You don’t understand. The effort was clandestine. The “US” didn’t do it per say, but minions like Fauci made GOF research possible through 3rd parties and China. That is what is suspected here.
Some suspect that there are a Multi-National group of Puppet-masters, A group who controls the ‘gold’, and does not care about the law.
Some say this group thinks we have sufficient technology that they and their families trees will prosper far more in the future if the pesky underbrush is cleared out from time to time.