Origin of the virus: The refusal to talk about the possibility of an 'intentional release' may be the biggest tell of all
The evidence that the United States unleashed Covid-19 as a bioweapon on China and maybe also Iran is not flimsy. Why is no one talking about it?
On June 3, the New York Times published a guest essay by a molecular biologist named Alina Chan under the headline: ‘The Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab. Here’s Why.’
In the third paragraph — the “nut graph” — Chan writes:
“Although how the pandemic started has been hotly debated, a growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China. If so, it would be the most costly accident in the history of science.”
The essay was accompanied by sophisticated graphics, created in-house by New York Times art staff, and notably, was updated on June 6 after Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before Congress, before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
I don’t consider this merely an opinion piece by an outside scientist. Given this special treatment (the art, the updating), and that the piece was still, as of June 8, prominently displayed in the right margin of the New York Times homepage, I think it must be seen as a strong statement by the New York Times that a lab origin is the most likely scenario.
But of course, the piece fails, and the writer fails, by assuming an “escape” or “leak” as the most most likely scenario, neglecting to consider the other possibility — that the virus was intentionally released.
After all, if lab origin is most likely, then Covid-19 is a bioweapon, manipulated to be highly transmissible, to sicken, disrupt, harm and kill.
And if it is a bioweapon, then you have to consider the possibility that it was used as intended — that is, that the weapon was deployed.
The fact that no major media corporation is mentioning this possibility, and the fact that the United States Congress, which just spent four years investigating the origin of the virus, steered clear of this possibility, is maybe the strongest indication that something is amiss.
They’re refusing to even acknowledge the idea of intentional release.
Why would that be?
And why, for four years now, have newspapers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal not put at least a dozen reporters — including investigative reporters, national security reporters, experts on China, science journalists and others — on this hugely important story, to dig into the origins and find out what exactly happened?
The story of how Covid-19 was launched upon the world is truly the story of the century — the biggest “who done it” of our lifetimes, hands down.
There are seven or eight pieces of evidence that point to an intentional release. None of them “prove” anything. But I believe that when carefully considered, the evidence for intentional release — the deployment of the bioweapon, most likely by the United States on China and probably also Iran — is at least as strong as the evidence for a lab accident, and maybe stronger.
Evidence for intentional release of the Covid-19 virus by the United States:
Covid was part of a pattern. The Covid-19 virus was actually the third major pandemic to hit China in three years, as writer Ron Unz of the Unz Review pointed out in a long piece in April of 2020 entitled “American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?”
Were all three of these bioweapons attacks by the United States on our No. 1 adversary and top economic competitor?
Relevant passage from Unz:
“During 2018 a new Avian Flu virus had swept the country, eliminating large portions of China’s poultry industry, and during 2019 the Swine Flu viral epidemic had devastated China’s pig farms, destroying 40% of the nation’s primary domestic source of meat, with widespread claims that the latter disease was being spread by mysterious small drones. My morning newspapers had hardly ignored these important business stories, noting that the sudden collapse of much of China’s domestic food production might prove a huge boon to American farm exports at the height of our trade conflict, but I had never considered the obvious implications. So for three years in a row, China had been severely impacted by strange new viral diseases, though only the most recent had been deadly to humans. This evidence was merely circumstantial, but the pattern seemed highly suspicious.”
Military World Games. In mid-October of 2019, a few weeks before the Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is thought to have begun, 300 members of the United States military were in Wuhan for the “Military World Games,” which is sort of like the Olympic Games for the militaries of the world. The arrival of the American athletes (military servicemembers) in Wuhan was announced in Chinese media at the time. So it was not a secret. But no mention was made of this strange coincidence in recent Congressional hearings about the origin of the virus, and if the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic subpoenaed these American servicemembers who’d been in Wuhan or questioned them in private, it wasn’t reported anywhere that I can find. The Military World Games ran from Oct 18 to 27. The first cases of the new Coronavirus are thought to have been in mid or late November, though some believe the virus began circulating in October. It’s not hard to understand how a large, multinational sporting event in which all participants are also members of the military would provide the perfect cover for a small group, or even a single individual, to release a bioweapon into the city or among the athletes who were present, who would then infect locals and also take it with them back to their home countries.
Wuhan as the ideal epicenter. The virus began in Wuhan, a major transport hub, and really got going in a serious way in January, just as the 11 million residents of the city were getting ready to travel to their family homes in distant provinces to celebrate the Chinese New Year. If someone were planning to deploy a virus as a biological weapon and wanted to increase the opportunity for spread to every corner of China, releasing it in Wuhan a couple of months before the Chinese New Year celebration would be seen as ideal.
Iran a second epicenter. It’s rarely mentioned that Wuhan, China, was not the only epicenter of the virus. There was a second epicenter — the city of Qom, Iran, a holy city that is a center of learning for Shiite Muslims, the sect of Islam that controls Iran. Notably, Iran’s political leadership was hard hit, with 10 percent of Iran’s Parliament contracting the new Coronavirus in the spring of 2020 and at least a dozen top officials dying from it, including a close confidante of the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It seems more than a coincidence that the two countries that were early targets of the virus were the two countries that are the top adversaries of the United States (China) and Israel (Iran). It was only a decade earlier that the Stuxnet computer worm, now more or less acknowledged to have been created jointly by Israel and the United States, was used to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons program, reportedly destroying one-fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. In 2019, the New York Times published a lengthy article headlined “The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran” that details Iran’s, and specifically Netanyahu’s, relentless drive to attack Iran and to pressure American presidents to join in such an attack. The pressure has also been exerted by the CIA, where the Iran desk is singularly focused on preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power, something I witnessed in the years 2012-2015 when I worked closely with former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz in editing a website called LIGNET, focused on global threats, with analyses posted to the site that were intended to be similar to the daily briefings CIA analysts prepare and deliver to the president. Fred had worked on the CIA’s Iran desk, and the drumbeat of pieces he drafted, which I edited, always seemed much more to me than providing information. They seemed to be part of a drumbeat for a U.S. attack on Iran.
Crimson Contagion exercises. How likely is it that a massive simulation of a pandemic involving every major federal agency, including the Department of Defense and Department of State and run by the Department of Health and Human Services, would start in January of the same year of the actual Covid pandemic and conclude just two or three months (or less) before the outbreak of Covid-19 in China? What are the odds that the simulation would involve tourists visiting China who became infected and then fly home to Australia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Thailand, Britain, Spain and the United States, spreading the virus to those countries, when in real life, the Military World Games, held in Wuhan in October of 2019 (see above) may have acted as exactly this kind of superspreader event? Quite small, I would say. Crimson Contagion was run by Robert Kadlec, a leading proponent of biowarfare who Trump had appointed as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for Preparedness Response. He was a former Air Force physician and prior to joining HHS, was the No. 2 staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee. So, he had close ties to the Department of Defense and also to the intelligence agencies. In a 1998 paper headlined “Biological Weapons for Waging Economic Warfare” published in an Airforce publication, he advocated for the use of biological agents as weapons of war to destroy a nation’s crops to cause economic damage. The Avian flu virus hit China’s poultry industry the year after Kadlec took the job at HHS.
China, Russia and Iran think the U.S. did it. China, Russia and Iran have all pointed the finger at the United States, alleging the Covid-19 virus was created in the United States and that the pandemic was a biowarfare attack on China. These accusations were all dismissed out of hand by the American media as “disinformation” … as was the lab origin theory, which major media is now acknowledging was probably right all along….though not apologizing, correcting previous stories, or explaining to readers how they could have gotten this so wrong.
China — Internet rumors about U.S. involvement began almost right away, in December of 2019, and were followed by an article in the Chinese publication People’s Daily on Feb. 22, 2020 highlighting the speculation that the U.S. military brought the new coronavirus to China. On March 12 and 13, the spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry tweeted out similar allegations.
Russia — Various hosts and guests on Channel 1, which is government-sponsored, have accused the United States of attacking China with the virus.
Iran — The Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on March 12, 2020 that he thought there was evidence that Covid-19 might be a “biological attack.” On March 22, he made the following pronouncement, while rejecting American medical assistance:
“The Americans have said several times that they are willing to help us in terms of medication and in treating the Coronavirus. This is very surprising. First of all, according to what your own officials have said, you have shortages in trying to prevent this disease, and you also have shortages in medications and in treating this disease. If you have something, use it for your own patients. Secondly, you are accused of having created this virus. I do not know how accurate this claim is, but considering the circumstances that exist, which reasonable individual can trust you? You might give us a medicine that would spread the disease even more or make it last longer. Some people even say that some forms of the virus are particular to Iranian genes and thus produced on the basis of genetic science.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Americans have been accustomed to thinking of the leaders of these three countries as crazy. But are they?
It’s worth recalling that the United States immediately blamed Russia for sabotaging the Nord Stream Pipeline. But according to an article by the legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, which was very detailed, it was the United States that blew up the pipeline, which had been built by Russia to transport natural gas to Germany, to provide fuel for all of western Europe.
And the United States and Israel were likely responsible for the Stuxnet worm, designed to attack computers and Siemens hardware that was connected to Iran’s nuclear program, succeeding in destroying several centrifuges.
Are the leaders of Russia and Iran and China really so crazy to think that perhaps the United States is also responsible for a bioweapons attack on its biggest economic rival?
I don’t think so.
Wuhan Institute of Virology. Those who subscribe to the “lab leak” theory point to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the work on coronaviruses that was being done there, often with lax safety protocols. But when “bat lady” Shi Zhengli looked at the genome of what came to be called Covid-19, she said it didn’t look like any of the coronaviruses her team had worked with in her lab. Could the virus have been leaked in Wuhan in order to easily blame it on the Wuhan Institute of Virology and China, thereby causing damage to the reputation of the Chinese communist government and inflicting extra economic damage on America’s top adversary? One of the earliest reports related to a lab leak in Wuhan — maybe the earliest report — was by Radio Free Asia, which is the propaganda arm of the CIA/State Department in Asia.
John Bolton. Robert Kadlec was not the only enthusiastic supporter in the Trump administration of using biological agents — viruses, mosquitos, etc. — as weapons of war. John Bolton, who was national security advisor to President Trump from April 9, 2018 until September 10, 2019, was opposed to any limits on the use of biological weapons and in fact, is said to have been single-handedly responsible for quashing the attempt to provide for enforcement of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, which prohibited the use of biological weapons.
USA Today included this in a profile of Bolton the paper published in 2003:
“Bolton played a leading role in derailing a 2001 bio-weapons conference in Geneva that sought to endorse a U.N. proposal on how to enforce the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. U.S. officials, led by Bolton, argued that the plan would have put U.S. national security at risk by allowing spot inspections of suspected U.S. weapons sites. Without U.S. participation, any enforcement plan would be meaningless, so U.S. opposition essentially killed the proposal. As a result, there is no practical mechanism to stop the spread of biological weapons”
Bolton either quit or was fired by Trump (Bolton insists he resigned while Trump said he was fired) and one of the reasons that was reported for his leaving the White House was that he was miffed that President Trump would not agree to “regime-change” Iran. It was also reported that Tucker Carlson, alarmed at Bolton’s drive to attack Iran, which would have undoubtedly triggered another massive war in the Middle East, told Trump to fire Bolton, and that Trump took Tucker’s advice.
I am not in any possession of evidence that John Bolton or anyone else did anything related to releasing a novel coronavirus on China, but a full understanding of the context in which the pandemic occurred is valuable to considering all possibilities. And understanding who would have had a motive is a good jumping-off point for further investigation.
Who could have done it and how?
No grand conspiracy would have been necessary to deploy the Covid-19 bioweapon — in other words, to release it in China, or on China. It could have been just a small group of people — three or four, perhaps. Maybe a few more. I don’t believe President Trump would have known. It’s been known for years that the CIA operates assassination squads that are not under the control of the president. And many researchers believe that one unit of the CIA run by James Angleton, in cooperation with the Mossad, was responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Clearly, elements of our government have been acting outside of the authority of the president for a long time now — or, to put it more precisely, acting against the president and against the interests of the American people.
Perhaps a few of them made the decision to launch the attack on China and Iran using a weapon that was already on the shelf, so to speak.
Why?
The main motive for an attack on China would be to cause economic harm.
The main motive for an attack on Iran would be to cause economic harm and weaken the country overall.
But I also see another motive. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States was unacceptable to the ruling class. They did not accept it and worked for four years to turn him out of office by means of the Trump-Russia Hoax. By 2019, it was becoming clear that this was not working, and that he had a good chance of being re-elected in 2020.
Between 2019 and 2020, the Democratic Party filed more than 300 lawsuits around the country challenging state election laws — laws meant to protect against voter fraud. They were winning some, but losing others. A pandemic, some smart people would surely realize, would provide the kind of massive disruption needed to force a transition to mail voting, which would allow cheating on a grand scale.
It all worked out pretty well. Hundreds of election laws were struck down or suspended and outside organizations like the Center for Tech and Civic Life took over control of elections in various key counties in swing states like Wisconsin. Trump was turned out of the White House, and replaced with a figurehead who is easily controlled.
How do we get to the bottom of this?
A special prosecutor should be named to investigate the origin of the virus and charge the perpetrators. Every American who was in Wuhan in August, September, October and November of 2019 should be aggressively questioned, as should people involved with the U.S. bioweapons program and all those involved with gain-of-function work on coronaviruses at labs at American universities. Given the seriousness of the crime — more than 25 million dead, for God’s sake — the intelligence agencies, the CIA in particular, should be squeezed for information, and their future funding put at risk if they fail to cooperate in getting to the bottom of who released the Covid-19 virus on the world.
I don’t see how we go forward not knowing who did this.
Excellent reporting, Margaret.
1. Remember the news about Fauci meeting off the books with CIA in spring 2020 around the time he changed his tune on masks? Much of the alternative media reporting left the impression that Fauci had persuaded CIA to help run cover for him, but I very much think this could have been in the other direction. See Event 201.
2. Also remember that Moderna CEO, Stephane Bancel, was previously CEO of BioMirieux, the French engineering firm that BUILT THE WUHAN LAB. 8 billion folks on Earth - what are the odds? And they were fined for installing inadequate ventilation. It’s also recently come to my attention that Moderna actually hasn’t manufactured any of the product they distribute with their name but had another company, National Resilience, perform this task. ‘Resilience’ is a weffie word. And the board of National Resilience has overlap with In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital operation. Dang.
3. Executive summary of the military-intelligence Covid Operation: create bioweapon, ensure accidental leak from lab vs. intentional deployment, propagandize PCR gene test as false identifier, assassinate outspoken creator of this gene test who would expose the plot, discredit and physically bar the bioweapon antidote, murder sickened folks in hospital with other government-owned agents, pay hospitals handsomely for following along, blackmail survivors into injecting the bioweapon genetic recipe, call all of this a pandemic.
ummmmm, how about it was mostly fraud? Deaths by democide (including misclassifying deaths), media and political induced fear (inappropriately used PCR test).... stretch your minds further folks!