Don't imagine that America's hostile expansionistic "intelligence" services are coming clean, though. They're still spinning about the three scientists who caught covid before the "wet market outbreak."
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) "collaborated" with the Chinese military on coronavirus experiments in the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released Friday.
The WIV provided financial support and its staff conducted experiments from 2017 to 2019 to improve China's understanding of viruses "for [the] defensive and biosecurity needs of the military," according to the report. However, coronaviruses WIV researchers and People's Liberation Army (PLA)-associated scientists worked on were unlikely to have been the cause of COVID-19, DNI determined.
Sure. And it's a "conspiracy theory" if I say that you've lied for three years straight and that you're still lying now.
The "collaboration" between WIV researchers and PLA personnel focused "on biosafety and biosecurity projects," according to the report.
LOL, sure it did. They were working on "biosafety." Right, right.
Researchers from the PLA also utilized WIV labs for coronavirus and vaccine-associated research, working closely with WIV personnel to develop "therapeutics" relevant to the viruses.
YUP! That's all they were doing!
I believe you. You believe that I believe you, don't you, Treasonous "Intelligence" Community?
The first three patients to become ill with COVID-19 were lab researchers at the WIV, according to a recent report from journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag.
The DNI report appears to contradict the journalists' findings, stating that although "several WIV researchers were ill in Fall 2019 with symptoms; some of their symptoms were consistent with but not diagnostic of COVID-19," adding their "symptoms could have been caused by a number of diseases."
Any number of disease, ranging from Covid-19 alpha to covid-19 alpha 1.1.
Up until January 2019, WIV researchers undertook experiments similar to COVID-19 in BSL-2 labs (biosafety level 2), which are more secure than BSL-1 labs, but less secure than BSL-4 ones, according to the report. Researchers did this "despite acknowledgements going back to 2017 of these virus' ability to directly infect humans through their spike protein and early 2019 warnings of the danger of this practice."
DNI's findings acknowledge some researchers likely did not practice sufficient "biosafety precautions at least some of the time prior to the pandemic in handling SARS-like coronaviruses, increasing the risk of accidental exposure to viruses."
On June 15, the Daily Caller reported that the Chinese Army maintains "shadow labs" at the Wuhan Institute.
A newly-unearthed State Department cable suggests that the military wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was operating so-called "shadow labs" at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
The heavily redacted State Department cable from Aug. 2020, now obtained by the watchdog group U.S. Right To Know, has a section labeled "Cyber Evidence of PLA Shadow Labs at WIV and Bioengineering University." PLA refers to the People's Liberation Army, China's military.
The details of the evidence are redacted, but other sections include "PLA Contractor Involved in the Construction of the Wuhan Institute of Virology," "PLA Presence Continued After Construction Completed" and "WIV Personnel with Possible PLA Ties."
The cables uncovered by USRTK were seemingly routed through the American Institute in Taiwan, which essentially functions as a U.S. embassy on the island. Some of the individuals named on an email thread containing the cable are former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science, Space, and Health Johnathan Margolis and David Feith, the deputy assistant secretary for regional and security policy and multilateral affairs in the State Department's East Asian and Pacific Bureau.
Two other cables obtained by USRTK address the CCP's focus on "military-civil fusion" research and the way top leadership in Beijing suppressed information in the early days of the pandemic. "Initial Outbreak Could Have Been Contained in China if Beijing Had Not Covered It Up," the third cable reads.