Fauci Intelligence Community Release — page 71

UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED When synthesized with the EcoHealth Alliance proposal, US collections confirm EcoHealth Alliance was performing the work proposed. The analysts produce their reports in a vacuum, absent the context the proposal provides. As a fellow at DARPA, I could see both, and can do the synthesis. For instance, WIV personnel identified in intelligence reports are named in the proposal, these people use the lexicon of the proposal in the collections, and the virus variants proposed for experimentation are identical to those gleaned by collections. Moreover, I am also privy to information obtained by congressional office investigators and by DRASTICiv, which further corroborates that the program detailed in the BAA response was conducted until it was shut down in April 2020. The purpose of the EcoHealth program, called DEFUSEv in the proposal, was to inoculate bats in the Yunnan, China caves where confirmed SARSCoVs were found. Ostensibly, doing this would prevent another SARS-CoV pandemic; the bats' immune systems would be reinforced to prevent a deadly SARS-CoV from emerging. The specific language used is "inoculate bats with novel chimeric polyvalent spike proteins to enhance their adaptive immune memory against specific high-risk viruses." vi Being defense-related, it makes sense that EcoHealth submitted the proposal first to the Department of Defense, before it settled with NIH/NIAID. The BAA response is dated March 2018 and was submitted by Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance. DARPA rejected the proposal because the work was too close to violating the gain-of-function (GoF) moratorium,vii despite what Peter Daszak says in the proposal (that the work would notviii). As is known, Dr. Fauci with NIAID did not reject the proposal. The work took place at the WIV and at several sites in the US, identified in detail in the proposal.ix The EcoHealth Alliance response to the PREEMPT BAA is placed along with other proposal documents in the PREEMPT folder on the DARPA Biological Technologies Office JWICS (top secret) share drive, address: Network/filer/BTO/CI Folder/PREEMPT This folder was empty for a year. The files, completely unmarked with classification or distribution data, were placed in this folder in July 2021, which conspicuously aligns with media reporting, my probing, and Senator Paul's inquiry into NIH/NIAID gain-of-function programs. The unmarked nature combined with the timing signals that the documents were being hidden. No files at DARPA go unmarked in classification or distribution, including proprietary documents. Furthermore, PREEMPT is an unclassified program. The files are also now held by Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA). They are identified in the reference block above. 2. SARS-CoV-2, hereafter referred to as SARSr-CoV-WIV, is a synthetic spike protein chimera engineered to attach to human ACE2 receptors and For SHSGAC Use Only - SHSGAC_COVID_119th 011833