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Deep investigation into Fort Detrick would be 'interesting,' says expert

Xinhua | Updated: 2021-07-23 15:33

Military personnel stand guard outside the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in 2002. [OLIVIER DOULIERY/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE]

Moreover, Kinzer noted MK-ULTRA was just the tip of the iceberg of what was conducted in Fort Detrick, and a detailed analysis of what happened there "would be fascinating,"

"It is still the center of all American biowarfare research," he noted, adding biowarfare is "sharply limited by international agreements."

Kinzer's remarks come amid growing support to advance the study of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 globally and opposition to politicizing the origins issue.

In mid-July, permanent representatives of 48 countries to the United Nations Office at Geneva wrote a letter to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in which they stressed the importance of cooperation on the study of origin-tracing, and that such study is "a matter of science, and should be conducted around the world by scientists."

Following the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, an online petition submitted to the White House website last year demanded the US government explain the real reason for the closure of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, which has a history of multiple accidents, and clarify whether there was a virus leak from its Fort Detrick lab.

Furthermore, on many occasions, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has called for a thorough probe into the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, and problems existing in Fort Detrick and over 200 US bio-labs overseas.

"Here are questions for the United States to answer: What is the link between Fort Detrick and the unexplained outbreaks of respiratory disease including EVALI? Why hasn't the United States invited the WHO in for an investigation into Fort Detrick? Why can't origins study be conducted in the United States just as in China? The United States should show transparency and tell as much as they know about all the questions and respond to the concerns of the outside world," Zhao said.

Kinzer said "Fort Detrick is a major military institution, MK-ULTRA was a tiny operation."

"Those guys didn't even say: We were coming from the CIA. They have kind of a code-name working for some projects. It was highly secret even to people that worked in Fort Detrick," he said.

"If there ever is the need for the US to develop a bioweapon, it would certainly be made in Fort Detrick," Kinzer said. "That's the only place where it could be made, that's where all scientists are, that's where all the toxins are."

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