The Central Intelligence Agency offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Wuhan lab, new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges. The New York Post has the story.
A senior-level CIA officer told House committee leaders that his agency tried to pay off six analysts who found SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan lab if they changed their position and said the virus jumped from animals to humans, according to a letter sent Tuesday to CIA Director William Burns.
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) requested all documents, communications and pay info from the CIA’s Covid Discovery Team by September 26th.
“According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” the House panel chairmen wrote.
“The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis.”
“The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” they said, noting that the analysts were “experienced officers with significant scientific expertise”. …
The FBI was the first U.S. intelligence agency to conclude the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated with a lab leak. In February, the Energy Department also concluded a lab leak was likely, based on new intelligence.
The U.S. intelligence community declassified its 10-page report on Covid origins in June, which found “biosafety concerns” and “genetic engineering” taking place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but most of its “agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not genetically engineered”.
Several scientists at the Wuhan lab also became sick in the fall of 2019 with symptoms “consistent with but not diagnostic of COVID-19”, the report states.
The CIA and one other intelligence agency “remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting,” it says.
But some former US intelligence officials have disagreed with the assessment. In April, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Congress that the so-called “lab leak theory” was the “only” credible explanation for the pandemic…
“My informed assessment as a person with as much access as anyone to our Government’s intelligence … has been and continues to be that a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science and by common sense,” Ratcliffe told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in a hearing.
“If our intelligence and evidence supporting a lab leak was placed side by side with our intelligence and evidence pointing to a natural origins or spillover theory, the lab leak side of the ledger would be long, convincing, even overwhelming — while the spillover side would be nearly empty and tenuous,” added Ratcliffe, a former Texas Republican Congressman who served as President Donald Trump’s second and last Director of National Intelligence.
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Rona Fascism – CIA-DoD plandemic and ops. Pilot project.
I could never grasp how anybody suggesting that Covid came from Fauci’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, where they were experimenting on bat coronaviruses, was deemed ‘racist’, but it was perfectly acceptable to portray the Chinese as unhygienic pangolin eaters.
Just goes to show how the deep state has weaponised the term racist to silence a sceptical public who get too close to the truth.
I have many friendships that will never recover because my Guardian-reading former-pals accused me of being a ‘far right’ conspiracy theorist.
It surprises me that the approach applied in this attack wasn’t seen for what it was from the beginning given that the notion of dual use forms the backbone of the justificaton for continued research in countries that had agreed to put a stop to this madness. Those a poem called Openday At Porton Down which captures the insanity. In a sense how could it be otherwise? Bear in mind that the feeling in China is one of paranoia in that they fear further American biological attacks and they have over twenty years of experience of this. And then consider the trajectory of the latest weapon which moved from Fort Detrick and by a series of steps outsourced research to the arch enemy. You see what I mean.
The network that is operating now against us hasn’t been properly identified yet and given the disparity of resources, including several trillion that mysteriously disappeared to somewhere I wouldn’t count on it anytime soon and I wouldn’t fight them on this level. This enemy is not going to be identified in the normal way. In a sense it doesn’t matter though because there is something in the nature of power way beyond historical understanding. As Victor Hugo said, when Napoleon’s time was up you could’ve knocked him down with a feather,They know that their time is up and they are uncomfortable about giving up a jot of their wealth. In the time to come you will see how pathetic and denuded these people will be.
Funny how you had this myserious ‘vaping illness’ in August 2019 and that most of the clusters were around Fort Detrick and the symptoms were something like shortness of breath/altitude sickness. They really are that sick and if you look at the stock market in January/February 2020 you could see what was coming. They shoved it down the road a couple of years with the lockdowns A very cynical move which killed tens of millions worldwide. Thereis an unspeakable truth at the bottom of all of this and that is that the Anglo-American system is completely kaput and yet there is no easy way out for anyone. It has rotted utterly to its foundations. That will mean a lot to us in terms of how we will live in the future I don’t think we comprehend this just yet.
The CIA doesn’t pay to maintain diplomatic relationships with foreign states. They were paying to hide stuff they did.
Faith is the the thought that you do or say something good and the hope that it goes somewhere. My impression is that more people are getting the gist of it. In the UK it is more complex because there is profound demoralisation and a sense that things can only get worse. People with mortgages living in dread and tenants no longer able to afford the rent.Not to mention the erosion of the quality of life on every level. You have to really listen to people and understand their concerns. This is the basis of everything. If you do that you will be able to project framework but you have to do it like you mean it. There are many forecasts but so few visions of a different future.
Had trouble posting on this one today so just testing now