation project at the University of Virginia, said, he always wanted to know why the university's rotunda had such thick walls. When he crawled through a hole in one of the walls, he discovered a chemistry lab made by Thomas Jefferson. The laboratory was built in the 1820s, towards the end of the rotunda, and was walled up in 1840, due to the introduction of more advanced teaching methods. As a result, she was forgotten until October 2015.
10. Laboratory of Hedy Lamarr
Not only was Hedy Lamarr a beautiful and successful star of Hollywood's Golden Age, she was also an amateur scientist who set up a "secret lab" in her bedroom. When Hedy lived in Germany, she was married to an arms dealer from whom she learned a lot about technology. After she moved to the United States due to the outbreak of World War II, she wanted to do her part to help with the war. Knowing that torpedo signals were often drowned out, she and composer George Antheil invented the technology of "jumping frequencies" that were almost impossible to jam. Today, this technology is still used in Wi-Fi, mobile phones and Bluetooth technology.
Continuing the theme of the mysterious, we will talk about. Really fantastic information.
Once hidden under a playground, under a parking lot and still surrounded by apartment buildings, the Fuhrer Bunker has ceased to be a mysterious place for millions of people. An official stand has appeared at the site of the secret site from where Adolf Hitler watched the collapse of the Third Reich in the last days of World War II. “This is one of the most emblematic places in Berlin regarding the crimes committed by the Nazis, and we want people to know the whole truth about it,” said historian Sven Felix Kellerhoff, author of the book “The Fuhrer's Bunker. Hitler's last refuge." According to scientists, it was in this bunker that the German dictator committed suicide on April 30, 1945, a few days before the Nazis surrendered.
On the installed plate is written "Myth and historical evidence: the Fuhrer's Bunker." It also contains information with precise plans, graphics, historical photographs and the chronology of the war in German and English. “The stand will give history-minded tourists from all over the world the opportunity to pinpoint where this important site is located, despite its negative past,” said members of the historical society Berliner Unterwelten, which conducts tours of Berlin's underground bomb shelters and advocated for the location of the bunker to be made public.
“This is one of the most emblematic places in Berlin, telling about the crimes of the Nazis. We want to make sure that people know the whole truth about it and do not create legends and interpretations,” says organization director Dietmar Arnold. Previously, city officials had been hesitant to reveal the location of the bunker, believing that the site of Hitler's death might attract right-wing extremists.
The opening event of the historic plate was attended by 89-year-old Rochus Misch, a former SS master sergeant who was Hitler's bodyguard during the war. “For the last 12 days of the war, I was here with Hitler and other bodyguards,” Misch said, pointing to the historic site. “After the Soviet troops completely captured the territory adjacent to the bunker, Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. The Fuhrer asked that his body be cremated in order to prevent the Soviet troops from taking him away with them. Therefore, two bodies were transported from the bunker and burned,” he said.
After the war, Soviet troops blew up the underground shelter, and for several decades the bunker stood in disrepair. In the 1980s, the foundation and the remaining rooms were covered with rubble, and the entrance to the shelter was blocked.
Secret Laboratory
You managed to thwart Hitler's plan and deprive Germany of the last hope of victory by taking possession of the blueprints and information about the testing of nuclear weapons. You must deliver them to the headquarters of the Soviet Army at any cost. The way out of the Bunker leads through a secret Laboratory, where the Nazis are conducting merciless experiments on Russian prisoners, testing bacteriological weapons on them.
To successfully complete the mission, you will be forced to wage a bloody war within the walls of the Secret Laboratory, having in your arsenal two TT-33 pistols, a furious Schmeiser, a devastating six-barreled MG-69 cannon and a lethal rocket launcher.
In 1929, some newspapers of Koenigsberg allowed themselves to criticize the Nazis, but this phrase sounded somehow stifled, muffled. Although, for the sake of objectivity, even at that time there were journalists who, without fear, exposed the Nazi gatherings.
One of these journalists lived in the Steindam area, jokingly, her name was Golden Pen. She was well guarded by the Telmonites, although she had nothing to do with the labor movement and the communists. The last straw that overwhelmed the patience of the Nazis was her devastating article about Adolf Hitler's speech in the city's largest hall, the Stathalle. Hitler, who was speaking, had a cold, and this speech could not be called successful. After all, Prussia is not the south of Germany and not its center: here you can’t perform in the open air for a long time and, communicating with the people easily, you can’t ride in an open car while standing, and then drink cold beer with your party comrades. Hitler ignored these recommendations and became hoarse.
The journalist Golden Pen noticed this and ridiculed it angrily. The phrase Give him the city for her meant nothing.
Sources: otvet.mail.ru, uamobi.com, films.imhonet.ru, nlo-mir.ru, sites.google.com
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Photo: Grigory Mairanovsky
It is very painful to write about laboratories marked with the mysterious "X" sign and engaged in the manufacture of murderous drugs at all stages of the activity of the Soviet security agencies. Especially when it comes to people with scientific degrees and titles, acting as executioners.
Pavel Sudoplatov and other authors indicate that the toxicological laboratory was established in 1921 under the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V.I. Lenin, long before Beria, and was called the "Special Cabinet". It is not ruled out that Lenin asked Stalin to get him poison from the available stocks in this laboratory - "office".
Such a statement is based on the ongoing post-revolutionary studies of poisons in Russia in the early 20s, headed by Professor Ignatius Kazakov. Interest in the ongoing research was shown by the leaders of the Soviet security agencies - the chairman of the OGPU V. Menzhinsky, his deputy, and later - People's Commissar of Internal Affairs G. Yagoda.
The research laboratory was formally located at the All-Union Institute of Biology of Academician Bach.
Various sources do not exclude that one of the experiments in the use of drugs in a special operation was associated with the abduction of the head of the Russian All-Military Union, General Kutepov, in Paris in January 1930. The executors of the operation were the "Yasha group" - a special group of senior major Yakov Serebryansky under the chairman of the OGPU.
In broad daylight, the general was pushed into a car in an unconscious state and taken to Marseille aboard a Soviet steamer. However, the weak heart of the old soldier could not stand it, and after an injection of morphine made to him, he died almost on the roadstead of Novorossiysk. Seven years later, the same “Yasha group”, using narcotic substances, under deep anesthesia, kidnapped and took Kutepov’s successor, General Miller, from the French port of Le Havre, who was taken to Lubyanka and shot in 1939.
In December 1937, Kazakov, the first head of the laboratory, was arrested "for participating in a counter-revolutionary anti-Soviet organization" and in 1938, in the course of the trial of the anti-Soviet Right-Trotskyist bloc (the Bukharin-Rykov trial, etc.), he was sentenced to death. He was charged with the murder of the chairman of the OGPU V. Menzhinsky, the chairman of the Supreme Economic Council V. Kuibyshev and the writer M. Gorky on the orders of G. Yagoda. This was the first experience of creating a sinister image of murderous doctors, when Kazakov, along with his "accomplices" Levin and Pletnev, were sentenced to death and shot two days later.
In 1935, under the leadership of senior major of state security Yakov Serebryansky, a laboratory for the use of poisons and drugs operated, which was directly subordinate to the head of the NKVD. The subsequent arrest of Serebryansky in November 1938 led to the dissolution of the laboratory.
From the summer of 1937, as part of the 12th Department of the GUGB of the NKVD until 1951, the head of the toxicological laboratory (Laboratory - "X") of a special unit engaged in research in the field of toxic substances and poisons was Grigory Moiseevich Mairanovsky.
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Where did this terrible man come from?
He was born in 1899 in Batumi in a large middle-class family. After graduating from high school in 1917, he entered the Tiflis Medical Institute, where he joined the Jewish socialist organization Bund. Then he moved to Baku, where one of his brothers was listed among the leaders of the local "Bundists".
Grigory Mainarovsky continued to study at the university. Convinced that the Bolsheviks were against the Bund, he quickly got his bearings and in April 1920 joined the RCP(b). The ambitious young man directed all his efforts to prove his loyalty to the new government. For almost two years he worked in one of the departments of the bush industry of the Council of People's Commissars of the Azerbaijan SSR.
In 1922, G. Mainarovsky moved to Moscow, where he completed his studies at the medical faculty of the 2nd Moscow State University. He worked as a doctor, assistant of the university department, head of the outpatient clinic. Soon he was offered the head of the toxicological department at the Biochemical Institute of the Central Sanitary and Chemical Institute of the People's Commissariat of Health.
In 1937, Mainarovsky's research group from the Institute of Biochemistry, headed by Academician Bach, was transferred to the NKVD and transferred to the direct subordination of the head of the special department of operational equipment at the commandant's office of the NKVD-MGB ... The secrecy of the laboratory was ensured by serious control over the involvement of its employees in the operations of special services. Access to the laboratory was strict even for the leadership of the NKVD-MGB, which was regulated by the Regulations approved by the government and orders from the NKVD-MGB ... The Minister of State Security or his first deputy directly supervised the work of the laboratory. And the work there was carried out exclusively with poisons. And not at all for treatment, but for testing prisoners sentenced to capital punishment or killing those who, by decision of the government, were subject to secret liquidation.
In 1940 Mairanovsky defended his doctoral dissertation at VIEM on the topic "The biological effect of products in the interaction of mustard gas with the skin." However, the Higher Attestation Commission under the Committee for Higher Education did not approve the decision to award the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences, considering that the dissertation needs to be improved.
Meanwhile, in 1943, on the proposal of the People's Commissar of State Security V. Merkulov, a petition was filed to confer on Mairanovsky the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences and the title of professor on the basis of the totality of works without defending a dissertation. The petition stated that “during his work in the NKVD, Comrade Mairanovsky completed 10 secret works of great operational importance (quote from the Encyclopedia of Secret Services of Russia, M., 2004, p. 609).
In the same 1943 Mayranovsky received the rank of colonel of the medical service.
One fact can serve as an example of the "importance of secret operational work" mentioned by the minister. In 1942, while experimenting with poisons on those sentenced to death, Mairanovsky revealed that when using certain doses of the drug, the “experimental” begins to speak exclusively frankly. The leadership seized on this "discovery" and approved of dealing with the "problem of frankness" during interrogations. After all, this made it possible to obtain additional material for the investigation. Similar experiments were carried out for several years. In those cases when the arrest seemed inconvenient to the top authorities, Mairanovsky's technology was used.
So did the head of the Foreign Department of the GUGB Abram Slutsky. In February 1938, he died suddenly in the office of Deputy People's Commissar Mikhail Frinovsky. According to the perpetrators of the murder, he was given an injection of potassium cyanide. This was the period of the beginning of the purge of intelligence, when its foreign employees began to be called to Moscow. Fearing to frighten off their victims, the organizers of the massacre arranged Slutsky's funeral with all honors. And "Pravda" placed an obituary in which it wrote that he "died at a military post."
Much has been written about the Wallenberg case. But I cannot but refer to the notes of General P. Sudoplatov, who knew the KGB kitchen well, and in particular, the appointment of "Laboratory-X". The general wrote that at the beginning of July 1947, the case of Raoul Wallenberg reached a dead end. He refused to cooperate with Soviet intelligence and was not needed either as a witness to secret political games or as a hostage. The Nuremberg Trials were over by then.
Sudoplatov suggested that the now world-famous Righteous Among the Nations, who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, a prisoner of the Soviet authorities, Raoul Wallenberg, was transferred to the special cell of "Laboratory-X", where he was given a lethal injection under the guise of treatment. Meanwhile, the country's leadership continued to assure the Swedes that they knew nothing about the whereabouts and fate of Wallenberg.
The medical service of the prison, of course, had absolutely no idea about what had happened and the death was recorded in the usual manner.
However, Minister of State Security Abakumov, who apparently knew about the real cause of Wallenberg's death, forbade the autopsy of the body and ordered him to be cremated. (See: P. Sudoplatov. "Intelligence and the Kremlin", p. 322).
The zeal of the head of "Laboratory-X" Mairanovsky was encouraged in every possible way by the top authorities. At the beginning of 1942, when the 4th Directorate of the NKVD was created to organize sabotage groups and special agents in the occupied territory, headed by Sudoplatov and his deputy Eitingon, the Directorate was given a special department of the NKVD of the USSR, which was engaged in the development of sabotage equipment. To study and research this technique, it included the department of toxicology and biology, engaged in the study and research of all kinds of poisons. The work of the department was carried out according to the themes and plans approved at the time by the first deputy. People's Commissar Merkulov and Beria.
Poisons developed by Mairanovsky and his collaborators were used during the war years by sabotage groups and special agents in the German rear against the invaders. For this, the head of "Laboratory-X" was awarded military orders and even received a medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War." This "valiant partisan", according to the caustic remark of the historian and journalist Mikhail Nordshtein, who had never been behind enemy lines, "reveled in prosperity."
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Mairanovsky's poisons worked flawlessly. The "great and wise leader" seriously thought about using them to eliminate the objectionable and disobedient Yugoslav President Tito. Stalin planned to involve the Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia, I. Grigulevich, who was supposed to kill the Yugoslav leader with a poisoned ring. (See: I. Bunin. "Operation "Thunderstorm", vol. 2. St. Petersburg., 1994, p. 429).
In 1947, at the initiative of N. Khrushchev, who was then a member of the Politburo and the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Yuri Teodor Romzha, archbishop of the Mukachevo diocese, was liquidated. The sharp dissatisfaction of the party leader caused the influence of Romzha on the believers. Khrushchev and Minister of State Security of Ukraine S. Savchenko in 1947 appealed to Stalin and Minister of State Security of the USSR Abakumov with a request to authorize the assassination of the bishop. Accusing him of collaborating with the underground Ukrainian national movement and the "secret emissaries" of the Vatican, presenting everything as a serious threat to political stability in the region that recently became part of the USSR. Stalin's order followed: "Remove".
The employees of the State Security Service organized a car accident, but Romzha survived, although he was seriously wounded and taken to the Mukachevo hospital. After that, the Minister of State Security of Ukraine Serhiy Savchenko and Grigory Mairanovsky arrived there. The latter's mission was to hand over an ampoule of curara to the nurse-agent of the MGB. She did the fatal injection.
P. Sudoplatov points to four facts known to him of the liquidation of persons dangerous to the Soviet state, carried out with the participation of Mairanovsky in 1946-1947. One of them concerned the prominent leader of the Ukrainian national movement A. Shumsky. Repressed in 1930, later released for health reasons, he was in exile in Saratov, where he established contacts with emigrant organizations. To eliminate him, Mairanovsky was sent to Saratov as part of a special group. After that, the official conclusion stated that Shumsky died in the hospital from heart failure.
Mairanovsky also committed his vile deed against a Polish Jew who was interned in 1939 after the entry of Soviet troops into Western Ukraine. An engineer by profession, Samet was engaged in secret work on the use of captured German equipment on Soviet submarines, which gave a significant advantage in the duration of their stay under water. Samet contacted the British and was about to leave for Mandatory Palestine. To prevent this, Soviet intelligence tried to introduce its agent into Samet's entourage and control his connections with foreigners. Eitingon was sent to Ulyanovsk. Soon Mairanovsky arrived there together with an agent, a doctor at the factory polyclinic, who gave Samet an injection of curare poison during a preventive examination.
The fate of the American communist Isaac Oggins was not easy. Arriving in the USSR on a fake Czechoslovak passport, he sincerely sympathized with communist ideas and was an unofficial member of the US Communist Party. Oggins was an old agent of the Comintern and the NKVD in a number of countries in the Far East and the USA. His wife Nora was part of the NKVD intelligence network in America and Western Europe, assisting in the maintenance of safe houses for Soviet agents in France and the USA in 1938-1941.
In 1938, Oggins was arrested on suspicion of double-dealing and "Trotskyism". Pleading not guilty, Oggins was nonetheless sentenced to eight years in the camps. For some time his wife believed that her husband's presence there was due to operational considerations, but then she realized that he was under arrest.
After the end of the war, Nora turned to the American authorities with a request to find out the whereabouts and release her husband. However, the deterioration of relations between the two countries due to the failure of the Soviet intelligence network in the US and Canada in 1946-1947. aroused Molotov's fears that if Oggins was released, the Americans could bring him to the Commission to investigate un-American activities and use him as a witness against the US Communist Party. In addition, the Soviet secret services suspected Nora Oggins of establishing links with the FBI, which harmed Soviet agents in the United States and France.
Under these conditions, Abakumov proposed the liquidation of Oggins, approved by Stalin and Molotov. I didn't have to look for an artist. In 1947, Mairanovsky, during a medical examination, gave Oggins, who was in prison, a fatal injection. Sudoplatov and Eitingon were instructed to organize the funeral at the Jewish cemetery in Penza. At the same time, for some reason, the date of burial was issued in 1944 or 1945. (See: P. Sudoplatov. Decree. worker, pp. 331-332).
In 1992, General Dm. Volkogonov presented to the US Congress a list of Americans who died in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, as well as during the Cold War, and expressed regret on behalf of President Yeltsin in connection with their death. Oggins was on the list as well. They liquidated him, according to Volkogonov, so that he could not tell the truth about the situation in Soviet prisons and concentration camps.
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"All the work of "Laboratory-X", not only scientific, was well known both to those who were investigating the case of Beria and Abakumov, and to the government and the Central Committee of the party, who observed and directed the course of the investigation into these cases and determined its content. (See: P. Sudoplatov. "Intelligence and the Kremlin", p. 329).
In 1951 Mairanovsky was arrested as a member of the "Zionist conspiracy" in the MGB. According to Sudoplatov, the senior investigator of the Investigative Unit for Particularly Important Cases, the notorious Ryumin, managed to extract "incredible testimony" from Mairanovsky (later he retracted it), and from the arrested deputy head of the secretariat, Abakumov Broverman. But soon the arrested Ryumin was removed from his post, arrested and shot. It was completely impossible to use the materials obtained by him. The ongoing investigation established that the human experiments were carried out in accordance with the procedure established by the government and the Ministry of State Security.
As for the head of the toxicological laboratory, his testimony was not supported by the confessions of the doctors arrested in the Abakumov case, who had no idea about the existence of this secret laboratory. All experiments with poisons on those sentenced to death were carried out by Mairanovsky in accordance with the instructions of the government and the procedures established by the MGB.
Mairanovsky got off with a 10-year prison term for illegal possession of poisonous substances and abuse of office.
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Since 1952, the use of poisons resumed without the participation of Mairanovsky, but, as always, was regulated by the relevant government instructions.
In the meantime, "Laboratory-X" and other similar institutions in the 60s, which received the name of special laboratory number 12 of the Institute of Special and New Technologies, continued to improve the technology of poisoning. In the arsenal of the Lubyanka, substances appeared that penetrate the body from clothes soaked with them.
In October 1957, the main ideologist of the People's Labor Union, Lev Rebet, died of sudden cardiac arrest in Munich.
In 1959, Bogdan Stashinsky in Munich killed Stepan Bandera at the door of his apartment with a poison capsule. Stashinsky was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, which was personally presented to him by the chairman of the KGB, Shelepin. But two years later, Stashinsky fled to the West and told reporters about everything.
The murder weapon was a device in the form of an aluminum tube that sprays an aerosol of potassium cyanide when a button is pressed. Today, this is how an ordinary bottle of eau de toilette works, but then it was a technical novelty that was used to kill a person. Why not progress?!
The service record of the former KGB general Kalugin, who headed the K department (foreign counterintelligence) in the First Headquarters, also included at least two murders. This department was engaged in the liquidation of defectors. Kalugin even received the Order of the Red Banner for the kidnapping of a Soviet defector in Vienna and his liquidation, carried out using toxicological drugs.
As head of the foreign intelligence service of the KGB, Kalugin advised Bulgarian intelligence on the operation to eliminate the dissident writer Markov, who was killed in London, where he worked in 1978 for the BBC. He was pricked in the leg with the tip of an umbrella by a "passerby". After a while, Markov's temperature rose, and his blood pressure dropped sharply, and four days later he died of heart failure. Similarly, another Bulgarian dissident, Vladimir Kostov, was assassinated in Paris. He developed similar symptoms, after two days the fever began to subside, but upon learning of Markov's death, he went to the doctor. He underwent surgery and removed the capsule, in which British experts found traces of ricin. Then they decided to re-examine Markov's body and found the same capsule in him.
There were other ways to kill people. The unsuspecting owner of a personal car took hold of the smeared door handle, opened it, got in and drove off, and two days later he was taken to the hospital, where he was dying of a "heart attack".
Mairanovsky also recalled experiments with a pillow poisoned with poison. And also about how a person was given large doses of sleeping pills, after which the doomed person, having fallen into a dream, no longer woke up.
Filimonov, Grigoriev, Blokhin, Osinkin and others, together with Mairanovsky, were present during experiments with various poisons, a total of 20 scientists. The list of victims of secret poisonings, sanctioned from above, was quite long. Not all laboratory staff could withstand the devilish work with poisons. Some committed suicide, others experienced severe psychological disorders ...
And only Mairanovsky himself was not tormented by conscience. By his own admission, he killed 104 people, although after the death of Beria and his accomplices, more than 250 people were called during interrogations. He tested the effects of this or that poison mainly on prisoners under Article 58.
“We gave poisons,” he admitted, “through food, various drinks, injected poisons with injections with a syringe, cane, pen and other piercing, specially equipped objects.” Poisons were also injected through the skin, sprinkling and watering it.
In one of the Internet materials, he is called "Stalin's Mengele." Even while in prison, Mairanovsky continued to advise the "authorities". As a specialist poisoner, he was taken several times from Vladimir Special Prison No. 2 to Moscow. The restless Grigory Moiseevich tried in every possible way to achieve release, offering services to improve work with poisons in the USSR. From the Vladimir prison solitude in April 1953, Mairanovsky wrote to the then all-powerful Beria about his "merits" and the mistake made towards him.
"I destroyed more than a dozen sworn enemies of the Soviet government, including nationalists of every kind (and Jewish ones) - this is known to Lieutenant General P.A. mighty motherland."
It is possible that Beria could release Grigory Moiseevich, but was soon arrested himself. And Mairanovsky's statements were used by the prosecutor's office against Beria himself, Abakumov and Merkulov. This time Mairanovsky was presented as an accomplice of Beria, who hatched plans to eliminate the country's leadership with the help of poisons.
The revision of the Mairanovsky case, despite all his efforts, did not take place.
After serving a full ten-year term, he was released in December 1961. The efforts for rehabilitation did not give a positive result. He was arrested again and remained in prison until the end of 1962. As a result, his release ended with an order to leave Moscow within 24 hours, and a ban on settling in central cities. The former professor, colonel, was suggested the place of his future work: a provincial biochemical laboratory in Makhachkala. However, he did not have a chance to manage this institution for long. In 1964, "doctor death" died suddenly from acute heart failure. Just like hundreds of people died in his laboratories. An ominous coincidence? Or…
"Laboratories-X" under other names still exist today. Their activities extend both to the Russian Federation and to the near and far abroad ... The former high-ranking officer of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service Alexander Kuzminov, an employee of the secret department "C", voluntarily resigned from the authorities in 1992, and a year and a half later he legally emigrated with his family to one of the foreign countries. He defended his doctoral dissertation on international legislation in the field of biotechnology. His book "Biological espionage - special operations of Soviet and Russian foreign intelligence in the West" was published in London.
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The question is legitimate: is the use of drugs or poisons justified in the fight against terrorism? Of course, the death sentence or the destruction of even the most notorious terrorist should be carried out only in strict accordance with the requirements of the law. However, the danger of using such a powerful weapon by the ruling regime to destroy unwanted people, political opponents and rivals, as was the case in the history of the Soviet country, must be ruled out. Weekly "Secret" (velelens.livejournal.com)
Some projects of secret laboratories are aimed at improving the world and humanitarian goals. Others aim to develop new high-tech products for market launch. Others may have completely different tasks. Before you is a dozen secret laboratories, demonstrating the whole variety of work carried out behind closed doors.
Founded in 2010, this research facility is housed in a nondescript brick building next to the company's main office. The mission of Google X is to develop space technologies, incredible projects that require impressive investments. Self-driving cars and Google Glasses are two of the lab's most prominent examples. Eric "Astro" Teller, head of the Google X research center, said: "We will take on anything that could be a serious problem on the scale of humanity, if it is in our power to solve it."
Two of the nearly 100 secret lab ideas currently being worked on at Google X involve internet-connected light bulbs and robotic workers that could do basic office and household chores. By and large, robots will be able to go to work, and people just stay at home.
Google X is also experimenting with high-altitude networked balloons to bring internet to the farthest corners of the earth. A fleet of such balloons will broadcast Internet services supported by unmanned devices capable of launching a new balloon every half hour. During the last tests, the balloons were in the air for 187 days. The experiment, known as Project Loon, successfully transmitted data between balloons at a distance of 100 km in the stratospheric layers of the atmosphere, providing a connection speed of up to 10 megabits per second.
At Apple's secret lab in Berlin, 20 employees with expertise in engineering, programming, hardware and sales are working to create their version of the self-driving car. The end result of their collaboration could be assembled from Magna parts, which also make parts for BMW and Mercedes-Benz.
The team's efforts are supported from time to time by automotive experts from Tesla, Ford, and Mercedes-Benz. According to plans, the self-propelled Apple car will be presented to the public in 2019 or 2020.
Amazon's secret lab in Cambridge, England, is working on developing courier drones capable of delivering packages to homes in as little as half an hour. The use of 3D printing technology significantly speeds up the production process. Thanks to GPS technology, Amazon Prime Air Service drones can fly up to 122 meters high, recognize tags and deliver cargo using the "sense and avoid" system, which helps aircraft avoid obstacles on his way.
The unmanned aerial device will be under the supervision of a "security operator". If the drone detects an insurmountable obstacle while searching for a path to deliver the package, it will be forced to cancel the mission and land in order to avoid a collision. Parcels weighing up to 2 kg can be delivered up to 24 km.
At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Creative Lab shared three of its latest innovations: smart belt, motion controller and smart watchband.
The WELT strap monitors its owner, measures the size of his wrist, monitors his eating habits, activity, number of steps and the amount of time spent sitting in one place. The motion controller, based on the principle of a hand-worn roller, allows its wearer to experience "a more intuitive and detailed way of interacting with virtual reality." The TipTalk watch allows its wearer to hear phone calls better in noisy environments. All you have to do is just touch your ear with your finger.
Located in New South Wales, the secret laboratory of the Australian telecommunications company Telstra consists of several departments and premises. Among them is a shielded room to cancel out any interference so that you can test your products in ideal conditions. There is also a "blue room" in which the walls are covered with carbon-filled micro-cones. From this premises, Telstra works to address issues affecting rural and regional communities. The lab tests mobile devices and software to prevent costly errors.
eBay's secret lab in San Jose, California is revolutionizing the world of online shopping. The eBay Research Center works with stores that serve customers both virtually and on the premises. The laboratory, also known as the Bat Cave, employs 17 people. Her projects include collaborations with fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff, for whom eBay is helping to open new boutiques in New York and San Francisco using technology solutions such as smart fitting rooms. The mirrors in these booths will display style and size guides, but the main highlight of the boutiques will be the 5-meter "iWall" that responds to touch like a touch screen in a giant smartphone. This "wall" cost Rebecca Minkoff $300,000.
In addition, the lab has developed a "connected kiosk" located at Simon Property Group's shopping center in Palo Alto, California. This kiosk works like a large touch screen and helps visitors to the center navigate the stores, as well as find and order products.
Copenhagen's meat-packing district may seem like an odd place for a corporate lab, but that's where IKEA has based its Space 10 research center. Space 10 lab brings together artists, designers, and technologists to develop a variety of prototypes on display at the corporation's trade shows and workshops.
In addition to the 3D-printed fake meatball, the lab has produced crunchy insect balls (Crispy Bug Ball, a provocative delicacy), a veggie roll (Urban Farmer’s Ball) and a food scrap ball (Wonderful Waste Ball). These innovations are designed to tell about revolutionary trends in the food industry, including the cultivation of meat and edible algae in the laboratory. This 3-D technology for the production of nutritional supplements (protein based on algae, beet leaves or insects) is designed to meet the expectations and growing needs of consumers.
Other projects the Space 10 secret lab is hard at work on include a high-tech hydroponic farm and advanced tools (such as laser knives and 3-D printers) for recycling waste.
Fecaloid Laboratory
Incredibly, once in the USSR there was a secret laboratory for the analysis of feces. During the regime of Joseph Stalin, the secret police collected the excrement of Mao Zedong and other important personalities, analyzing their excrement to create "psychological portraits". Igor Atamanenko, a former Soviet agent, uncovered this laboratory while researching the archives of the Russian secret service.
Thomas Jefferson Laboratory
As a project manager involved in the reconstruction of the Rotunda of the University of Virginia, Matt Scheid (Matt Scheidt) wanted to know the thickness of the walls and drilled a hole in it, as a result of which he discovered a chemical laboratory organized by Thomas Jefferson himself. The laboratory was built in the 1820s after the completion of the Rotunda. In 1840 it was fenced off with a wall. As a result, she survived both the fire of 1895 and the overhaul of the building in 1970.
Until October 2015, when Shade infiltrated the Rotunda, the lost laboratory remained secret and unknown to the scientific world. As one of the few such ancient birthplaces of chemical laboratories, Jefferson's Secret Laboratory has become part of the Rotunda Tour Center exhibit.
Laboratory Hedy Lamar (Hedy Lamarr)
Heidi Lamar was not just a beautiful and successful actress from Hollywood's golden age, she was also an amateur scientist who ran a secret laboratory in her bedroom. While living in Germany, she was married to an arms magnate, from whom Heidi peeped some of the technological aspects of his business. After she moved to the United States and with the outbreak of World War II, Heidi wanted to make her own contribution to the fight against the aggressors.
Realizing that torpedo signals were often jammed by enemies, Heidi and composer George Antheil, inspired by piano music, developed and patented a frequency that could "change and switch like a pianist", making torpedoes immune to interference. Their frequency is still used in modern technologies such as Wi-Fi, mobile telephony and Bluetooth.
