Debate within the intelligence community over the origins of COVID-19 ran much deeper than previously known, particularly within the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency. 

Three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, a branch of the Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted a scientific investigation in the summer of 2021, concluding that COVID-19 was likely manipulated in a biolaboratory. But the information was suppressed by the Pentagon and not included in White House briefings on the virus, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.