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In Early 2020, A Chinese Source Trusted By FBI Said COVID Leaked From Wuhan Lab, Sources Say
Public Substack ^ | 01/23/2024 | Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag

Posted on 01/23/2024 5:36:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind

FBI’s entire 25-person Chinese intelligence squad knew of reliable human intelligence that SARS-CoV-2 Covid leaked from a lab...

Over the last several months, Public has reported on a growing body of evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the Covid pandemic escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. Last year, Public and Racket were the first to report that US government officials had identified that the first patients to become sick with Covid worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

Now, Public has learned from multiple sources that the FBI knew since at least March 2020 that Covid was the result of a lab leak. A Chinese national from Wuhan, working as a confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI, told their handler at the FBI’s Chinese Intelligence Squad. The sources said it was probable that the whole squad of 25 people knew.

“A person working at the Virology Institute lab in Wuhan, China was infected, left the building, and spread the virus outside the lab in Wuhan,” the CHS told the FBI, according to a source.

“It didn’t have anything to do with the wet market or the bat soup story they were going with.”

The sources asked Public to protect their identities and those of their colleagues. The sources say they are speaking up now out of concern over abuses of power within the FBI. They reached out to Public after seeing our story yesterday about how scientists, who Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had in the past funded, sought to insert a furin cleavage site right where it exists on SARS-CoV-2.

The sources added that the FBI trusted the CHS because the person’s information had been corroborated at least three times previously.

“The CHS was from Wuhan, had been vetted, and the person had provided information on three prior occasions that they were able to corroborate as true and reliable.”

Another source said the FBI had considered the information “good intel.”

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Two sources said that the CIA may have been conflicted in investigating its origins because it didn’t want to compromise investigations of the Wuhan lab that predated the outbreak of Covid-19.

There was a clear lack of interest in a robust analysis of Chinese military connections to WIV research, connections between Chinese military and civilian research, and connections that could be drawn between US research and WIV activity,” the whistleblower said.

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe suggested that there could be additional reasons behind the CIA’s lack of disclosure about COVID’s origins.

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Fauci may have also tried to influence the FBI.

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'Public' subscribers can read the full report here...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; chinavirus; coronavirus; covid; lableak; wuhan; wuhanlab

1 posted on 01/23/2024 5:36:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Now the real truth was that it was released on purpose for multiple reasons. The timing was based on the need to steal the US election.


2 posted on 01/23/2024 5:40:41 PM PST by Revel
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To: SeekAndFind
This was NEVER in doubt. Ever. Those who tried to say it was were either grossly ignorant, grossly uninformed, or had an agenda.

The science behind doing this, and in particular the genetic manipulations, are pedestrian. Simple enough that a science oriented high school student who had access to the materials necessary could have done it in his/her garage. Which is why the unimpressive Chinese research community was able to do it.

For the record, saying they're unimpressive doesn't mean I don't think they are bright. It means that they have the hampered creativity that comes from being in a controlled top-down society for as long as they have. That said, if we give them the opportunities and time to catch up and pass us, they can - as can others.

3 posted on 01/23/2024 6:02:20 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: grey_whiskers; bitt; Melian; ransomnote; SecAmndmt; Jane Long; metmom

Ping for your interest


4 posted on 01/23/2024 6:05:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Revel

To put it even more starkly, if the link between vaccines and these diseases is legitimate:

Humanity today would be healthier and more numerous, if no vaccine had ever been invented!

From Page 155, 4th paragraph

“The Wuhan Cover-up and the Terrifying Bioweapons Arm Race!”

RF Kennedy Jr.’


5 posted on 01/23/2024 6:06:25 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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To: Revel

“The sources say they are speaking up now out of concern over abuses of power within the FBI.”

There’s nothing that can be done at this point to improve the reputation of the FBI.

The police state agencies and DoJ are the greatest threat to individual liberties in US.


6 posted on 01/23/2024 6:26:53 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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To: SeekAndFind

“Trusted by the FBI” is an oxymoron.


7 posted on 01/23/2024 7:00:51 PM PST by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of the untrusted )
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll believe until the day I die this thing was no leak. It was intentionally released by the CCP because...why wouldn’t they? They have been at war with us since forever.


8 posted on 01/23/2024 7:21:26 PM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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