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Sen. Rand Paul told DailyMail.com he will continue his probe into the origins of COVID-19 by investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci's secret 'off the books' trips to the CIA.
The Republican from Kentucky - who is also a doctor - has been investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic for years.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Paul disclosed that Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was friendly with the CIA - which is notably one of the few federal agencies that still has not clearly established COVID-19 origins.
'The CIA officially still says [COVID-19 is] probably from animals,' Paul said. 'We also have stories, rumors and innuendo that Fauci was a frequent visitor off the books to the CIA.'
He pointed to how the CIA disagrees with findings from the Department of Energy and FBI that have said the the pandemic likely originated from a leak at a Wuhan, China, lab.
And that though an initial CIA assessment found the lab leak theory was likely, senior officials in the agency overruled their findings.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced his investigation into the origins of COVID-19 has uncovered that at least 15 government agencies were aware of the Wuhan Institute of Virology's effort to create a novel strain of coronavirus
Former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci likely knew about the Wuhan Institute of Virology's desire to create a coronavirus as early as 2018, Paul claims
Paul sent a letter to the 15 agencies, including the CDC, requesting further information about the DEFUSE Project - which was an effort by the Wuhan lab to create a novel coronavirus
'We have another whistleblower from the CIA that says that the scientific committee that was commissioned to look into the origins of the virus actually voted six to one that it came from the lab and that they were overruled by superiors at the CIA,' the senator told DailyMail.com.
The agency's reversal and its secretive meetings with Fauci are suspicious, Paul said.
Still, the official stance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is that the origin of the Earth-stopping COVID-19 pandemic likely came from bats.
'We do not know the exact source of the current outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but we know that it originally came from an animal, likely a bat,' the CDC website states.
But Paul is calling that response 'batty,' revealing Tuesday that the CDC and 14 other agencies had known a about proposal from the the Wuhan lab aiming to create a novel coronavirus in 2018 - similar to the COVID-19 virus that has killed just under 1.2 million Americans and millions more globally.
The DEFUSE Project - a joint venture
