British officials knew COVID came from Wuhan lab early

Daily Report March 17,2025

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At the start of the COVID-19 crisis, a classified intelligence report presented to the British government concluded that the virus originated from the Wuhan laboratory in China, yet medical authorities allegedly worked to suppress these findings.

Intelligence veteran Sir Richard Dearlove, who previously led Britain’s MI6, delivered a confidential assessment to the Johnson administration in March 2020, coinciding with the UK’s initial lockdown. The document challenged China’s narrative that the virus emerged naturally from a Wuhan wet market.

According to the investigation, which drew upon expertise from both intelligence specialists and leading scholars, Chinese authorities had manipulated viral samples to support their claims of COVID-19’s natural origins rather than its laboratory creation.

The confidential document, reviewed by The Mail on Sunday, definitively stated that “it is now beyond reasonable doubt that COVID-19 was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology“.

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"A classified dossier compiled by Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, was passed to then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the start of the outbreak in March 2020 which stated: 'It is now beyond reasonable doubt that Covid-19 was engineered in the WIV.'" https://t.co/L48cimyB0A pic.twitter.com/u6EwCNyWtE

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) March 16, 2025

Allegations have surfaced that ‘Lord’ Patrick Vallance, then serving as chief scientific adviser, worked to downplay the laboratory origin theory and ignored Dearlove’s findings, reportedly to maintain favorable relations with China and protect research funding streams.

Reports indicate that following Vallance’s participation in an international conference call in February 2020, the scientific community began minimizing the possibility that the virus escaped from the Wuhan facility, which conducted research on similar coronaviruses.

Currently serving in the Labour government as science minister, Vallance faces mounting pressure for transparency. Former minister Steve Baker has demanded that Vallance “be fully transparent about what he knew and why he chose to be among those who avoided inconvenient questions.”

Reflecting on the government’s handling of his report, Sir Richard stated: “Boris [Johnson] himself was persuaded by its argument. But the weight of the Government’s scientific establishment, already signed up to the Chinese narrative, prevailed.”

An insider reportedly close to former Prime Minister Johnson suggested that British scientists publicly rejected the lab leak theory to avoid confrontation with Anthony Fauci, who headed the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and provided substantial funding to the Wuhan lab, including for coronavirus “gain-of-function” research.

“The truth is that the Covid-19 virus was not just Chinese but also partly American. It was a Chimerican chimera. So Vallance and the others clung to the wet market/bat/pangolin theory long after it had begun to look ridiculous,” the source said.

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This revelation follows recent German media reports that their BND foreign intelligence service determined in 2020, with 80-95% confidence, that the virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Despite widespread acceptance among intelligence officials regarding the lab leak theory, it was initially dismissed as conspiracy thinking and used by the Biden administration to justify social media censorship of alleged misinformation.

In 2023, former President Trump demanded China pay “reparations” for the virus’s release and subsequent cover-up, arguing that their actions prevented early intervention and led to unnecessary deaths and economic damage.

“Their lies and deception killed any opportunity to stop this deadly global catastrophe at the start. Add to that the probability that the virus emerged from a Chinese government lab, and may even have been engineered by Chinese government scientists, and it is clear that the nations of the world are not just owed a massive apology; they are owed massive damages,” Trump argued.

“To collect this compensation, nothing should be off the table—tariffs, taxes, and a global summit on reparations,” he said.