Earlier this year, I reported that our CIA had shifted its assessment regarding the origins of COVID-19. Now, it favors the lab leak theory as the most likely explanation for the pandemic’s start, reversing the position it has held since the first cases of COVID-19 in this country were reported.
I will simply note that a lab leak has always been the most reasonable and most likely origin of the novel coronavirus…as most Legal Insurrection readers have known since February 2020. We persevered in holding this position, despite attacks on this position being a ‘conspiracy theory’.
Now it turns out that the German foreign intelligence service, known as the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), also investigated the origins of covid in 2020. This project, code-named “Project Saaremaa,” concluded with a high probability (80-90%) that the virus was inadvertently released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China.
The BND based its assessment on evidence of the presence of gain-of-function research and multiple breaches of safety protocols at the WIV, all of which I have cited in many articles related to this subject.
Two German newspapers say they have uncovered details of an assessment carried out by spy agency BND in 2020 but never published.The intelligence service had indications that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been carrying out experiments where viruses are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research, they say.China repeated its denial saying the cause “should be determined by scientists” – and pointed to a World Health Organization investigation which found the lab-leak theory was “extremely unlikely”.
Arguably, the BND came very close to actually seeing the smoking gun.
German agents targeted Chinese government agencies and scientific institutions across the country, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology – the lab at the center of the lab-leak theory.In Wuhan, the BND agents ‘struck gold,’ coming ‘as close to the origins of the pandemic… as possible in China,’ German media Die Zeit reported.They found unpublished dissertations from 2019 and 2020 that allegedly discussed the effects of coronaviruses on the human body.Additionally, uncovered materials revealed Chinese scientists had ‘an unusually large amount of knowledge about the supposedly novel virus available at an unusually early stage.’
These findings, available in 2020 after having been commissioned by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, were never published.
The spy agency assessment’s was based on an unspecified intelligence operation code-named “Saaremaa” as well as on publicly-available data.It had been commissioned by the office of Germany’s chancellor at the time, Angela Merkel, but never published, the report said.BND declined to comment. When asked about the report in a press conference, outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz also declined to comment on Wednesday.The papers reported that the assessment was, however, shared with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the autumn of 2024.
If I could have figured all of this out with Google and a basic knowledge of biochemistry from my locked-down home in San Diego, then why was it such a struggle to publish the analysis back then?
Hot Air’s David Strom explains:
What do you want to bet that the CIA knew this too, and that the Germans, the CIA, MI6, and all the big intelligence agencies assessed this to be the likeliest explanation around the same time but decided to hide the fact for…reasons?Hmm. I wonder what those reasons could be…Surely it had nothing to do with the fact that the United States FUNDED THE RESEARCH THAT CREATED THE VIRUS and that all these governments have deep ties to the US intelligence “community,” which was busily covering up the true origins of the pandemic.Not to mention that all these governments were using the crisis to implement sweeping changes to their societies, impose draconian restrictions on citizens, and bully any dissenters who just happened to be less inclined to submit to government fiat.
If the information of gain-of-function research were able to be reviewed and debated in 2020, then perhaps such activities would have ended then…and we would not be culling millions of valuable farm animals who are now suffering from another franken-virus that was created in 2021.
It is karma that the collusion between Big Government, Big Media, and Big Pharma that silenced those of us who challenged the narrative has led to covid policy opponents now heading key health agencies and the most important outlet in social media.
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