Centers for Deception Control - What is the CDC's secret agency, the Epidemic Intelligence Service, actually up to?

American Thinker ^ | 10 Sep, 2026 | Lloyd Billingsley

[MtnClimber]

he official name of the CDC is the Centers for Disease Control “and Prevention.” Tasked with prevention of disease is an agency that does not appear in the CDC’s flow chart, the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). According to the CDC:

EIS officers are CDC’s disease detectives who learn from and work alongside subject matter experts while providing service to domestic and international partner…

Worn-out shoe leather with a prominent hole worn through has been a recurring visual theme of EIS through the decades, a reference to the practice of EIS officers personally investigating disease outbreaks at the local population level, in all parts of the world…

EIS has a 75-year history of success in training disease detectives. EIS officers step up at a moment's notice to investigate public health threats in the United States and around the world. From the Smallpox Eradication Program in the 1960s to the measles outbreak in 2025, EIS officers are called on to protect people and save lives...

A notable omission is the COVID pandemic from 2020-2023, which raises questions about CDC and EIS leadership. Consider Dr. Anne Schuchat, who began her CDC career with the EIS in 1988 and is thought to be the model for Dr. Erin Mears, Kate Winslet’s character in Contagion, from 2011.

In 2016, Schuchet became the first head of the CDC’s “National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). From January 20-July 7, 2017 and January 31-March 26 in 2018 Schuchet served as acting CDC director -- without confirmation by the U.S. Senate. CDC Chief Operating Officer Sherri Burger called Schuchat “our Anthony Fauci.” A government bureaucrat since 1968, Fauci was never once confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

[MtnClimber]

Maybe stopping the COVID virus was not the goal of the CDC/EIS.

[Salman]

The CDC provided funding for biological warfare research all over the world.
There need to be war crimes trials and executions of everyone involved.

[ClearCase_guy]

Is it true that Gain of Function research is what we used to call bio-weapon development?

[reasonisfaith]

Fascinating to read about people, like Schuchat, whose low IQ was obscured by what she thought was otherwise.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Truth is incredibly important. If it isn’t, then that statement that I just made isn’t important at all.

We need to be wise in sorting through what we hear. If we are lied to, we need to be aware that we might be lied to by others. However, we shouldn’t assume that everyone is a liar.

This author asks a lot of questions, but he doesn’t seem to have any answers. It would seem that he is throwing stuff against a wall to see if anything sticks. Some people (and I’m not saying that this author is one of them) just like to say outrageous stuff in order to get attention, become famous, and make money. If someone makes outrageous claims and asks a lot of leading questions, we shouldn’t automatically assume that his viewpoint is true and worthwhile.

I can’t speak about the role of the EIS in the Covid epidemic. But I know that, in prior years, that they were the best of the best in doing an unpleasant job. They very often took a cut in salary to sign up for a two year stint in the EIS to go to the most dangerous places in the world to serve. It hasn’t been the EIS that we generally had to be worried about—at least not of those who signed up for the two year, on the ground program. I have always been more concerned about those in bureaucratic positions in the CDC who never volunteered to be a part of the EIS.

Just my two cents.