It’s important to review claims made by former EcoHealth Alliance scientist Andrew Huff about the CIA’s alleged ties to EcoHealth and COVID-19 in light of Tuesday night’s shocking report from Congressional investigators that Dr. Anthony Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters “without a record of entry” where he “participated in the analysis to “influence” the Agency’s” Covid-19 investigation.”

A Brief Review

Recall that after the Obama administration outlawed gain-of-function research in 2014, EcoHealth was awarded lucrative contracts to conduct bat Covid studies in Wuhan, China. The NIH essentially transferred this study to Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth four months before the prohibition. Fauci’s NIAID protected the study from supervision, and Daszak was compelled to disclose his use of gain-of-function trials after the fact.

“As a virologist, I personally think creating chimeras of SARS-related bat coronaviruses that are thought to pose high risk to humans entails unacceptable risks,” virologist Jesse Bloom told The Intercept.

The Lancet published a screed by Daszak (signed by over two dozen scientists) after Sars-CoV-2 broke out in the same town where Daszak was manipulating Bat Covid. Daszak insisted the virus could have only come from a natural spillover event, probably from a wet market, and that the scientists “stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” Only afterward did The Lancet mention Daszak’s conflicts of interest.

Huff, who worked at EcoHealth from 2014 to 2016, said in a post on Twitter (now “X”) in January 2022 that “I knew in December of 2019 that COVID was likely a lab leak.” Then Huff asserted, “Not only is EcoHealth Alliance a CIA front organization, but the United States of America is primarily responsible for COVID, not China.”