'CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE' Pentagon was Told SIX Times that Covid Was Lab Leak At Start of Pandemic – But Buried the Truth, Ex-Intel Official Says: US Military Chiefs Were Repeatedly Told That Covid Was a Lab Leak at the Start of the Pandemic, a Former Pentagon Official Has Revealed, and other C-Virus related stories

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'CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE' Pentagon was told SIX times that Covid was lab leak at start of pandemic – but buried the truth, ex-intel official says:

US military chiefs were repeatedly told that Covid was a lab leak at the start of the pandemic, a former Pentagon official has revealed.

Jon Myers, who was a Marine Corps officer for 28 years and joined the Pentagon in 2018, claims he first told Joint Chiefs of Staff about a lab leak in China in October 2019.

Mr Myers said he "knows with absolute certainty" that top US military chiefs were told Covid had leaked from a lab in Wuhan.

The FBI and the US Department of Energy believe Covid most likely leaked from a lab in China.

But Mr Myers claims the Joint Chiefs of Staff were briefed in October 2019 - more than five years ago - about a new virus that had leaked from a lab in China.

He told The Sun: "This was briefed in October and November 2019 as a lab leak. It's important that people realise.

"It was in the intelligence. We briefed it. It was accepted. I briefed it numerous times about a viral outbreak and that it was from a lab.

"Over the course of late November and December, it probably came up six or seven times in briefings.

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"Nobody said, 'hey I heard that was not true, it was not from a lab'. It was just stated as fact."

Then, in April 2020, the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, said the "weight of evidence" pointed to "natural" origins.

By that point, Mr Myers was retiring after nearly three decades in service - and he said intelligence officers were no longer providing briefings that mentioned a lab leak.

Mr Myers' believes the truth was suppressed as "it was not politically favourable at the time" - and for "self-preservation".

He said: "It was very interesting to me how I was the one briefing all these officers on the fact it was a lab leak - and then after I left, that whole aspect of it had disappeared.

"Nobody came out and said, 'hey, we have intelligence that it came from a lab'. It just disappeared.

"It became a political issue. That's why it was quashed.

"If you mentioned that it came from a lab, you were some sort of conspiracy theorist. I found it very odd and intriguing that the early intelligence just vanished.

"It seems to fall out of the realm of the Department of Defence and became more health and human services.

"We were no longer talking about the military intelligence aspect of it." --->READ MORE HERE

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