Senators Warn CIA Director Not to Retaliate Against Whistleblower

Whistleblower: CIA analysts believed COVID came from lab, leaders buried assessments

Share This Story(The Epoch Times) — CIA experts believed that COVID-19 likely came from a laboratory in China, but leaders in the agency changed those conclusions, a senior CIA officer told the Senate on May 13. As early as 2020, many people within the CIA assessed that the most likely origin of COVID-19 was the high-level laboratory in Wuhan, China, where the first cases appeared in 2019, James Erdman III, a senior CIA operations officer, said …

CIA Whistleblower Alleges Coverup of COVID-19 Lab Leak Intelligence

Spy scientists repeatedly concluded that a lab accident caused the COVID-19 pandemic but more senior bureaucrats watered down and suppressed their conclusions, a CIA senior operations officer testified to Congress […] The post CIA Whistleblower Alleges Coverup of COVID-19 Lab Leak Intelligence appeared first on The Western Journal.

Senators Warn CIA Director Not to Retaliate Against Whistleblower

Senators are warning the CIA’s director not to take action against an operations officer who told the Senate on May 13 that CIA personnel believed COVID-19 came from a laboratory in China, but agency leaders changed those conclusions. Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman and a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, respectively, said in a letter to CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Ma…

Intelligence Agency Investigating CIA Whistleblower Allegations, Official Confirms

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender |May 15, 2026 An official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today told The Defender that the Intelligence Community Inspector General is aware of allegations by a CIA whistleblower that the agency obstructed a task force investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and is investigating them, along with ODNI and other agencies. In written testimony provided to the U.S. Senate…