WASHINGTON, DC - This is the deep state President-elect Donald Trump has warned you about. A bombshell report in the New York Post reveals that the intelligence community led by then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines throttled evidence revealing COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab. As a result of Haines’ alleged intervention, Defense Department and FBI researchers’ findings were omitted from an August 2021 report to Joe Biden on the pandemic's origins.
The report concluded that the COVID-19 virus “was probably not genetically engineered,” completely disregarding the lab leak theory.
When the COVID-19 pandemic flared in Wuhan, China, three scientists from the Defense Intelligence Agency began to examine where it came from, looking at theories of either a transmission from bats to humans in a wet market or if it was manufactured and came from a laboratory accident.
The animal transmission theory was backed by prominent members of the public health arena, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Since Fauci had funded research at the Wuhan lab through NIAID, he had a vested interest in dismissing the lab leak theory.
A source familiar with the researchers’ investigation told The Post that their analysis “compiled dozens of data points in favor of a lab leak” while attaining a “paucity of evidence supporting the natural origin theory.”
John Hardham, Robert Cutlip, and Jean-Paul Chretien, three scientists with the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence, conducted the analysis. That department “is tasked with examining potential biological weapons threats and dangerous infectious diseases,” The Post wrote.
Their findings included:
- The COVID virus contained a feature allowing for easier transmission to humans that was constructed in a manner similar to that described in a years-old Chinese study;
- A Chinese military researcher applied for a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine just weeks after the virus was first sequenced in 2020 (he died mysteriously later on when he fell from the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s (WIV) roof, US investigators reported);
- WIV researchers worked with US researchers who trained them to construct viruses without leaving a trace of them being engineered.
Despite these findings, which are crucial to understanding the origins of COVID-19, Haines ignored them in her report on the origins of COVID-19.
“The scientists who had the subject matter expertise were silenced,” the source said while noting that Biden and others were “completely unwitting” about the SARS-CoV-2 leak emitting from the Wuhan lab.
The intelligence community withheld the researchers’ report from Biden and forbade sharing the information with Congress, despite a written request from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in a March 2021 letter. The researchers were also banned from rebutting a March 2020 paper, prompted by Fauci, that sought to discredit the lab leak theory.
“That was going to be the basis of an official intelligence product,” a source familiar with the probe said.
The sources added that the researchers were also commanded not to share their findings with the FBI, the only intelligence agency that supported the lab leak theory. The Australian also reported that the three were told the FBI was “off the reservation” when it was the only agency that supported the theory.
The FBI research team, led by FBI scientist Jason Bannan, was never offered the opportunity to attend the White House briefing, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported that the scientists were blocked from testifying.
“Being the only agency that assessed that a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to attend the briefing,” Bannan said. “I find it surprising that the White House didn’t ask.”
The question becomes, why would the US intelligence community attempt to cover up for China, which would bear the brunt of the blame for unleashing the deadly virus on the world? The New York Post editorial board surmises that the United States would also share blame for the leak since Fauci and the NIAID had funded the research; therefore, “it was best to cover the whole thing up.”
The Post further writes that any such decision should have been left to Biden, not to whoever was engaging in a shadow presidency and actually making decisions for him, nor to Hanes, who shepherded the deceptive “consensus” findings.
The three researchers determined in their investigation that “a region of a ‘spoke protein’ that permitted the virus to get into human cells mirrored methods described in a 2008 Chinese paper that had been developed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” The Post wrote.
That Chinese paper was published by researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the US government funded “gain-of-function” research that enhances the infectiousness of viruses.
According to sources close to the probe, Dr. Shi Zhengli, known as the “bat lady” at the Wuhan Institute, and her team of virologists were trained at a US lab in Galveston, Texas, to construct a whole coronavirus genome with “seamless assembly.” This method was likely used to construct the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Moreover, a Chinese military researcher who worked with the Wuhan lab applied for a COVID-19 vaccine patent on Feb. 24, 2020, which should have been initiated at least six months prior. This was despite SARS-CoV-2 not being fully sequenced until the end of January 2020.
“He had to have that sequence well before,” one source added while noting the researcher, Zhou Yusen, was the scientist who mysteriously fell to his death from the roof of the Wuhan Institute in May 2020.
In sum, the coverup involving Haines and the intelligence community was an attempt to inform Biden that COVID-19 had not originated in a lab but rather was transmitted from animals to humans. Last week, a Wall Street Journal report said at least four intelligence agencies and the National Intelligence Council (whom Haines supervised) pushed the theory that “zoonotic transmission was the most probable explanation” for the COVID-19 virus.
Mysteriously, the CIA and at least two other agencies maintained a neutral stance on the virus’ origins.
The Wall Street Journal wrote that they were told by a DNI spokesperson that “typically officials from individual agencies do not show up for briefings for the president of that nature,” while also saying that different perspectives were included in the briefing.
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council’s work on Covid-19 origins complied with all of the Intelligence Community’s analytic standards, including objectivity,” the spokeswoman said.
In November, The Post reported that whistleblowers produced documentation that federal grant documents described a so-called “blueprint” for producing viruses that cause COVID-19 may have been improperly classified.
Marine Corps Lt. Col. Joseph Murphy, the whistleblower who produced the documents, believes the intelligence community's inquiry into the pandemic's origins may have been “flawed.”
Project DEFUSE's grant program was placed in a digital portal designed for classified documents outside the public’s purview despite not being classified by the US government. The Post wrote that some scientists have described this as “smoking gun” evidence to support the lab leak theory.
The DEFUSE papers show detailed plans to develop a coronavirus with identical characteristics to COVID-19.
Bannan says that because the entire trove of evidence has not been revealed, it is more important than ever to examine COVID-19’s origins in the future.
“What ended up on the intelligence community’s cutting-room floor needs to be re-examined,” Bannan told the Wall Street Journal.
“The FBI Has long assessed that the origin of the COVID pandemic was likely a laboratory incident in Wuhan,” an FBI spokesperson told The Post when asked for comment.
As The Post editorial board wrote, President-elect Trump and his team “needs to get to the bottom of this.”
“An ‘intelligence community’ that can’t be trusted to tell the truth is worse than having no intel agencies at all.”
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