- Unconditional guarantee of the safety of the life and health of the population, as well as of the condition of the surrounding natural environment;
- Unconditional fulfillment of all the social needs of the population living in the zone of influence of the chemical weapons destruction facilities;
- Use of the latest technologies, making it possible to minimize the risk and also, in cases where feasible, to extract valuable chemical substances as a result of the destruction;
- Reduction to the minimum of the volume of transportation of chemical agents, within the Russian territory.
The work on the destruction of chemical weapons will begin only after positive conclusions [have been reached] by state environmental-protection experts regarding the Program as a whole and at each individual facility. Such an expert evaluation will definitely involve the participation not only of scientists and specialists, but also of representatives of public organizations, including environmental organizations, on both the all-Russian and regional levels.
I am requesting the executive bodies of Udmurtiya, Chuvashiya, and the Saratov Region to ensure their active involvement in development of this program, in the determination of the priorities and terms of its preparation and in carrying out the work of the destruction of chemical weapons. Such participation will help transform this endeavor – an unavoidable step for Russia – into a powerful lever for the socio-economic development of significant territories of the country, while strictly ensuring the observance of guarantees for the safety of the population. A substantial part of the funds under this program will be channeled towards solving regional issues of public health protection, the protection of motherhood and childcare, as well as towards the construction of housing accommodations, social and community services, roads, and other infrastructure.
The mountains of now useless and dangerous weapons are a heavy burden inherited from the legacy of our past. Russia must be saved from it, in the interests of its own security and in the interests of the security of the whole world.
Annex 55
Top Secret
Indictment
C O N F I R M A T I O N
Deputy Attorney General
of the Russian Federation
3d Class State Councilor
E.G. Denisov
“25” November 1993
Concerning Criminal Case N 62, about the indictment of Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov for committing a crime according to Part 1 of Clause 75 of the Criminal Code (UK) of the RSFSR.
This criminal case was initiated by the Investigation Department of the Security Ministry of the Russian Federation on October 19, 1992, on the basis of materials received from the Department of Economic Security of the MB RF about divulging state secrets in the article “Poisoned Policies” published in the N 38 issue of the newspaper Moscow News on September 16, 1992.
v. 1, p.p. 1, 18-27
On October 22, 1992 Mirzayanov was detained according to Clause 122 of the Criminal and Procedural Code (UPK); on October 24 the status was changed to that of an arrest. On November 2, 1992 by resolution of the Kalinin District Court of Moscow, his preventative arrest was changed into non-departure status.
v. 1, p.p. 166-167, 181-182, 189-190
On October 30, 1992 criminal procedures were instituted against Mirzayanov for divulging information constituting a state secret, i.e., for committing a crime according to Part 1 of Clause 75 UK of the RSFSR.
v. 1, p.p. 191-193, 229-232
V.S. Mirzayanov was working during the period from 1965 up until January 1992 at different positions in GOSNIIOKhT, including the position of Head of the branch Foreign Technical Counterintelligence Department, and because of his duties he was knowledgeable about information of state secrecy concerning research work in area of development of chemical weapons.
After he was fired from the institute, in August 1992 in Moscow Mirzayanov prepared for publication in the press a manuscript titled “The Chemical Sharashka is Waiting for American Assistance” in which he included information known to him in connection his duties and constituting state secrets about the latest achievements in area of science and technology (results of research work in interest of country’s defense) that allowed enhancement of the capabilities of existing arms (munitions), the direction and the results of perspective scientific research work conducted in the interest of the country’s defense, the applied scientific research work on the creation of binary weapons, and familiarized the leading scientist of the Institute Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry L.A. Fedorov with them, and disclosed them by joint publication together with Fedorov in N 38 issue of the newspaper Moscow News on September 1992 in the article titled “Poisoned Policies”.
Mirzayanov disclosed the same information, in September 1992 in Moscow, to a reporter from the newspaper the Baltimore Sun William Englund through whom he published it on September 16, 1992 in the aforementioned newspaper in the article “Former Scientist Says that Gorbachev’s Regime Created a New Nerve Gas in 91”, and in October of 1992 – to the reporter from the magazine Novoe Vremya O.V. Vishnyakov, and with his help it was published in the same month in the N 44 issue of that magazine in the article “’The Binary Bomb” has Exploded”.
V.S. Mirzayanov refused to plead guilty to the crime as charged, because in his opinion disclosure of information about development in area of chemical weapons doesn’t constitute a state secret. At the same time during the preliminary investigation, Mirzayanov pointed out that assuming GOSNIIOKhT is conducting scientific research work in the area of the development of chemical weapons in violation of Russia’s international obligations, in order to focus the public attention on this problem in August-September 1992, he wrote and gave the leading scientist at the Institute Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, L.A. Fedorov, the text titled “The Chemical Sharashka in Moscow is waiting for American Assistance” for him to become familiarized with it and then for publication in press. In this article he presented information known to him because of his work in GOSNIIOKhT about the synthesis of a new chemical agent and the development of a binary weapon on its basis, and it was published later in the article “Poisoned Policies” in the N 38 issue of the newspaper Moscow News in September of 1992. The information was the same as the indicted explained, and for the same purposes he reported to the correspondent of the newspaper the Baltimore Sun, William Englund for the publication in September 1992, and in October 1992 – in an interview with the reporter O.V. Vishnyakov of the magazine Novoe Vremya.
v. 1, p.p. 169-172, 174-180, 195-200, 229-234
The guilt of Mirzayanov in committing the crime he is charged with, except for his admission of the factual circumstances of the crime, is also corroborated by:
L.A. Fedorov, the leading scientist of the Institute Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, who stated that in August of 1992 in Moscow V.S. Mirzayanov had familiarized him with and gave him the manuscript about the development and production of chemical weapons in Russia titled “The Chemical Sharashka in Moscow is Waiting for American Assistance” for publication, and on the basis of which he (Fedorov) prepared the article, including in it information reported to him by Mirzayanov about a new chemical agent created in GOSNIIOKhT, gave this article to the reporter L.A. Nikishin and it was published in the N 38 issue of the newspaper Moscow News on September 20, 1992 under the title “Poisoned Policies”. Moreover, as the witness pointed out, V.S. Mirzayanov reported information about the new chemical agent created in GOSNIIOKhT in his presence, in September of 1992 in Moscow in the office of the newspaper the Baltimore Sun to reporter William Englund, and in October 1992 in the office of the Editorial Board of the magazine Novoe Vremya – to the reporter O.V. Vishnyakov.