Rebekah Koffler: America’s Spy Agencies Failed To Protect Us From China’s Bio-Warfare Program

As We settle into the New YearMany of us are now watching with concern the signs that COVID-19 may be resurging. Hospitalizations Since early days, they have been on the rise November. It It’s not uncommon to see people completely masked in an elevator, movie theatre or at work. Broadway show. We don’t know if we can get this virus under control, and we must be able to foresee and prevent the emergence of another. This It is therefore crucial to discover the origins COVID-19. And This is where US intelligence agencies failed and even deceived.

American taxpayers shell out billions each year to our 18 spy agencies  — the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) and NSA (National Security Agency) the best-known of them — so they can protect us from foreign threats. And These threats include COVID-19. It originated in China. At These agencies must at the very least use their extraordinary human spy-power as well as powerful technology to gather (or even steal!) secrets in order to identify where threats are coming from so that we can neutralize them. Because if we don’t, we will be dealing with these threats again and again.

Our country and the world suffered an unimaginable toll from COVID-19 – more than one million dead in the US and nearly seven million globally. In AugustThe declassified version of the Intelligence Community’s Assessment on the virus’ origins was released and stated, “The IC was able to reach broad agreement” That “the virus was not developed as a biological weapon.”

And yet, American When pressed by the authorities, spy agencies House intelligence committee on what they knew about the deadly virus, failed to come clean. The Agency secretiveness from oversight panels led to the concealment of these agencies. American People believe that COVID-19 is compatible with China’s biological warfare doctrine and the long-term programs Beijing Invested in to combat viruses Most Curiously, they withheld crucial intelligence from oversight committees about the extent of the corruption. China’s much-discussed gain of function research — programs aimed at increasing the transmissibility and virulence of highly dangerous pathogens through genetic manipulation. If They are so certain of their conclusion, why not withhold this vital information?

So Why is it? China Are you interested in creating and manipulating viruses China’s biological warfare doctrine was developed, at least in part, to target deadly viruses at the United StatesWhich? Beijing perceives as its key impediment to its goals of becoming the world’s top economic and military power by 2049 — the centennial of China’s Communist revolution — and taking over TaiwanAlternatively, you can integrate gradually with a military force. 

China There is a long history in coronavirus research. This research is carried out by scientists from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Fifth Institute The Academy This is Military Medical Sciences (AMMS) Shanghai Researchers at the Wuhan Institute This is Virology (WIV). These Scientists collaborate as part of China’s national biological weapons program. Information These efforts were made possible by Republicans The following are the House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence (HPSCI), which is on December 14 were released Second Interim Report on the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic As part of an investigation into oversight, Congressman Brad Wenstrup (OH-02). The Report accuses US spy agencies de downplaying the possibility of SARS-CoV- 2 being connected China’s bioweapons program and of withholding vital information from the public and skewing the public’s understanding of key issues on COVID-19.

Founded AMMS was established in 1951. China’s premier military medical research agency. It Includes 11 organizations, including the Institute This is Microbiology And EpidemiologyAlso known as the Fifth Institute. Although China This program is described by the State Department In 2005, it was revealed that China Also, an offensive biological weapons program is in operation. In A 2006 declaration of compliance Biological And Toxic Weapons Convention — a global agreement prohibiting bio-weapons development and deployment — China Recognized that Fifth Institute Conducts research on SARS coronaviruses. In 2015 saw the publication of a book by the AMMS’ official publishing house, entitled “The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Artificial Humanized Viruses as Genetic Weapons.” 

The The book makes it clear Chinese Military medical researchers concluded that an artificially engineered, chimeric coronavirus could be used as a genetic weapon to infect humans and create a pandemic like COVID-19. Such a bioweapon has an advantage over a traditional kinetic weapon, such as a missile or a nuclear bomb, because it can be employed both in wartime and peacetime — and also, theoretically, via the air or food supply.

Of Of course, there is the Chinese They never explicitly stated they were manipulating coronaviruses for weaponization. Rather, “the purpose of using modern genetic weapons, argued Chinese military theorists in this book, is not primarily for military motives but rather as an important terror threat [and to meet] political and regional or international strategic requirements.”  They These weapons were used in the context “political struggle,” in which these non-conventional but equally deadly means could strain the target nation’ healthcare systems, potentially causing “the enemy’s medical system to collapse.” 

This We experienced exactly this in America During the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We didn’t have enough sanitizers and masks, let alone ventilators, to help infected patients. Hospitals They were unable to cope with the patient load in certain areas, and other illnesses were neglected. Ironically, China Is experiencing the exact same thing now. Pres. Xi Jinping has ending his nation’s onerous zero-Covid policy

If we don’t get to the bottom of how COVID-19 has erupted into a global weapon of mass devastation, we will continue to be vulnerable to our adversary’s devious doctrines. Which This is why the final report of the Government Accountability Office — scheduled to be completed early this year — must not only address the exact origins of the virus, but expose any cover-ups by US spy agencies since the pandemic began.

Rebekah Koffler Is the president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting, a former intelligence officer of the DIA, and the author  “Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America.” Twitter: @Rebekah0132