If you believe China’s Wuhan lab was looking for a cure of viruses such as COVID-19, think again. Brad Johnson, retired Senior CIA Operative and President of Americans for Intelligence Reform, outlines the history of Chinese infiltration into our research labs and universities with the intent to steal secrets they can use for either monetary or military purposes. From the FBI’s warning to those institutions to Mike Pomeo’s recent speech to governors, the Intelligence Community has been well aware the CCP has been and continues theft of our research and much of it revolves around viral manipulation. Brad cites several indictments issued by 5 Eyes members of citizens and nationals complicit in this duplicity – up to 30-40 cases in the U.S. alone. This is nothing new. See why we have become the proverbial fish in a barrel and the implications today and in the future. intelreform.org
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brad johnson we are we are made the 4th
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of 2020 and there are other aspects of
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chinese let’s say diplomacy that haven’t
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been looked at because of the incredible
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newsworthiness of anything Kovac 19
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related maybe it might be worth looking
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into some of the other the other aspects
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of Chinese international relations yeah
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it’s it’s one of the things I everyone
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small just you kind of want to stop and
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take a step back and sort of take a look
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from that you know the 10,000 foot view
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of kind of the situation in c-tec
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because sometimes the patterns are so
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clear that it’s really fairly conclusive
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whereas if you’re too close to it
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looking at it it can be kind of
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confusing as to what’s going on but
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specifically with Kobe 19 in China and
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just in the last few days the
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intelligence community came out and said
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you know the Kobe 19 is not man-made
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it’s just a naturally occurring thing
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well you know in in part what they’re
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implying there was it again sort of came
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out of the wet market stuff and now it’s
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pretty conclusive I mean everybody up
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and down including other elements of the
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intelligence community everyone is
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fairly clear now that this came out of
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the Wuhan lab now of course the chains
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are denying it because of things we’ve
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talked about before but one if it was
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just an accident but they had it in
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their lab there are certain implications
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on the fact that they were studying it
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in their lab so the Chinese want to
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avoid that and secondarily if they were
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sloppy in their handling of it you know
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dread disease in their lab and escapes
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out which is you know almost certainly
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the case that then implies a certain
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level of responsibility on the part of
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the Chinese so that they’re trying to
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avoid as well so now from the United
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States perspective there’s some problems
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too because you know the president nine
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states wants to have trade deals and
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things with China he doesn’t want to
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have you know closed borders and
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problems of that nature where it’s so
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extreme and and the Chinese don’t tend
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to respond well to to you know being
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called out
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stuff and we’re so lie and deny it
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they’re never gonna admit to it so
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they’ll just have to keep upping the
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ante they’ll feel like their hand is
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forced to do so so I kind of wanted to
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go over some of the things that we see
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and just like put those pieces together
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now something that we’ve talked about
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before was Secretary of State Mike
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Pompeius
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speech to the Governors Association say
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a month ago now and he warned them in
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essence of some of the programs that
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they have out there and there’s this
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program called thousand talents program
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that is a change intelligence run
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program used to target in all 50 states
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the university and research systems and
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so that’s something that’s been going on
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for years and clearly has had a just
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tremendous success and they’ve made a
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lot of inroads into the university
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system here in the United States with
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research grants and stuff it’s money
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they drive it through money and that
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lets them bring in students and so on of
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course we always know that the Chinese
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are trying to steal information that’s
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of any sort of value or utility to their
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you know military programs or just any
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sort of monetary value as a commercial
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item I mean even though any of those
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things they’re trying to steal it all
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the time and that’s one of the things
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that President United States has really
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cracked down on and tried to push back
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on those sorts of things where they’re
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stealing information now after Mike
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Pompeo gave that speech the states I
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think we’re kind of surprised and of
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course they’re completely ill-prepared
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as you’d expect state government local
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legislators and those sorts of things
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those people aren’t trained in
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counterintelligence and they’re not
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trained to be aware of and resist
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intelligence activities on the part of a
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foreign hostile government like the
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Chinese so it’s kind of like shooting
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fish in a barrel for the Chinese
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intelligence and it’s one of the things
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that we need to ratchet up and and
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provide awareness of training at the
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state level which I don’t know that
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would be a massive program I understand
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and there’s a lot of turnover so it’d be
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a constant problem so it’s an inherently
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and center free system that the Chinese
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are exploiting to the hill and I just
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wanted to go through some of the other
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things that have gone on back in
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November two thousand nineteen a Chinese
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scientist was stopped at the Detroit
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Airport and he was carrying in MERS and
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Sarris viruses now he was taking these
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back to lab from the apparently the Wu
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Han lab in China and this would be all
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part of this research going on now this
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was under you know it wasn’t an open
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thing he wasn’t doing it because he was
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supposed to it was part of the research
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he was doing it privately on the side
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for the Chinese whatever they were so
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the lab that he was headed to the United
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States had something women held back
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from the authorities running the place
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so it was a secret program that he was
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part of and Cove in nineteen as
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everyone’s aware of SARS and MERS and
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Kobe 19 are all of the same virus family
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in 2013 there was somebody who was
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stealing up some products out of the
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Medical College of Wisconsin in
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Milwaukee and was taking it back to a
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Chinese University again stealing it not
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nothing opened this wasn’t an exchange
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of information also in 2013 several
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people were at Eli Lilly which is a
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private sector company doing
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pharmaceuticals and they were trying
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they had established their own Chinese
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company and we’re trying to steal things
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uh II like really apparently to then
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take back to their own Chinese company
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and course lies now of course you know
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that sort of thing doesn’t happen
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without the acquiescence and permission
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of the Communist Party of China their
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their commercial system isn’t set up
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like they’re ours so you’re just not
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able to freely view things and also
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under the law of China anyone by law is
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required to conduct espionage for China
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if they’re ever required to do so those
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laws don’t exist for us we as the CIA
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for example can’t go to any random US
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citizen anywhere in the world and any
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sort of business and say okay now you’re
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working for intelligence you’re
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conducting espionage now you can’t force
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people to do it from our perspective but
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the Chinese that’s the law if they
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refuse to cooperate
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that’s illegal they’ll go to jail or the
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family
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we persecuted or something like that so
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the laws are quite different than that
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now continuing on this 2017 this was the
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he had Chinese intelligence officer
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handlers and was working for the
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Shanghai Academy of Sciences and was
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charged here in the United States for
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espionage military intelligence Chinese
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military intelligence that was 2017-2018
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as a change citizen was arrested in
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Chicago again for acting as an illegal
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agent of China he was indicted again on
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intelligence charges and was working for
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the Ministry of State Security Chinese
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Ministry of State Security and very
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interestingly he was to obtain
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biographical information on individuals
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engineers and scientists some of whom
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were US defense contractors and some of
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them who were Chinese nationals so you
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could see clear targeting looking at
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individuals of interest in the United
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States who have access to this sort of
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information and also people have Chinese
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descent they’re targeting those people
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because they’re figuring they have got
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family back home they can go after him
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I’ll go through this a little faster
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because there’s so many 2019 two people
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arrested from the Children’s Hospital
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Research Institute again stealing things
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that are related to manipulating viruses
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to make them in this case what the
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children’s hospitals are researching is
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how to cure but they were stealing that
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information on how to manipulate these
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these viruses things that have impact
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2019 somebody was arrested in New Jersey
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and what he was doing was obtaining
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fraudulently obtaining US visas for
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Chinese government employees bringing
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them in as research scholars and student
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visas so again all this all this stuff
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tastes together the FBI took a look at
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this thousand talents program and all of
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us and came out with a big warning
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telling everybody that they that the
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Chinese are essentially on an
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intelligence blitzkrieg against the
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United States and the West and they came
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out with a warning on it and since then
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in 2018 they started to increase their
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push back 2019 a husband and wife team
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in charge of the level 4 lab
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in Winnipeg they were essentially
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charged with working for China and it
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was considered an administrative manner
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was how they publicly did it and as we
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know Canada doesn’t want to officially
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kind of come out and confront China with
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these things because they have a great
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relationship and basically to left us
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oriented governments who try to
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cooperate at that level so it was just
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turned over but it was a viral lab there
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they were studying all these same things
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related to the lamb fluke over in 19 and
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they were thrown out and a whole bunch
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of their students these Chinese students
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that had come over to work in that lab
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as part of the research grants and all
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of that would burn out and so you see I
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mean you just started I just picked a
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few this there’s a lot more there’s a
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lot of other cases we’ve seen in you
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know in England and Australia and Canada
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and all in just these cases the United
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States all late to change military
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intelligence all leads back to the
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research and China and all related to
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one way or another these czars family of
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viruses of which as I said coded 19 is
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apart so what we’re seeing here with
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that type of activity on the part of the
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Chinese one thing that everybody needs
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to understand is as soon as you see the
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hand of state security Chinese military
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intelligence those sets of things
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involved with stealing and manipulating
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virus information and taking it back to
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China for research or bringing it in
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here to sort of manipulate the research
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taking place here in the United States
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all of those sorts of things and you can
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just a picture where they take stuff
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back to China they work on it work on it
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work on it come to a roadblock so they
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take their sample bring it back to the
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United States slipping in say they did
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it here and then have all those people
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go to work researching it to get the
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next breakthrough and then they steal
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that take it back to China and you can
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see the process of that nature taking
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place so the take home out of all of
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this is Chinese state security Chinese
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military intelligence don’t do research
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on any
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to come up with cures they don’t do that
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what they do is weaponization things so
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if if there’s a biological weapons
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program in China which you’d be childish
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to think there is not they would have to
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be doing these intelligence programs for
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those reasons and just in these few
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cases you can see where there was
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somebody stealing visas getting
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targeting information on people inside
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the system here in the United States
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they need and it’s not going to be one
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person if we catch one that’s the tip of
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the iceberg so you know there’s a lot of
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other people out there doing it for the
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Chinese as well and if we catch them in
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these university systems now as I said
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the FBI beginning in 2018 did an
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unclassified warning letter about the
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Chinese activities in this area and they
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begin they began to to beef up their
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counterintelligence effort to defend
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against this Chinese aggression and
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we’ve seen a lot of the people that they
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start to investigate in the universities
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with too close of a tie or suspicious
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tie back to China a lot of those people
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have been fired and we’re not talking
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one or two people we’re talking dozens
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of people who either been fired or
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resigned before they could be
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investigated or or unwilling to provide
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the information that the investigators
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were looking at on their activities and
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connections back to China so you’ve got
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a dozens of people out there some of
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which in the university system we know
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there was a big arrest in Harvard at the
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head of the chemistry department there
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who’s in jail for espionage for the
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Chinese and these dozens or so of people
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within the University and research
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system here in the United States that
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have been let go so I mean if you take
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the cases I listed off those dozens the
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others arrested just here in the United
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States we’re looking at 30 or 40 cases
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now if that’s not an intelligence
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Blitzkrieg I don’t know what you could
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consider one and what is it related to
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it’s all related to this virus research
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and other things as well I’m not limited
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to that there’s a lot of other areas but
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it always circles back to this stuff so
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out of the last say decade the Chinese
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have been working very hard
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with their state security military
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intelligence program doing something
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related to these viruses which includes
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the coded nineteen buyers and they don’t
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do pure research to create cures for
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viruses they do bioweapons activities so
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that you just cannot look at this and
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conclude that this is anything other
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than an intelligence program supporting
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the bio weapons research and it all ties
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back to the Wu Han level 4 lab which is
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the origin of they come in 19 buyers so
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ok now there’s people out saying that
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this is this just is unrealistic and
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well ok well how I mean you you can look
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at the facts here these are all court
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cases this is FBI warnings these are
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people kicked out or fired from
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universities all because of what this
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activity that’s going on and as I said
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Chinese intelligence doesn’t do peer
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research for cures they do bioweapons
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research that’s what they’re after
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so to look at this thing and say that
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this is just some goofball stories is
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you have people lying and covering for
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the Chinese the question we need to ask
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her why are elements in the United
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States trying to cover this and why
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isn’t it really being looked at and can
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we trust the numbers that were being
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given just in general so there’s just so
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many questions here that are unanswered
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and people saying well it’s impossible
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that this happened or was done through
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bioweapons research okay well fine if
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that’s the case if you’ve gone through
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that whole process this is all
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unclassified because it’s all out there
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if you’ve gone through that whole
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process lay the data out on the table
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for everybody to look at and they do not
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why you know it’s it’s all on classified
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as I said that research is out there
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open a lot of countries are doing it and
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we just had that report from five eyes
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which is the shared intelligence program
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by basically the english-speaking
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countries Australia Haitians Canada UK
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New Zealand and they they came out with
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a report that was leaked interestingly
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actually can I can I stop there for one
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second I have read speculation that said
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that the five eyes report was leaked in
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order to stop countries like Canada from
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interfering with it
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I you know and people may consider what
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I’m sitting here speculative on the
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previous part but and it’s highly
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speculative to guess as to why it’s
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leaked and there’s a there’s many
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threads to this that could have been the
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justification for it and that’s
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something that we’re almost certainly
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never going to know
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so I hesitate to say too much about that
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but certainly was leaked on purpose to
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me probably the the main theory I would
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have is it was leaked because there’s so
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much information out there saying that
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oh this didn’t come from Wu Han lab and
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that’s conspiracy theory nutjob stuff
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and bottle of wine so they they wanted
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to leak this to show that no in fact the
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intelligence agencies know that it
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didn’t come from that lab and now what
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we need to do is dig in and see what was
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being done to it and this said this is
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the type of information that needs to be
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out there but as I said I think there’s
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hesitation on everybody’s part I can
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guarantee you Canada even if it knew for
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a fact that the coded 19 was a Chinese
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bio weapon gone wrong they’re not going
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to want to publicly say it and I think
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many of those other countries Australia
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for perhaps different reasons but I
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think they would be very hesitant
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I think everyone involved would be very
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hesitant including the United States
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even if the president the United States
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and Congress and Senate and all of that
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knew for a fact or a small group of them
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did I think they would all be very
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hesitant to come out and say this is a
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bioweapons Chinese bioweapons program
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and virus gone wrong it got out of the
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lab and it’s killing all these people
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because of that it was a vile engineered
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weapon every I think everybody hesitates
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to say that and I you know I’m not even
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going so far as to say that’s completely
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wrong because of that would create the
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confrontation that would create China
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Chinese eat no matter what their level
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of guilt clearly there’s some level of
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guilt so we’re not talking about whether
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they’re guilty or not we’re talking
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about how guilty are they and of course
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China wants to deny everything from the
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beginning and if even if we have
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absolute proof this is bioengineered
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and you know what’s trendy going to do
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they’re not going to admit to it and pay
17:23
reparations and all that so it means
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worldwide confrontation and you know how
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deeply do we want to go down that rabbit
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hole that’s that’s a problem in a
17:32
question so well you know you since you
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mentioned that’s at the beginning when
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you were speaking about viruses at this
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lab the question is when can we expect
17:43
the Kovach 20 and Kovach 20 quarter
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three so I guess I’m answering my own
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question with the names the point is
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that not having a worldwide not having a
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confrontation also has a cost it does
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and and we don’t know I mean at least we
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here don’t know for sure the spectrum I
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think of what’s real out there as far as
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possibilities realistic as far as the
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possibilities is it’s just innocent
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research taking place in there wuhan
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level 4 lab where they were indeed
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trying to find cures for viruses or
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researching how to treat viruses and
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they just weren’t prepared to handle
18:28
something that that that was that
18:29
contagious and in this cage so I mean
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that’s sort of the beginning point and
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the scale goes all the way up and
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through a bunch of graduations of you
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know Chinese intent up to the point
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where this is actually the first step in
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China attempting to essentially conquer
18:47
the world now I don’t think that’s that
18:50
realistic but that you have your rule
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we’re looking at a spectrum this is
18:53
gaming it out to see what what the
18:55
possibilities are but this could be in
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essence the first step and they’ve
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released it out on purpose they were
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willing to take the hits within their
19:03
country the people that died and they’re
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gonna come out with another one and come
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out with another one and come out with
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another one until essentially they’ve
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decimated the economy of the world while
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they’re able to keep enough of their own
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going because they have the cures and
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advance and treatment
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and their each time willing to accept
19:21
the casualties out of the civilian
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population of China in order to make it
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look like they’re not guilty of anything
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I mean that’s draconian and getting
19:31
pretty far out there as a theory but I
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mean that I think is this is the
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spectrum that we’re looking at or
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something anywhere in between so like I
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said from China’s perspective I mean
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they’re in the eye I guess they would
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look at it as kind of the fight of their
19:43
life for one reason or another because
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they certainly don’t want to pay
19:46
reparations they don’t want to be blamed
19:47
for any of this and so they’re using all
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of their allies they’ve been caught over
19:52
and over one of the things that I think
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we mentioned it in a previous interview
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but there was this local I had an
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alleged legislature in one of the states
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I forget which state but he was the
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essentially the Speaker of the state
20:04
legislature so the the number one guy in
20:07
that legislature and the Chinese send
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him a letter with a press release
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written out for him that he was supposed
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to read as if it was his own press
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release talking about how great the
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Chinese have been and how helpful for
20:20
come in nineteen so once again we know
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they’re in there in full blitzkrieg mode
20:25
of everything they can do politically
20:28
and in intelligence means to lower any
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sort of thought of guilt on their part
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as to their involvement in the cove in
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nineteen and they’re using all of these
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propaganda techniques you know and just
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everything they can do so every time my
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suspicion on this is every time we see
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somebody here you know the Democratic
20:48
Party the press the universities the
20:50
research institutes the New York Times
20:54
The Washington Post all of these guys
20:56
that are essentially Pro China I think
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they’re they kind of fall into one or
21:02
two categories either they’re actively
21:04
cooperating with China or they’re useful
21:07
idiots as you know the old saying goes
21:09
they’re kind of philosophically in
21:11
agreement that China so they’re
21:13
perfectly willing to play that that
21:15
theme but I think everything that’s
21:16
coming out of that sector has to be
21:19
looked at very suspiciously because
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they’re just not a good source of
21:23
information because they’ve got a bias
21:26
built-in an ax to grind so there’s
21:28
and stuff they say for a reason not
21:31
because it’s their actual analysis of
21:33
the situation whereas here you know I
21:37
rant you I think that the Chinese are
21:39
the greatest long-term strategic threat
21:40
to the United States and this is a good
21:42
example of why and so this is the doom
21:45
honest-to-god look at all that some of
21:48
the just irrefutable facts that are out
21:52
there these guys that have entered the
21:53
u.s. prison system and have been
21:55
convicted in a US Court their standards
21:57
of proof so there’s no question that
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this Chinese intelligence blitzkrieg is
22:02
going on there’s no question that it’s
22:04
going on in a way related to the Soros
22:06
family of viruses and research going on
22:08
in these areas there’s zero question of
22:10
that there’s zero question of the fact
22:12
that this is related to Chinese
22:14
intelligence so as I said there is only
22:16
really one conclusion they’re doing it
22:18
for a damn good reason and it’s not pure
22:20
research to find cures so what is that
22:23
reason okay then it becomes speculative
22:25
but to say that this is just some
22:27
naturally occurring thing out of the wet
22:29
market I think is it’s really become
22:31
kind of childish and I think the only
22:33
people that are still out there saying
22:34
those sorts of things that are either
22:36
actively working with the Chinese in one
22:39
form or another whether they’re paid
22:41
assets or just a philosophically in
22:44
agreement hard to say or again they fall
22:46
into the sort of useful idiot category
22:48
where they’re just manipulated and made
22:50
to say these things because they’re
22:52
convinced somehow that this is true so
22:55
the real research I think is yet to come
22:58
out and there’s a lot of independent
22:59
medical people related to this that are
23:01
just starting to really spout this out
23:03
and that’s where all this pushback is
23:05
coming from and that’s why the
23:06
supporters of China have been backed
23:08
into the corner of where it’s getting
23:10
really hard for them to deny it came out
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of the level 4 lab and woman once that’s
23:15
placed inside that lab is the origin all
23:19
of the other problems begin and like ok
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what was it doing in there what were you
23:23
doing with it you know
23:24
why all this intelligence activity
23:26
around it you know these these problems
23:28
start to mount for China so this is
23:31
where we find ourselves now it’s an
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interesting problem unfortunate results
23:36
out of coming all of this
23:37
but this is all going to come out all of
23:40
this information is out of the public
23:41
sector and people are now starting like
23:44
what we’re doing they’re starting to put
23:46
together all the pieces and you know you
23:48
you this is not just some freaking
23:50
nature thing that happened came out of
23:52
the the wet market in China I mean we’re
23:54
all past that stage if you’re being
23:57
intellectually honest about it Brad
24:01
Johnson thank you very much
24:03
on May 4th 2020 I guess in summary the
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Chinese denials have essentially made it
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clear that it’s up to us to determine
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what the facts are yes that’s how once
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again thank you very much
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