Kennedy's deserves full excerpting, because it links the CIA to American Nazis (Operation Paperclip never ended), and points to an interesting timeline that we can link to PREDICT's ending just before the COVID pandemic:
'The CIA Dip In Its Toe.
The CIA had a long, sordid history of secretly promoting the US bioweapons program. One of the agency's first projects was establishing a network of so-called "ratlines" that Army intelligence officers used to smuggle some 1,600 chemicals and bioweapons and WMD experts - many of them Nazi party kingpins and notorious war criminals - out of the reach of the Allies' Nuremberg prosecutors following World War II.
The directors of a notorious operation, code-named Paperclip, provided these researchers with new identities and put them to work developing US germ warfare capacity at Ft. Detrick and elsewhere after 1972. As late as 1998, the CIA defied the Bioweapons Treaty to launch a top-secret - and highly illegal - effort to create a doomsday "bacteria bomblet."
The CIA officially made its open debut in the biosecurity racket in 2004, with its launch of Argus, a project that monitors biological, terrorist, and pandemic threats in 178 nations. CIA operative and pediatrician Jim Wilson set up the program at Georgetown University with funding from the DHS and the Intelligence Innovation Center to create and implement global foreign biological event detection and tracking capability, capable of assessing millions of pieces of information about social behavior daily and to train government officials in pandemic preparedness.
One of the key figures in this global surveillance effort was CIA officer Dr. Michael Callahan. Callahan is one of the biggest names in bioweapons research. Dr. Callahan ran a biosecurity program for the former CIA surrogate USAID before serving as Director of DARPA's bioweapons research program. At DARPA, he competed to outdo NIH in laundering money through Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance to perform bioweapons research, including at the Wuhan lab.
And as DARPA director, Callahan launched the PREDICT Project in 2009 following Jeremy Farrar's fake bird flu pandemic. PREDICT appeared to be a reincarnation of the CIA's Argus project under the cover of USAID. PREDICT is the largest single source of funding to Daszak, with a $3.4 million subgrant routed through the University of California (2015-2020). PREDICT became the largest funder of gain-of-function studies and served as the principal funding vehicle through which the gain-of-function cartel evaded Barack Obama's 2014 presidential Moratorium.
When, during the height of the presidential gain-of-function moratorium, Ralph Baric and the UTMB lab's Vineet Menachery brazenly published their alarming 2015 study - describing their reckless experiments to breed pandemic bat coronaviruses that could spread via respiratory droplets in humanized mice - they omitted mentioning, in their initial online version of the article, that one of the funding sources was USAID-EPT-PREDICT. Apparently hoping to cover its tracks, PREDICT had laundered its grant through Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance.'
(Kennedy, The Real Anthony Fauci, pp. 395-6)
UTMB is U Texas at Galveston, but the cover-up still continues as there is no mention of Menachery at UTMB in 2015 published sources. They have him located at UNC Chapel Hill, at Baric's lab. For some reason, the deflection was away from U of Texas.