According to a letter released by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Tuesday, a whistleblower alleges that senior members of the CIA attempted to pay off junior analysts to hide their findings about their beliefs that Covid-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The whistleblower alleges that the agency attempted to cover the findings of six analysts and convince them, via bribes, to change their conclusions and instead report that the virus was transmitted from animals to humans rather than from a lab.
"The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have received new and concerning whistleblower testimony regarding the Agency’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19," a letter to CIA Director William Burns said from House COVID Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup & House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner.
"According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed that intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China," the letter continued.
"The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the one officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis," the committee chairmen write. "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.”
This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.
The whistleblower alleges that the agency attempted to cover the findings of six analysts and convince them, via bribes, to change their conclusions and instead report that the virus was transmitted from animals to humans rather than from a lab.
"The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have received new and concerning whistleblower testimony regarding the Agency’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19," a letter to CIA Director William Burns said from House COVID Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup & House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner.
"According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed that intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China," the letter continued.
"The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the one officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis," the committee chairmen write. "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.”
This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.
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