Why Did Fauci Meet with CIA?

October 01, 2023

by Jeffrey Tucker Daily Reckoning

Jeremy Farrar’s book from July 2021 is relatively more candid than most accounts of the initial decision to lock down in the U.S. and the U.K.

“It’s hard to come off nocturnal calls about the possibility of a lab leak and go back to bed,” he wrote of the clandestine phone calls he was getting from Jan. 27–31, 2020.

They had already alerted the FBI and MI5.

I’d never had trouble sleeping before, something that comes from spending a career working as a doctor in critical care and medicine. But the situation with this new virus and the dark question marks over its origins felt emotionally overwhelming. None of us knew what was going to happen but things had already escalated into an international emergency. On top of that, just a few of us — Eddie [Holmes], Kristian [Andersen], Tony [Fauci] and I — were now privy to sensitive information that, if proved to be true, might set off a whole series of events that would be far bigger than any of us. It felt as if a storm was gathering, of forces beyond anything I had experienced and over which none of us had any control.

At that point in the trajectory of events, intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic had been put on notice.