So why would the CIA want to hide evidence that the virus might have come from a Chinese government laboratory? The answer may have to do with the fact that funding for the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology came from the United States Agency for International Development-which is relevant because USAID, while nominally America's foreign aid agency, has decadeslong ties to the CIA and a history of acting as a cutout for the intelligence agency.
These new whistleblower allegations, which come from the CIA itself, present the first plausible evidence connecting America's lead intelligence agency to efforts to sway official assessments of the pandemic's origin.
So perhaps it's understandable that senior officials at the CIA, who would have known that they were risking a major scandal by obscuring evidence that tied the pandemic to a lab connected to the Chinese People's Liberation Army, would have decided the risk was worth it.
The New York Times, citing a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, noted this past spring that "The C.I.A. and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the pandemic, given conflicting intelligence."
In a parallel worthy of The New York Times, Alexandra Stevenson is the daughter of William Stevenson, a reporter who, according to his Times obituary, "Spent much of his career straddling the worlds of espionage and journalism," eventually working for the Near and Far East News Group, a British government propaganda outfit.
Carl Bernstein reported in his landmark 1977 story that then-publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Hays Sulzberger signed a "Secret agreement with the CIA" as part of its effort to give covert operatives cover as Times journalists.
Despite the implications of the claim-the CIA bribing its own experts to alter professional assessments in a way that would favor the CCP-and the quality of the source, there has been nothing yet from either outlet as of the time of this writing.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/blowing-covid-coverup-wide-open
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