Showing posts with label U.S. Right to Know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. Right to Know. Show all posts

Dec 19, 2023

FOIA Docs: Bio Researchers Lied to Pentagon in Scheme to Direct Money to Wuhan Lab

A 2018 research proposal called DEFUSE called for synthesizing
spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that
supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic
pathogen in a century. (Photo credit: Unsplash)
A new report chronicles a scheme by U.S. bio-researchers to mislead the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) office in a 2018 grant proposal, Project DEFUSE, to direct American monies to a secret Chinese lab conducting unsafe coronavirus research in Wuhan.

The report which is being blacked-out by American corporate media, is authored by Emily Kopp, a reporter at U.S. Right to Know.

Ms. Kopp analyzed documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know, via a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Geological Survey. Read all of the documents here.

Writes Kopp:

American researchers concealed their intention to conduct high-risk coronavirus research in Wuhan under lax safety standards from the Pentagon the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know. 

A 2018 grant proposal called Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and American scientists, has stoked concern that the pandemic resulted from a lab accident. 

It proposed engineering high-risk coronaviruses of the same species as SARS and SARS-CoV-2. Most worrying to some scientists: The proposal involved synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic pathogen in a century. Indeed, some scientists have likened DEFUSE to a blueprint for generating SARS-CoV-2 in the lab.


The report can be read as politically shielding the Pentagon from much blame in supporting bio-research gone bad, as DARPA turned down the 2018 grant proposal, Project DEFUSE; and the two American bio researchers appear to conspire to mislead DARPA, the documents show.

Sep 22, 2023

BioSafety Group Launches Search Engine on COVID-19 Origins FOIA Documents

OriginSearch.io is an open-search engine on FOIA-ed
collection of documents relevant to investigating origins of
COVID-19, notes the search engine webpage.

The BioSafety Now research group has launched a search engine that uses keywords to comb through some 75,000 pages of often censored documents the U.S. government has allowed the public to view after FOIA requests.

OriginSearch.io is a "simple (open-search) search engine on the collection of documents relevant to investigating the origin of COVID-19," notes the search engine webpage.

Many of these heretofore government-held documents were obtained through FOIA requests filed by organizations such as USRTK (U.S. Right to Know), The Intercept, and White Coat Waste Project.

The Biden administration has consistently worked to keep COVID-19 origins information secret, and government-funded researchers have systemically mislead the public on COVID 19 origins questions.

This secrecy commitment comes over public-interest groups' and Republican Party objections, as the administration censored and banned Covid 19 information the government and its political allies falsely branded as misinformation, disinformation and malinformation.