The German government had evidence that COVID-19 originated from a biolab in Wuhan, China, but has been covering up the information since 2020, an investigation has revealed.
The evidence of Covid’s lab origin was discovered by Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Service (BND).
The cover-up was exposed in a major investigative report from two of Germany’s leading newspapers.
The report was published jointly by Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung.
According to the report, BND officials met in Berlin within weeks of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020 for a mission dubbed “Project Saaremaa.”
The mission was named after an Estonian Baltic Sea island.
The BND had managed to penetrate the Chinese Communist Party’s lockdown on information regarding Covid.
Agents working on “Project Saaremaa” obtained unpublished data and documents from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), according to the newspapers.
The news outlets report that this information was shared with the BND’s scientists.
A team of BND scientists led by a virologist combined the secret intelligence with the public scientific literature coming out of Wuhan.
The secret documents included scientific evidence that had come from the Wuhan lab of the infamous Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli, also known as “Batwoman.”
The BND scientists’ final analysis was completed sometime in 2020.
They estimated the probability of a lab origin of the pandemic to be around 80 to 95% likely.
The newspapers reported that the unpublished documents from the BND concerning coronaviruses and their impact on the brain were central to the assessment.
New findings may have emerged in the fall of 2021 to further convince the BND.
The investigation suggests the German intelligence may have informed the CIA’s change in assessment in January.
The CIA updated its public assessment from undecided to a lab origin with low confidence on January 25, 2025.
The change came after prompting by CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
However, the agency had privately updated its assessment earlier, according to the New York Times.
Ratcliffe has accused the CIA of being unduly swayed by politics on this question.
Similarly, the newspapers report that the German government was intimidated by the possibility of seismic geopolitical reverberations if the BND assessment were made public.
The papers also revealed that the head of the BND briefed government officials to warn that COVID-19 originated in a lab.
Chancellery Chief of Staff Wolfgang Schmidt was among those briefed by the president of the BND.
In May 2023, Schmidt approached former President Joe Biden’s Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
However, Haines reportedly downplayed the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that favored a lab origin.
The German government’s reluctance to make its assessment public may have been influenced by the public assurances of prominent virologists like Charité Center for Global Health Scientific Director Christian Drosten.
Drosten was dubbed by the media as “Germany’s Anthony Fauci.”
The top health official insisted that the pandemic had a natural origin, according to the reports.
Drosten was briefly involved in private discussions with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci, and then-Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar.
They met to discuss how to handle the speculation swirling about the Wuhan lab, according to Slack messages and emails subpoenaed by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
The newspapers report that BND began revisiting the evidence in monthly sessions in December 2024.
Prompted in part by the newspapers’ report, the BND is set to brief the World Health Organization (WHO).
The revelation follows news that former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tasked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with assembling a panel to take a renewed look at the pandemic’s origins.
The move from Sullivan came in the 11th hour of the Biden administration.
In February, the UK’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care Baroness Merron issued a response to the CIA’s updated assessment.
Merron said the UK government “will continually review our own assessment of the origins of the virus, considering any new intelligence.”
“We will update the House of Commons and the House of Lords as and when there is anything new to say,” she said.
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