Afghanistan:
— biological weapons used in, 268
— Soviet conflict with, 89, 268, 269
aflatoxin, 278, 286
African swine fever, 38
Against the Grain (Yeltsin), 79
Agriculture Department, U.S., 183, 257
— Exotic Disease Laboratory of, 282
Agriculture Ministry, Soviet:
— biological weapons program of, x, 37–38, 112, 158, 264, 295, 301, 303
— facilities of, 301
AIDS, 19,109,184,290
Akhromeyev, Sergei, 221
Aksyonenko, Colonel, 29–31, 45
Alibek, Alan (son), 61, 253
Alibek, Ken:
— anthrax mass production technique of, 6, 87–88, 96-97
— anthrax weapon of, 96–99,105, 258
— brucellosis weapon of, 61, 93
— cover identity of, 4
— defection of, xi, 250-56, 265-67
— duties as war commander of Stepnogorsk, 82–83, 87–93, 96-106
— graduate studies of, 29–31, 44
— Kalinin's recruitment of, 23–25
— KGB run-ins with, 53, 66–67, 91–96, 100-4, 141-44, 169-70, 180-83
— KGB's attempted recruitment of, 93-96
— lab training of, 52–57, 58
— marriage of, 58–59
— medical education of, x, 13, 44, 52-54
— military career of, x-xi, 4, 115, 242
— recruited for biological research, 45–47
— resignation of, xi, 212-18, 242, 243-44
— smallpox weapon project of, 117, 118,119-20, 121.-22
— tularemia infection of, 63-69
— tularemia weapon of, 25–28, 61, 81,82
— U.S. debriefing of, xi, 257-58, 261-62, 267-68
— on U.S. inspection tour, 226-31, 235-40
— vaccine allergy of, 51, 287
Alibek, Lena Yemesheva (wife), 245
— background and education of, 58–59
— courtship and marriage of, 58–59
— KA and, 4, 58–59, 63, 67–70, 90, 208, 209, 213-14, 219-20, 241, 251-52, 253, 256, 258
— motherhood of, 4, 61, 102, 214, 220, 251
Alibek, Mira (daughter), 61, 102, 253
Alibek, Timur (son), 102, 253
Alibekov, Bayzak (father), 57–58, 95, 254-55
American Type Culture Collection, 278-79
Andropov, Yury, 11, 86,117,161,173
anthrax, ix, 153
— Anthrax 836 strain of, 78, 87–88, 105
— antibiotic-resistant strain of, 160, 167
— Aum Shinrikyo attack with, 278-79
— cutaneous form of, 72, 76–77, 85, 105
— detection of, 284
— discovery of, 78, 87
— Glass House nightclub hoax and, 279
— incubation period of, 7–8, 74, 77–78
— intestinal form of, 72, 85
— Iraqi acquisition of, 278-79
— Japanese experiments on POWs with, 36 KA's work with, 6, 87–88, 97–99, 105, 258
— Kirov accident and, 78 1979 Sverdlovsk accident with, 70–86, 106
— potency of, 97, 105
— pulmonary or inhalational form of, 73–74, 76, 77-78
— recipe for, 98, 272
— Soviet code for, 20 Soviet production capacity for, 99, 105-6
— spores of, 73, 74, 76, 77, 115
— Stepnogorsk facility for, 82–83, 87–93, 96-106
— stockpiling of, x, 272 symptoms of, 7–8, 76–78, 105
— terrorism and, 278-79
— treatment of, 73, 77, 78, 105
— U.S. project on, 232-33
— U.S. vaccine program for, 285-87
— vaccine against, 73, 78, 105, 286
— vaccine-resistant strain of, 261, 281
— weaponization of, 6, 42, 73, 81–82, 87–88, 89, 97–99,105-6, 272
antibiotics, 73, 77, 78, 105, 155-56, 160,167, 281
antibodies, 108-9, 286, 288-89
arbo viruses, 109
Argentinean hemorrhagic fever, see Junin virus Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 257
Arzhakov, Alexei, 180-82
Aum Shinrikyo cult, 278-79
bacteria, 107, 108
— antibiotic-resistant strains of, 155-56, 160, 167, 281
— cross-border trade in, 278-79
— cultivation of, 53–54, 97–99
— genetic engineering of, 42, 155-57, 160, 163-64,166-67, 273-74, 275
Bailey, Charles, 225, 228-29, 230, 305
Baklanov, Oleg, 209, 216
Beadle, George, 156-57
Behring, Emil von, 125
Belarus, 227-28
Belousov, Igor, 150, 180-81
Belye Odezhdy (White Robes) (Dudintsev), 187
Benetsky (bureaucrat), 25
Bcrdennikov, Grigory, 228, 257
ftmlsk Scientific and Production Base, 59-60
Beria, Lavrenty, 37, 93
biodefense, 271, 280-92
— arms treaties and, 284-85
— biotechnology companies and, 284
— bioweapons convention and, 284-85
— early detection systems and, 284
— First Responders program and, 283-84
— inadequacy of present systems of, xi
— military and civilian network for, 282
— nonspecific immunity approach to, 289-91
— superterrorism and, 281-82
— vaccine stockpiling and, 282,285-88
Bioeffekt Ltd., 272-73
Biokombinat, 38
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention of 1972, v
— failure to require site inspections by, 145, 194-95
— regulations of, 155
— Soviet endorsement of, x, 257
— Soviet violations of, 72, 145, 149-50, 194-96
— strengthening of, 284—85
— U.S. charged with violation of, 274
Biological Integrated Detection System (BIDS), 284
biological weapons: in Afghan conflict, 268
— animal testing of, ix-x, 17, 21, 27, 28, 54, 72–73, 97,126, 128, 163-64
— anti-crop, 38, 301
— anti-livestock, 38, 301
— "anti-machinery," 268-69
— approval process for, 26–28, 133
— Bolshevik experiment with, 32-33
— British research on, 231-33
— Cold War and, x, xi, 89–90, 115
— cruise missiles and, 140-41
— early uses of, 20
— Ecology program and, 37-38
— effectiveness and potency of, 20–22, 97,105
— Enzyme program founding and, 41-43
— genetic engineering and, 40–42, 155-57,160-64,166-67, 273-75
— history of Soviet development of, ix-xi, 18–20, 32–44
— international trade in, 278-79
— Iraqi program for, 277-79
— Japanese World War II program for, 20, 36–37, 166
— loss of virulence in, 20, 166
— Lysenko's influence on, 39–40
— perestroika's effect on, 116-17, 174
— political assassinations with, 172-77
— post-Cold War conflicts and, 268-69
— proliferation of, 271-73, 277, 278-79
— Soviet codes for, 20 SS-18
— missiles as delivery system for, 5–8, 78
— in Stalingrad, 29–31
— stockpiling of, x, xi, 166, 272
— target delivery of, 20–21
— toxins and, 154-55
— U.S. programs for, 18, 114-15, 181-83,227-35,278-79
— vulnerability of, 272-73
— weaponization of, 6, 25–26, 42, 61, 73, 81–82, 87, 89, 93, 97–99, 105-6, 166-67, 272
— Western cities targeted by, x, 78, 281
— Western surveillance efforts and, 81
— in World War I, 232
Biomash, 193-94, 195, 204, 205, 263
— August coup and, 209-10, 213, 218, 222
Biopreparat:
— Anglo-American demarche and, 149-50, 152
— Anglo-American inspection teams at, 194-204
— Berdsk facility of, 59–61
— Biosafety Directorate of, 116
— civilian institutes operating within, 184,186-87,299
— civilian scientists recruited by, 259
— covert nature of, x, 4, 70, 75, 81, 82, 90, 106, 150, 161
— employee earnings at, 185
— Enzyme program founded at, 41-43
— Fifteenth Directorate's conflict with, 22–23
— Five Year Plans assigned to, 23, 111, 117-18
— founding of, 22, 41–42, 44, 155, 264, 297, 298
— governmental programs connected with, 172, 177, 178, 248
— history of, 22–23
— KA's appointments and promotions at, x-xi, 4–7, 24–25, 44, 82, 96, 115-16, 145, 169, 193-94, 273
— KA's resignation from, xi, 212-18, 242, 243-4
— Lithuanian laboratories of, 186-87
— management election and, 191-92
— Moscow headquarters of, 9-10, 13–14, 19, 168-79
— Omutninsk Scientific and Production Base of, 52, 54–58
— organization of, 298–300
— Pasechnik's defection and, 137-44, 150
— perestroika's effect on, 116-17, 174
— post-Soviet changes at, 242, 248
— reorganizations of, 187-91, 298-99
— research facilities of, 42
— safety warnings of, 131
— scientific advisory council to, 158, 159
— security restrictions in, 14, 161-62, 272
— Stepnogorsk facility of, 82–83, 87–93, 96-109
— supplying of raw materials to, 18–19 tularemia project of, 25–28, 61, 81, 82
— U.S. tour delegation of, 226-27
Black Death, 8, 164, 166 see also plague
Bobkov, Filipp (KGB deputy director), 178
Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, see Machupo virus Bonfire project, 154, 155, 159, 163, 166, 222, 261
— Severin Institute and, 171-72
Boronin, Professor, 158
botulinum toxin, 281, 284, 286
Braithwaite, Roderic, 149
Brezhnev, Leonid, 11, 41, 42, 52, 82, 87, 117, 157, 207, 274
Bronson, Lisa, 239-40, 251, 252
brucellosis (Malta fever), ix, 232, 281, 286
— Soviet code for, 20
— symptoms of, 60
— weaponization of, 61, 93
Bulgak, Anatoly, 91–93, 99-100
— Markin incident and, 102-4
Bulgaria, 173, 277
Burgasov, Pyotr, 75, 85–86
Bush, George, 152, 208
Butuzov, Valery, 168,169-75,177, 231
Bykov, Valery, 44, 116-17, 141-43, 144, 178-79,188, 192, 211, 238
Canada, 231,232, 290
Castro, Fidel, 274
Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia, 147
CD-22, Operation, 234
Center for Strategic and International Studies, U.S., 283
Center of Toxicology and Hygienic Regulation of Biopreparations, Soviet, 302
Centers for Disease Control, U.S., 110, 114, 282
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 170, 235, 282
Chelyabinsk nuclear accident, 76
Chemical and Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF), U.S., 282
Chemical Industry Ministry, Soviet, 158, 301
Chernenko, Konstantin, 11
Chernobyl disaster, 80, 127
Chernyayev, Anatoly, 149
Chernyshov, Nikolai, 74, 75, 83–84, 105, 132
chicken pox,113
chimera virus, 259-60
China, People's Republic of, 233, 268, 273, 277, 292
cholera, 36, 157, 232
Cilluffo, Frank, 283
Civil War, U.S., 20
Clinton, William Jefferson, 239, 291
— Biological Weapons Convention and, 283-84
— bioterrorism, 1999 plan to combat, 282-83
— stockpiling ban order of, 281-82, 288
Cold War, 6, 39
— biological weapons development and, x, xi, 89–90, 115
Colombia, 274 Combine "Biosyntez," 300
Committee for the State of Emergency, Soviet, 208
Common Newspaper (Obshchaya Gazeta), 215
Commonwealth of Independent States, 227-28
Communist Party, Soviet, 95, 209, 221
— KA's resignation from, 212
— power monopoly ceded by, 191
Communist Party Central Committee, Soviet, x, 4,155, 221, 222, 302, 303
— organization of, 295-96
Compound 19, 73, 82–83, 105, 263
Congress, U.S., 279, 283, 291
Congress of People's Deputies, 191
Cornucopia company, 205
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, 46, 47, 296, 298, 302
Main Directorate of, see Biopreparat Cox, Frank, 235-36
Crick, Francis, 40
cruise missiles, 140-41
Cuba, 273-75, 277
cytokines, 289-90
Davis, Chris, 198, 199–200, 227
Davydkin, Colonel, 82
Davydov, Vladimir, 144, 189-91, 192, 195-96, 200-1, 211, 217
Defense Department, U.S., 226, 239, 251, 257, 282
Defense Ministry, Kazakh, 247-48, 254
Defense Ministry, Soviet, 206, 238
— Arms Control Department of, 226
— biological weapons approval process and, 26–28, 133
— biological weapons role of, x, 5, 9, 26–27, 28, 34, 35, 41, 99, 146, 158, 160-61, 183-84, 265-66
— General Staff Operations Directorate of, 5, 296
— military sites of, 42, 140, 194-95
— Moscow headquarters of, 3–4
— organization of, 297-98
— Virological Center of, 111
dengue fever, 281
Desert Storm, Operation, 204
Design Institute "Giprobioprom," 300
diphtheria, 157
DNA, 40, 107,125, 260
Domaradsky, Igor, 154, 157-60, 162-63
Domestic Preparedness Program, U.S., 282
Dorogov, Vladimir, 100-1
Dudintsev, Vladimir, 187
Dugway Proving Ground, 227, 235-36
dysentery, 36, 232
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 222
Ebola virus, 8, 18, 42, 286
— epidemic of, 125
— mortality rate of, 126, 281
— Soviet code for, 20
— spread of, 109, 113, 125, 126, 281
— vaccinia virus and, 261-62
— weaponization of, 133, 175, 202
Ecology program, 37-38
Edgewood Arsenal, 233
Egypt, 277
Ekho Moskvy, 220
Ellis, Donald E., 75-76
Endo, Seiichi, 278
Energy Department, U.S., 282
enteric viruses, 109
Enzyme program, 41-43
Estonia, 186
Executive Order 12938, U.S., 281
Exotic Disease Laboratory, U.S., 282
External Trade Ministry, Soviet, 27, 295
— organization of, 304
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 282
Fifteenth Directorate of the Soviet Army, 116, 268
— biological weapons role of, 4, 16–17, 37, 52, 73, 117, 145, 158, 272, 297-98, 303
— Biopreparat's conflict with, 22–23, 120
— commanders of, 79, 80–81, 146, 181, 189, 218, 226, 264
— dissolution of, 246 organization and function of, 297-98
Filipenko, Colonel, 93
filoviruses, 125-26
First Responders Chem-Bio Handbook: A Practical Manual for First Responders, 280
First Responders Program, U.S., 283
Flute program, 171,172, 176, 222, 302
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S., 237
foot-and-mouth disease, 38
Foreign Affairs Ministry, Soviet, 194, 196, 226
— Inter-Agency Commission of, 145-46, 148
Fort Detrick, U.S., 228-30, 234
France, 271, 273, 290
French and Indian Wars, 20
Frolov, Nikolai, 137-39, 141, 142
Galkin (government worker), 189
Gamsakhurdia, Zviad, 175-76
Gandhi, Rajiv, 276
Ganzenko, Valery, 184-85
General Staff Operations Directorate, Soviet, 5, 296
genetic engineering:
— of chimera virus, 259-60
— Cuban achievements in, 273-75
— of myelin toxin, 166-67
— research in, 40–42, 155-57, 160-64, 166-67, 234
Georgia, 175, 176, 186
Germany, Democratic Republic of (East), 273
Germany, Federal Republic of (West), 72
Germany, Nazi, 232, 233
glanders, ix, 32, 35, 42, 89, 153, 167, 232, 268-69, 286
— drug-resistant strain of, 261, 281
— Soviet code for, 20
— Soviet use of, 268
glasnost, 85
Glass House nightclub hoax, 279
Glavmikrobioprom, 116
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 11, 143, 146, 177, 178
— August coup and, 208-9, 211, 214, 217, 220
— biological weapons policies of, 132, 144, 145, 188, 189, 195, 218, 242, 263
— Five-Year Plan of, 117-18
— perestroika policies of, 7, 59, 116-18, 149
— resignations of, 221, 241
— Western foreign policy of, 7, 43, 151, 152, 276
Gorbachev, Raisa, 220
Gosplan, 43, 150, 183, 186, 201, 296
— Biological and Chemical Weapons Department of, 296
GPU (State Police Directorate), 33
Great Britain, 143, 145, 149, 151-52, 156, 177, 178, 194, 290
— biological weapons research by, 231-33
Great Plague of 165, 164 see also plague
Grechko, Andrei, 57–58, 79
GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate), 181, 226, 273, 297
Gulf War, 285
Haffkine, Waldemar M. W., 166
Harris, Larry, 279
Health Ministry, Soviet, 157, 206, 226, 261
— biological weapons role of, x, 14, 42, 127, 130, 131, 148, 158, 170, 186, 264, 273, 295, 301-2
— facilities of, 42, 264, 273, 295, 301-2
— Main Sanitary Epidemiological Directorate of, 301
— organization of, 301-2
— Third Directorate of, 170
Henderson, Donald, 291
History of Soviet Military Medicine in the Great Patriotic War: 1941–1945, 29
Hussein, Saddam, 277, 286
Ignatiev, Oleg, 181, 226, 267
immune system, 108, 288-91
India, 275, 276, 277
Industry Ministry, Russian, 242
influenza, 113
Institute for Biological Instrument Design, Soviet, 300
Institute of Applied Biochemistry, Soviet, 51, 59, 146-47, 193, 300
Institute of Applied Microbiology, Soviet, 159, 300, 302
Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Soviet, 42, 158, 303
Institute of Biological Machinery, Soviet, 43
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Soviet, 42, 303
Institute of Immunology, Soviet, 197, 299, 300, 302
Institute of Microbiology, Soviet, 297
Institute of Military Technical Problems, Soviet, 298
Institute of Molecular Biology, Soviet, 42, 303
Institute of Pharmacology, Soviet, 169
Institute of Protein, Soviet, 42, 303
Institute of Safety Techniques, Soviet, 297
Institute of Ultra-Pure Biopreparations, Soviet, 42, 137, 140, 144, 263, 269
Inter-Agency Commission, Soviet, 145-46, 148
Inter-Agency Scientific and Technical Council, Soviet, 43–44,158,302-3
interferon, 108, 187, 274
— types of, 290
interleukins, 290
Internal Affairs Ministry, Soviet, 58, 159, 295
— organization of, 304
Iran, 268, 271-72
— Russia and, 275-76, 277
Iraq, 147, 204, 262, 271, 273, 275, 284, 292
— biological weapons program of, 277-79
Ishii, Shiro, 36
Ismailova, Zara, 176
Israel, 271, 277
Ivanovsky, Dmitry, 107
Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, 19, 110, 148, 261
Jahrling, Peter, 262
Japan, 263, 290
— Aum Shinrikyo cult attack in, 278-79
— World War II use of biological weapons by, 20, 36–37, 72, 166, 233
Jenner, Edward, 110
Jewett, Frank, 231-32
Joint Economic Committee, U.S., 291
Junin virus (Argentinean hemorrhagic fever), 42, 113, 126, 202, 281
Justice Ministry, Soviet, 295, 304
Kalinin, Yury Tikhonovich:
— Anglo-American demarche and, 149, 151
— Anglo-American inspections and, 195-96,197, 198, 200-1, 204
— August coup and, 211-12, 215-18, 221-22
— background and personality of, 12–13
— Biopreparat's reorganization decree and, 189-91
— as chief of Main Directorate, Biopreparat, 22, 26, 27–28, 44, 66, 82, 86, 88, 99-101, 115-16, 117, 141-42, 159, 168-72, 178-79,184,186,188, 205, 210, 226, 227, 238, 246, 249, 264
— Cuba visited by, 275
— KA recruited by, 23–25
— KA's life threatened by, 266-67
— and KA's resignation, 212-13, 215-18, 242, 243-44
— and KA's transfer to Biomash, 193-94
— Lukin interviewed by, 120-21
— management election and, 191-92
— Pasechnik's defection and, 141, 142,144, 145
— Urakov appointed by, 162-63
— Ustinov incident and, 127, 129-30
Kamel, Hussein, 277
Karpov, Viktor, 148, 151 Kazakhstan, 246-48, 250, 252, 253, 263
Kazakhstan Scientific and Production Base, 82–83, 87–93, 96-106
KGB (Committee of State Security), 202, 222, 231, 242, 251
— Anglo-American inspectors and, 196, 197, 200
— assassinations undertaken by, 172-77 attempted recruitment of KA as informer by, 93–96
— biological weapons role of, 13, 18–19, 57, 131, 164, 178, 179, 273, 274, 295, 296, 303
— First Main Directorate of, 168-79, 231, 303
— KA's defection and, 252-54, 255-56, 265
— KA's encounters with, 53, 66–67, 91–96, 100-4, 141-44, 169-70, 180-83
— KA's hiring practices and, 99-101
— Markov assassination and, 173-74
— Omutninsk tularemia incident and, 65-66
— organization of, 303
— Pasechnik's defection and, 141-45
— Second Main Directorate of, 170, 303
— Sverdlovsk coverup and, 72–73, 75, 78–79, 84–85, 86
Khorechko, Anatoly, 263
Khrushchev, Nikita, 37
Kirov anthrax incident, 78
Kislichkin, Nikolai, 272-73
Kivelidi, Ivan, 176-77
Klyucherov, Lev, 66–67, 93, 94, 117, 159
Komsomolskaya Pravda, 86
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (North), 270, 271, 273, 277
Korea, Republic of (South), 270-71, 277
Kossel, Albrecht, 125
Kozhevnikov, Boris, 84
Krasnaya Zvezda, 30
Kryuchkov, Vladimir, 150,170, 177-78, 181, 188, 208, 218, 220, 238
Kundin, Vitaly, 60–61
Kuwait, 204
Kuznetsov (KGB officer), 94-96
Laboratory 12, 172-73, 303
as "Laboratory X," 231
Ladygin, Mikhail, 191-92
Laos, 277
Lassa fever, 113, 118, 133, 281
Latvia, 186
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 282
Lebedinsky, Vladimir, 4–5, 9, 12, 27, 80–81, 86, 187, 218, 274
Lederberg, Joshua, 156-57, 291
Legionnaire's disease, 19
Leningrad Military Academy, 34–36
Lepyoshkin, Gennady, 83–84, 105, 132, 190, 248
Libya, 275, 277
Lithuania, 186-87
Lukin, Yevgeny, 120-21
Lukyanov, Anatoly, 209, 217, 218
Lysenko, Trofim, 39–40, 155
Lyubuchany Institute of Immunology, 42, 299
Machupo virus (Bolivian hemorrhagic fever), 18,42, 113, 118, 126, 202, 234, 281
— Soviet code for, 20
Main Directorate for Scientific and Production Enterprises, Soviet, 37-38
Malta fever, see brucellosis Manhattan Project, 14, 232
Marburg virus, 8, 18, 22, 42, 118, 123-26, 202, 281, 286
— first outbreak of, 124-25
— Soviet code for, 20
— spread of, 126
— symptoms of, 129-30
— Ustinov incident and, 126-31
— Variant U strain of, 132-33, 137
— "V" as victim of, 131-32
— weaponization of, 132-33
Marina (KA's secretary), 11, 14
Marine Corps, U.S., 282
Markin (engineer), 103-5
Markov, Georgy, 173
Maslyukov, Yury, 150, 264
Matlock, Jack, 149
Matveyev, Vilen, 275
measles, 113
Mechnikov, Ilya, 13, 289
Medical and Microbiological Industries Ministry, Soviet, 116, 298
Medical Industry Ministry, Soviet, 179, 187, 189
Medium Machine Building Ministry, Soviet, 43
Medstatistika, 172, 273
melioidosis, 20, 35, 153, 272, 286
Mendeleyev, D. I., 13
Merck, George W., 232
Meselson, Matthew, 85
Metol project, 159
Military Industrial Commission (VPK), Soviet, 8–9, 26, 116, 145-46, 150, 157, 180, 194, 204, 216, 226, 242, 267
— Biological Weapons Directorate of, 296
Mirzabekov (Academician), 158
Molecular Biology, 260
monkey pox, 133
Muthanna State Establishment, Iraqi, 277-78
myelin toxin, 155, 163-64, 166-67
National Academy of Sciences, U.S., 85, 231-32
National Cancer Institute, 234
National Research Council, 291
Naum (businessman), 245
Nazarbayev, Nursultan, 247
Nazil (lab chief), 63–65, 67
Netherlands, 290
Netyosov, Sergei, 258-60
New York Times, 76, 271, 283
Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, 79
Nikolayev (anthrax victim), 75
Nixon, Richard M., 234-35
NKVD, 230-31
Nobel Prize, 157, 289
nonspecific immunity, 289-91
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms Control Directorate, Russian, 264
Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST), U.S., 282
Nurmagambetov, Sagadat, 248
Obshcbaya Gazeta (Common Newspaper), 215
Office of Technical Assessment, U.S., 277
Ogarkov, Vsevolod, 22–23
ornithosis, 38
Ovchinnikov, Yury, 40–41, 44, 155, 273
Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Soviet, 303
Pakistan, 277
Pasechnik, Vladimir, 137-45, 148, 149, 152, 153, 177, 188, 199, 203, 265, 277
Patrick, Bill, 230, 231, 234, 262-63
Pavlov, Oleg, 71–72, 73, 82
Pavlov, Valentin, 209
peptides, 154-55, 261
perestroika, 85, 174
— Biopreparat and, 116-17
— Gorbachev and, 7, 59, 116-18, 149
pesticides, 52, 55, 274
Peter I (the Great), Czar of Russia, 56
Petrov, Rem, 155, 158
Petrovsky, Vladimir, 146, 148
Petukhov (scientist), 199–200
Pine Bluff Arsenal, U.S., 227, 237-39
Pirogov, Nikolai, 13
plague, ix, 115, 164-67, 279, 288
— bubonic, 8, 166
— detection of, 284
— Domaradsky's work with, 160-61
— flea delivery of, 20, 36–37, 164, 166
— in history, 8, 16, 164-66
— Japanese use of, in World War II, 20, 36–37, 72, 166, 233
— pneumonic form of, 165
— powdered version of, 173
— recent outbreaks of, 166
— resistant form of, 281
— Soviet code for, 20
— stockpiling of, x, 166, 264
— symptoms of, 165
— toxin of, 165
— treatment of, 166
— vaccines for, 166, 286
— weaponization of, 8, 20, 35, 36–37, 42, 72, 89, 125, 153, 166-67, 173, 232, 258
Plum Island, 182-83
Popov, Viktor, 147, 205-6
Progress Scientific and Production Association, 82–83, 87–93, 96-106, 300
Pryadkin, Colonel, 188-89
psittacosis, 38
Pugo, Boris, 209, 216, 221
Q fever, ix, 35, 36, 111, 162, 234, 281, 286
Quayle, Dan, 235
Questions of Virology, 261
Reagan, Ronald, 89
Rebirth Island, ix-x, 15–18, 26, 27, 28, 31–32, 36, 105
regulatory peptides, 154-55, 261
Revolutionary Military Council, 33
ricin, 173,278
Rift Valley fever, 234
rinderpest, 38
RNA, 107,108, 260
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, U.S., 233
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 231-32
Rosen, Peter, 291
Rumyantsev, Vladimir, 56, 60, 61, 94, 96
Russia, 227-28, 241, 242, 257, 267, 268, 292
— biological weapons research restored by, 263-64
— Iran and, 275-76, 277
— vulnerability of biological weapons in, 272-73
Russian Academy of Sciences, 155, 260
Russian Biological Society, 250
Russian Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Association, 205
Russian Business Roundtable, 176
Russian spring-summer encephalitis, 281
Russian State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, 118
Rutskoi, Alexander, 220
Saddam Hussein, 277, 286
Safrygin, Mikhail, 247-48, 250
Sakharov, Andrei, 104
Salk Center, U.S., 227, 239
Sandakchiev, Lev, 118-20, 121, 124, 127, 130-31, 132, 190-91, 219, 259, 260, 261, 272
— Anglo-American inspectors and, 201, 202-3
— on U.S. inspection tour, 235, 236, 238, 239-40
Sandia National Laboratory, U.S., 282
Science, 85
Scientific and Production Center of Medical Biotechnology, Soviet, 302
Scientific Institute of Phytopathology, Soviet, 301
Scriabin (Academician), 158
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 277
Sergeyev (scientist), 170
Severiti Institute, 171-72
Severinovsky, Mark, 246
Shakhov (Central Committee military department head), 80–81
Shcherbakov, Grigory, 226, 227, 239, 242
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 146, 149-51, 176
Sizov, Vladimir, 78
Slava (KA's driver), 3, 9-10, 209-10, 213, 220
smallpox, 8, 42, 109-15, 202, 203, 258-59, 262, 281, 287-88
— contagiousness of, 113-14
— eradication of, 19, 110
— Indian traveler episode and, 112
— international regulation of, 110, 114,148
— mortality rate of, 114
— Soviet code for, 20
— Soviet stockpiling of, x, 261, 264
— Soviet Union and conquest of, 110-11
— symptoms of, 109-10
— vaccination for, 110, 286
— as weapon, 111-12, 113, 114
— World Health Organization and, 19, 110, 111, 114, 148
— in World War II, 114-15
Smidovich, Nikita, 146, 151
Smirnoff, Pyotr, 10
Smirnov, Yefim, 37, 41, 75, 79, 80
Somalia, 110
South Africa, Republic of, 277
Soviet Academy of Sciences, x, 23, 40, 42, 146, 154, 158, 261, 268, 295
— organization of, 302-3
Soviet Union:
— Anglo-American demarche on biological weapons and, 149-52
— August coup in, 207-22
— as biological superpower, x, 106
— biological treaty violations by, 72, 145, 149-50, 194-96
— biological warfare system of, x, xii-xiii, 42–43, 293, 295–304
— collapse of, 186, 204-5, 227-28, 241-42
— and conquest of smallpox, 110-11
— health-can-system of, 184
— history of biological weapons development in, ix-xi, 18–20, 32-44
— India and, 276
— Markov assassination and, 173-74 see also specific agencies and departments
Special Armaments Group, Soviet, 297
Special Biological Group, Soviet, 297
Special Countermeasures Against Foreign Engineering Intelligence Services, KGB, 102-3
Special Design Bureau of Controlling Instrument and Automation, Soviet, 300
SS-18 missiles, 5–8, 78 Stalin, Joseph, 34, 35, 37, 40, 101, 151, 155, 173
Stalingrad, Battle of, 29–31, 35, 44
staphylococcal enterotoxin B, 233-34, 284
Starodubtsev, Vasily, 209
State Department, U.S., 257, 282
State Department of Biotechnology,
Soviet, 276
State Technical Commission, Soviet, 296
Stimson, Henry, 231-32
Sudoplatov, Pavel, 230-31
superterrorism, 281-82
Sverdlovsk accident, 70–86, 106, 131
— Burgasov's U.S. mission and, 84–86
— casualties in, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 84,85
— coverups of, 72–73, 75, 76, 78–79, 84–85, 86
— epidemic after, 76
— onset of, 73–75
— Yeltsin and, 79, 86
Syria, 277
Taiwan, 277
Tarasenko, General, 88, 96
TASS, 72
Tatum, Edward, 156-57
Tatyana (Kalinin's secretary), 11, 12, 127, 244
Taylor, Joel, 205-6, 207, 210
T cells, 108, 289
Technical Escort Unii, U.S., 282
Telegin, Lev, 276
terrorism, 278-79, 281-82
Tito (Josip Broz), 173
Tizyakov, Alexander, 209
Tomsk Medical Institute, 29, 44
Top Secret, 263, 268-69, 272
toxins, 154
— difficulty of detecting, 176-77
— myelin, 155, 163-64, 166-67
— of plague bacteria, 165
— ricin, 173, 278
Truman, Harry S, 233
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 277
tularemia, 175
— KA ill with, 66–79
— Omutninsk incident of, 63–66
— proposed "triple-resistant" strain of, 160-61
— sale of, 272-73, 278-79
— Soviet code for, 20
— spread of, 25, 67
— Stalingrad outbreak of, 29–31, 35
— stockpiling of, 264
— symptoms of, 25, 67–68
— testing of, 26–28
— treatment of, 68–69
— U.S. research in, 233, 278-79
— vaccine for, 286
— weaponization of, 25–28, 36, 42, 61, 81, 88, 89, 258, 281
— typhoid fever, 33, 287
— typhus, 32–34, 35,232, 281
Ukraine, 227-28
United Nations, 262, 274, 275, 278
Special Commission of, 284 United States, 181-83, 194 anthrax project of, 232-33 anthrax vaccine program of, 286 biological weapons programs of, 18, 114-15,181-83, 227-35, 278-79 see also specific agencies and
departments
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), 182,225,227,
235,26-1.":>
Unit 731, Japanese, 36, 233
Urakov, Nikolai Nikolayevich,
162-63,167,198-99, 200, 202, 212,218,221,226,235,236
Ustinov, Dmitry, 79
Ustinov, Nikolai, 123-24, 126-32, 137, 170
"V" (pathologist), 131-32
Vaccine, 261
vaccines, stockpiling of, 282, 285-88
vaccinia virus, 258-62
Valov, Vladimir, 80, 86
Vasiliev, Nikifor, 226, 229, 236-37
Vector program, 118-22, 123, 148, 170, 195,198-99, 201, 258, 263, 272, 299
— Anglo-American inspectors' visit to, 202-3
— Ustinov incident and, 126-32
— vaccinia virus research by, 260-61
— Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE), 42, 111, 114, 202, 233, 279, 281
— vaccinia and, 259-60
Vietnam, 277 Vietnam War, 234
Vinogradov (institute director), 203—4
viruses:
— chimera, 259-60
— cross-border trade in, 278-79
— discovery of, 107
— enteric, 109
— genetic engineering of, 42, 234
— manipulating genes of, 260
— morbidity time of, 114
— nature of, 107-9
— new types of, 109
— resistant strains of, 281
— vaccinia, 258-62
— as weapon, 114
— weaponization, storage and delivery of, xi
— in World War II, I 14–15 see also lunin virus; Lassa fever; Macliupo virus; Marburg virus; Q fever; Rift Valley fever; Russian spring-summer encephalitis; smallpox;
Venezuelan equine encephalitis Voice of America, 220
Volkov, Roman, 183-84
Vorobyov, Anatoly, 27, 28, 117, 168-69, 186-87
Voroshilov, Kliment, 34
War-Fighting Lab, 290
War Research Service, U.S., 232
Water Purification Unit 731, Japanese, 36, 233
Watson, James, 40
Whitecoat, Project, 234
White Robes (Belye Odezhdy) (Dudintsev), 187
Williams, Ron, 228
wool sorters' disease, see anthrax World Health Organization (WHO), 19,110, 111, 114, 148, 165
World War I, 232 World War II, 33
— plague as weapon in, 20, 36–37, 72, 166, 233
U.S. germ warfare research in, 231-32, 233
— viruses as bioweapons in, 114-15
Yagoda, Genrikh, 172-73
Yanayev, Gennady, 208, 213
Yazov, Dmitry, 150, 151, 208, 216
Yeltsin, Boris, 176, 219, 242, 264
— August coup and, 209, 210, 212, 213, 214, 220, 221
— Biological Weapons Convention and, 284-85
— biological weapons research banned by, 245-46, 263
— Sverdlovsk accident and, 79, 86
Yemesheva, Lena, see Alibek, Lena
Yemesheva Yermoshin, Savva, 10–11, 14, 65–66, 92–93, 141, 143, 144, 145, 169, 170, 177,178, 179, 196, 197, 202, 203, 204, 211-12, 250-51
Yersin, Alexandre, 125
Yevstigneyev, Valentin, 146, 180-81, 187, 188, 195, 218, 264
Yugoslavia, 173
Zagorsk Virology Institute, 298
Zaikov, Lev, 150
Zaitsev, Captain, 253-54
Zavyalov (scientist), 197
Zhivkov, Todor, 173
Zhukov, Georgi, 37, 41
Zilinskas, Raymond, 70
Zukov, Colonel, 238