{"id":185883,"date":"2023-09-12T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=185883"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:08:58","slug":"cia-bribed-analysts-to-change-lab-leak-conclusions-senior-level-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=185883","title":{"rendered":"

CIA Bribed Analysts To Change Lab-Leak Conclusions: ‘Senior-Level’ Whistleblower<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

A ‘senior-level’ CIA whistleblower has come forward to allege that\u00a0the agency bribed analysts to change their opinion that Covid-19 most likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China<\/strong>, according to the\u00a0NY Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The whistleblower told House committee leaders that\u00a0his agency ‘\u00a0tried to pay off six analysts who found SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan lab if they changed their position and said the virus jumped from animals to humans,’<\/strong>\u00a0according to a Tuesday letter from the chairmen of two House subcommittees investigating the pandemic response and US intelligence, Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) and Mike Turner (R-OH).<\/p>\n

The pair have requested all documents, communications and pay info from the CIA’s Covid-19 Discovery Team by Sept. 26.<\/p>\n

“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,<\/strong>” reads the letter from the House panel chairmen.<\/p>\n

“The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis.<\/p>\n

“The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty,\u00a0the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position<\/strong>,” the letters continue, adding that the analysts were “experienced officers with significant scientific expertise.”<\/p>\n

Wenstrup and Turner also asked for documents and communications between the CIA and other federal agencies, including the State Department, FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Energy Department.<\/em><\/p>\n

In a separate letter,\u00a0the House committee leaders identified former CIA Chief Operating Officer Andrew Makridis as having \u201cplayed a central role\u201d in the COVID investigation<\/strong>\u00a0and asked him to sit for a transcribed interview. -NY Post<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In June, the US Intelligence Community\u00a0declassified a 10-page report on COVID origins<\/strong>, in which it found “biosafety concerns” and “genetic engineering” taking place in Wuhan, but that most of its “agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not genetically engineered.”<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0points out, however, several scientists at the WIV fell ill in late 2019 with symptoms “consistent with but not diagnostic of COVID-19,” according to the intelligence report, which concluded that the CIA and another intelligence agency “remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting.”<\/p>\n

Pushback<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not all former US intelligence officials agree with the declassified report – such as former DNI John Ratcliffe, who told Congress that the “lab leak theory” was the “only” credible explanation for the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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“My informed assessment as a person with as much access as anyone to our government\u2019s intelligence \u2026 has been and continues to be that a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science and by common sense,” he told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in a hearing.<\/p>\n

“If our intelligence and evidence supporting a lab leak was placed side by side with our intelligence and evidence pointing to a natural origins or spillover theory, the lab leak side of the ledger would be long, convincing, even overwhelming \u2014 while the spillover side would be nearly empty and tenuous,” Ratcliffe continued.<\/p>\n

Read the letters below:<\/p>\n