THE BIOWEAPON ORIGIN OF COVID IN 3 TWEETS
On June 4th 2021, Fauci was briefed by the Weapons and Counterproliferation Mission Center of the CIA - who were investigating the possibility SARS-CoV-2 was a bioweapon.
They shared with him that “pangolin” coronaviruses had been transferred from a "group in Beijing" to Wuhan for experiments involving humanized mice.
We should be careful not to conflate WIV with the Wuhan BSL-4 facility (even the IC aren’t consistent about this!).
Fauci doesn't say it, but the “group in Beijing” is almost certainly the AMMS Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology.
The CIA also divulged to him that unknown experiments were conducted by the military in Wuhan.
But you don’t need BSL-4 to study a zoonotic coronavirus, this would usually be done at BSL-2. Even SARS and MERS are only BSL-3 - which AMMS has in Beijing. Why go to Wuhan?
ODNI recently released CIA official's accounts of the meeting, but some key details were redacted.
According to the CIA, Fauci was very interested in the pangolins, but he told them they needed to get more detail about the experiments. Fauci’s own account of the meeting is quite disparaging of the CIA presenters.
Perhaps he was covering himself in case his negligence in dismissing their concerns was exposed later?
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