Jeffrey Wood

USAID funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which funded coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That research likely created COVID-19. Millions died. Trillions were lost. Lives were destroyed. USAID has a history of being a CIA-front organization. Former USAID Director John Gilligan admitted the agency was "infiltrated from top to bottom with CIA people," explaining that operatives were embedded throughout USAID's overseas activities. In 2013, a State Department cable published by WikiLeaks described USAID's strategy in Venezuela as "penetrating Chavez's political base," "dividing Chavismo," and "isolating Chavez internationally." In 2014, the Associated Press revealed that USAID secretly funded a Twitter-like platform in Cuba designed to build political opposition. From 2009 to 2019, USAID partnered with EcoHealth Alliance on the PREDICT program, identifying 1,200 new viruses, training 5,000 people, and expanding dozens of research laboratories worldwide. Then COVID emerged at one of those labs. In 2022, former EcoHealth Alliance Vice President Andrew Huff alleged that Peter Daszak had ties to the CIA. In 2023, a CIA whistleblower alleged that agency officials offered incentives to analysts to support a natural-origin assessment and downplay evidence pointing to a lab leak. The CIA covered up the lab origin of COVID-19 because USAID funding was central to the creation of COVID-19.