U.S. Spy Agencies Had Ties to Wuhan Scientists Years before 2020 Covid Pandemic Began
Sen. Rand Paul is asking U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to release communications between the U.S. intelligence Community, and virologist Ralph Baric, Ph.D., Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials.
When the Covid pandemic began, the rush to control ‘misinformation’ became a defining feature of the globalist response. Officials, media outlets, and tech platforms worked urgently to suppress claims that challenged prevailing narratives. Yet many of those “false” stories later proved to be quite true.
One of the theories that was suppressed was the likelihood that U.S. intelligence agencies knew and supported the coronavirus research work being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
It turns out that a close collaborator of the virologists who studied coronaviruses in Wuhan frequently advised America’s top spy agency in the lead-up to the pandemic, and that same agency helped suppress intelligence on the parallels between the novel coronavirus and their research.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) hub for foreign biological threats dismissed the intelligence pointing to a lab accident in Wuhan as “misinformation” in January 2021, two former government sources who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive internal meetings told the Daily Caller News Foundation. New documents show that intelligence risked implicating ODNI’s own bioengineering advisor — University of North Carolina professor Ralph Baric.
Baric, who engineered novel coronaviruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), advised ODNI four times a year on biological threats, according to documents released Oct. 30 by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
Baric did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
If the name Ralph Baric seems familiar, it is. I mentioned him on a piece I did this summer, in a piece reporting that scientists working within four intelligence agencies, along with four additional government officials, shared previously undisclosed information about suppressed intelligence spanning both the Trump 1.0 and Biden presidential administrations.
The information revealed at that time indicated that scientists with ties to the Wuhan lab, including Baric, were involved in advising the intelligence community and obfuscating the ties to Wuhan and the gene-edited virus work it was doing.
It turns out that collaboration began in 2015, five years before “two weeks to stop the spread” was enacted, as shown in documentation recently revealed by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY).
In a series of posts on X last week, Paul, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, revealed documents showing that University of North Carolina virologist Ralph Baric, Ph.D., communicated with “members of the U.S. intelligence community … well before the outbreak of the global pandemic.”
The documents Paul published included interactions suggesting SARS-CoV-2 emerged due to a leak from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, even as the virologists involved in the communications publicly claimed the virus had a natural origin.
Baric previously came under scrutiny for his support of controversial gain-of-function research and for a risky research proposal he submitted with Zhengli Shi, Ph.D., a researcher at the Wuhan laboratory widely referred to as the “Bat Lady” for her coronavirus research involving bats.
🚨 I’ve sent a letter to ODNI after uncovering new records showing U.S. intel was in contact with coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric as early as 2015. pic.twitter.com/GxuQ5ZDPt8
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) October 30, 2025
Paul recently sent a demand letter to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on the origins of Covid, for a more complete review of how deep this collaboration went.
The letter includes new documents obtained by the Committee revealing that members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) were in contact with Dr. Ralph Baric, a coronavirus expert and collaborator of Dr. Zhengli Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), well before the outbreak of the global pandemic. These documents reveal that Dr. Baric’s relationship with the Intelligence Community dates back to at least 2015.
In an email dated September 10, 2015, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and ODNI initiated contact with Dr. Baric to set up a meeting to discuss a “possible project” related to “[c]oronavirus evolution and possible natural human adaptation. Just under two months later, Dr. Baric and Dr. Shi would publish on their joint coronavirus experiments in a paper titled, “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence.” This research, which was funded with taxpayer dollars under the USAID PREDICT program and NIH grants, is largely acknowledged by the scientific community to have included gain-of-function research.
It will be interesting to see what Gabbard turns over to Paul. She has always been receptive to the lab origin theory.
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Gain of Function projects weee banned by Obama. Must have been a wink and a nod. Or maybe Fraudci went rogue and decided to fund it anyway. If the CIA went rogue and funded it without telling Congress we have a MAJOR scandal that has to be addressed. This could open the door about why the US was funding so many bio-labs in Ukraine.
‘Intelligence’ agencies engineering viruses scares me more than Iranian mullahs with nukes.
Fauci and his gang answered to nobody including Obama,
Late march 2020 – NPR ran a week long expose on the impossibility of a lab leak.
Does anyone believe npr?
They are supposedly the most honest of media!
Perhaps the senate can pass a bill wherein any senator who is afflicted in the course of a CIA engineered pandemic is entitled to $500,000 per incident.
All of this shit gets scarier and scarier as more info comes out, leaving one to only imagine how bad it actually is. That apocalypse clock is ticking.
Thank you, Leslie, for all this important “disinformation.”
Too bad we will never see the “disinformation Karens” imprisoned for aggravated public fraud and deprivation of human rights under color of law.
It may be nitpicking, but there was no “rush to control ‘misinformation’ “at the beginning of the pandemic.
Here’s my understanding of mis-, dis- and malinformation:
Misinformation – Someone says something, believing it to be true at the time but it later turns out to be wrong. Misinformation involves error or ignorance and is also known as a mistake.
Disinformation – Someone says something, knowing it to be false at the time but presenting it as true. Disinformation is deliberate and is otherwise known as a lie or propaganda.
Malinformation – Information that is true, but the government doesn’t want people to hear because it challenges the official narrative. Also known as heresy.
In my view, there was a rush to control malinformation through the use of disinformation.
Yes, but…
If the government had been claiming to “control malinformation,” they would have been obviously self-condemning for pushing a false narrative. So they didn’t — they pretended it was “misinformation” they were controlling.
Here are the receipts.
Ties to Wuhan? They were joined at hip like Chang and Eng.
The FBI needs to identify who was in our government was funding this and who was part of this. They should be up on charges of treason. If funding came from outside then the country should go after the group or country that is or was doing the funding.
Good luck. The Epstein Files circus has already shown us what will happen from now on to investigations of crimes in which “too many big names from both sides” are involved.
Trump has finally backed the release of Epstein data/info/files. Maybe he’s trying to get ahead of the inevitable vote to release it in the HoR. Maybe he finally figured out the ‘trust me Bro’ gambit relying on adopting Officer Barbrady’s ‘nothing to see, move along’ stance was not only being rejected but widely lampooned. Maybe he had a legitimate change of heart to decide to follow through on his promises of openness and transparency re Epstein files. Whatever the reason it is a very good, if long overdue, decision that, if implemented to release it all, will put 99% of the Epstein files kurfluffle behind us…other than the real whacko conspiracy folks and TDS weirdos who will always come up with a.reason to complain.
I have been convinced all along hat DJT was simply stalling whilst some o his crew were digging more deely inbto the tens o thousands o pages in the trickload o docs. Once he was sure enough he had “da goods” he let the whole pile o dung get dumpd ou on the street so everyone can see. He has thus thwarted any chance o “selective” examination o this and that part.
Trump has seen up close and personal just how dirty rotten
corrupt (sorry I repeat myselph)
Don’t neglect this: Trump’s HOME was raided by a very dirty EphBeeAye on tumped up (no extra charge on that one) charges o having “classiphied documents” when HE and HE ALONE had plenary power to declassiphy any and all docs he had. HE was the sole arbiter concerning what is/is not classiphied. Yet they raided his home anyway, as though he was Al Capone’s Big Brother
Trump is “on” to these corruptocrats, big time. He is playing them like a well tuned old violin.
This is old news to people who paid attention to the whole mess.
COVID research was the largest of homicide in history, excepting perhaps swine flu research
COVID killed something like 10x more people than all guns combined this century
Yeah.When da gummit poohbahs came out with the Bat Soup in the Wet Market sicj joke I KNEW he whole thing was a scam. How?
Think.. in order to make SOUP with any meat one must put the meat into HOT WATEr over a long enough period o time to break down the proteins in said meat. Any application o heat over time that will break down the meat so its not like chewing on cut up tennis balls WILL destroy any pathogen.. bacterium or virus. No question.
So when da gummit came out wuth that whopper I KNEW we were being played as the idiots they want us to be. The really scary part is that so many bought on that story.
I chalk that up to the gummit edjumacayshun siss-dumb. Part and parcel o the same plot.