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This is the book nobody wants you to read.
"The persecution of Dr. Mirzayanov stands in direct contradiction
of the Clinton Administration's commitment to strengthen
democratization efforts in the former Soviet Union, and halt the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. I am confident that
you share my deep concern over the treatment of this courageous
scientist, and I call on you to personally appeal for his release."
- From the Letter of John Conyers, Jr., Chairman of the
Congressional Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the
Committee on Government Operations, to Warren Christopher, the U.S.
Secretary of State, October 19, 1993.
"I personally feel a strong common bond with this courageous man,
recognizing that his motives are the same as those that led me to
release the Pentagon Papers. The Mirzayanov case is an immediate
legal litmus test of emerging Russian democracy. He is an
individual in the true tradition of Andrei Sakharov, a man
persecuted under the former regime for telling the truth, but now,
rightfully, universally honored."
- By Dan Ellsberg, author of "Secrets - A Memoir of Vietnam and the
Pentagon Papers"
"I was proud to add my voice to that of the many scientific and
human rights organizations that have worked to free Dr. Mirzayanov.
- Senator Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senate (Congressional Record.
Proceedings and Debates of the 103d Congress, First Session.
Vol.140, No. 28. Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 1994.)
.,."in recognition of his courage and his singular demonstration
of the moral responsibility of individual scientists in uphold the
integrity of scientific knowledge in an emerging democratic
society." The1994 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientific Award
of The New York Academy of Sciences.
- Signed by Chairman Cyril M. Harris and President Joshua
Lederberg.
"Cavallo Foundation Inc. takes great pleasure in presenting a
Certificate of Special Recognition for Moral Courage in Business
and Government to Vil Mirzayanov"
- From the Text of the Award in June 1993.
"For his integrity as a scientist, strength of character, and
exceptional personal courage that served to promote the health,
safety, and welfare of the Russian people and of all humankind"
- From the Text of the 1995 AAAS Freedom and Responsibility Award.
State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical
Weapons Program An unparalleled deception took place in the 1980s,
while U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev was negotiating for the
Chemical Weapons Convention. This treaty was supposed to destroy
chemical weapons of the world and ban new ones. The Moscow
institute that developed chemical weapons at that same time was
secretly developing newer and greatly more toxic ones known
anecdotally as Novichok and new binaries. Dr. Vil Mirzayanov, a
scientist there, was responsible for developing methods of
detecting extremely minute traces in the environment surrounding
the institute. He decided this dangerous hypocrisy was not
tolerable, and he became the first whistleblower to reveal the
Russian chemical weapons program to the world. His book, State
Secrets, takes a startling detailed look at the inside workings of
the Russian chemical weapons program, and it tells how the Russians
set up a new program in Syria. Mirzayanov's book provides a
shocking, up-close examination of Russia's military and political
complex and its extraordinary efforts to hide dangerous weapons
from the world. State Secrets should serve as a chilling cautionary
tale for the world over.
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