CIA Sued For Allegedly Hiding Records of Bribes Taken to Bury COVID-19 Origins
“A CIA whistleblower has made serious allegations that the agency bought off employees of the agency to further obstruct efforts to get to the truth of the virus’s origins,” lawsuit claims.
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The CIA is being accused of hiding records that show it took bribes to conceal the origins of COVID-19 during the plandemic.
The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project filed a lawsuit against the CIA last week alleging the agency didn’t comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request related to its investigation of the coronavirus lab leak theory.
The request was made after a CIA whistleblower came forward to members of Congress alleging CIA analysts “received monetary incentives to change their position on the origins of the virus.”
“The Biden Administration has refused to be transparent with Congress and the American people over the origins of COVID-19,” said Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel for the Oversight Project.
“A CIA whistleblower has made serious allegations that the agency bought off employees of the agency to further obstruct efforts to get to the truth of the virus’s origins. This obstruction cannot stand and we’re fighting in federal court to get to the bottom of this.”
The lawsuit explains the CIA’s “COVID Discovery Team” received bribes to bury their findings about the origins of COVID-19.
“This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (‘FOIA’), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel production of CIA records relating to allegations that members of the CIA’s COVID Discovery Team, a group of employees tasked with analyzing the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, received monetary incentives to change their position on the origins of the virus,” the complaint read.
In response to the whistleblower’s allegations, COVID Select Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote a letter to CIA Director William Burns in September demanding answers.
A multi-decade, senior-level, current Agency officer has come forward to provide information to the Committees regarding the Agency’s analysis into the origins of COVID-19. According to the whistleblower, the Agency assigned seven officers to a COVID Discovery Team (Team). The Team consisted of multi-disciplinary and experienced officers with significant scientific expertise. According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis. The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.
The entire intelligence community, including the CIA and FBI, claimed in a 10-page report in June that SARS-CoV-2 was NOT genetically engineered, but admitted that “genetic engineering” was taking place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that raised “biosafety concerns.”
That risky gain-of-function research at the WIV was funded with $2 million of U.S. taxpayer money with grants provided by the National Institutes of Health, including Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
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