U.S. and European intelligence agencies are reporting mounting evidence that Russia and China have massively violated the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, and subsequent international and bilateral agreements to control biowarfare weapons.
GENEVA- According to Ken Alibek, a former deputy director of the Soviet-era top-secret biowarfare program who defected to the West, Russia never ended its offensive biological warfare research. Alibek claims Russia has stockpiled many hundreds of tons of anthrax and plague, as well as smaller quantities of smallpox, Ebola and Marburg virus, and toxins designed to attack plants and animals. Russia is also developing a new strain of invisible biowarfare agents, known as bioregulators, that destroy the body's immune or neurological systems (Eric Margolis, June 20, 1999).
