Chairman Rand Paul of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has released a massive new cache of documents. The release outlines an extensive, decades-long relationship between Dr. Anthony Fauci and the U.S. national security apparatus, highlighting his influence over the COVID-19 origins debate among scientists and the intelligence community.

Fauci’s Ties to Intelligence Community

The committee’s timeline reveals that Fauci’s ties to the intelligence community date back to at least August 2003, when he served as a formal reviewer for a National Intelligence Council paper on SARS. A few months later, he received a CIA report titled “The Darker Bioweapons Future.”

In September 2007, he was invited by Robert Joseph and Ash Carter to meet with a review panel looking at future directions for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s activities regarding weapons of mass destruction. By March 2020, he was invited to speak to JASON, a secretive advisory group for national security agencies.

COVID-19 Origins Debate

The records also shed light on the frantic early days of the pandemic. On January 31, 2020, scientist Kristian Andersen emailed Fauci with concerns about the virus’s furin cleavage site. Fauci told Andersen to quickly gather evolutionary biologists to evaluate the data. If they agreed on the concerns, Fauci said they should report it to the proper authorities.

A declassified August 2021 memo from a Marine Corps fellow at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) alleges that SARS-CoV-2 is an “American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus.” The memo claims that the EcoHealth Alliance submitted a proposal called DEFUSE to DARPA in 2018, which was rejected due to its proximity to a gain-of-function moratorium.

Original reporting: Tampa Free Press — read the source article.