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U.S. intelligence officials say Chinese government is collecting Americans' DNA
www.cbsnews.com ^ | 1/29/2021 | www.cbsnews.com

Posted on 01/29/2021 6:00:32 PM PST by bitt

60 Minutes has learned Chinese company BGI Group, the largest biotech firm in the world, offered to build COVID labs in at least six states, and U.S. intelligence officials issued warnings not to share health data with BGI. See the story, Sunday on CBS.

The largest biotech firm in the world wasted no time in offering to build and run COVID testing labs in Washington, contacting its governor right after the first major COVID outbreak in the U.S. occurred there. The Chinese company, the BGI Group, made the same offer to at least five other states, including New York and California, 60 Minutes has learned.

This, along with other COVID testing offers by BGI, so worried Bill Evanina, then the country's top counterintelligence officer, that he authorized a rare public warning. "Foreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests" declared the notice. Evanina believes the Chinese are trying to collect Americans' DNA to win a race to control the world's biodata.

Jon Wertheim speaks to Evanina and others for an investigation into how personal data, particularly biodata, has become a precious commodity and in the wrong hands, poses threats to national security and the economy. Wertheim's two-part report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Sunday, January 31, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

Thanks partially to Evanina's efforts, none of the states accepted the offer of the BGI Group, which he says has close ties to China's military and ruling Communist Party. "This shows the nefarious mindset of the Communist Party of China, to take advantage of a worldwide crisis like COVID," says Evanina. A veteran of the FBI and the CIA, he recently stepped down, but not before sounding the alarm. "We put out an advisory to not only every American, but to hospitals, associations,

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: americansdna; bgigroup; bidenchina; brainlessjoebiden; china; chinadna; chinese; dna; presidentbiden
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(concern over possible "specific genetic attacks")
1 posted on 01/29/2021 6:00:32 PM PST by bitt
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Minutes has learned Chinese company BGI Group, the largest biotech firm in the world, offered to build COVID labs in at least six states,

NO THANKS, we have enough Covid here and we don't need any more labs to make more of it.

2 posted on 01/29/2021 6:03:50 PM PST by BipolarBob (USA - Born July 4, 1776. Died Jan. 20, 2021 in the Year of our Covid - a new error.)
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To: bitt
There is no place to hide. Everyone wants your data!
3 posted on 01/29/2021 6:04:11 PM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: bitt

They’ve got a bunch of Swallwell’s.


4 posted on 01/29/2021 6:04:39 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

discussed on Maria Bartiroma’s show tonight with Gordon Chang

fox news prime time


5 posted on 01/29/2021 6:06:50 PM PST by bitt (Joe Biden has managed to take everything that is wrong with DC bureacracy and fit it into 1 cabinet)
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Christine Fang must be the Wells Fargo of DNA banks.


6 posted on 01/29/2021 6:09:34 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: immadashell
There is no place to hide. Everyone wants has your data!

Do you belong to ancestry.com, 23 and me, CRI or any other ancestor/dna testing site, they have your DNA. Online they can merge their data with other ancestor online DNA's.

Have you given blood in the last 3-5 years? If so they have your DNA.

If your doctor sends you to an outside lab for certain tests, they have have your DNA.

If you have been on active duty or active reserves in our military in the last few years, they have your DNA.

If a sibling, son or daughter, or a 1st or 2nd cousin has done any of the above or below, they have your DNA.

Have you been to any ER or any place in a hospital in the last decade and they took a blood sample? They have your DNA.

7 posted on 01/29/2021 6:36:46 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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To: bitt

Mine is so screwed up they can have it!


8 posted on 01/29/2021 6:46:50 PM PST by Shark24 ( )
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Are they going to engineer a virus to take out a specific person? To what end are the Chinese CCP planning for possible use of this date? Sounds kind of like an act of war.


9 posted on 01/29/2021 6:55:14 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (I do not regret my decision to cut all ties with Fox News. )
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Susan Wocinick? (Spelling totally wrong I know) - 23andMe DNA collection biz? Whos sis or sis-in-law runs youtube and whose husband started Gulagle? Do I have that right?


10 posted on 01/29/2021 7:13:53 PM PST by little jeremiah (Thirst for truth is the most valuable possession and no one can take it away from you.)
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Are they going to engineer a virus to take out a specific person? To what end are the Chinese CCP planning for possible use of this date? Sounds kind of like an act of war.

Like bad horror movie with never ending sequels, get ready for Whuaninc Plague II, Whuanic Plague III...Whuhanic Plague N+1.

Each version will be more deadly than the previous one, thanks to the genetic information that the United States and its citizens willingly gave to the Chinese Communist Party, and the millions of dollars that Fauci and his minions sent to them for "gain of function" research.

11 posted on 01/29/2021 7:31:06 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Shark24

They’ll probably give it right back its so bad. :)


12 posted on 01/29/2021 7:57:14 PM PST by Redcitizen
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China needs more data...

Americans were protecting themselves by taking temps at the door of medical facilities. Yhe new covid variation doesn’t have a high temp with it... so it’ll sail right into hospitals...

With the right DNA thugs could target ‘families’... take down whole groups in a single gene switch... is that charming or what?


13 posted on 01/29/2021 9:00:08 PM PST by GOPJ (The ugliest most vile conspiracy theories in the last decade were the lies against President Trump)
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Somebody better tell the president.


14 posted on 01/29/2021 9:36:40 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Bonemaker
They’ve got a bunch of Swallwell’s.

No kidding, after Swalwell used his Fang Wang to Fang Bang, Fang Fang.

15 posted on 01/29/2021 10:00:25 PM PST by Towed_Jumper
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To: Grampa Dave

In all fairness after decades in the lab.. we do not have your dna. It is very fragile and requires special collection and handling.


16 posted on 01/30/2021 2:00:32 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

I said the same thing nearly a year ago. The variants would emerge at specific event horizons.

I heard recently that the one vaccine is only 57% effective to one of the variants. I thought...why bother with a vaccine?

Beijing is locking down as of last week, the world believes China has this all under control as we see scenes of gatherings from Wuhan. Variants are happening. Are they real mutations, was it designed to mutate to be more virulent? We still don’t have answers.


17 posted on 01/30/2021 5:38:00 AM PST by EBH (Repent, Accept, Proclaim )
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To: Redcitizen

Yeah but I hope not before it spreads throughout their country and we gain 1.3 billion Chinese freedom loving Freepers!


18 posted on 01/30/2021 6:32:09 AM PST by Shark24 ( )
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To: momincombatboots

When our DNA is downloaded into a computer by ?????, you no longer have our DNA under control.

I have sent back DNA samples by snail mail to two ancestor/DNA companies.

Both were mailed in the summer, and the samples arrived okay and were computerized in weeks. No special handling! I mailed them back to their lab via my mail box.

Each week, we read about how a crime committed years ago is solved by the DNA left on a cigarette but or what ever for up to 10+ years.


19 posted on 01/30/2021 7:43:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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To: little jeremiah

This Wojcicki is Anne. The Wojicki’s are all over re control of Silly Con Valley firms.

23andme is in severe financial trouble as per the link below:

23andMe lays off 100 people, CEO Anne Wojcicki explains whywww.cnbc.com › 2020/01/23 › 23andme-lays-off-100-pe...
Jan 23, 2020 — 23andMe Co-Founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 at Pier 48 on September 19, 2017 in San ...

How secure is anyone’s DNA in a situation like this with employees being layed off?


20 posted on 01/30/2021 8:04:43 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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