What were and weren’t told: The FBI seeks answers about coverups regarding the true origin of COVID and other aspects of the way the pandemic was handled. Agents in at least three cities — Cleveland, New York, and Baltimore — are fast at work in the investigation.
Asprawling FBI investigation into possible criminal coverups during the COVID-19 pandemic is zeroing in on three separate plots involving the origins of the virus; the hiding and destruction of federal records; and the manipulation of the vaccine approval process and subsequent side effects.
Agents in at least three cities — Cleveland, New York, and Baltimore — are working quickly in the investigation. The investigation was given a legal springboard in a major court ruling holding that China concealed the origins of the COVID-19 virus as well as recent information uncovered by Congress.
The existence of the sprawling investigation was made public last week by FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who described the probe generally in a social media post.
“As we read and process reports of a new COVID strain emerging, I want you to know that we are actively investigating, in multiple field offices, the cover-up of the origin of the COVID virus, along with associated matters requiring our attention,” Bongino wrote in his X account. “You deserve answers.”
Some of the evidence driving the most active parts of the investigation includes emails in which federal scientists admit they were trying to hide discussions about COVID and the vaccine from the public by using private emails.
Concerns and related evidence that federal scientists may have tried to hide elements of COVID’s emergence in Wuhan, China because of its own research there are being led by agents in Cleveland, officials added.
There is now open-source intelligence suggesting the earliest recorded case of COVID in China’s databases may have been in September 2019 and that several scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were sickened by the virus in October 2019, well before China admitted that there was human transmission of the virus in January 2020.
Both of those pieces of evidence were submitted as court filings by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who won a $24 billion judgment against China for his state earlier this year.
The judge’s ruling affirming that China engaged in an illegal cover-up makes clear reference to the evidence.
“China’s pattern of actions strongly suggests that it had knowledge of the existence and human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 virus as early as September 2019,” U.S. District Judge Steven N. Limbaugh Jr. wrote earlier this year.
