Republicans in Congress are investigating a claim from a high-ranking CIA officer that leadership at the agency offered monetary incentives to investigators to dismiss the lab leak theory of origin for the coronavirus.
The whistleblower alleges that six of the seven-member CIA COVID Discovery Team tasked with investigating the origins of the virus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology initially concluded that the virus originated in the lab, but they were given financial incentives to change their position to a zoonotic origin hypothesis.
A spokesperson for the Democrats on the Coronavirus Subcommittee told the Washington Examiner that they were not privy to the information from the whistleblower. In June, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a long-awaited report that stated the CIA and"another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting."
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