What Did
U.S. Intel Really Know About the ‘Chinese’ Virus?
By Pepe
Escobar
Hybrid War
2.0 on China, a bipartisan U.S. operation, is
already reaching fever pitch. Its 24/7 full spectrum
infowar arm blames China for everything coronavirus-related
– doubling as a diversionist tactic against any
informed criticism of woeful American
unpreparedness.
Hysteria
predictably reigns. And this is just the beginning.
A deluge of
lawsuits is imminent – such as the one in the
Southern District of Florida entered by Berman Law
Group (linked to the Democrats) and Lucas-Compton
(linked to the Republicans). In a nutshell: China
has to shell out tons of cash. To the tune of at
least $1.2 trillion, which happens to be – by
surrealist irony – the amount of U.S. Treasury bills
held by Beijing, all the way to $20 trillion,
claimed by a lawsuit in Texas.
The
prosecution’s case, as Scott Ritter memorably
reminded us, is straight out of
Monty Python. It
works exactly like this:
“If she
weighs the same as a duck…
…she’s made
of wood!”
“And
therefore…”
“A
witch!!!!!”
In Hybrid
War 2.0 terms, the current CIA-style narrative
translates as evil China never telling us, the
civilized West, there was a terrible new virus
around. If they did, we would have had time to
prepare.
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And yet
they lied and cheated – by the way, trademark CIA
traits, according to Mike “We Lie, We Cheat, We
Steal” Pompeo himself. And they hid everything. And
they censored the truth. So they wanted to infect us
all. Now they have to pay for all the economic and
financial damage we are suffering, and for all our
dead people. It’s China’s fault.
All this
sound and fury forces us to refocus back to late
2019 to check out what U.S. intel really knew then
about what would later be identified as Sars-Cov-2.
“No such
product exists”
The
gold standard remains the ABC News
report according to
which intel collected in November 2019 by the
National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), a
subsidiary of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA), was already warning about a new
virulent contagion getting out of hand in Wuhan,
based on “detailed analysis of intercepted
communications and satellite imagery”.
An unnamed
source told ABC, “analysts concluded it could be a
cataclysmic event”, adding the intel was “briefed
multiple times” to the DIA, the Pentagon’s Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and even the White House.
No wonder
the Pentagon was forced to issue the proverbial
denial – in Pentagonese, via one Col. R. Shane Day,
the director of the DIA’s NCMI: “In the interest of
transparency during this current public health
crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about
the existence/release of a National Center for
Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related
product/assessment in November of 2019 is not
correct. No such NCMI product exists.”
Well, if
such “product” existed, Pentagon head and former
Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper would be very much in
the loop. He was duly questioned about it by ABC’s
George Stephanopoulos.
Question:
“Did the Pentagon receive an intelligence assessment
on COVID in China last November from the National
Center for Medical Intelligence of DIA?”
Esper: “Oh,
I can’t recall, George,” (…) “But, we have many
people who watch this closely.”
Question:
“This assessment was done in November, and it was
briefed to the NSC in early December to assess the
impact on military readiness, which, of course,
would make it important to you, and the possible
spread in the United States. So, you would have
known if there was a brief to the National Security
Council in December, wouldn’t you?”
Esper: “Yes
(…) “I’m not aware of that.”
So “no such
product exists” then? Is it a fake? Is it a Deep
State/CIA concoction to trap Trump? Or are the usual
suspects lying, trademark CIA style?
Let’s
review some essential background. On
November 12, a
married couple from Inner Mongolia was admitted to a
Beijing hospital, seeking treatment for pneumonic
plague.
The
Chinese CDC, on Weibo – the Chinese Twitter – told
public opinion that the chances of this being a new
plague were
“extremely low.”
The couple was
quarantined.
Four
days later, a third case of pneumonic plague was
identified: a man also from Inner Mongolia, not
related to the couple. Twenty-eight people who were
in close contact with the man were quarantined. None
had plague symptoms. Pneumonic plague has
symptoms of
respiratory failure similar to pneumonia.
Even
though the CDC repeated, “there is no need to worry
about the risk of infection”, of course there was
plenty of skepticism. The CDC may have publicly
confirmed on November 12 these cases of pneumonic
plague. But then Li Jifeng, a doctor at Chaoyang
Hospital where the trio from Inner Mongolia was
receiving treatment,
published, privately,
on WeChat, that they were first transported to
Beijing actually on November 3.
The key
point of Li Jinfeng’s post – later removed by
censors – was when she wrote, “I am very familiar
with diagnosing and treating the majority of
respiratory diseases (…) But this time, I kept on
looking but could not figure out what pathogen
caused the pneumonia. I only thought it was a rare
condition and did not get much information other
than the patients’ history.”
Even if
that was the case, the key point is that the three
Inner Mongolian cases seem to have been caused by a
detectable bacteria. Covid-19 is caused by the
Sars-Cov-2 virus, not a bacteria. The first
Sars-Covid-2 case was only detected in Wuhan in mid
to late December. And it was only last month that
Chinese scientists were able to positively trace
back the first real case of Sars-Cov-2 to November
17 – a few days after the Inner Mongolian trio.
Knowing
exactly where to look
It’s out of
the question that U.S. intel, in this case the NCMI,
was unaware of these developments in China,
considering CIA spying and the fact these
discussions were in the open on Weibo and WeChat. So
if the NCMI “product” is not a fake and really
exists, it only found evidence, still in November,
of some vague instances of pneumonic plague.
Thus the
warning – to the DIA, the Pentagon, the National
Security Council, and even the White House – was
about that. It could not possibly have been about
coronavirus.
The burning
question is inevitable: how could the NCMI possibly
know all about a viral pandemic, still in November,
when Chinese doctors positively identified the first
cases of a new type of pneumonia only on December
26?
Add to it
the intriguing question of why the NCMI was so
interested in this particular flu season in China in
the first place – from plague cases treated in
Beijing to the first signs of a “mysterious
pneumonia outbreak” in Wuhan.
There may
have been subtle hints of slightly increased
activity at clinics in Wuhan in late November and
early December. But at the time nobody – Chinese
doctors, the government, not to mention U.S. intel –
could have possibly known what was really happening.
China could
not be “covering up” what was only identified as a
new disease on December 30, duly communicated to the
WHO. Then, on January 3, the head of the American
CDC, Robert Redfield, called the top Chinese CDC
official. Chinese doctors sequenced the virus. And
only on January 8 it was determined this was
Sars-Cov-2 – which provokes Covid-19.
This
chain of events reopens, once again, a mighty
Pandora’s box. We have the quite timely
Event 201; the cozy
relationship between the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
and the WHO, as well as
the Word Economic Forum and the Johns Hopkins galaxy
in Baltimore, including the Bloomberg School of
Public Health; the
ID2020 digital
ID/vaccine combo;
Dark Winter – which
simulated a smallpox bio-attack on the U.S., before
the 2001 anthrax attack being blamed on Iraq; U.S.
Senators dumping stocks after a CDC briefing; more
than 1,300 CEOs abandoning their cushy perches in
2019, “forecasting” total market collapse; the Fed
pouring helicopter money already in September 2019 –
as part of QE4.
And
then, validating the ABC News report, Israel steps
in.
Israeli intel
confirms U.S. intel did in fact warn them in
November about a potentially catastrophic pandemic
in Wuhan (once again: how could they possibly know
that on the second week of November, so early in the
game?) And NATO allies were warned – in November –
as well.
The bottom
line is explosive: the Trump administration as well
as the CDC had an advance warning of no less than
four months – from November to March – to be
properly prepared for Covid-19 hitting the U.S. And
they did nothing. The whole “China is a witch!” case
is debunked.
Moreover,
the Israeli disclosure supports what’s nothing less
than extraordinary: U.S. intel already knew about
Sars-Cov-2 roughly one month before the first
confirmed cases detected by doctors in a Wuhan
hospital. Talk about divine intervention.
That could
only have happened if U.S. intel knew, for sure,
about a previous chain of events that would
necessarily lead to the “mysterious outbreak” in
Wuhan. And not only that: they knew exactly where to
look. Not in Inner Mongolia, not in Beijing, not in
Guangdong province.
It’s never
enough to repeat the question in full: how could
U.S. intel have known about a contagion one month
before Chinese doctors detected an unknown virus?
Mike “We
Lie, We Cheat, We Steal” Pompeo may have given away
the game when he said, on the record, that Covid-19
was a “live exercise”. Adding to the ABC News and
Israeli reports, the only possible, logical
conclusion is that the Pentagon – and the CIA – knew
ahead of time a pandemic would be inevitable.
That’s the
smokin’ gun. And now the full weight of the United
States government is covering all bases by
proactively, and retroactively, blaming China.
Pepe Escobar
is correspondent-at-large at
Asia Times.
His latest book is
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