Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is moving swiftly to declassify long-sought records on the COVID-19 origins debate and the mysterious Havana syndrome before her tenure ends on June 30.
According to WND, Gabbard is pushing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to pull back the curtain on what many Americans suspect has been a years-long effort to shield the public from uncomfortable truths about both the pandemic and unexplained ailments suffered by U.S. personnel overseas. DNI Gabbard is actively working to declassify information about the COVID-19 pandemic and Anomalous Health Incidents before June 30, an ODNI official told the DCNF.
Her move comes amid mounting frustration on the right over what critics see as a pattern of secrecy and narrative management by the intelligence bureaucracy throughout the COVID era.
Havana syndrome, officially labeled anomalous health incidents (AHIs), was first reported in 2016 by a CIA officer in Havana, Cuba, and has since afflicted American diplomats, intelligence officers and other officials posted abroad. Many of these individuals reported a loud noise and intense pressure in the head and ears followed by severe headaches, brain fog, blurred vision, tinnitus and vertigo.
Despite the severity of the symptoms, five intelligence agencies have assessed that it is very unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible, according to a declassified assessment. Yet one agency has concluded it is likely that a foreign actor developed a novel weapon capable of causing some Havana syndrome symptoms, while another places the odds at roughly even.
The origins of COVID-19 have generated even fiercer controversy, with the full scope of intelligence on the viruss source still hidden from the public. CIA whistleblower James Erdman III alleged in May that some within the intelligence community suppressed evidence pointing to a lab accident in Wuhan, China.
In 2023, Congress unanimously passed legislation requiring declassification of intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the high-security facility with documented ties to the Chinese military at the epicenter of the outbreak. In response, President Joe Bidens intelligence chief Avril Haines released a limited tranche of material that critics immediately deemed incomplete.
Erdman said that he reviewed thousands of pages of material that Haines never released. He further alleged that Anthony Fauci whose institute at the National Institutes of Health directed money to the lab for coronavirus engineering research connected the intelligence community to preferred scientists in order to advance the theory that the virus emerged naturally, a narrative long favored by establishment media and bureaucrats hostile to deeper scrutiny of China and of U.S.-funded research.
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