Censored Evidence Reveals Intelligence Community's Lab Leak Denial
Security officials have been caught censoring crucial evidence submitted to the official Covid-19 Inquiry that highlighted significant intelligence failures regarding the virus's origins. The heavily criticised £200 million investigation led by Baroness Hallett has been accused of deliberately stifling discussions about whether Covid-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.
According to newly revealed information, lawyers for the inquiry shut down former Cabinet Minister Michael Gove when he attempted to inform them that a significant body of judgment believed the virus was man-made. This intervention prevented proper examination of one of the most critical questions about the pandemic's origins.
Intelligence Agencies' False Confidence Exposed
Whitehall sources have disclosed that Dominic Cummings's evidence to the inquiry was extensively redacted by security services to remove criticism of MI6 and MI5 for incorrectly dismissing the lab leak hypothesis as a conspiracy theory. In his censored submission, Cummings revealed that both the Prime Minister and himself were told categorically that intelligence agencies were extremely confident the lab leak theory could be ruled out.
I pushed on this issue because I was worried this was a mistake and some serious people were publicly arguing the opposite, Cummings wrote in his blacked-out evidence. The former adviser went on to state that many scientists working in UK and US systems were privately emailing each other stating they believed a lab leak was the most likely cause.
Early Warnings and Ongoing Cover-up Allegations
The Mail on Sunday made history in April 2020 by becoming the first media outlet in the world to report the lab leak theory, revealing that the Government's Cobra emergency committee had been informed that Covid could have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This reporting came just two weeks into the first national lockdown.
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith didn't mince words when commenting on the situation, calling it the biggest cover-up known to man. He asserted that intelligence agencies couldn't have been as ignorant as they claimed, suggesting they accepted Chinese assurances about controlling the pandemic to avoid jeopardising relations.
Earlier revelations showed that a former spy chief, Sir Richard Dearlove, who previously headed MI6, submitted a classified dossier to Number 10 in March 2020 stating it was beyond reasonable doubt that Covid-19 was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The secret file, marked 'Secret - Recipient's Eyes Only', argued that Beijing was pushing a false narrative about the virus originating in an animal market.
Sources indicate that Lord Vallance, the Government's chief scientific adviser at the time, ignored this crucial report, possibly due to concerns about offending China or jeopardising research funding from Beijing. A source close to Boris Johnson pointed the finger directly at Vallance for rubbishing the lab-leak theory despite the Prime Minister's repeated requests for intelligence agencies to investigate the origins more thoroughly.
Growing Evidence and International Consensus
In America, the CIA has concluded that a laboratory leak represents the most likely explanation for the pandemic. Lord Gove recently publicly reasserted that most intelligence agencies now believe the virus leaked after being enhanced by Chinese scientists to become ultra-infectious.
The emerging consensus among intelligence communities internationally stands in stark contrast to the early dismissal of the lab leak theory as mere conspiracy. With an estimated 400 million people worldwide suffering from long Covid and millions dead, the question of the pandemic's origins remains critically important for preventing future global health crises.
As one analysis by British academics suggested, China could have cut Covid cases by 95 percent if containment actions had been implemented just three weeks earlier. The deliberate suppression of early information about the virus's transmission and origins by Chinese authorities had devastating consequences for global public health.
