Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
Why the CIA COVID Cover-Up?
The US government cover-up of the origins of the covid virus that hit the world in 2020 was bad enough, but now we know that the CIA itself was involved.
On May 13, James Erdman III—an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)—bravely stepped forward to testify to the Senate Homeland Security Committee about a cover-up of the origins of the COVID pandemic instituted by the CIA’s leadership. While the CIA’s official spokeswoman denounced the Committee’s hearing as “political theater” and Democratic members of the Committee refused to even show up, Erdman’s revelations are arguably the most sensational exposure of CIA misdeeds made under oath to a Senate committee since the Church Committee hearings in 1975.
When the American public first learned that a highly infectious variant of a bat coronavirus was killing people in Wuhan, China in January of 2020, it was almost immediately evident that the virus must have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The WIV’s website openly advertised for post-doctoral researchers to study SARS-related coronaviruses in bats (English translation in figure 1), and the mRNA of the virus itself showed unambiguous signs of a deliberate and selective insertion of a furin cleavage sequence and other artificial modifications that greatly increased infectivity in humans.
When a January 31, 2020 Zerohedge article began to publicize concerns about the virus’s possible WIV origins, Dr. Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust took notice and brought it to the attention of Dr. Anthony Fauci—head of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—in a February 2, 2020 email.
As Fauci’s emails from this period make clear, panic had already taken hold of his circle. They had realized a few days earlier that the NIAID had funded WIV virus work via subawards through University of North Carolina virologist Ralph Baric. Further email threads raised alarms about how Baric had transferred gain-of-function techniques to his WIV colleagues (tissue culture passaging was specifically mentioned; Baric had also previously employed furin cleavage site insertions) and had even co-authored a 2015 Nature article with the Chinese speculating about a covid-like outbreak. Fauci’s circle was already deeply worried about a possible lab origin of the virus and their own personal connections to it.
Fauci’s circle clearly had a vested interest in squashing any public speculation about SARS-CoV-2 originating in a WIV laboratory in China. Three hours before he forwarded the Zerohedge link, Farrar had warned the group that “questions will get louder and more polarized and people will start to look to who to blame”—avoiding such blame is a plain enough motive for Fauci and friends to initiate a cover-up.
In spite of the grave concerns about the virus’s origins among his own experts, the Zerohedge article seemed to confirm Farrar’s warnings and thus trigger Fauci.
A mere four hours after he learned about the Zerohedge article, Fauci urged his circle to “move quickly” with the help of the WHO against “the threat of further distortions on social media” that promoted covid lab origin theories (figure 2). It was the “threat” of adverse publicity and not “the science” that made any discussion of the lab origin conclusion verboten.
Erdman’s testimony casts a much more sinister light on Fauci’s campaign to obscure SARS-CoV-2’s origins. Why would leaders of the CIA collaborate with Fauci by suppressing the classified internal conclusions of their own biological experts, and why would they continue to stonewall Congress and attack the credibility of a whistleblower years later? How could the interests of the US intelligence community be so strongly aligned with those of Fauci and the Chinese?
While Erdman didn’t answer these questions, there is another covid whistleblower who shed some light on them. He is Dr. Andrew Huff, former Vice President of the EcoHealth Alliance and author of The Truth About Wuhan. His claim is that EcoHealth acted as a cutout for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, an office within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. EcoHealth participated in a USAID-funded collaborative research agreement known as “PREDICT” and led efforts to work with the WIV to harvest dangerous viruses in China. The discovery of the natural bat coronavirus precursor of SARS-CoV-2 arising from PREDICT’s Chinese operation was published in a 2013 Nature article, whose co-authors including three EcoHealth researchers and PREDICT’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Jonna Mazet of the University of California, Davis.
Federal agencies like the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) as well as the NIAID were funding a remarkable array of research projects around the world through a small cabal of civilian actors that in aggregate constituted a de facto bioweapons development program. In my former job as a data analyst for the University of California system, I had access to enough data to strongly suspect the existence of such a program prior to reading Dr. Huff’s book. In the section of my own 2023 COVID whistleblower complaint to the University regarding PREDICT, I wrote the following summary, citing Huff as well as various emails, sponsorship documents, and other sources:
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