US “stunning evidence” on the spread of the virus –

The US shared “stunning” evidence with the UK at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that suggested a “high probability” the virus had leaked from a Chinese laboratory. This was revealed by the newspaper «The Telegraph», according to which the issue was discussed during a meeting of the alliance between intelligence services known as the Five Eyes group (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia) held in January 2021 . In particular, the United States reported that China had hidden military and coronavirus research activities in a laboratory in Wuhan. According to the Telegraph, however, in a previous phone call the then US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, presented evidence in support of this theory to former British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab and his counterparts from Canada, New Zealand and Australia . Two sources from the former presidential administration led by Donald Trump – who was in power in the US at the time – spoke to the Telegraph and accused Raab and the British government of having ignored the theory of the escape of the virus from the laboratory due to the reticence expressed by the government health team which, at the time, firmly supported a natural evolution of the virus.

“We saw several pieces of information and thought it was, frankly, astounding,” said a former U.S. official who worked with intelligence and former Secretary Pompeo. “Obviously the high probability emerged that it was actually a virus that escaped from a laboratory,” said the source, according to whom a State Department document indicated “constant obstructionism” by China following the discovery of the virus and accused Beijing officials of “gross corruption and ineptitude.” The research also revealed for the first time that Chinese military officers had worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the years before the pandemic and that some researchers at the laboratory had fallen ill shortly before the first cases of Covid infection were recorded. in Wuhan. The two former US officials explained that at the time the UK ignored the evidence presented by the US because the government in London labeled information on the potential leak of the virus from the laboratory as a “radioactive US political issue” fueled by public disagreement between government scientists and Donald Trump.