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US intelligence agencies' disagreement over the origins of COVID: How the FBI was bypassed

2024-12-28 21:11:19Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
US intelligence agencies' disagreement over the origins of COVID: How the
The disagreement of US intelligence agencies over the origin of COVID

A report published in the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal reveals that there was sharp disagreement among American intelligence agencies about whether COVID-19 (caused by the coronavirus) was caused by a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, or by natural causes. Evidence suggests that some analysis supporting the theory of a lab leak of the virus was ignored or covered up.

According to the report, there were apparent disagreements among intelligence agencies before the report on the origins of the virus was delivered to President Joe Biden in August 2021. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) supported the theory that the virus emerged from a laboratory, while other agencies believed that the virus was created in nature.

According to the report, such disagreements led to the FBI being excluded from an intelligence briefing where the issue was presented to the US president. The National Intelligence Council and four other intelligence agencies concluded with a “low degree of confidence” that the virus originated in an animal and was not the result of a lab leak.

At the time, the FBI was the only agency to conclude that the theory of a lab-derived virus was plausible, and this conclusion was made with a “moderate degree of confidence.” However, the FBI’s exclusion from the conference raised some doubts.

The agencies prepared the report after Biden ordered in May 2021 that an investigation into the origins of the virus be conducted within 90 days. China refused to cooperate with the United States in the investigation, and for months before the briefing, the issue of the origins of the coronavirus caused sharp divisions in the intelligence community.

Hiding the facts

Jason Bannan, a former FBI microbiologist and one of the scientists who studied the virus, told the newspaper in an exclusive interview that the FBI had not been invited to a conference to present the research results. Bannan was told by his superiors to be ready in case the FBI was asked to attend an intelligence community conference with the president, but the invitation from the White House never came.

"Since the FBI is the only agency that has assessed that the source of the outbreak is most likely the laboratory origin of the virus, but also the agency that has expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, it was expected that the FBI would be asked to participate in the briefing. I am surprised that the White House did not request it," Bannan added.

According to the report, the issue was further complicated by the findings of three scientists from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), who confirmed that COVID-19 was manipulated in a laboratory and based their analysis on research from the Wuhan Institute. However, these results were not included in the final report.

Sources say DIA officials stopped the scientists in June 2021 from sharing their research with the FBI. They were also told that the FBI was “dismissed from the case.” This prompted the agency’s inspector general to launch an investigation, but so far with no results.

Political obstacles

The report's authors, Michael Gordon, the newspaper's national security correspondent, and Warren Strobel, the newspaper's intelligence and security correspondent, believe the guidelines point to a broader policy within some intelligence agencies to ignore or exclude evidence that might support the theory that the coronavirus leaked from a lab. This evidence was deliberately not included in official reports submitted to the White House, suggesting that the disagreements between the agencies are political rather than scientific.

The pace of the investigation into the matter has slowed as intelligence agencies have shifted their focus to other priorities. Although the National Intelligence Council report failed to resolve the question of the virus's origin, the FBI, in collaboration with the Department of Energy, later concluded that a leak of the virus from a laboratory was the most likely theory, according to the report.

The report concludes that it is necessary to reopen investigations into the origins of the virus, especially after five years have passed since the pandemic, and that all available information and evidence should be used to get to the truth.


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