He Select subcommittee of the House of Representatives on the coronavirus pandemic and on Special Standing Committee on Intelligence, They reported this Wednesday that they had received the statement of a complainant from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from the US and revealed how the CIA “offered six analysts significant financial incentives to change their position on the origin of COVID-19.”
“The complainant, the presents himself as a high-ranking CIA officer, extremely credible claims that of the seven members of the agency’s team responsible for analyzing the origins of COVID-19, six officials concluded that the virus likely originated in a laboratory,” the aforementioned parliamentary subcommittee states in its in a statement published by Newsweek.
However, the note says, the CIA allegedly “offered financial incentives to six experts involved in the investigation” with the intention of changing its conclusion in favor of a zoonotic origin of the virus.
The report comes months after The Wall Street Journal said in February 2023 that it had obtained secret intelligence reports that purportedly revealed the Chinese origin of COVID-19, precisely at a laboratory in the city of Wuhan where the virus was first reported .
China calls the FBI director’s lies about the origin of COVID-19 a “political manipulation” of the facts that cannot discredit the Asian giant.
There seems to be no end to the verbal exchange between China and the US over the origin of the deadly virus. The parties have often accused each other of creating evil, while Beijing believes Washington is looking for “scapegoats” in the issue for political reasons.
In February, Russia released a report based on 20,000 documents and materials as well as biological-military experiments showing that the United States created the COVID-19 pandemic virus that has blackened life around the world for almost two years, and According to official figures, around 7 million people have died worldwide.
