U.S. intelligence documents expose COVID‑19 gain‑of‑function research links to Wuhan lab

Declassified documents released by former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard include an internal U.S. intelligence email that flagged a 2016 video of EcoHealth Alliance head Peter Daszak. In the video Daszak said his "colleagues in China" had inserted spike proteins from bat coronaviruses into pseudoparticles, noting that each step moved researchers "closer and closer to determining whether such viruses could really become pathogenic in people."

The materials revive scrutiny of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s repeated Senate testimony denying that the National Institutes of Health funded gain‑of‑function work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Subsequent NIH admissions confirmed U.S. funding of an experiment that altered a bat coronavirus. The documents also reference a whistle‑blower complaint alleging Fauci provided false testimony to Congress, which was routed to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and deemed without merit. The revelations fuel ongoing debate over the origins of the COVID‑19 pandemic and the role of U.S.‑funded research in China.