Mr. Pompeo: `There is secret military research in the Wuhan laboratory` 0
(Dan Tri) – Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has a secret program with the Chinese military.
Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (Photo: Reuters).
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on May 29 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted projects for the Chinese armed forces and sought to hide these projects from the World Health Organization delegation (
`What I can say for sure is: we know that they were involved in linked efforts with the Chinese military inside that laboratory, so the military operation was conducted in conjunction with what
`They didn’t tell us what those activities were, they refused to disclose the nature of those activities, they refused to allow access to the World Health Organization when it got there,` Mr. Pompeo
Late last year, Mr. Pompeo asserted that there was `significant evidence` showing that the SARS-CoV-2 virus escaped from the Wuhan laboratory, but did not reveal evidence to support this allegation.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former President Donald Trump were two of the first to suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the Covid-19 pandemic escaped from a laboratory.
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Photo: AFP).
Scientists and US policymakers recently suddenly overturned debates about the origin of Covid-19, including the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2Â may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Times cited a US intelligence report saying that several researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019, not long before China announced the cases.
British newspaper MailOnline on May 29 reported on a new scientific study by two British and Norwegian experts, claiming that SARS-CoV-2 does not necessarily have a `natural origin` and the hypothesis that this virus was created
President Joe Biden this week directed the US intelligence community to `redouble efforts` to investigate the origins of Covid-19 and report to the government within 90 days.
China has repeatedly denied accusations that the virus causing the Covid-19 pandemic escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.
China even `accused` the US, urging Washington to allow international investigators access to US laboratories, including Fort Detrick, the US military’s biochemical laboratory in Maryland.
