Scientists at the Pentagon’s premier medical intelligence unit uncovered evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic suggesting that disease outbreak was caused by a virus engineered at a now infamous Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.
Two virus experts at the DIA’s National Center for Medical Intelligence concluded the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, was bio-engineered based on its unique properties for infecting humans, and past experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology manipulating animal viruses to make them more infectious to humans. Their facts were outlined in an unclassified research paper published in 2020 by NCMI expertsThe internal NCMI working paper was called “Critical Analysis of Anderson et al.
According to the NCMI report, the medical intelligence experts discovered that a fragment of the COVID-19 virus resembled a fragment of a lab-manipulated virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2008. The NCMI scientists said the virus could have been “synthesized” by combining parts of a bat virus similar to a virus called RaTG13 with elements of another virus isolated from pangolins. The goal of the research was to find if pangolins could be intermediate hosts for bat viruses that could infect humans, work that has been done by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the past, the report said.
By 2021, four scientific groups within the government agreed that SARS-CoV-2 “was not a natural virus,” a source close to the inquiry told The Australian.ordered a three-month probe of the virus origin, and the unclassified report rejected the NCMI findings and stated that most U.S. spy agencies believed the virus was not genetically engineered and likely originated naturally.
The latest ODNI report, however, continued to lean to the idea that the virus was not the result of laboratory work at the Chinese lab, contrary to the findings at NCMI. “Almost all [intelligence community] agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not genetically engineered,” the assessment stated.Concerned about China’s expanding missile program, Australia’s government announced earlier this month plans to buy more than 200 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles from the United States.
The new strategy shifts to offense. The U.S. military, along with the Japanese and Australian militaries, will seek to deter Chinese missile strikes by deploying Tomahawks that can penetrate deep inside Chinese territory. The Pentagon estimates China has at least 1,200 short-range ballistic missiles, about 350 medium- and intermediate-range missiles, as well as several hundred long-range cruise missiles.
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