Nutballs who will believe anything

Sounds to me like the conspiracy subculture rather than religion, strictly speaking.Thre only rational explanation I could offer for the popularity of the genre is a deep-seated sense that society is in some form a lie. I can make an argument that it is, and that this sort of behaviour is a subconscious response to uncertainty. But thats about as far as it goes.

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If there were a grain of truth to any top secret weapon technology, chances are that it would be the United States.(The Great Satan itself) who would possess such technology.

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Today, yes, but not 20 years ago. When the USSR was up and running, it had a very high level of technology, arguably higher in certain instances than the US. For example, much of the space-based weapons programmes diverged from starting assumptions and produced different developed technologies - kinetic kill weapons for the USA and ground-based lasers for the USSR. The USSR had the only ground-based laser capable of disabling a satellite, and spinoffs of this developed technology included the laser eye surgery treatment that was first exported to the third world in the 80's (including Cuba) and subsequently expoerted to the West in the 90's.Soviet combat aircraft are/were probably a generation, or a generation and a half, ahead of their American counterparts. One of the best examples was the duel pickup targetting system built into the MiG-29, using active radar in a 60 degree cone and nested passive heat sensor with a 30 degree cone.The USA and USSR had different approaches to technology, and developed different specialisations. But I think the perception that there was a qualitative distinction is false.

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Are they still pursuing a smallpox-Ebola weapon?

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Who knows? their numbers appear to have halved; they have largely transferred over to Western equivalents, and I imagine the US has the bulk of them.