State Department officials warned employees not to open "Pandora's Box" by probing coronavirus lab origins
Department of State were warned by their higher-ups not to investigate the theory that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was engineered in a lab in Wuhan and escaped because it would “open Pandora’s box.” “It smelled like a cover-up,” said Thomas DiNanno, former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC). DiNanno’s attempt to investigate the lab leak theory was thwarted at every turn by hostile and antagonistic federal government personnel. Vanity Fair. The other three individuals were David Asher, a former c...