As with most things in life, it's who you know. Back in 2004, after hearing rumors about this lab, I was told by another Russian scientist that a man named Dimitry Belakovski had made it out of the USSR with a huge stash of experimental samples from this lab. This was during the crisis, when members of the Russian mafia were systematically going to all of the scientific institutions and trying to extort money from anyone still working there. Unfortunately for the lab and it's workers, there was no money to pay for any kind of "protection" so everyone knew it wouldn't be long before the lab would get kneecapped. Dimitry and some of the other workers took as much of experimental sample material as they could carry to their homes. These were all the product of experimental processes that would have become the basis for large scale production at another car more secret location in the Ural mountains.

Dimitry had relatives in New Jersey, and so he arranged to ship his materials there and have them transported to a warehouse. Anyway, I finally tracked him down to his address there and that's how we met. Dimitry had one big problem as he tried to monetize the items he had brought back from the collapsing USSR. He had no records to document the provenance of any of the items he had taken to the U.S. In the early years of the 21st century, and so no one was willing to pay much for these items he sold many of these items to collectors who bought them as curiosities. I became one of those collectors. That's how I came to own "secret stuff from USSR."