A year ago, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a major research agency of the U.S. Department of Energy, conducted a secret study on the origin of the New Coronavirus and eventually concluded that the current pandemic New Coronavirus may have come from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, ABC News reported exclusively. The virus may have come from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The report was classified as “top secret” on May 27 last year by researchers in the laboratory’s intelligence unit, “Sector Z.” The report assesses that both the laboratory origin theory and the zoonotic theory are plausible and warrant further investigation. A Livermore spokesman confirmed the existence of the “top secret” report, but declined to provide more information.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines confirmed that the U.S. intelligence community is actively studying both theories. “We just don’t know where, when and how the coronavirus was initially transmitted,” Haines told the House Intelligence Committee on April 15.
According to the State Department’s Jan. 15 “Fact Sheet,” the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research has a long history of close cooperation with the Chinese military and has also worked together on experiments related to RaTG13, the bat coronavirus whose samples most closely resemble SARS-CoV-2 (96.2 percent). The lab has also published several papers on “functional enhancement” research aimed at improving the ability of the virus to spread between humans. According to analysts, the State Department’s claim of close collaboration between the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is well-founded.
U.S. scientists have suggested that the scientific activities conducted at the Wuhan laboratory are dual-use, first to support the development of new vaccines and therapeutics, but also for the covert biological and chemical weapons program, which China is likely to maintain. In contrast, the U.S. State Department’s fact sheet states that China is creating chimeric viruses.
And according to a report issued by the U.S. Department of State, China’s dual-use application for the research in question has raised concerns around the world about China’s compliance with the relevant provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention. The convention, which was signed in 1975, prohibits member countries from purchasing biological weapons.
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