1098 Soros call for NATO to train Ukrainian army secretly in Romania; promotes privatization "big bang" in Ukraine

Soros call for NATO to train Ukrainian army secretly in Romania;
promotes privatization "big bang" in Ukraine

Newsletter published on December 31, 2019

(1) Soros call for NATO to train Ukrainian army secretly in Romania;
promotes privatization "big bang" in Ukraine
(2) USA Taking Control over Biological Research in Ukraine (2018)

(1) Soros call for NATO to train Ukrainian army secretly in Romania;
promotes privatization "big bang" in Ukraine

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52773.htm

An American Oligarch‘s Dirty Tale of Corruption

By F. William Engdahl

December 29, 2019

"Information Clearing House" -

Rarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of
Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their
fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following comes from
correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire, now naturalized
American speculator, George Soros. The hacker group CyberBerkut has
published online letters allegedly written by Soros that reveal him not
only as puppet master of the US-backed Ukraine regime. They also reveal
his machinations with the US Government and the officials of the
European Union in a scheme where, if he succeeds, he could win billions
in the plunder of Ukraine assets. All, of course, would be at the
expense of Ukrainian citizens and of EU taxpayers.

What the three hacked documents reveal is a degree of behind-the-scene
manipulation of the most minute details of the Kiev regime by the New
York billionaire.

In the longest memo, dated March 15, 2015 and marked "Confidential"
Soros outlines a detailed map of actions for the Ukraine regime. Titled,
"A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine,"
the memo from Soros calls for steps to "restore the fighting capacity of
Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement." To do the restoring,
Soros blithely notes that "General Wesley Clark, Polish General
Skrzypczak and a few specialists under the auspices of the Atlantic
Council [emphasis added—f.w.e.] will advise President Poroshenko how to
restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk
agreement."

Soros also calls for supplying lethal arms to Ukraine and secretly
training Ukrainian army personnel in Romania to avoid direct NATO
presence in Ukraine. The Atlantic Council is a leading Washington
pro-NATO think tank.

Notably, Wesley Clark is also a business associate of Soros in BNK
Petroleum which does business in Poland.

Clark, some might recall, was the mentally-unstable NATO General in
charge of the 1999 bombing of Serbia who ordered NATO soldiers to fire
on Russian soldiers guarding the Pristina International Airport. The
Russians were there as a part of an agreed joint NATO–Russia
peacekeeping operation supposed to police Kosovo. The British Commander,
General Mike Jackson refused Clark, retorting, "I’m not going to start
the Third World War for you." Now Clark apparently decided to come out
of retirement for the chance to go at Russia directly.

Naked asset grab

In his March 2015 memo Soros further writes that Ukrainian President
Poroshenko’s "first priority must be to regain control of financial
markets," which he assures Poroshenko that Soros would be ready to
assist in: "I am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him
out about the swap agreement."

He also calls on the EU to give Ukraine an annual aid sum of €11 billion
via a special EU borrowing facility. Soros proposes in effect using the
EU’s "AAA" top credit rating to provide a risk insurance for investment
into Ukraine.

Whose risk would the EU insure?

Soros details, "I am prepared to invest up to €1 billion in Ukrainian
businesses. This is likely to attract the interest of the investment
community. As stated above, Ukraine must become an attractive investment
destination." Not to leave any doubt, Soros continues, "The investments
will be for-profit but I will pledge to contribute the profits to my
foundations. This should allay suspicions that I am advocating policies
in search of personal gain. "

For anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society
Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the world since the late
1980’s, will know that his supposedly philanthropic "democracy-building"
projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the 1990’s allowed Soros the
businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries using
Harvard University’s "shock therapy" messiah, and Soros associate,
Jeffrey Sachs, to convince the post-Soviet governments to privatize and
open to a "free market" at once, rather than gradually.

The example of Soros in Liberia is instructive for understanding the
seemingly seamless interplay between Soros the shrewd businessman and
Soros the philanthropist. In West Africa George Soros backed a former
Open Society employee of his, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
giving her international publicity and through his influence, even
arranging a Nobel Peace Prize for her in 2011, insuring her election as
president. Before her presidency she had been well-indoctrinated into
the Western free market game, studying economics at Harvard and working
for the US-controlled World Bank in Washington and the Rockefeller
Citibank in Nairobi. Before becoming Liberia’s President, she worked for
Soros directly as chair of his Open Society Initiative for West Africa
(OSIWA).

Once in office, President Sirleaf opened the doors for Soros to take
over major Liberian gold and base metals assets along with his partner,
Nathaniel Rothschild. One of her first acts as President was to also
invite the Pentagon’s new Africa Command, AFRICOM, into Liberia whose
purpose as a Liberian investigation revealed, was to "protect George
Soros and Rothschild mining operations in West Africa rather than
champion stability and human rights."

Naftogaz the target

The Soros memo makes clear he has his eyes on the Ukrainian state gas
and energy monopoly, Naftogaz. He writes, "The centerpiece of economic
reforms will be the reorganization of Naftogaz and the introduction of
market pricing for all forms of energy, replacing hidden subsidies…"

In an earlier letter Soros wrote in December 2014 to both President
Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Soros openly called for his
Shock Therapy: "I want to appeal to you to unite behind the reformers in
your government and give your wholehearted support to a radical, ‘big
bang’ type of approach. That is to say, administrative controls would be
removed and the economy would move to market prices rapidly rather than
gradually…Naftogaz needs to be reorganized with a big bang replacing the
hidden subsidies…"

Splitting Naftogaz into separate companies could allow Soros to take
control of one of the new branches and essentially privatize its
profits. He already suggested that he indirectly brought in US
consulting company, McKinsey, to advise Naftogaz on the privatization
"big bang."

The Puppet-Master?

The totality of what is revealed in the three hacked documents show that
Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most of the strings in
Kiev. Soros Foundation’s Ukraine branch, International Renaissance
Foundation (IRF) has been involved in Ukraine since 1989. His IRF doled
out more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall
of the Soviet Union, creating the preconditions for Ukraine’s
independence from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to financing the
2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that brought the current government
into power.

Soros’ foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange
Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into
power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department. In
2004 just weeks after Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation had
succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, Michael
McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post. McFaul, a specialist in
organizing color revolutions, who later became US Ambassador to Russia,
revealed:

Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The
American agents of influence would prefer different language to describe
their activities — democratic assistance, democracy promotion, civil
society support, etc. — but their work, however labeled, seeks to
influence political change in Ukraine. The U.S. Agency for International
Development, the National Endowment for Democracy and a few other
foundations sponsored certain U.S. organizations, including Freedom
House, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic
Institute, the Solidarity Center, the Eurasia Foundation, Internews and
several others to provide small grants and technical assistance to
Ukrainian civil society. The European Union, individual European
countries and the Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation did
the same.

Soros shapes ‘New Ukraine’

Today the CyberBerkut hacked papers show that Soros’ IRF money is behind
creation of a National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential
decree from Poroshenko which allows the Ukrainian president to push
bills through Ukraine’s legislature. Soros writes, "The framework for
bringing the various branches of government together has also emerged.
The National Reform Council (NRC) brings together the presidential
administration, the cabinet of ministers, the Rada and its committees
and civil society. The International Renaissance Foundation which is the
Ukrainian branch of the Soros Foundations was the sole financial
supporter of the NRC until now…"

Soros’ NRC in effect is the vehicle to allow the President to override
parliamentary debate to push through "reforms," with the declared first
priority being privatization of Naftogaz and raising gas prices
drastically to Ukrainian industry and households, something the bankrupt
country can hardly afford.

In his letter to Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, Soros hints that he played a
key role in selection of three key non-Ukrainian ministers—Natalia
Jaresko, an American ex- State Department official as Finance Minister;
Aivras Abromavicius of Lithuania as Economics Minister, and a health
minister from Georgia. Soros in his December 2014 letter, referring to
his proposal for a "big bank" privatization of Naftogaz and price rise,
states, "You are fortunate to have appointed three ‘new Ukrainian’
ministers and several natives (sic) who are committed to this approach."

Elsewhere Soros speaks about de facto creating the impression within the
EU that the current government of Yatsenyuk is finally cleaning out the
notorious corruption that has dominated every Kiev regime since 1991.
Creating that temporary reform illusion, he remarks, will convince the
EU to cough up the €11 billion annual investment insurance fund. His
March 2015 paper says that, "It is essential for the government to
produce a visible demonstration (sic) during the next three months in
order to change the widely prevailing image of Ukraine as an utterly
corrupt country." That he states will open the EU to make the €11
billion insurance guarantee investment fund.

While saying that it is important to show Ukraine as a country that is
not corrupt, Soros reveals he has little concern when transparency and
proper procedures block his agenda. Talking about his proposals to
reform Ukraine’s constitution to enable privatizations and other
Soros-friendly moves, he complains, "The process has been slowed down by
the insistence of the newly elected Rada on proper procedures and total
transparency."

Soros suggests that he intends to create this "visible demonstration"
through his initiatives, such as using the Soros-funded National Reform
Council, a body organized by presidential decree which allows the
Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine’s legislature.

George Soros is also using his new European Council on Foreign Relations
think-tank to lobby his Ukraine strategy, with his council members such
as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff or Joschka Fischer or Karl-Theodor zu
Guttenberg, not to mention former ECB head, Jean-Claude Trichet no doubt
laying a subtle role.

George Soros, now 84, was born in Hungary as a Jew, George Sorosz. Soros
once boasted in a TV interview that he posed during the war as a gentile
with forged papers, assisting the Horthy government to seize property of
other Hungarian Jews who were being shipped to the Nazi death camps.
Soros told the TV moderator, "There was no sense that I shouldn’t be
there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like
in markets–that if I weren’t there–of course, I wasn’t doing it, but
somebody else would."

This is the same morality apparently behind Soros’ activities in Ukraine
today. It seems again to matter not to him that the Ukrainian government
he helped bring to power in February 2014 US coup d’etat is riddled with
explicit anti-semites and self-proclaimed neo-Nazis from the Svoboda
Party and Pravy Sektor. George Soros is clearly a devotee of
"public-private-partnership." Only here the public gets fleeced to
enrich private investors like Mr. Soros and friends. Cynically, Soros
signs his Ukraine strategy memo, "George Soros–A self-appointed advocate
of the new Ukraine, March 12, 2015."

(2) USA Taking Control over Biological Research in Ukraine (2018)

https://cyber-berkut.org/en/

USA Taking Control over Biological Research in Ukraine

01.10.2018

The USA is gaining total control over biological research facilities,
researchers and stocks of deadly viruses in Ukraine.

This will allow the USA to control epidemiological situation in the
region, get access to every development in the sphere and manipulate
population size while increasing American pharmaceutical corporations'
profit.

Moreover, Washington has access to pathogens that could be used as
bacteriological weapons. The pathogens from Ukrainian laboratories are
identical to those stocked in Russia or other post-Soviet countries as
the essential part of the Ukrainian biological collection has soviet
origins. Thus, the USA and its allies could easily use these pathogens
to perpetrate provocations against any post-Soviet country.

The Pentagon has got access to Ukrainian biological research facilities
under the plausible pretext of preventing the proliferation of
biological weapons. The biological projects are sponsored and supervised
by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which is operating
through its office in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, headed by Joanna Wintrol.

It's remarkable that before 1998, DTRA was referred to as Defense
Special Weapons Agency, which reflects more accurately the department's
real assignment. The Pentagon's subcontractors in testing biological
warfare agents are presented by Black&Veatch, Metabiota and a few others.

The American engineering firm Black&Veatch is covering construction and
maintenance of biological facilities and conducting biological
researches under special projects. By a lucky chance, Metabiota, a
subcontractor, is sharing the building with Black&Veatch in Kyiv.

 From 2008 to 2017, Black&Veatch and DTRA signed contracts, estimated at
$215.6 million, on construction and operation of bio labs in Ukraine,
Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Thailand, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Armenia. Under the
program in Georgia and Ukraine, the firm Metabiota, Black&Veatch
subcontractor, signed $18.4 million federal contract

In 2010-2011, the state commission headed by the Chief of Capital
Construction management of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense Anatoly Ilyuha
inspected biological facilities in Vinnytsia, Lviv, Odessa and
Simferopol and found many violations of safety rules in reconstruction
by Black&Veatch, which could lead to leaks of dangerous pathogens. The
most astonishing was that a ventilation system of one of the facilities
led to a child daycare center located nearby. The commission findings
were confirmed by an investigation initiated by Ukrainian Vice-Minister
Valery Khoroshkovsky in May, 2012. Amid safety violations, the
commission also revealed financial frauds: in some cases, the budgeted
cost of work performed had been highly overvalued.

Furthermore, some Ukrainian outlets reported that Luke Kluchko, the
former chief of the Defense Threat Reduction Office in Kyiv, had
directly communicated with an official of the Ukraine's Ministry of
Health requesting to take onto the books the laboratory of Lviv Research
Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene, plagued with safety violations.
Journalists pointed out that Mr. Kluchko had used such arguments as
"sign or lose your job".

The U.S. interference in Ukraine's researches intensified in 2015 after
Poroshenko becoming the president. Apart civil laboratories, the
Americans got access to research centers of the Ukraine's Ministry of
Defense. This was grounded by the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers
dated September 20, 2017, No.650-r "About designation of an additional
Executive Agent for the implementation of the Agreement between the
Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the Department of Defense of the
United States of America concerning cooperation in the area of
prevention of proliferation of technology, pathogens and expertise that
could be used in the development of biological weapons". This very
agreement was signed in 2005, under the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko.
Ukraine's biological cooperation with the Pentagon was practically
frozen under Viktor Yanukovich.

Now, when Ukrainian politicians controlled by the U.S. have gained power
again, the U.S. Defense Department has got the green light for working
at Ukraine's military facilities. During his visit to Kyiv in November
2017, DTRA international project manager to Ukraine, Kevin Garret, met
with the leadership of the Central Sanitary and Epidemiological
Department of the Ministry of Defense and highlighted the official aims
and tasks of cooperation during a conference.

Below are some letters of Joanna Wintrol, DTRA office's chief in the
U.S. Embassy to Ukraine. They are providing the course of the U.S.
interference in Ukraine's military biological facilities.

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