Top WHO Consultant Working For US Intelligence Helped Downplay COVID Lab Leak Theory: Official

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A top U.S. intelligence official who also serves as a consultant with the World Health Organization played a key role in downplaying the theory that COVID-19 came from a laboratory in China, a former official says.

Adrienne Keen was “very involved in discrediting the information that we were trying to present to the secretary of state,” Thomas DiNanno, a former U.S. acting secretary of state, told Sky News.

He said that Ms. Keen was an advocate for zoonosis, or the idea that COVID-19 comes from animals, even though no animal has been identified as the origin years after the disease first appeared.

Mr. DiNanno, who helped efforts to probe the COVID-19 origins, said he learned later that Ms. Keen held a job with the World Health Organization (WHO), which is part of the United Nations (UN).

“They are a political agency. They’re a UN agency. So it’s just not appropriate to do work for a foreign power. And that would include the United…