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To the Editor:
Hats off to Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel for an in-depth analysis of the U.S. intelligence community's wrangling over the origins of COVID-19, whether coming from an animal or the Wuhan Institute of Virology ["Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak," Wall Street Journal, Dec. 26].
They mention only in passing "China's stonewalling," that U.S. officials believe "efforts to investigate the virus's origins [were] unduly constrained by the Chinese," and that "a conclusive assessment about the virus's origin cannot likely be made without China's cooperation."
Conjuring up my inner Sherlock, I propose that this information blackout provides the clue. Had the coronavirus come from an animal, the Chinese Communist Party would have been eager to make information available. Its fervent and protracted efforts to censor its origins sends an irrefutable signal that the disease originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Case closed.
Yours sincerely,
Daniel Pipes
Philadelphia
