The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has reportedly heard “new testimony from a highly credibly whistleblower” alleging that the CIA “rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusion from a lab-leak to zoonosis.”
In a public letter addressed to CIA director William Burns, subcommittee chairmen Brad Wenstrup and Mike Turner, both Republican representatives from Ohio, argued that the CIA created a “Covid Discovery Team” that was tasked with investigating the origins and emergence of the coronavirus. However, apart from a “lone officer” in the group who believed the virus “originated through zoonosis,” the remaining officials agreed that, on balance of probabilities, the coronavirus was likely the result of a lab-leak.
“According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that Covid-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” the letter reads.
The unnamed source further alleged that “to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.”
The chairmen gave Burns until September 26, two weeks from the date of submission, to provide the subcommittee with relevant “documents and communications” pertaining to the “Covid Discovery Team” between the CIA and other federal...
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