Director of the US Defense Department’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (also known as the Nunn-Lugar program), member of the Senior Executive Service (SES). “Pope authored the idea of creating a central depository of high-threat pathogens in Kiev,” and is one of the top Americans Coordinating bioweapons labs in Ukraine according to Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s radiation, chemical and biological protection force. Pope was deputy director of operations, readiness and exercises at the DTRA from 2017 until 2020, according to the New Zealand Daily Telegraph. He previously held various positions at US Air Force European Command (USAFE) before retiring from the Air Force, US Central Command (USCC), and the Pentagon. Pope participated in the development of radiochemical procedures for monitoring international treaties in the field of nuclear weapons (Air Force Technical Application Center).
“Published emails revealed a correspondence between Pope and Ukraine’s acting health minister between 2016 and 2019, American-born Ulana Suprun, who went to Ukraine to participate in the US-backed coup in 2014”, the NZ Daily Telegraph writes. Igor Kirillov pointed out that in his letter to Health Minister Ulana Suprun (a US citizen, according to TASS) Pope spoke highly of her activities. “In particular, he emphasized her role in providing US specialists with access to Ukrainian biological facilities and the beginning of efforts to form a depository of microorganisms.”
“Let me remind you what this kind of activity led to: according to the available evidence all pathogenic biomaterials were removed from the depository at the beginning of February 2022 and taken by a US military transport plane to the United States via Odessa,” Kirillov said.
In his earlier military assignments, Dr. Pope was the Chief of the Nuclear Development Branch at the Air Force Technical Application Center’s Technical Operations Division, developing new radiochemical procedures to support U.S. monitoring of international nuclear weapons treaties.
Dr. Pope holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Michigan State University in Lansing, a Master of Science in Nuclear Weapon Effects Physics from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a Master of Military Operational Art and Science from the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air force Base, Alabama. He was also a National Defense Fellow in the International Security Program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
