{"id":2029488,"date":"2023-09-12T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-whistleblower-says-agency-worked-to-bury-covid-lab-leak-theory\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:57:23","slug":"cia-whistleblower-says-agency-worked-to-bury-covid-lab-leak-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-whistleblower-says-agency-worked-to-bury-covid-lab-leak-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA whistleblower claims agency concealed COVID lab leak theory."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcia-whistleblower-says-agency-worked-to-bury-covid-lab-leak-theory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2029488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"CIA Whistleblower Says Agency Worked To Bury COVID Lab Leak Theory\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/republicans-ban-iran-president\" data-post-url id=\"print-1794822\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>          Getty Images<br \/>\n   \u2063<br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>CIA Whistleblower \u200cExposes Efforts to Suppress COVID Lab Leak Theory<\/h2>\n<p>A shocking\u200c revelation has\u2062 emerged from a CIA whistleblower who testified before Congress. The \u200dwhistleblower claims that the agency actively conspired to \u2062undermine its own investigative team&#8217;s assessment \u2063that the COVID-19 virus likely originated from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joint-who-china-report-urges-no-further-probe-into-extremely-unlikely-lab-leak-theory-u-s-officials-are-pushing-back\/\" title=\"Joint WHO-China Report Urges No Further Probe Into \u2018Extremely Unlikely\u2019 Lab Leak Theory. U.S. Officials Are Pushing Back.\">lab leak<\/a> in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed\u200d source, a \u2063senior-level CIA officer, disclosed to House committee leaders that the agency went as far as \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ive-been-living-through-zoom-school-newsom-claims-his-kids-have-been-in-private-school-since-november\/\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019ve Been Living Through Zoom School,\u2019 Newsom Claims. His Kids Have Been In Private School Since November.\">offering financial incentives<\/a> \u200dto convince six analysts on its COVID Discovery Team, who initially supported the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-responds-to-ex-cdc-chiefs-belief-that-pandemic-started-in-lab-this-was-never-a-conspiracy-theory\/\" title=\"Tom Cotton Responds To Ex-CDC Chief\u2019s Belief That Pandemic Started In Lab: \u2018This Was Never A Conspiracy Theory\u2019\">lab leak theory<\/a>, to change\u2064 their stance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the\u200d seven members \u2062of the Team believed the\u200d intelligence and science were sufficient to make \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-whistleblower-says-agency-worked-to-bury-covid-lab-leak-theory\/\" title=\"CIA whistleblower claims agency concealed COVID lab leak theory.\">low confidence \u200dassessment<\/a> that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,&#8221; stated\u200d Reps. Brad \u2064Wenstrup (R., \u200bOhio) and Mike Turner \u200c(R., Ohio), chairmen of the Select Subcommittee on\u2064 the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,\u200c in a letter to \u200dthe agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lawmakers have demanded the CIA to\u200b provide all relevant documents and\u2064 communications related to the COVID Discovery Team.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Republicans, the whistleblower revealed that the\u200c six analysts were offered a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-officers-paid-to-change-their-position-on-origins-of-covid-19-whistleblower\/\" title=\"CIA agents bribed to alter stance on COVID-19 origins: Whistleblower\">significant monetary incentive<\/a>&#8221; to alter\u200d their conclusion.<\/p>\n<h3>Growing Consensus on\u2063 Lab Leak Theory<\/h3>\n<p>Multiple \u200bfederal agencies, including the Energy Department \u200dand FBI, \u200bhave independently reached\u200c the conclusion that the virus likely originated from a Chinese lab,\u200c lending further credibility to\u2063 the lab leak theory.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden Administration Takes Action<\/h3>\n<p>In \u200cresponse to ongoing investigations by Republicans into the lab leak theory, the Biden administration made the \u2064decision in \u200bJuly\u2063 to cut funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images: CIA whistleblower testified to Congress, claiming agency undermined lab leak theory. Senior-level officer alleged CIA conspired against its own investigative team&#8217;s assessment on COVID-19 origins. Financial incentives were allegedly offered. Source undisclosed. 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