Released 15 Jan 2021. Asserts, without releasing the underlying evidence, that: (1) “a number of researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses”; (2) WIV had conducted undisclosed gain-of-function research and worked with the bat coronavirus RaTG13 (96.2% similar to SARS-CoV-2); (3) WIV has collaborated on classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.
relevance_note: Origin of the “three sick WIV researchers in autumn 2019” claim that recurs through the later ODNI/FBI/Senate record; itself an unevidenced assertion rather than a released underlying document — the June-2023 ODNI report (companion node) later added caveats to it.