Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and a group of Senate Republicans sent a letter Tuesday to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding whistleblower allegations that the CIA offered to pay off analysts to change their positions on the COVID-19 lab leak theory.
The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the letter, which refers to a senior-level CIA officer’s testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (Select Subcommittee) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).
In the testimony, the senior-level CIA officer said the agency assigned seven officers to a COVID Discovery Team and that at the end of their review, “six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” according to a letter from the Select Subcommittee to CIA Director William Burns.
The whistleblower also said those six members were given monetary incentives to change their positions. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Chip Roy To Introduce Legislation To Eliminate Fauci’s NIAID)
Here Is What The Lawmakers Call For In The Letter:
- “All documents and communications regarding the establishment of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s);
- All documents and communications between or among the members of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s) regarding the origins of COVID-19;
- All documents and communications between or among members of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s) and other employees or contractors of the Agency regarding the origins of COVID-19;
- All documents and communications between or among members of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s) and employees or contractors of other federal government agencies, including but not limited to the U.S. Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (to include the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), and the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the origins of COVID-19; and
- All documents and communications regarding the pay history, to include the awarding of any type of financial or performance-based incentive/financial bonus to members of all iterations of the COVID Discovery Team(s).”
READ THE LETTER HERE:
(DAILY CALLER OBTAINED) — … by Henry Rodgers
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Florida Sen. Rick Scott joined Paul in signing the letter. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Paul Demands Information On NIH Employee Using Personal Email To Allegedly Conceal COVID-19 Origins)
The lawmakers called for answers to their questions no later than Sept. 25, 2023.