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Chairman Rand Paul, M.D. I U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs File Edit View Insert Format Tools Table Window Help 0/5) 5) 1 3) 2) el) es) Bill Gates Had a Q Clearance and a Private Editor at NIH Across nearly twenty years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation built a relationship with the federal government that ran on personal access as much as formal partnership. Newly released emails show the country's most senior public health officials treating one of the world's richest men as a colleague and a collaborator. WHAT THE DOCUMENTS SHOW 2) Bill Gates held a Department of Energy 'Q" security clearance for seven years, spanning the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to Chairman Paul's June 23, 2026 letter, DOE confirmed that Gates's "DOE Q security clearance was reciprocally granted on June 11, 2014, and subsequently terminated on December 6, 2021." A DOE "Q" security clearance permits access to Top Secret Restricted Data of the U.S. Government. )2 I Anthony Fauci served as Bill Gates's private editor, with the help of David Morens. In April 2020, Gates requested Fauci's feedback on a memo titled "Pandemic I: The First Modern Pandemic" which set out how Gates was thinking about the COVID pandemic. In January 2022, Gates asked Fauci to edit his book "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic" before it was sent to the publisher. Fauci returned tracked changes, then wrote: "T gave the manuscript in close confidence to a trusted colleague who destroyed it after reading it. His name is Dr. David Morens." BY When the NIH Director urgently asked what his agency's ties to the Gates Foundation were, the answer came back that the foundation had been funding pieces of NIH. On Friday, May 25, 2018, Francis Collins emailed Fauci and senior staff: "For reasons I can't currently explain, I need answers to the following: 1) are we giving any grants to BMGF (I assume no) 2) what are our current collaborative projects with BMGF?" He wanted it by Saturday afternoon. NIH's internal review reported that the foundation had never applied for an NIH grant, but that "BMGF has funded various components of NIH." That Sunday, Collins wrote again. Called to an Oval Office meeting with no stated agenda, he reported that Gates had been promoting a universal flu vaccine directly to the President, and asked: I "Is this coordinated in some way, or is Bill going rogue?" ica DARPA gave the Gates Foundation a private briefing on four military biological threat programs. On May 3, 2022, DARPA's Biological Technologies Office convened a ninety-minute session at agency headquarters for the foundation's Bioimnovation Accelerator, covering INTERCEPT, PREEMPT, Friend or Foe, and ReVector. PREEMPT's stated aim is "targeting viruses in animals before they emerge in humans." Its projects include bat sampling across four countries and a transmissible Lassa vaccine "with internal off switch," which the briefing lists for potential deployment in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and other West African countries. 5 Collins told Melinda French Gates he had spent his tenure bringing NIH and the foundation closer together. On October 8, 2021, days after announcing his resignation, Collins wrote: "It has been a privilege to work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation over these 12 years, and I am glad to have had the chance to bring our global health efforts even closer together than ever." I, It looks like you're trying to secretly run a federal health agency. Would you like help? OK Cancel = 1,374 pages released I https://www.paul.senate.gov/readingroom/