Sources said the Defense Intelligence Agency is the one agency that firmly believes in the lab leak theory. According to one source, the DIA’s confidence is based on work with a little-known institute under its control called the National Center for Medical Intelligence,
which was renamed in 2009 from the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center.
The center’s mission is to gather and analyze all sources of worldwide health threats, including foreign medical capabilities, infectious disease and health risks of national military importance.
It also is charged with protecting American troops from medical and health threats.
The center is located at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where U.S. biological warfare defenses are studied, and it is considered more experienced in dealing with virus threats than other spy agencies.
U.S. officials say the CIA lacks staff expertise on health dangers and relies heavily for its analyses on nongovernmental experts, many of whom have been skeptical about the lab leak theory.
An interesting Politico article by Michael Callahan, former biosafety physician for the U.S. State Department’s Bio-Industry Initiative in the former Soviet Union and Bio-Engagement Program in Asia. politico.com/news/magazine/…
One key section:
Which basically links bak to Jasper Baker's recent book:
Made in China - Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy hurstpublishers.com/book/made-in-c…
The small sample of 23 or so staff and students in her lab is largely irrelevant. There are many teams working at the WIV - in all 590 staff and students.
WHO, Berlin float sanctions if countries suppress information on pandemics
Spahn and Tedros made their comments at the inauguration of a new virus-monitoring center in Berlin, dubbed the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. politico.eu/article/who-be…
An initial $100 million investment by the German government is funding the hub, which will be led by Chikwe Ihekweazu, currently director general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
For now, the hub will operate out of the Charité Berlin medical and research facility.
That sounds great.. But wait, who is the Head of Administrative Office for Global Health and Director Institute of Virology, at the Charite Berlin?
‘Undeclared Interests’ could have been the title of the book.
“The most important takeaway is that this book demonstrates the real danger is from arrogant and reckless globalized biological science which may have let loose the whirlwind… For their work to continue and their prestige to grow, they must capture public resources”
Interview of Jasper Becker, author of “Made in China: Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy”:
The BioTech competition which China and other powers are fully pursuing is exposing us to new risks which we are pretending to manage with dated regulations and fragmentary frameworks (when they are not rendered powerless).