Russian scientists are suspected of a “doomsday weapons” project involving deadly Ebola virus. A unit of Moscow’s FSB spy agency linked to the Salisbury novichok poisonings is thought to be behind the programme codenamed Toledo.
Investigators believe the name refers to either the Spanish city, which was hit by a killer plague in 1958, or Toledo, Ohio, devastated by a flu bug in 1918.
One ex-UK military intelligence source confirms that Russia, led by President Vladimir Putin, could be including Ebola and the related Marburg virus in its weapons programme.
Both highly contagious diseases cause organ failure with massive internal bleeding and have killed thousands in Africa. The UK source said: “Both Russia and the UK have labs studying
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