Explosive Report: Veteran Journalist Reveals CIA Had Asset Inside Wuhan Lab Before Covid Outbreak
"A bombshell new report indicates that the CIA’s involvement in the origin of the novel coronavirus outbreak may run much deeper than has been proven thus far."
More than five years have passed since a novel coronavirus appeared in the vicinity of the Chinese laboratory and launched a global pandemic.
That novel coronavirus and the syndrome it caused, Covid-19, would become one of the most politicized and weaponized pandemics in world history.
Thus, it is with some intrigue that a war of narratives has broken out regarding the CIA’s knowledge of, and its potential role in, the lab leak that started it all.
The CIA this week issued a hastily released assessment that the novel coronavirus "more likely" originated from a lab leak than from a bat “wet market.”
The political timing of the CIA report is not lost on anyone. The agency being taken over by Trump nominee and former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe.
Ratcliffe has been a skeptic of the official narrative that soft-peddles the U.S. government’s role in funding and facilitating the risky gain-of-function research that almost certainly caused the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
The Central Intelligence Agency has its fingerprints all over the “lab leak” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The CIA report thus appears to close the lid on the agency’s involvement in the origin of Covid-19 as well as its handling of the fallout.
A bombshell new report indicates that the CIA’s involvement in the origin of the novel coronavirus outbreak may run much deeper than has been proven thus far.
Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh in a Substack post that is long on political narrative and short on provable facts, nonetheless reveals through a well-placed source that the CIA had an asset inside the Wuhan laboratory prior to the Covid outbreak.
The key passage that alludes to far more than Mr. Hersh lets on is below:
I learned this week that a US intelligence asset at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where the Covid virus was first observed, is safe and out of danger. The asset, highly regarded within the CIA, was recruited while in graduate school in the United States and provided early warning of a laboratory accident at Wuhan that led to a series of infections that was quickly spreading and initially seemed immune to treatment.
We will skip ahead in the paid subscriber post to the juicy part:
The official told me that in late 2019 “the agency had a source in the laboratory at Wuhan” who reported—long before any official statement from Chinese authorities—that “China was doing both offensive and defensive work” with possible SARS pathogens and there had been a laboratory accident that left one researcher infected. The illness quickly spread.
I further learned then that the CIA’s source was being paid by arrangement with the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, which was one of many American institutions, including universities, funding the Wuhan laboratory’s research programs.
The official went on: “Wuhan had a white and black side. We [American scientists] deal in the white with known pathogens, [American] scientists don’t know anything about intelligence. They just look at credentials that can be easily faked.”
All of these factors made the laboratory at Wuhan a target for American espionage. By late November of 2019, I was told, “the American intelligence community knew that a virus had escaped. We also knew that they”—the Chinese bureaucrats in Wuhan and Beijing—“knew how to cover up a report.” At some point, the senior staff of the Senate and House intelligence committees had to be briefed. China was not talking and there was still no public awareness of the coming threat.
We’ll dig into more about why this revelation is potentially significant below.
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