WASHINGTON (TND) — The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency offered hush money to analysts to cover up their findings that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan, China laboratory, according to new whistleblower testimony.

A senior-level CIA officer testified to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that six members of a CIA team came to the discovery of the disease's origins, according to letters dated Tuesday. The CIA then allegedly offered individuals bribes to the six members for them to change their findings to conclude that the virus had transferred to humans from animals.

Committee chairmen Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, and Mike Turner, R-Ohio, requested that all documents and communications from the CIA’s COVID-19 origins review be turned over to the committee Tuesday.

“Should the required information not be produced in an expeditious and satisfactory manner, you should expect the Committee, or Committees, to use its additional tools and authorities to satisfy our legislative and oversight requirements,” Wenstrup wrote to CIA Director William Burns and former CIA Chief Operating Officer Andrew Makridis.

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