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Former US State Department COVID investigator reveals Australian spy agencies collected intelligence related to COVID origins in China
Sky News ^ | 02/01/2025 | Sharri Markson

Posted on 02/01/2025 10:01:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind

A leading investigator has revealed Australian spy agencies collected top-secret intelligence related to the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China.

Former US State Department COVID investigator, David Asher, said that signals intelligence, held by the CIA, including phone calls, text messages and emails was originally collected by Australia.

“Just picking up phone calls, picking up the emails, things like that ... just messages between different people, I can't comment on what they are, but it's no secret we do this. Much of our collection is actually done in Australia, as you know," Mr Asher told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“So your government is fully aware, which is another reason why they are really puzzled and dismayed that the Australian government, which has the same information ... as we do, has been so passive, especially given the fact that your Prime Minister originally came out and said that we had to have an investigation.

“It's just sort of pathetic if you ask me.”

The intelligence formed part of the evidence that underpinned the CIA's assessment that the pandemic began with a likely laboratory leak.

It's an assessment the agency has made with "low confidence", while the FBI has "moderate confidence" in the laboratory origins of SARS-CoV-2.

The CIA's assessment had been concluded during the Biden administration but was only made public when Trump appointee, new CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, stepped into the role.

Mr Asher investigated the origins of the pandemic under the former Trump administration.

He was critical to examining evidence that scientists at the Wuhan Institue of Virology fell sick with COVID-like symptoms, while working on coronavirus research. Some were hospitalised with the disease.

Mr Ratcliffe and former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, believe the researchers in Wuhan were the first cluster of the pandemic.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; China; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; australia; ccp; china; covid; covidstooges; obamacare; origins; vaccinemandates

1 posted on 02/01/2025 10:01:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Chicoms threatened Australia over this and they backed down, like the vassal state they are.


2 posted on 02/01/2025 10:10:59 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Australians came out of the pandemic in 2022 and elected to their federal government the socialist Labor Party, which had imposed the harshest covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates in the states it controlled. It immediately began acquiescing to China.


3 posted on 02/01/2025 10:28:25 PM PST by fluorescence
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To: SeekAndFind
"Five Eyes"

"Five Slanted Eyes"

4 posted on 02/01/2025 10:51:51 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure they did. Nobody in DC knew a thing about this bio warfare lab we funded, sent to China, and sent the engineered covid from Chapel Hill over there.
We are slowly figuring it out by Aussies intercepting phone calls and emails.

The lies never stop. Never give up the con.


5 posted on 02/01/2025 10:59:37 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

This story is in an endless loop. We get it. The virus came from China.


6 posted on 02/01/2025 11:16:56 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

7 posted on 02/02/2025 8:35:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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