In August 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci received a U.S. intelligence report suggesting the COVID-19 virus was developed in Chinese and U.S. labs as a bat vaccine, that it subsequently leaked from Chinaās Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that it contained characteristics that would make it resistant to mRNA vaccines.
The report, authored by Joseph Murphy, a major with the U.S. Marine Corps, and printed on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) letterhead, was part of a tranche of documents Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released Thursday as part of his ongoing congressional investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
The documents show that not only did Fauci receive the DARPA report, but that in an Aug. 25, 2021, email to National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials, he called it āimportant.ā āLet us discuss my going down to the White House to review the report,ā Fauci wrote.
The document tranche also contained evidence that Fauci cultivated ties with intelligence agencies at least as early as 2003, the same year he received a CIA report warning of the dangers of genetically manipulating coronaviruses.
Fauci later used these intelligence connections to sway the intelligence community to support the zoonotic theory of COVID-19ās origin, the documents show.
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for Childrenās Health Defense (CHD), said the revelations sound āmore like a plan than a mistake or a āleak.āā
According to the DARPA document (see page 70), dated Aug. 13, 2021, SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, āis an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus.ā
It was created at Chinaās Wuhan Institute of Virology, also known as the WIV, and U.S. institutions with the help of researchers from the EcoHealth Alliance. The virus then leaked from the Wuhan lab in August 2019.
āThe details of this program have been concealed since the pandemic began,ā the document states, noting, though, that the details match those contained in two research proposals, the DEFUSE proposal and the PREEMPT project.
The EcoHealth Allianceās DEFUSE proposalinvolved altering bat viruses by inserting a spike protein with a furin cleavage site, to cause the virus to infect human lungs. PREEMPT involved the cultivation of Egyptian fruit bats.
University of North Carolina virologist Ralph Baric, Ph.D., and Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli, Ph.D., submitted the DEFUSE proposal to DARPA in 2017. Although DARPA rejected the proposal, scientists have suggested the rejection didnāt shut down the project.
After DARPA rejected the DEFUSE proposal, the Aug. 13, 2021, report states that DARPA then āsettled with NIH/NIAIDā ā or the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, led at the time by Fauci.
The story gets complicatedā
The SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely intended to be used for a bat vaccine before it leaked from the Wuhan lab, according to the DARPA report. āThe purpose of the EcoHealth program, called DEFUSE in the proposal ⦠was to inoculate bats in the Yunnan, China caves where confirmed SARS-CoVs were found,ā the report states.
However, the virus āleaked and spread rapidly because it was aerosolized so it could efficiently infect bats in caves, but it was not ready to infect bats yet, which is why it does not appear to infect bats.ā
The report suggests that SARS-CoV-2 had characteristics that made it easily transmissible among human populations.
āThe reason the disease is so confusing is because it is less a virus than it is engineered spike proteins hitch-hiking a ride on a SARSr-CoV quasispecies swarm. The closer it is to the final live attenuated vaccine form, the more likely that it has been deattenuating since initial escape in August 2019,ā the report states.