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COVID: Wuhan lab leak is ‘feasible’, say British spies
The Times ^ | May 30 | Larisa Brown, Diplomatic and Security Correspondent | Madeleine Spence

Posted on 05/30/2021 12:47:56 AM PDT by RandFan

British agents now believe it is “feasible” that the global pandemic began with a coronavirus leak from a Chinese research laboratory.

In a significant sharpening of tension with Beijing, they are investigating a possible leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which Beijing angrily insists was not the source of the virus that has caused more than 3.5 million deaths and is still raging globally.

They do so as controversy grows about the alleged silencing of scientists who wanted an investigation of the lab-leak theory.

For the past 16 months — since China first confirmed that people were infecting one another with a new and deadly virus in the city of Wuhan — British, American and other western intelligence agencies have appeared to discount the possibility of the virology institute playing a role in the pandemic.

Western intelligence, including in Britain, at first considered there was only a “remote” chance that it had leaked from the laboratory, where research is conducted into bat-derived coronaviruses, including one closely associated with Covid-19. Now, however, there had been a reassessment, and a lab escape is thought “feasible”, sources revealed.

Last week Joe Biden ordered his intelligence agencies to investigate the leak theory — and other possible sources of the virus — and report to him within 90 days. British intelligence is working alongside the Americans.

US diplomatic sources said there were concerns that if the origin could not be determined, “this could happen again and we are one wet market or bio lab away from the next spillover”.

MPs are demanding a fresh investigation. The Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, said: “The silence coming from Wuhan is troubling..

(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: covid19; wuhanlableak

1 posted on 05/30/2021 12:47:56 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan
Strange, isn't it? It was not many weeks ago when this was banned as a right-wing conspiracy theory. And now even The Times is openly discussing the possibility that the SARS-CoV2 virus originated from experiments in the Wuhan laboratory.

That wall is definitely crumbling. I wonder what is going to happen to the other stories that have been untouchable, such as the US election 2020, the Demo/Rino coup against President Trump 2016 - 2020, and of course the "Climate crisis".

2 posted on 05/30/2021 1:00:42 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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FBI Whistleblower @Johnheretohelp series of tweets talking about how Fauci et. al. had four 'walkers' (people spreading Covid intentionally in downtown Wuhan) help him try to hide the origin of Covid-19. 

@JohnHereToHelp

3 posted on 05/30/2021 1:15:38 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: RandFan

Thank god Australia, UK and to some extent France are still run by pro-Western governments not the mentally ill like in US, Canada and New Zealand.

With that said, hopefully British spooks can attend to the Wuhan Flu origins along with spying on China and other countries for emitting too much carbon dioxide.


4 posted on 05/30/2021 2:47:36 AM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: RandFan

Stop it already with the fake guessing, ITS TRUE, WE ALL KNOW IT


5 posted on 05/30/2021 3:41:35 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ScaniaBoy

I take it as a sign of G-d.


6 posted on 05/30/2021 3:50:59 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: No_Mas_Obama

I think we all knew the cause early last year. Tactically I can see why no government went after China, as they would be fighting a war at home (with the plague) and abroad - and at a time china was required as part of the supply chain.

Nearly 18-months later many countries have build their own supply chain and are getting ready to hir China.

It will start with a concerted investigation, blame will be apportioned and then the reparations will be agreed. China’s balance of payment surplus with most “developed” countries will be wiped to make those payments.

No shots will be fired.


7 posted on 05/30/2021 3:56:04 AM PDT by LordOddsocks
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So why are British spies, the same people who aided our Deep State in its attempts to get Trump and its theft of our election, making this CoupFlu admission now...?


8 posted on 05/30/2021 3:56:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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British agents now believe it is “feasible” that the global pandemic began with a coronavirus leak from a Chinese research laboratory.

They forgot the word, "PLANNED".

It was no accident, it was a planned act of war.

At the very least, if the initial release was accidental, the chicom gummint reaction to it was planned to induce its spread around the world.

In a country with 1.5 billion people, a country that murders it's own girl citizens, they knew that a virus that kills millions around the world, would profit them.

The chicoms, under mao, murdered tens of millions of their own people because the individual life means nothing to them.

There is no chinese philosophy that holds the individual over the collective.

Communism and 'blending in' fits their 1,000s of years of history.

An old chinese proverb, "the tallet tree is the first to be felled", means just hide out and be average, and hope the logger passes you by.

9 posted on 05/30/2021 3:57:19 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: USS Alaska

Exactly. The Chicoms told the world over 30 years ago that it intended to defeat the US.

A totalitarian regime that murders and enslaves its people will not hesitate to employ bio warfare.

But, too many in DC are on the take from China. Standing up to the Chicoms is bad for business.


10 posted on 05/30/2021 5:23:32 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: RandFan

Those conducting this research, government officials that sanctioned the research, organizations/government officials funding it and lying about it, media propagandists conspiring to hide the truth or derail investigations and big tech officials censoring the dissemination of pertinent facts and or data that would have saved lives need to be held to account for this pandemic.

Anyone involved in this should be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity.


11 posted on 05/30/2021 6:00:25 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: ransomnote

FBI Whistleblower @Johnheretohelp series of tweets talking about how Fauci et. al. had four ‘walkers’ (people spreading Covid intentionally in downtown Wuhan) help him try to hide the origin of Covid-19.

It would not surprise me in the least the CCP would spread the virus in the market as “cover” for the lab leak. This better explains all the extreme theatrics initially reported out of Wuhan, by the obedient press, about government efforts to contain it.

There were initial videos circulated where people were shown dropping dead in the street from the virus. I would suggest this was all a form of theater by the CCP to fabricate “evidence” the virus originated in the market.


12 posted on 05/30/2021 6:50:31 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: USS Alaska
They forgot the word, "PLANNED". It was no accident, it was a planned act of war.

It was a feasibility study, a test run.
The next outbreak will be much more serious.

13 posted on 05/30/2021 6:50:47 AM PDT by Vinnie ( )
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To: ScaniaBoy
Strange, isn't it? It was not many weeks ago when this was banned as a right-wing conspiracy theory

Not even passingly strange. Not when the novel 1984 is a model for society.

14 posted on 05/30/2021 10:30:16 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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