A whistleblower has told the House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) effectively bribed researchers who said the Wuhan virus originated in a lab to change their opinion.
The whistleblower, described as a “highly credible senior-level CIA officer” by the House Oversight Committee, alleges that six of seven officers assigned to investigate the origins of COVID-19 initially concluded that it “likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China” – but they were “offered financial incentives… to change their conclusion in favor of a zoonotic origin.”
The committee chairmen – Reps. Wenstrup (R-OH) and Turner (R-OH) – have written to the CIA requesting that Andrew Makridis, the CIA’s former Chief Operating Officer (COO), submit to a “voluntary transcribed interview,” and asked for all documents and communications between state officials and the COVID Discovery Team.
“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 seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis. The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” wrote the chairmen.
They are particularly interested in communications related to the team’s “pay history, to include the awarding of any type of financial or performance-based incentive/financial bonus”.