CIA whistleblower claims agency ‘bribed’ their OWN analysts to say COVID did NOT come from Wuhan: Bombshell Republican report exposes wider virus origins cover-up

A CIA whistleblower recently told Congress that the agency bribed its own analysts to say Covid-19 did not originate in a Wuhan lab, according to two Republicans. 

According to a senior-level current agency officer, the CIA assigned seven officers to a Covid discovery team. At the end of their investigation six of the seven believed the intelligence pointed to a low-confidence assessment that Covid-19 originated in a lab. 

The seventh member, the most senior on the team, believed it evolved naturally. The other six were then given a ‘significant monetary incentive to change their position,’ according to the whistleblower.  

Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, who lead the Intelligence and Covid committees respectively, wrote a letter Tuesday to CIA director William Burns demanding all documents on the matter.

The lawmakers set a September 26 deadline for the CIA to turn over all records involving the COVID discovery team and all communications with the FBI, State Department, Health and Human Services, Energy Department about the matter. 

The Department of Energy, which oversees biological research labs in the U.S., concluded with ‘low confidence’ in February of this year that the virus most likely came from a lab in Wuhan. The FBI concluded the same with moderate confidence. 

Five other intelligence bodies concluded that natural transmission – the theory the virus jumped from an animal to a human host – more likely. The CIA ultimately refused to make an assessment even with low confidence. 

U.S. officials have remained frustrated with China’s stonewalling of their own efforts to get to the bottom of the virus’ origins. Now they may never definitively conclude where it all started – authorities in China destroyed some virus samples and used up others in research, U.S. officials say. 

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report in June that laid out their inconclusive findings. 

‘All agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection,’ the report said.