Spy chiefs have been found to have “silenced” Pentagon and FBI researchers who uncovered strong evidence that the coronavirus most likely leaked from a Chinese lab.
As a result, their findings were excluded from an August 2021 report to President Biden on the origins of the global pandemic.
The report concludes that the virus behind the new coronavirus is “likely not genetically engineered.”
After the pandemic broke out in Wuhan, China, three Defense Intelligence Agency scientists wondered if SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans, or if the virus was man-made and where it came from. I started trying to figure out where exactly it came from. Laboratory accident.
The “zoonosis theory” is supported by leading members of public health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, and questions about a possible “lab leak” have been repeatedly dismissed as conspiracy theories.
But the researchers' analysis compiled dozens of data points that support a lab leak compared to a “lack of evidence to support the natural origin theory,” a person familiar with the researchers' study said in the post. told the paper.
The analysis was conducted by John Hardham, Robert Cutlip, and Jean-Paul Chrétien, scientists at the Defense Intelligence Agency's National Center for Medical Information, which investigates potential biological weapons threats and dangerous infectious diseases. It was conducted by three people.
Among their damning discoveries are:
- The new coronavirus contained features that made it easier to infect humans, constructed in a similar way to those described in a Chinese study several years ago.
- Just weeks after the virus was first sequenced in 2020, a Chinese military researcher applied for a patent for a coronavirus vaccine (according to US investigators, he later worked at the notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology). died after falling from the roof).
- WIV researchers worked with U.S. researchers to train them to construct viruses without leaving any trace of genetic manipulation.
These findings were largely ignored rather than amplified by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines as she prepared her report on the origins of the coronavirus, which Biden announced in May 2021. commanded.
“Scientists who had expertise in the field were silenced,” the official said, adding that Biden and others have “noted evidence that SARS-CoV-2 may have leaked from a lab.” He pointed out that he still had no idea.
The spy directors also barred the scientists from sharing information with Congress, despite an explicit request from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). March 2021 Letter Or from a rebuttal to a Fauci-prompted defamation paper in May 2020 that sought to discredit the lab leak theory.
“This will form the basis of official intelligence operations,” said another person familiar with the investigation.
They also were instructed not to share their findings with the FBI, they said. The FBI was the only US intelligence agency to conclude that a lab breach was the most likely theory behind the coronavirus, the source added.
All three were informed by the FBI:Not reservedWhen the company became the only agency to conclude that the lab leak theory was likely, according to comments previously reported by The Australian newspaper.
FBI scientist Jason Bannan and his team, which is conducting a parallel investigation, were also reportedly never offered an invitation to a White House briefing. wall street journalwas the first to report that scientists were being marginalized.
“We are asked that the FBI be present at the briefing because they are the only government agency that has assessed a likely laboratory origin and are the only government agency that has expressed the highest level of confidence in the analysis of the origins of the pandemic.” I expected that,” Bannan said. .
“I think it's surprising that the White House didn't ask.”
Genomic assessment confirms lab leak theory
In their research, Cutlip, Hardham and Chretien discovered that the region of the “spike protein” that allows the virus to enter human cells was described in a 2008 Chinese paper developed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We found that this reflects the method used.
The paper was published by researchers at the now-infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which long before the pandemic began engaging the US government in so-called “gain-of-function” research to make viruses more infectious. was providing funding.
WIV's infamous “bat lady” Dr. Shi Zhengli and her team of virologists were also trained in the technique at a U.S. laboratory in Galveston, Texas, and were able to create “seamless assembly,” the trick that was used in SARS- According to sources close to the investigation who believe it was likely used to construct the CoV-2 virus.
Furthermore, Zhou Yuxian, a Chinese military researcher who collaborated with WIV, applied for a patent for a new coronavirus vaccine on February 24, 2020. Despite the absence of SARS-CoV-2, this feat must have taken at least six months to complete. It will be fully sequenced until the end of January 2020.
“He must have experienced such a sequence for quite some time,” one source added, noting that Zhou also died in May 2020 after plummeting from the WIV's roof, and later returned to the U.S. the investigative authorities claimed.
incomplete briefing
The result of the alleged cover-up is that Haines told Biden that the predominant view of the origins of the coronavirus within the intelligence community in 2021 is that the virus jumped from animals to humans. That's true.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that at least four intelligence agencies at the time, along with the National Intelligence Council, a group of top intelligence officers that Haines oversaw, were the most likely to transmit zoonotic diseases. He said he believed the explanation to be highly sexual.
Notably, the CIA and at least two other agencies took a neutral position regarding the possible origin of the virus.
A spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence told the Wall Street Journal that agency officials typically do not attend such presidential briefings.
Spocks also claimed that the press conference included a variety of viewpoints.
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council's work on the origins of COVID-19 complied with all intelligence community rules.” analytical standardsincluding objectivity,'' the spokesperson insisted.
'Flawed' investigation into origins of coronavirus infection
Last month, the Post reported that federal grant documents containing the so-called “blueprint” for producing the virus that causes COVID-19 may have been improperly classified. A whistleblowing document was reported.
As a result, the intelligence community's investigation into the origins of the pandemic may have been “flawed,” according to the Marine whistleblower. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Murphy.
The grant proposal, known as Project DEFUSE, was posted on a digital portal for classified documents that are not classified by the government but are not available to the public. Some scientists have described this as “smoking gun” evidence supporting the lab leak theory.
The DEFUSE paper details plans to develop a coronavirus with the same characteristics as the virus.
Additionally, since a press conference in August 2021, the Department of Energy, which oversees numerous laboratories and research centers in the United States, has concluded with “low confidence” that a lab leak theory is the most likely.
Bannan believes that now we need to look deeper into the origins of COVID-19 because all the evidence has not been communicated.
“What ends up on the floor of the intelligence community's newsroom needs to be reconsidered,” Bannan told the Journal.
“The FBI has long assessed that the coronavirus pandemic was likely caused by an incident at a laboratory in Wuhan,” an FBI spokesperson told the Post when asked for comment.
“Since the pandemic began, FBI agents and analysts have studied intelligence and conducted more than 200 interviews with more than 80 people.”
The coronavirus is thought to have killed more than 1.2 million Americans since its outbreak in late 2019 and early 2020.
