Heritage Foundation Sues CIA for Records of Alleged Payoffs to Suppress COVID Lab Leak Theory

Published on December 27, 2023

The Heritage Foundation is suing the CIA for records relating to the CIA’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19 following new allegations that the agency paid off its investigators to change their conclusions about the source of the virus’s outbreak. The Oversight Project—a government accountability watchdog launched by the conservative think tank—originally began looking into the alleged bribes in September after a current CIA senior officer turned whistleblower and alerted Congress to the alleged payoffs. According to the complaint, first shared with the Daily Caller, the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project initially filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Sept. 20, but the intelligence agency failed to either provide the requested documents or explain why it could not turn over the records within the normal 20-business-day timeline provided under FOIA....

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