A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower claims that the CIA provided six analysts enormous monetary incentives to shift their stance on Covid’s origin. The Staff on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence heard testimony from the whistleblower, who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer, according to a statement from the Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Tuesday (September 12).
According to the whistleblower, six of the seven members of the CIA team entrusted with investigating the virus’s origins believed that the infection most likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. “The CIA, then however, allegedly offered financial incentives to six of the experts involved in the investigation to change their conclusion in favor of a zoonotic origin,” the statement said.
The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chairperson Mike Turner expressed alarm over these allegations in a letter to CIA Director William Burns on Tuesday.
Turner stated that the claims necessitated more supervision of how the CIA conducted its internal investigation into the origins of COVID-19 by the Coronavirus Pandemic (Select Subcommittee) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).
Turner requested that Burns provide the above committees with documents that include details about the establishment of all iterations of the Covid Discovery Team, communications between or among members of all iterations of the team regarding Covid’s origin, and all documents and communications regarding the origin between or among members of all iterations of the team and other employees or contractors of the agency.
“Should the required information not be produced in an expeditious and satisfactory manner, you should expect the Committee, or Committees, to use its additional tools and authorities to satisfy our legislative and oversight requirements,” the letter added.
