When the leaked “RKI Files” were unveiled at a July 23rd press conference in Berlin, Aya Velazquez, who served as the conduit for the leak, proudly declared that the documents constituted the complete unredacted minutes of the RKI’s COVID-19 “Crisis Group”. The minutes had previously been released by the German public health authority, the Robert Koch Institute, in redacted form. However, critical German-speaking observers quickly noted that the “Aya” files were not in fact identical with the officially released versions – thus, at the same time, raising questions about the authenticity of the leak. Entire passages from the official versions were missing from the “Aya” versions.
But, somewhat astonishingly, what appears to have gone unnoticed is that not only passages, but indeed the entire record of the minutes of one meeting was missing from the “Aya” leak – and not the minutes of just any meeting, but indeed the minutes of none other than the very first meeting of the Crisis Group included in the official release.
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