Angela Merkel “Covered Up Intelligence Report Blaming China for Covid”

Angela Merkel as German Chancellor covered up an explosive 2020 intelligence report that found a high probability – 80-95% – that the COVID-19 virus came from a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China. The Telegraph has the story.

A joint investigation by two German newspapers alleges that Angela Merkel, the then Chancellor, and her successor Olaf Scholz both turned a blind eye to the report, produced by Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND.

According to Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit, the BND concluded in 2020 that an accident in a laboratory in Wuhan led to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

The report, based on public records, data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and a German intelligence operation known as ‘Saaremaa’, found an “80 to 95%” probability that COVID-19 came from Wuhan.

The BND presented the findings to Mrs Merkel, who chose to keep the information “under lock and key”, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung’s report.

The agency later presented the findings to Mr Scholz, when he took over as Chancellor in 2021. He ordered a review of the findings but did not share them with the public or Members of Parliament.

A spokesman for Mrs Merkel declined to comment when approached by Süddeutsche Zeitung. A German Government spokesman said it “does not publicly comment on intelligence affairs”.

It comes after the CIA announced in January that a laboratory leak in China was probably the cause of the pandemic rather than natural causes.

However, that review was based on a so-called low confidence assessment, meaning it lacked conclusive intelligence evidence.

Worth reading in full.

So they covered up a key intelligence report while allowing the same claims found within it to be censored across social media as a ‘conspiracy theory’, and they wonder why no one trusts them.

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Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
1 year ago

I often use the compound word madleft to designate the contemporary Left, but I see I’m going to have to start using the word madscum for creatures like Merkel and the other malevolent clown-worlders.

What puzzles me about the madscum it that they evidently thought the truth would never come to light, or that if it did it didn’t matter. And that can only be because they believe that the opinions of the general public simply don’t matter.

Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

They have a compliant media just like over here to provide smoke & mirrors with trivia.

Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
1 year ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

The stupidity and destructiveness of the NET Zero policies hasn’t yet ‘come to light’ in Europe.

A few might understand, but then, it was known by a few in 2001, even more by 2009, but still the legislation continues empowering European Greenness.

JohnK
1 year ago

Until recent events like that, I thought Merkel was one of the most effective politicians in Germany, however, perhaps it reflects her background. After all, she grew up in East Germany in the old days, didn’t she?

EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

We all reflect our backgrounds. He character was defective.

Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

Effective at swamping the continent with the third world, with extra fervor because of post WW2 guilt. Perfect storm. They are now at two minutes to midnight.

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Merkel was decorated with the highest order of the German state by a her pal Winselmeier for all she did during her reign and German people still pay a few thousand € per month for her visagist visits (on top of her more than generous pension). She certainly doesn’t feel guilty about anything. Ordinary Germans are supposed to put up with her immigration policy because of the special responsibity they’ve somehow inherited from their evil Nazi criminal parents¹.

It’s worth recalling here that she was a daughter of a family which immigrated into the GDR from the FRG when she was still a child and that she was also one of Schwab’s Young Global Leaders in the past.

¹ My parents where both six in 1945 but that’s – according to the current theory championend by the German left – entirely old enough for them to be German perpetrators who really didn’t deserve to survive the war because of their infernal crimes.

Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

It was her closure of the German nuclear industry that was so incredulous. She, a Quantum Chemist, did it so ‘unsophisticatedly’, that there had to be an ulterior motive, and that was even more incredulous. But then, Germany does that: it’s political excellence still lingers in the regions.

Art Simtotic
1 year ago

Not for nothing did Frau Doktor Merkel obtain a PhD in nuclear physics at East Germany’s Karl Marx University in Leipzig.

Not for nothing did Dr Merkel serve on the Secretariat of the University of Berlin Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1990.

Not for nothing did the PhD nuclear physicist, in response to Fukushima, as Chancelllor shut down the nuclear power stations of a country not prone to major earthquakes, and thereby increase reliance on Russian gas.

Not for nothing did the young Angela Merkel’s family return from West to East in the early 1950’s to be on the politically-favoured side of the Berlin Wall.

Not for nothing is Mutti Merkel a fluent speaker of Russian.

Once a commie, always a commie. Frau Doktor Merkel liberated by Fall of the Wall and End of History to re-shape re-unified German politics. Take a look at the current state of German politics and draw your own conclusions.

And not for nothing is the old East Germany a stronghold of the AfD.

Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
1 year ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Merkel’s doctorate was in quantum chemistry 

Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson
1 year ago

Agent Merkel strikes again!

transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Dear Moderators

Is there a reason why comments on the “Next Post” (the £10K covid fine article) are disabled?

Thanks

ToF

transmissionofflame
1 year ago

In the absence of the the comments section on that article, here’s mine:

“I didn’t take it seriously. I didn’t think I’d done anything wrong, so I didn’t pay. I thought that justice would prevail.”

The fixed penalty notice (FPN) saddled Watts with “crippling debt” but also the stigma of being a Covid rule-breaker. “Certain friendship groups stopped speaking to me. I stopped going to lectures. My mental health was in a dire state.

“I’m not going to whine. I live in a first-world country with many privileges, but this fine derailed my life and made me hate the system.”

Firstly he didn’t do anything wrong. Secondly I hope he is no longer naive enough to believe in “justice”.

I hope he doesn’t feel any “stigma” and that the choice of word is the author’s. There is KUDOS attached to “being a covid rule-breaker”, not stigma.

Those “friendship groups” in hindsight did not contain friends.

He now “hates the system” – good!

I would be happy to bung in a few quid if DS started a crowdfunder to pay his fine though I would feel more enthusiastic if the kid in question didn’t sound like such a covidian.

Sad story.

Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

As someone that has always pumped iron on and off, I was lucky that I just moved house in March 2020 and one of the reasons I chose the house was space for a gym. I actually still went and drove past the local Gym when they Locked down by the off chance that not everyone was taking it seriously. Of course the owner who’s wife also had a beauty section in part of the building would’ve been fined. Imagen being asked to drop a heavy deadlift bar quietly because someone is having a massage or nails done in the other room, I tried my best!
I can imagen throwing a disk at a few coppers before they dragged me off a weight machine.

transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Stopping people from making themselves physically healthier was one of the most disgraceful aspects of what was done. We’ve got a small gym in our garage though if this crap ever happens again I would ideally like a tennis court, swimming pool and roller rink. Looking for a house with lots of land…

Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

” Mr Watts?’, and I said I don’t know. He said, ‘This is the number of people who have died from COVID-19 since your snowball fight, how do you feel about that?’.”……Good God FFS!

Tonka Rigger
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

I’d say “Provide me with proof that all of these people died OF covid and not WITH covid, and how any of those deaths relate dirctly to this snowball fight.”

Art Simtotic
1 year ago

Fined ten grand for taking the non-existent risk of catching a respiratory virus throwing snowballs in the fresh air. What a killjoys’ charter convid was.

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

And this while the people responsible for The Rules™ held boozy after-work-gatherings which were formally legal because The Rules™ didn’t apply to work places.

john1T
1 year ago

I’m not surprised they covered the report up. There have been plenty of articles on here explaining how covid could have been as a result of German research in Wuhan. Best to put all that under the carpet just in case.

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  john1T

There have been plenty of articles here pointing out that some facilities in Wuhan received money from Germany which also listed all kinds of unexplained coincidences which happened there (such as visits from German politicians or spatial proximity to reported initial outbreak sites). But this was all I’m 80% certain that I’m almost 100% confident that there’s a 75% chance of me not knowing what this is all about stuff. The author badly wanted to assign blame to Germany but his material didn’t lend it self so well to the task.

RW
RW
1 year ago

Percent has a well-defined mathematical meaning: x% means x, x <= 100 out of every 100 somethings will have a certain property. Considering this, what’s the calculation behind 80 to 95% probability that COVID-19 came from Wuhan? Why is it these two numbers and not 85% – 96.7%? Does this really mean more than We don’t know this, and don’t really believe in it, either? Just a report someone had to produce and since there was nothing to report, he pulled some speculations with numbers out of his posterior …. as the intelligence agent felt rather unintelligent at the moment, he resorted to mumbling and hand-waving …

Or could it have been this one: Some shady government agency was tasked with creating some kind of proof that there was actually a dangerous pandemic caused by a novel kind of coronavirus but the resulting paper was shelved as unhelpful by those who had commissioned its writing?

SimCS
1 year ago

Yet the question is: why would they want to hide/suppress that it was a lab leak?

sskinner
1 year ago

On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Comrade Merkel said:
“No wall that keeps people out and restricts freedom is so high… that it cannot be broken down.”
Her East German education appears to have been very effective about which way the Berlin Wall worked?

And…
“Angela Merkel’s astounding open border policy granting close to a million Muslim immigrants entry into Germany could be seen as self-flagellation for Germany’s historical transgressions. Laced with typical progressive lunacy. What better way to make up for the Holocaust than by admitting “refugees” who frequently exhibit genocidal hatred of Jews.”
Gad Saad‘s book “The Parasitic Mind” – Page 118

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
1 year ago

Course she did. She’s a fecking commie. Seen the pictures of her at the Young Communists camp in East Germany?
She is an Ossie communist who insinuated her way into the west and spent her term screwing us over. Germany is destroying Europe again.

Epi
Epi
1 year ago

Covid, Wuhan it’s all a con to make you believe a deadly virus existed in the first place and to carry on the con in the future. Sorry guys but it’s all hogwash.