CIA trying to shield China? Facts can be stranger than fiction

Whom does the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) work for? The United States or China? On the face of it, this may appear as an outrageous question, but recent allegations about the agency’s role in shielding Beijing regarding the origin of the novel coronavirus do raise such queries and misgivings. But, as we shall see, it is the reality that is outrageous, not the question. And no, these are allegations are not by some Republican leader or conservative intellectual that could be simply brushed aside by the American mainstream media as a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Staff on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence recently heard testimony from a whistleblower alleging that the CIA offered six analysts significant monetary incentives to change their position on Covid-19’s origin, said a press release of the US Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The whistleblower, who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer, alleges that of the seven members assigned to the CIA team tasked with analyzing Covid-19 origins, six officers concluded that the virus likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China. The CIA, however, allegedly offered financial incentives to six of the experts involved in the investigation to change their conclusion in favor of a zoonotic origin, the release said. The Chairmen of the two panels also requested former CIA COO Andrew Makridis to appear for a voluntary transcribed interview on September 26. At least, the source of the allegations is “highly credible,” even if the allegations are proved to be incorrect. Whatever may be the findings of the two panels, it is indisputable that China’s influence in the US—as also in other countries and in international bodies like the World Health Organization—is immense and insidious. This helped a bunch of scientists manipulate global opinion—by way of a letter to the reputed medical journal Lancet—for over a year into accepting the natural origin theory of the coronavirus. It was a testimony to former US President Donald Trump’s wisdom that he could see China for what it really is: the world’s most dangerous and powerful rogue nation. And he did everything that he could to restrain the depredations of the dragon. He had the courage to call the coronavirus what it was: China virus, for even if it did not come out of the Wuhan lab, its country of origin was still China. If the 1918-19 pandemic could be called Spanish flu, the novel coronavirus could also be called China virus. But the problem in America—indeed in the entire Western world—is that anyone who espouses such Enlightenment values as individual liberty and reason, they are immediately maligned as vile representatives of ‘far Right’, ‘alt-Right’, or ‘racist.’ Normally, Leftists take charge, and liberals become their cheerleaders. And since anything that Trump stands for is wrong, the entire intellectual establishment embraced the natural origin view of coronavirus—something that was quite convenient to the Chinese Communist Party. As we mentioned earlier, it became a dogma whose questioning attracted banishment, de-platforming, and worse. It was only on May 5, 2021, that the prominent science journalist Nicholar Wade challenged the natural origin orthodoxy. The possibility of the virus’ birth in a lab got a leg up. Wade also hinted at a concerted endeavor, if not a global conspiracy, aimed at proving that the origin of the novel coronavirus was natural. This not only underlined the disingenuousness of some dishonest scientists but also the credulity of intellectuals all over the world who unquestioningly accepted the scientists’ lies as gospel. In an article in the prestigious magazine The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Wade talked about the intellectual elites’ anti-Trump obsession supporting the natural origin theory which helped the Chinese. “Another reason [for the acceptance of the natural origin theory], perhaps, is the migration of much of the media toward the left of the political spectrum. Because [former US] President [Donald] Trump said the virus had escaped from a Wuhan lab, editors gave the idea little credence. They joined the virologists in regarding lab escape as a dismissible conspiracy theory.” Wade said that at that time “it was really far too soon for anyone to be sure what had happened.” Yet, the scientists “overwhelmingly conclude[d] that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.” The scientists wrote a letter in February 2020 to the prestigious medical journal Lancet, stressing the natural origin theory of the coronavirus. According to Wade, “It later turned out that the Lancet letter had been organized and drafted by Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York. Daszak’s organization funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. If the SARS2 virus had indeed escaped from research he funded, Daszak would be potentially culpable. This acute conflict of interest was not declared to the Lancet’s readers. To the contrary, the letter concluded, ‘We declare no competing interests’.” Daszak and his cronies deceived the world for over a year—to help the CCP. The CIA whistleblower story is a reminder of the inscrutable ways in which Beijing carries out its hegemonic plans all over the world. It would not be a surprise if the story turns out to be correct, for America’s deep state—the CIA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al—has done everything to keep Trump at bay. It’s hatred for Trump—in fact, for anyone who takes on the liberal establishment—that it could even go to the treasonous extent to let the CCP bosses do whatever they want to do. Unsurprisingly, the conservatives are furious. It is not for nothing that Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has promised to shut down the FBI if he gets elected. The writer is a freelance journalist. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely that of the author. 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