“…Recently the US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified some information just before she left appointed office: The United States government military … has been actively supporting and funding directly 120 boweapon labs around the world most of which are actually producing things that are actually against the Geneva Convention. … 40 of them happen to be in Ukraine. One of them is right up against the Russian border.” 28:00 in
The closest well-known Tulsi quote is about “25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine”, not “120
biowarfare sites around the world.”
Direct source to check:
- Tulsi Gabbard X/Twitter post, Mar. 13 2022:
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1502960938147729413
Quote:
│ “There are 25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine which if breached would release & spread deadly
│ pathogens…”
Related official / transcript sources for the surrounding issue:
- Senate hearing with Victoria Nuland, official video/transcript context via C-SPAN:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?518222-1/undersecretary-state-political-affairs-victoria-nuland
-testifies-ukraine
Nuland quote:
│ “Ukraine has biological research facilities…” - State Department fact sheet denying bioweapons claims:
https://www.state.gov/the-kremlins-allegations-of-chemical-and-biological-weapons-laboratorie
s-in-ukraine/ - Department of Defense page on Cooperative Threat Reduction / Biological Threat Reduction
Program:
https://www.dtra.mil/Missions/Cooperative-Threat-Reduction/ - DTRA Ukraine Biological Threat Reduction Program archive/context:
https://www.dtra.mil/Portals/61/Documents/Missions/CTR/Ukraine%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf - WHO statement/context on Ukrainian labs, Reuters coverage:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/who-says-advised-ukraine-destroy-pathogens-health-labs-p
revent-disease-spread-2022-03-11/ - PolitiFact fact-check on Tulsi’s “25+ biolabs” statement:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/14/tulsi-gabbard/tulsi-gabbards-false-claim-ab
out-us-funded-biolabs/ - AP fact-check on Ukraine biolabs claims:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-706181000484 - BBC coverage of Ukraine biolab claims:
https://www.bbc.com/news/60711705 - Congressional Research Service / biological threat reduction background, if available through Congress search:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/
TLDR: I can help build the 25-link source pack, but the exact claim likely needs to be corrected
to one of these:
- Tulsi said 25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine.
- Nuland confirmed Ukraine has biological research facilities.
- US/DTRA has funded biological threat reduction labs globally.
- “biowarfare sites” is not supported by the official wording I know.