The US Government’s Ongoing Coverup of Ralph Baric’s Lab Notebooks is a Clear Sign it Knows Far More Than it Admits About the Origins of ‘COVID’-19

March 24, 2026 china, cia

The new revelation that America’s top coronavirus scientist, Dr Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina (UNC), worked with the intelligence agencies in the lead-up to the COVID-19 pandemic significantly raises the likelihood that Baric is the creator of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet the evidence for and against this hypothesis remains incomplete because the US Government is engaged in an ongoing coverup of key information. Regardless of the Government’s willingness to be forthcoming, Baric himself could shed copious light on a matter of major public and scientific importance by making available his lab materials from the period leading up to the pandemic.

There is strong evidence backing the following key points:

Baric’s lab had the technical ability (reverse genetics systems, chimeric spike protein, infectious clone production) to build viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2.
The 2018 DEFUSE proposal to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), led by Baric, explicitly outlined laboratory manipulations capable of producing a SARS-CoV-2–like virus.
Although DARPA declined to fund DEFUSE, most team members later received similar funding through other grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
US intelligence agencies (including CIA and ODNI) consulted Baric and other experts from 2015 onwards and even ran pandemic war games (e.g. Event 201, Crimson Contagion) just before the pandemic. The CIA now assesses, albeit with low confidence, that a lab-related incident in China is more likely than a purely natural origin.
This new assessment is consistent with the ‘lab leak’ hypothesis that Baric created the virus and “provided” it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for experiments on “wild-caught” Chinese bats.
Early in the pandemic, Baric omitted the furin cleavage site in his intelligence briefing. He later testified that he had seen it, and the idea of inserting such a site “was clearly mine.”
SARS-CoV-2 remains the only known SARS-like virus (sarbecovirus) with such a furin cleavage site (FCS), which significantly enhances infectivity and transmissibility.