Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab Research That Sparked COVID | Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Summary: This document release contains declassified materials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, including a 2020 meeting agenda regarding COVID-19 origins and a 2016 research article on synthetic biology techniques used at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The provided PDF contains declassified records released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard on June 18, 2026. The document includes an agenda for a February 3, 2020, expert meeting at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which featured participation from Anthony Fauci (NIH/NIAID) and focused on assessing data needs to understand the evolutionary origins of 2019-nCoV. Additionally, the file includes a 2016 research article titled 'Assembly of long DNA sequences using a new synthetic Escherichia coli-yeast shuttle vector,' authored by researchers at the State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, detailing methods for DNA fragment assembly and synthetic biology.
Document outline
1. Declassification Notice (June 18, 2026) 2. Agenda: Expert Meeting Rapid Response for Assessment of Data Needs for 2019-nCoV (February 3, 2020) 3. Research Article: Assembly of long DNA sequences using a new synthetic Escherichia coli-yeast shuttle vector (Virologica Sinica, 2016) 4. Introduction to Synthetic Biology and DNA Assembly Methods 5. Materials and Methods: Strains, Media, and Plasmid Construction 6. Results: Construction of the shuttle plasmid pGF and Assembly of the 31-kb long DNA from the cyanophage PP genome