Whistleblower alleges CIA offered officials money to change view of COVID origins

FIRST ON FOX: A CIA whistleblower told Congress that the agency offered officials on a COVID Discovery team “significant monetary incentive" to change their position on the origins of the virus from originating in the Wuhan lab to “unable to determine" the origins.

"The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have received new and concerning whistleblower testimony regarding the Agency’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19," Wenstrup and Turner wrote to CIA Director William Burns Tuesday. Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.

"A multi-decade, senior-level, current Agency officer has come forward to provide information to the Committees regarding the Agency’s analysis into the origins of COVID-19," they wrote.