A CIA whistleblower has accused Dr Anthony Fauci of intentionally covering up the likely laboratory origins of Covid-19. James Erdman III, a serving CIA officer, delivered the claims under oath to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Erdman alleged that Fauci deliberately influenced the intelligence community's assessment to steer it away from the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis. The testimony, given as of 14 May 2026, has once again placed the contentious issue of the pandemic's source at the centre of political and scientific discussion.
Erdman told the committee that initial CIA analysts had strongly favoured the idea that the virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, with a five-to-one internal vote supporting the lab-leak theory. He claimed this position was later altered to a more neutral stance after Fauci provided a list of experts he described as conflicted. 'Dr Fauci's role in the cover-up was intentional,' the whistleblower said as reported by Yahoo News.
Erdman asserted that Fauci used his position to shape the consultation process and the findings. The whistleblower further claimed that the handling of the COVID-19 origin assessment involved intentional actions tied to a 'cover-up'. He suggested that acknowledging a lab origin early could have changed public health decisions.
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