WASHINGTON — In late November 2018, just over a year before the first coronavirus case was identified in Wuhan, China, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Detroit Metro Airport stopped a Chinese biologist with three vials labeled “Antibodies” in his luggage.
The biologist told the agents that a colleague in China had asked him to deliver the vials to a researcher at a U.S. institute. After examining the vials, however, customs agents came to an alarming conclusion.
“Inspection of the writing on the vials and the stated recipient led inspection personnel to believe the materials contained within the vials may be viable Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) materials,” says an unclassified FBI tactical intelligence report obtained by Yahoo News.
The report, written by the Chemical and Biological Intelligence Unit of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD), does not give the name of the Chinese scientist carrying the suspected SARS and MERS samples, or the intended recipient in the U.S. But the FBI concluded that the incident, and two other cases cited in the report, were part of an alarming pattern.
“The Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate assesses foreign scientific researchers who transport undeclared and undocumented biological materials into the United States in their personal carry-on and/or checked luggage almost certainly present a US biosecurity risk,” reads the report. “The WMDD makes this assessment with high confidence based on liaison reporting with direct access.”
The report, which came out more than two months before the World Health Organization learned of a cluster of pneumonia cases in...
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4 comments:
Does anyone remember that, in the book THE STAND, US embassies had vials of "Captain Trips" with instructions to open the vials upon receipt of the message "Rome falls"?
China is not going to like how the fuck this turns out for them. Personally, I'll go without before buying a China product.
Americas best president ever is no fool. He watches and waits. Now isnt the time to announce the pain he intends to visit on China, but I'll be very disappointed if after all this crap is over he doesn't get critical manufacturing put in here and China cut off at the knees, the left knee, the right knee And the weKneee
Serves them right. Cut off. Mamed etc. Hit them where it hurts the most. The financial arena! They are obviously trying to do us harm! Worse than nuclear attack.
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