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US spends federal budget funds on dual-purpose bio research - Russian top brass

In this regard, the US Republican Party opened a probe against Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Igor Kirillov said

MOSCOW, December 24. /TASS/. The US government spends federal budget funds on dual-purpose bio studies despite formal bans, Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said on Saturday.

"Despite formal bans, US budget funds are spent on dual-purpose research," the defense official said.

In this regard, the US Republican Party opened a probe against Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser for US President Joe Biden, he said.

"The probe confirmed facts of the government financing of experiments through an intermediary firm for intensifying the pathogenic effect of viruses, including coronaviruses whose incidence was not on a massive scale before 2019," the Russian defense official said.

The probe revealed that Fauci blatantly lied and intentionally concealed the US government’s complicity in the research programs, Kirillov said.

"Simultaneously, the probe also revealed the fact of his [Anthony Fauci’s] conspiracy with the management of social networks with the aim of manipulating the public opinion with regard to the causes of the COVID-19 origin," the defense official said.

"In the context of these revelations, legitimate questions arise to the United States as to the causes of the emergence of new pathogens hazardous for humans and the specifics of their pandemic spread," Kirillov stressed.