GlaxoSmithKline’s spinoff, the Wellcome Trust, has played a central role in the marriage of Big Pharma to the Western spy agencies. From 2015 until October 2020, the Chair of Wellcome Trust—the UK version of the Gates Foundation—was the former director general of MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, a thirty-five-year counterespionage veteran who also functioned as official liaison between British and US intelligence agencies. Anthony Fauci’s emails reveal that Wellcome Trust Director Sir Jeremy Farrar worked directly with Dr. Fauci to orchestrate the cover-up of the Wuhan lab leak evidence, assigning a staff of five Wellcome Trust operatives to manage the fraud.282
Dame Manningham-Buller has served as chair of the Imperial College London since 2011. Anthony Fauci and Western health officials widely cited the Imperial College’s inaccurate COVID-19 fatality projections—ginned up by the Wellcome Trust’s notorious epidemiologist, Neil Ferguson—to justify the draconian global lockdowns.283 Ferguson’s guileful projections overestimated fatality rates by more than an order of magnitude. He did the same with mad cow disease and other diseases du jour. MI6 spy Christopher Steele is a leader of the British organization “Independent SAGE,” a sketchy, yet highly influential collective of social scientists, psychologists, and professional propagandists who use the news media to relentlessly pressure the UK government anytime it hesitates to deploy the flinty authoritarianism needed to achieve “zero COVID.”284
Steele is only one of many former intelligence officers who cheerlead draconian responses to COVID and applaud the onset of totalitarianism. One of the early promoters of the marginalization, demonization, and officially sanctioned abuse of vaccine-hesitant parents is Juliette Kayyem, the former assistant secretary for Homeland Security under President Obama, and former member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on Terrorism. Kayyem was forced out of her high-level job at the Washington Post when critics leaked her involvement with the Israeli spyware company that makes the software system used to track and murder Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.285 As early as April 2019, she was editorializing for the Washington Post that parents who declined measles vaccines for their children should face “isolation, fines, arrests” and be treated to the same sanctions that government uses against terrorists and sex offenders.286
As early as 1977, Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein documented the CIA’s control over 400 leading American journalists and institutions, including the New York Times and TIME Magazine. The CIA’s long and pervasive domination of the Washington Post via Project Mockingbird, beginning with its owners Katharine and Phil Graham and leading editors and reporters, is well documented. There is little evidence that its new owner, Jeff Bezos, has pruned away these corrupting influences. The Post and the Times have been the leading media cheerleaders for draconian pandemic response. On September 5, Max Blumenthal—son of frequent Washington Post contributor Sidney Blumenthal—exposed the Post for publishing a phony “Doctor on the Street Interview” in which a supposedly typical DC physician called for extrajudicial murder of the vaccine-hesitant parents through medical neglect. Blumenthal pointed out that the physician was actually the vice president of Technical Staff at In-Q-Tel.287
The CIA and other intelligence agencies aggressively recruit scientists like Jeremy Farrar, whose research involves postings in foreign countries.288 Additionally, it uses vaccination drives as a cover for broader strategic actions. Between 2011 and 2014, for example, the CIA used the WHO’s Global Eradication Program to conduct fake polio and Hepatitis B vaccine programs in Pakistan as a way to surreptitiously collect DNA from individuals in its efforts to track down Osama bin Laden.
These are only a few of the myriad examples of the closely kept involvements by spy agencies in treating vaccination as a foreign policy tool and as an instrument of fear, suppression, and control independent of any genuine health concerns.
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In July 2021, one year and four months into the misery of the global lockdown, the FAA had to divert air traffic over a section of the country stretching from the West Coast to Michigan to make room for the fleets of private jets converging on Sun Valley, Idaho, for the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the world’s most exclusive conclave, sometimes called the Summer Camp for Billionaires, or “Mogul Fest.”289 The 2021 meeting included Bill Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Google founders Larry Price and Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Disney Chair Robert Iger, Viacom/CBS Chair Shari Redstone, and one of the lockdown’s most influential propagandists, Anderson Cooper, who has acknowledged that he responded to a CIA recruitment poster while attending Yale and worked an indeterminate number of summers thereafter in Langley.
All the discussions at the event were, as usual, closely guarded, but participants acknowledged conversing about cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence. This year, the robber barons hosted, as their guest of honor, CIA Director William Joseph Burns, and by all reports, the mood among the titans was bullish.290 By that time, US billionaires were well on their way to increasing their collective wealth by $3.8 trillion in a single year, while obliterating the American middle class, which permanently lost about the same amount. These tech and media magnates, who had magnified their billions from the lockdown, were the same men who had used their media and social media platforms to censor complaints about the lockdown, even as it filled their coffers past the bursting point.
Each of these fat cats had helped grease the skids for the calamitous collapse of America’s exemplary constitutional democracy. The Bill of Rights was, by then, indefinitely suspended. The participants of that event had privatized the public square and then obstructed the free flow of information and open debate—the oxygen and sunlight of democracy. Their censorship allowed their allies in the technocracy to effect the most extraordinary curtailment of American constitutional rights in history: closing churches across the country, shuttering a million businesses without due process or just compensation, suspending jury trials for corporate malefactors, passing regulations without constitutionally guaranteed transparency public hearings or comment, violating privacy through warrantless searches, and track-and-trace surveillance and abolishing the rights of assembly and association.
After twenty years of modeling exercises, the CIA—working with medical technocrats like Anthony Fauci and billionaire Internet tycoons—had pulled off the ultimate coup d’état: some 250 years after America’s historic revolt against entrenched oligarchy and authoritarian rule, the American experiment with self-government was over. The oligarchy was restored, and these gentlemen and their spymasters had equipped the rising technocracy with new tools of control unimaginable to King George or to any other tyrant in history.
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COVID-19: A Military Project