Former MI6 Boss Says COVID-19 Manmade, Escaped From Chinese Lab

The former head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency believes COVID-19 is
a manmade virus that accidentally escaped from a Chinese
laboratory, based on forthcoming research, according to
The Telegraph.

Entitled “A Reconstructed Historical Aetiology of the SARS-CoV-2
Spike”, the new study, seen by The Telegraph, suggests the virus is
“remarkably well-adapted virus for human co-existence” and
is likely to be the result of a Wuhan lab experiment to produce
“chimeric viruses of high potency”.

The paper concludes: “Henceforth, those who would
maintain that the Covid-19 pandemic arose from zoonotic transfer
need to explain precisely why this more parsimonious account is
wrong before asserting that their evidence is persuasive,
most especially when, as we also show, there are puzzling errors in
their use of evidence.” –The
Telegraph

Perhaps most notable is that the former MI6 boss in question is
Sir Richard Dearlove – who helpedObamagate
operative Stefan Halper set up a smear campaign against Michael
Flynn, and who made a name for himself nearly two decades ago
peddling a
bogus report that Saddam Hussein had WMDs – which Tony Blair
used to justify the UK’s involvement the Iraq war. Clearly Dearlove
is trying to ruin our street cred.

Dearlove and Flynn shake hands

Indeed, while it was inevitable that the Western establishment
would eventually gravitate towards the Wuhan lab theory
Zero Hedge presented in
late January, Dearlove’s endorsement couldn’t come
from a more suspicious operative.

So, as the establishment continues to adopt the very obvious
conclusion supported by a mountain of evidence that the bat-like
coronavirus probably escaped from a Chinese laboratory known for
modifying bat coronaviruses to infect humans, we suspect Dearlove
and the ‘perpetual war’ crowd are most interested in using the
accusation as a political cudgel to wield against China.

Here’s the narrative

While we’ve told you about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and
its infamous coronavirus-expert Shi Zhengli (a.k.a. ‘bat woman’),
we really triggered the muppets in early February when we reported
on an Indian research team that found HIV-like “spike proteins”
which allow the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus to more easily enter human
cells, making it extremely infectious. While the report was
retracted, further studies from Nankai University found an
“HIV-like mutation” in the virus.

Dearlove, through the Telegraph, is talking up a
scientific paper set for imminent release which focuses on the
HIV-like “spike proteins” – while separate research from
one of the co-authors considers them to be “unique fingerprints”
that cannot have evolved naturally. Instead, they are “indicative
of purposive manipulation.”

Entitled “A Reconstructed Historical Aetiology of the SARS-CoV-2
Spike”, the new study, seen by The Telegraph, suggests the virus is
“remarkably well-adapted virus for human co-existence” and is
likely to be the result of a Wuhan lab experiment to produce
“chimeric viruses of high potency”.

The paper concludes: “Henceforth, those who would maintain that
the Covid-19 pandemic arose from zoonotic transfer need to explain
precisely why this more parsimonious account is wrong before
asserting that their evidence is persuasive, most especially when,
as we also show, there are puzzling errors in their use of
evidence.” –The
Telegraph

The peer-reviewed research was a collaboration between Professor
Angust Delgleish of St. George’s Hospital at the University of
London and Norwegian virologist Birger Sorensen. They claim to have
identified “inserted sections placed on the SARS-CoV-2
Spike surface” which explain how it binds itself to human
cells – and warns that efforts to develop a vaccine are
doomed to fail because the virus is misunderstood.
Sorensen, CEO of Norwegian pharmaceutical company Immunor AS, is
developing his own vaccine.

Nobody would accept the research until they went easy on
China…

Interestingly, the paper was widely circulated after
being distributed for peer review – including by intelligence
officials, however no legitimate publications would carry
it until they toned down their language blaming China for
the outbreak.

Correspondence seen by The Telegraph shows that, in April, the
initial paper was rejected by leading academic journals including
Nature and the Journal of Virology, which deemed the research
“unsuitable for publication”. 

Much of the paper was watered down to remove explicit
accusations against China, and the rewritten study was then judged
to be of sufficient scientific merit to be accepted for publication
in the Quarterly Review of Biophysics Discovery, a journal chaired
by leading scientists from Stanford University and the University
of Dundee.  –The
Telegraph

“This [the first] article was submitted to a… journal, which
refused it within a week of receiving it, and in the same period
accepted for publication two or three Chinese articles that relate
to the virus, within 48 hours,” Dearlove told The Telegraph. “So I
mean, as this debate about the virus develops, I think all
this material is going to be in print and is going to embarrass a
number of people, I think. Let’s suggest that the Chinese maybe
have too much say in their journals, in what appears and what
doesn’t.”

Dearlove suggests that Wuhan scientists may have been conducting
genetic experiments on bat coronaviruses when COVID-19 accidentally
escaped.

“It’s a risky business if you make a mistake,” said the
75-year-old spook. “Look at the stories… of the attempts by the
leadership to lockdown any debate about the origins of the pandemic
and the way that people have been arrested or silenced. I mean, we
shouldn’t really have any doubt any longer about what we’re dealing
with.”

Sir Richard said he did not believe the Chinese had released the
virus deliberately, but accused Beijing of subsequently covering up
the scale of its spread.

“Of course, the Chinese must have felt, well, if they’ve
got to suffer a pandemic maybe we shouldn’t try too hard to stop,
as it were, our competitors suffering the same disadvantages we’ve
got,” he said.

“Look, the Chinese understand us extremely well. They have made
a study of us over the last decade or longer, particularly through
attending our universities. We understand the Chinese very poorly.
It’s an imbalanced relationship in that respect.”

Last month, the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, claimed
there was “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus outbreak

originated in a Chinese laboratory, but did not provide any
proof. However, the US National Intelligence Director’s office
later said it had determined that Covid-19 “was not manmade or
genetically modified”. –The
Telegraph

“We are aware that these findings could have political
significance and raise troubling questions,” the authors originally
wrote before they were forced to remove language critical of
Beijing, who also referred to it in a previous draft as the “Wuhan
virus,” claiming that they had proven “beyond reasonable doubt that
the Covid-19 virus is engineered.”