US intelligence officials were reportedly raising alarms about a virus spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan back in November 2019, referring to it as an “out-of-control disease” that “would pose a serious threat to US forces in Asia.”
According to ABC News, concerns about what would become the COVID-19 pandemic were outlined in an intelligence report by the US military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), two unidentified officials familiar with the document recently revealed.
“Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event,” one of the sources told ABC News. The Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's Joint Staff and the White House were then “briefed multiple times” on the danger.
The sources also revealed that following the report, there were briefings through December “for policy-makers and decision-makers across the federal government as well as the National Security Council at the White House,” ABC reported.
“The timeline of the intel side of this may be further back than we're discussing,” the source explained. “But this was definitely being briefed beginning at the end of November as something the military needed to take a posture on.”
According to former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Mick Mulroy, government leaders do not ignore reports released by the NCMI.
“Medical intelligence takes into account all source information – imagery intelligence, human intelligence, signals…
