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Pentagon denies ABC News report that intelligence warned of ‘cataclysmic’ coronavirus pandemic last November

By Jamie McIntyre
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Pentagon denies ABC News report that intelligence warned of ‘cataclysmic’ coronavirus pandemic last November

WHAT, WHEN DID DOD KNOW?: The National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a rare public denial of a report by ABC News, which alleged that “concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report” by the NCMI, which is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

“Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event,” according to an unnamed source who told ABC the reports were then “briefed multiple times,” to the DIA, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, and the White House.

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