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Gabbard Declassifies US Biolab Funding in Ukraine

The release names more than 120 labs in over 30 countries and says some handled dangerous pathogens with limited oversight.

  • Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released newly declassified materials on Friday, asserting that her office has identified a network of over 120 U.S.-funded biomedical laboratories operating across more than 30 countries.
  • Gabbard accused "powerful people" of covering up the network's existence, claiming that data regarding their funding and locations had been intentionally obscured while critics who tried to speak about them were falsely labeled as foreign assets.
  • The data release aligns with a broader White House crackdown on "Gain-of-Function" research, with Gabbard noting that the disclosure supports President Trump’s May 2025 executive order aiming to cut off all federal funding for overseas pathogen-amplification experiments.
  • The declassified files explicitly point out facilities in Ukraine that the intelligence community warned are at a heightened risk of physical damage, compromise, or seizure due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
  • The Ukrainian Embassy in the U.S. and independent experts pushed back against the framing, clarifying that the funding has long supported ordinary, public civilian health infrastructure, disease diagnostics, and biosecurity entirely unrelated to any military objectives.
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The resigning Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, revealed classified documents that demonstrate that Biden financed highly dangerous bio-laboratories in 30 countries, including Ukraine. The US intelligence agency claimed on Friday that Joe Biden's government deliberately financed and hid the existence of bio-laboratories in Ukraine, which harbour dangerous and highly contagious pathogens, and run the risk of being compromise…

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Just the News broke the news in Washington, United States on Friday, June 12, 2026.
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