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.
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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