CIA analysts were 'bribed to change position' on COVID-19 origins as Fauci led 'orchestrated' effort to undermine lab-leak origin theory

In the new Sky News Australia documentary, “What Really Happened in Wuhan, the Next Chapter”, Sharri Markson reveals explosive new evidence about the origins of the pandemic that brought the world to a standstill in 2020.

Speaking to officials from multiple US intelligence agencies as well as senior public health scientists involved in behind-the-scenes discussions, Sharri reveals how the lab-leak theory was intentionally suppressed, with a whistleblower claiming CIA analysts who favoured the lab leak theory were even bribed to change their position in order to take the focus off China and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“The most likely origin of COVID-19, of the Wuhan virus… was a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” former United States Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Sharri.

“The people that had access to the most data – the most intelligence – will all tell you the same thing, that this is really, most likely, what happened. It's more than just a possibility. It's certainly a probability and it's probably a certainty.”

The Sky News documentary outlines how Dr Anthony Fauci pushed the narrative that COVID-19 had natural origins despite some scientists privately saying the lab-leak was “so frickin likely to have happened” and lamenting that they were injecting politics into science.

Private discussions were uncovered after a US congressional subpoena forced the release of hundreds of emails and Slack messages between Dr Fauci and scientists tasked with examining the origin of the virus.

Former US Assistant Secretary of State Thomas DiNanno told Sharri the private messages between the scientists clearly show an “orchestrated effort to put out a certain narrative”.

One public official involved in the discussions was Robert Kadlec, who at the time was the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (Preparedness and Response) and technically Dr Fauci’s superior.

In an exclusive interview for the Sky News documentary, Dr Kadlec told Sharri he had discussions with Dr Fauci and they deliberately decided to downplay the lab leak theory.

The former Health and Human Services official said that they wanted to avoid people making allegations about US involvement in research that may have created the virus, but that Dr Fauci was also worried about protecting his own reputation.

“(What) made that even more acute was the fact that they didn't have good visibility into what they were doing and what they were supporting through the grants – through EcoHealth Alliance – that went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he said.

Prior to his role in the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr Kadlec was the deputy staff director for the US Senate Intelligence Committee. He spoke to Sharri about the work of Dr Zhou Yusen, a Chinese military scientist whose vaccine research may have been the cause of the global pandemic.

Dr Zhou was one of the first individuals to publish a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine, and according to Dr Kadlec the Chinese military scientist would have had to have started his work on the vaccine “no later than 2019”.

“That's what our assessment is, and it's based on the fact that to do what he was trying to do,” Dr Kadlec said.

Dr Zhou was found dead in “mysterious circumstances”, just months after reports surfaced of his role in the origins of COVID-19.

Pointing out that intelligence agencies suspect foul play in the death, Sharri asked whether it was possible the Chinese Communist Party killed Dr Zhou for “accidentally starting COVID-19”.

“It's certainly possible. We considered that as a plausible possibility,” Dr Kadlec said, before adding they had “no evidence to make that assessment.”