The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021, Dr. Robert Redfield, told the Daily Mail in a four-hour interview published Saturday that American and British intelligence agencies conducted a counterintelligence operation on the public to quash narratives that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Redfield, who told the Mail he had seen most of the United States’ intelligence on COVID-19 in 2021 before leaving his position, made his assessment about a coverup pointing to ties the former head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, had to the intelligence community starting in “2004,” the Mail reported.

The intelligence community “pulled a lot of the strings to protect their agents inside China’s military-linked laboratories,” Redfield said. “The role of the intelligence community is much deeper than meets the eye. It was so effective. I think it was not just the Americans — the British had to be involved, too.

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