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Narrative: The narrative of this story is the following: We have come to a point in biomedical history where it is possible to create billions of distinct viral species with minimal effort for people trained in the technologies. How did we come to this point? Was it a PSY OP or was it the natural development of technology occurring due to natural scientific sociological processes with emergent properties? What I mean by this is, did we develop the technology for ultra sophisticated bioweapons development due to behind-the-scenes machinations and funding to develop bio weapons for military purposes, or did the technology for bio weapons development occur due to standard grant peer review processes and scientific trends. i.e., an unexpected emergent property And the participants in the development of the technology to make buy a weapons, were they aware that they were making bio weapons? Were they paid directly by members of the Defense-Intelligence enterprise? Or was NIH given increased funding for biodefense and steered in the direction of bioweapons development by members of the defense intelligence enterprise? Who at NIH new? Fauci, Collins, previous NIH heads? Division heads? Things to look up: When did biodefense funding increase dramatically for NIAID? Try to find old budget presentations from DMD. Find the blue ribbon panel on influenza research circa 2000 and six