In April 2020, the FBI said gain-of-function virus research in China funded by the agency formerly headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci “leads no evidence of intentional manipulation.” An email from a bureau investigator revealed that the information had been tipped off. .
At least one FBI agent in the agency’s Newark field office called the revelations “alarming.”
Another agent called the information “interesting” and vowed to follow up with other FBI agents.
of 5 page email They were obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request and made public on Friday.
“These damning documents show that the FBI quickly understood that Mr. Fauci’s agency was funding gain-of-function research that could pass off the resulting coronavirus as ‘natural.’ “The evidence shows that he did so,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
“These new documents further demonstrate the need for a comprehensive criminal investigation into the Mr. Fauci mandate acquisition scandal,” he added.
In an April 23, 2020 email exchange with the subject line “Follow-up Call,” a person whose name has been redacted was assigned to the FBI Newark Field Office in connection with a $661,000 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant. The details and analysis were communicated to several office staff members. Collaborating with EcoHealth Alliance for bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“The reason I am writing this is that the experimental strategy proposed in Objective 3 (“infectious cloning technology”) does not use commercially available or in-house gene synthesis to prepare infectious clones. *** leaves no trace of intentional human interaction when executed. ***,” an anonymous person reported to the FBI.
The person who sent the email appears to have previously been interviewed by Newark field office personnel, who reviewed the details of a project related to the EcoHealth Alliance grant from NIAD (see details below). That’s right). (open to the public)and apparently translated technical terms into “common terminology” for FBI agents to better understand.
“Hey, are you going to the office tomorrow?” one agent wrote as he forwarded the letter to another person at the bureau. “I just interviewed our representative. [redacted] And he provided us with some amazing new information. Please call if possible. ”
“This is interesting. I will follow up with my team tomorrow morning,” an anonymous assistant special agent in charge of national security wrote to Gregory Ely, special agent in charge of the Newark field office. wrote.
Ely replies:[Redacted] Please provide details if possible. ”
Emails previously obtained by Judicial Watch show that around May 2020, the FBI began an “investigation” into a National Institutes of Health bat coronavirus grant related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. ing.
The FBI determined last year that an accidental laboratory leak was the most likely explanation for the coronavirus pandemic.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said in March 2023, “The FBI has long assessed that the cause of the pandemic was likely a potential laboratory incident in Wuhan.”
The Post has contacted EcoHealth Alliance for comment.
