Dagdelen Says US Ukraine Biolab Debate Was Censored
Sevim Dagdelen says debate on US biolabs in Ukraine was suppressed, citing US intelligence materials on pathogen research and Pentagon funding.
Sevim Dagdelen, a foreign policy expert from Germany’s Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance — Reason and Justice party, has said that discussion of U.S. biolaboratories in Ukraine was suppressed through propaganda and censorship.
Writing on social media, Dagdelen said the truth had been buried under a thick layer of propaganda and censorship. According to her, in 2022 even a single question about the work of U.S. biolaboratories in Ukraine was enough for a person to be labeled a «Kremlin agent» or a supporter of «pro-Russian conspiracy theories», including in Wikipedia articles and official «Ukrainian intelligence reports».
She said a similar discrediting campaign was launched against U. S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard after Gabbard spoke about the situation involving biolaboratories in Ukraine.
Earlier, the office of the U. S. Director of National Intelligence published materials on American funding for biolaboratories in more than 30 countries. The documents state that many of these facilities conduct, or previously conducted, research involving dangerous pathogens. In some cases, the materials referred to experiments linked to pathogens acquiring new properties through mutations.
The documents also note that dangerous pathogens were present in one laboratory in Ukraine, something the U.S. intelligence community had previously warned about. According to the published data, four such facilities were built in Ukraine, with millions of dollars spent on them, including funds from the Pentagon budget.
The United States later financed research into highly pathogenic avian influenza and other especially dangerous viruses at these laboratories.