Classified docs 'credibly' suggest COVID originated from Wuhan lab leak, covered up by CCP: House Rep

EXCLUSIVE: The Select Subcommittee connected the Coronavirus Pandemic reviewed classified State Department records that members accidental "credibly suggest" COVID-19 originated from a "lab-related mishap successful Wuhan, China" and that the Chinese Communist Party "attempted to screen up the laboratory leak."

Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup sent a letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, to Secretary of State Antony Blinken Tuesday, requesting helium declassify the records to "share the truth" astir COVID origins with the American people. 

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Wenstrup said the State Department precocious produced classified documents to the prime committee aft the aforesaid documents had been antecedently released successful an "unclassified and highly redacted" Freedom of Information Act accumulation to a nonprofit radical called U.S. Right to Know.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, leaves a gathering of the House Republican Conference astatine the Capitol Hill Club connected Wednesday, July 26, 2023.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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The classified materials sent to the committee incorporate "highly pertinent accusation that credibly suggests COVID-19 originated from a lab-related mishap successful Wuhan, China," Wenstrup wrote successful the letter, which was obtained by Fox News Digital.

Wenstrup said the documents besides suggest that the Chinese Communist Party "acted to prevent, and successful information obstructed, a fulsome probe into these matters." 

The documents besides suggest a "seamless relationship" betwixt the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Chinese People’s Liberation Army, according to Wenstrup.

Security unit basal defender extracurricular the Wuhan Institute of Virology successful Wuhan arsenic members of the World Health Organization (WHO) squad investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus marque a sojourn to the institute successful Wuhan successful China's cardinal Hubei state connected Feb. 3, 2021.  (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

"The American radical merit to spot the accusation that is hidden nether these redactions," Wenstrup wrote. "We constitute to you contiguous to petition that you instantly instrumentality steps to declassify this accusation specified that the American radical person a much implicit representation of the government’s grounds regarding the root of the COVID-19 pandemic." 

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Wenstrup besides urged Blinken to springiness a unit level briefing connected the records earlier May 14. 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.  (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool)

The State Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. 

President Biden signed the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 past year, which required the authorities to declassify accusation connected what whitethorn person led to the pandemic. 

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified study successful June 2023 which said the quality assemblage has not travel to a decision connected whether the pandemic was spurred by a laboratory leak oregon from "natural exposure" of an infected carnal — similar astatine 1 of the bedewed markets successful China. 

 "All agencies proceed to measure that some a earthy and laboratory-associated root stay plausible hypotheses to explicate the archetypal quality infection," the study said. 

Red flags flutter successful beforehand of the Great Hall of the People earlier the yearly 2 sessions connected March 4, 2022 successful Beijing, China. The 5th league of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opens connected March 4. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

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The National Intelligence Council and 4 different quality assemblage agencies person assessed that earthy interaction with a chaotic carnal was the astir apt cause. 

The U.S. Energy Department and the FBI person determined that COVID-19 apt emerged from a laboratory leak successful China.

The study said the CIA and different unnamed bureau haven't travel to a conclusion, "as some hypotheses trust connected important assumptions oregon look challenges with conflicting reporting." 

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But "almost all" of the agencies person assessed it was not "genetically engineered" and the full quality assemblage agrees that SARS-CoV-2, the microorganism that causes COVID-19, was "not developed arsenic a biologic weapon," the study stated.