00:00Sequential events of our lifetime and to this day the American people have never
00:04received a full accounting of where it came from, what our government knew and
00:09why they had to fight their own government to find out. Today the
00:12committee will hear from an intelligence community whistleblower about these
00:15questions. The witness will testify that the CIA scientific analysts repeatedly
00:21concluded that a laboratory leak was the most likely origin of COVID-19 and that
00:26those conclusions were buried, softened, or withheld from Congress while the public
00:31was told to trust a different story. For years Americans were told to trust the
00:37experts, trust the agencies, trust the intelligence community, and trust the
00:42officials who assured us that they were following the science. But the evidence
00:46before the committee tells a very different story. Today we will expose a
00:51system in which a small circle of officials, scientists, grantees, and
00:56intelligence advisors move from agencies to agency, meeting to meeting, briefing to
01:02briefing, reviewing one another's work and shaping one another's conclusions and
01:08presenting those conclusions to Congress and the public as if they were
01:11independent conclusions. Only it was not independent, it was a circle. I am a career
01:18CIA operations officer and as you mentioned I was on joint duty assignment at
01:23the Office of Director of National Intelligence Directors Initiatives Group or the
01:27DIGG between March 2025 and April 2026. I was responsible for leading the DIGG's
01:36investigation into COVID origins, anomalous health incidents, and unidentified
01:40anomalous phenomena.
01:46I'm here today to discuss the COVID cover-up, the national security implications
01:53associated with the DIGG's investigative findings, and CIA refusal to comply with
01:58lawful oversight as well as how we remedy these problems. Intelligence community
02:05leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic
02:10originated as a result of a lab incident. Motives are difficult to define given the
02:17scope of the DIGG's review. Intentional or not, the IC's actions resulted in a cover-up,
02:25wasted resources, and a failure to properly inform policymakers. Public health policy would have been very different had the American
02:36public
02:36been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve as the
02:42foundation for an emergency use authorization mRNA products, being mandated by the former administration.
