BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON SOVIET SCIENTISTS POSSIBLY CONNECTED WITH BACTERIOLOGICAL WARFARE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 245
• Publication Date: July 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 1 w Iola or tae lJDtiK who -.7Cro eYer
connected with the Institute of E idemiolo
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Moscow were Professor Nikola Pavia xei Dimitrovich
S erans' ,
very o a. s 'work was in the field of bacteriology. Dr Speransky
is a neuro-pathologist 'who worked in experirsental medicin` at the institute of
Epidemio .ogy and Microbiology in :4oscow. His main field was the function of the
brain. Tn 1937, Speranaky was the Director of the Institute which at that time
was ,alle'd the "All Union Institute of Experimental Medicine.11 recently
i95 7 learned, from Dr Max Brandt who was a former professor at thnversity of -
Latvia axe now editor of "Von der neuen Entwicklung der Sowjetmedizin1l that
Dr Speran has fallen out of favor in the Connmiunist regime.
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Background. Information on So-riet Scientists Possibly
connected with Bacteriological Warfare
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bacteriological warfare research at various Soviet or Sacelli'ce institutions:
Professor Nikolai A Anichko:?. He is a pathologist and his special work
has~been in the field of blood sclerosis.
he was working at the Institute of Pathology in
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(b) Professor 11 V Davydovski_v. He is a pathologist who formerly worked in
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cow. However, I have heard from sources that I cannot recall that
Davydovskiy fell out of favor TTith the Communist regime -nri I dc not
knowi, his present wherenibouts.
Vera Alexe'jevna Krestovnikova. 1 -1 ir_
1914 she wan working as an associate professor at the Medical
Inst tute -'o= Women. Her train subject wan diseases of the eye. She
was married to a chemist and as early as 1914, she was extremely leftist
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before 1944, she was working with
Plague.
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her husband on a study of the Bubonic
(d) Olga B Lepeshinskaja. She is a biologist and considered one of the pillars
of medical science in the USSR. 0 in 1952 Iahe had received
the Stalin aver' within recent years. Leveshinskaja started a completely
new theory about the development of living cells,' which according to her
quotation, "ignore3 the decadent viewpoint of the, Western World such as
heredity and other repulsive fascistic inventions." Within the last year
C959, her latest Rublication entitled "The Creation of Calls From
Living N Otter and the Role of Living Matter in the Organism." In this
publication, Lepeshinakaja claims to be able to develop cells from egg
yolk which has been taken out of the shell. Her proof for this scientific
claim is very poor and is substantiated in part by a few sketches and a few
poorly developed micro -photograms. However, the Soviet Academy of Sciences
of Yaicb she is a member sings her praises very highly, not only for this
work but also for her other work. Lepeshinakaja's
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medical and in every second sentence or so, she refers to either els,
Marx, Stalin or Lenin. F_ I The
15 Oct 52 issue of "Berichte Des Oateuropa-Institute An Dar Sreien
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the Free University of Berlin") edited b Professor Max Brandt contains a
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one sentence to illustrate
her writing: "The depth and wisdom of the Stalin Theory about the
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search for the new and newest inventions which increase the power of the
Human over Nature." under such circumstances no really
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no scientist dares to oppose the established teachings of Pavlo unlesp he
25X1 wishes to risk his freedom or life. Pavlo i.e the Soviet Aristoteles 5ic7
of modern times whose viewpoints are considered to be the one and only
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truth. Pavlo proclaimed these truths in 1939 and '.1940 and ever since
then, Soviet science regarding medicine has come to
a stop.
(e) V S Yermoleva and Z V Yermoltra. in 1917
both of them were studyin bacteriology. They did not seem to be in
why remarkable and not beard of them at any time since then. II
no idea where they are new
ProfessorlD Z Zabolotny. His field is bacteriology and epidemiology rnd
he Was a student of Menshikov a former famous scientist at the Pasteur
Institute~in Paris. Dr Zabolotny' has studied and done
research work on the Bubonic Plague and cholera.
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a Soviet
institute in Kaluga where studies of Glandeza are being, made and from German
technical journals that I Icertain German scientists have expressed
reason to believe that the USSR is producing bacteriological warfare material
at this institute. There is also another institution near Kronatadt
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Baltic
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this institute is active at this tLme 1953 . The special
field or research at this institute is the stud-; o:' t'w Bubonic Plague and in
World War 11, it was not destroyed by the German array because the Germans hoped
to take it over for the valuable equipm-!tt coc1:-tined in'the laboratories of the
institute.
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xarf that bacteriological
ae research. is' being c e on in varying degrees at the following other
Soviet institutes:
(a) Institute of Biological and Medical Chemistry, Academy. of Medical Selene,
MobcoY
(b) Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences, Leningrad
: mtitute of virology, Acgdamy of Iiodical.Science, ? Moscp r
(d) Medico-Biological Station, Academy- of dical Scienoe, 8t bwai
(e) Institute of Microbiology gy and Epidemiology of the South`Maat ("Miiprob,
Saratov
Military Medical Academy in S M Kirov, Leningrad.
Scientific Research Institute(VII No 42), ldoscow
Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and $ygt ueof
Soviet Army
Dzershinsk Chemical Works, Dzerahinsk.
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Installation at Vozrozhdeniya Ialaad, Aral, Bea
Voroshilov Military Academy,of Chemical Defense, Moscov
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