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Busting Covert Chinese Bio-Lab in California
Legal loopholes could speed the spread of viral agents.
That was Jesalyn Harper, code enforcement officer in Reedley, California, in an interview with Katy Grimes of the California Globe. Grimes sought out Harper after Reedley officials discovered a covert biological lab run by a shady Chinese company. What local officials found there was also unprecedented.
White mice had been genetically engineered to catch and carry the Covid virus, the MidValley Times reported. The illegal lab harbored potentially infectious bacterial and viral agents including chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5, rubella, samples of malaria and “thousands of vials that contained unlabeled fluids.”
As Harper revealed, the original lab was in Fresno and operated by Universal Meditech, Inc. (UMI), licensed by the state of California on March 20, 2019. On March 24, 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office of Business and Economic Development struck a tax credit allocation of $360,000 with UMI. CEO Zhaoyan Wang thanked Fresno’s Economic Development Corporation for “further assistance” with California tax credits.
UMI suffered a fire and faced bankruptcy, and in October, 2022, Prestige Biotech moved the operation to a warehouse in Reedley, a Fresno County town with a population of about 25,000.
Prestige Biotech owner Xiuqin Yao told Harper she lives in China and could only communicate by email. Harper was unable to establish who, exactly, owned the hundreds of mice found on the property. Not a single person would identify as the operator of the lab, and some claimed they were “friends of the owner.”
Grimes asked what kind of civil or criminal charges the lab operators faced. As Harper had also learned, privately funded research and development labs are not required to register with the government. That avoids the multiple permits required of those operating under state or federal grants. Someone in the state could have assisted the owners “to move from Fresno without licenses.”
Harper had also learned that mice are “unprotected” under the United States Department of Agriculture. According to the National Institutes of Health, mice and rats “have long served as the preferred species for biomedical research animal models.” Even so, the covert lab should have been busted long before.
According to court documents, 35 separate refrigerators and freezers contained biological material, blood, tissue, serum, bodily fluid samples, and medical waste. Two freezers were set at minus 80 and minus 60 degrees Celsius and 29 refrigerators at -20 C. According to court documents the low temperatures “raised concerns that infectious agents were stored on site.”
On July 5, officials removed from the property more than 2,000 gallons of “biological material and medical waste.” Chemicals discovered in the warehouse led the California Globe’s Thomas Buckley to brand the operation a “bio-meth lab.” Details have yet to emerge on the people who were working with the infectious agents, and what their intentions might have been.
Reedley officials also brought in the federal Centers for Disease Control, but the CDC’s online newsroom shows nothing on the secret lab containing rubella, E. Coli, malaria samples and such. Reedley officials also brought in the FBI but at the end of July the bureau’s website reported nothing on the secret lab.
According to FBI director Christopher Wray, the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic was “most likely a potential lab incident” in Wuhan, China. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was supplied with a cargo of deadly viruses by Chinese national Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, who headed the special pathogens program at Canada’s National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg.
In 2017-18 alone. Dr. Qiu made at least five trips to the WIV, funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci to perform gain-of-function research that makes viruses more lethal and communicable. Sen. Rand Paul, who has issued an official criminal referral, against Fauci, charges that “viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the Wuhan lab to gain the function of infecting humans.”
Through a lab leak or deliberate vectoring, the Covid-19 virus made its way around the world, with no interference from CDCs vaunted Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). In early 2020, EIS veteran Dr. Nancy Messonnier told reporters she was “not at liberty” to discuss the issue of travel from Wuhan. Who, exactly, was calling the shots Dr. Messonnier did not explain, and her telebriefings faithfully echoed China’s talking points.
Research with viruses and bacteria is risky, even in government BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs. As Rep. Bart Stupak noted in 2007, “No one in the federal government even knows for sure how many of these labs there are in the United States, much less what research they are doing or whether they are safe and secure.”
No safeguards of any sort existed at the covert laboratory in Reedley, California. Such a facility could easily speed the spread of Covid-19 or disease from other infectious agents. Embattled Americans have a right to know how many covert Chinese labs are out there and what, if anything, state and federal officials are going to do about it.
Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Yes I Con: United Fakes of America, Barack ‘Em Up: A Literary Investigation, Hollywood Party, and numerous other works.
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2 US Navy Sailors Arrested, Accused of Spying for China
U.S. Attorney Randy S. Grossman for the Southern District of California speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California in San Diego on Aug. 3, 2023. Two U.S. Navy sailors have been arrested and accused of providing sensitive military information to China, including details on wartime exercises, Naval operations, and critical technical material, federal officials said Thursday. (Meg McLaughlin/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
Federal prosecutors arrested two Navy sailors on Aug. 3, accusing them of passing along sensitive military information to China and undermining U.S. national security.
Wei Jinchao, who also goes by Patrick Wei, was indicted for conspiracy to send national defense information to a Chinese intelligence officer and arrested on Aug. 2 after reporting to work at Naval Base San Diego, homeport of the Pacific Fleet.
The 22-year-old worked as an active-duty sailor on the amphibious assault ship the USS Essex. The Justice Department stated that he began communicating with a Chinese intelligence officer who tasked him with transmitting photos, videos, and documents concerning U.S. Navy ships and their systems. In compensation, the Chinese officer paid him thousands of dollars, according to authorities.
Arrested the same day was “Thomas” Zhao Wenheng of California’s Monterey Park, whom a federal grand jury charged with taking bribes in exchange for recording and handing photos, videos, and other information to a Chinese intelligence officer over a nearly two-year span. Mr. Zhao, who faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, pocketed about $14,866 for his actions, according to U.S. officials.
FBI Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director Suzanne Turner said the arrests are “a reminder of the relentless, aggressive efforts of the People’s Republic of China to undermine our democracy and threaten those who defend it.”
She encouraged “past and present government officials to report any suspicious interactions with suspected foreign intelligence officers.”
It remains unclear whether the two cases are connected or whether the same Chinese intelligence official was involved in the two schemes.
An F-35B fighter prepares to launch from the USS Essex on Sept. 27, 2018. (Cpl. Francisco J. Diaz Jr./U.S. Marine Corps via Getty Images)
Between March 2022 and his arrest, Mr. Wei sent photographs and videos of the Essex, disclosed locations of multiple Navy ships, and provided details of the weapons of the Essex, according to a statement. In June 2022, he also allegedly sent the Chinese official about 30 technical and mechanical manuals consisting of export control warnings and details of the various operation systems on the Essex and other ships, including power, steering, aircraft and deck elevators, and damage and casualty controls.
The official paid Mr. Wei $5,000 for the materials and confirmed that at least 10 of the manuals were useful to him, according to the indictment. In May 2022, when Mr. Wei became a U.S. citizen, the Chinese handler also congratulated him, officials said at a press conference on Aug. 3.
During the same month, Mr. Wei also sent photographs of military equipment to the Chinese officer following a request from the official for details concerning an upcoming international maritime warfare exercise. In August 2022, he sent another 26 manuals detailing the power structure and operations of the Essex and similar ships, despite that the data were deemed “critical technology” by the U.S. Navy and subject to export controls.
Mr. Wei continued to transmit other sensitive data to the officer through 2023, including information about the layout and location of weapons systems, repairs to the Essex, and mechanical vulnerabilities of similar vessels. The officer ordered Wei to keep their relationship discreet and to destroy any evidence that could reveal their activities.
U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman of the Southern District of California said: “We have entrusted members of our military with tremendous responsibility and great faith. Our nation’s safety and security are in their hands. When a soldier or sailor chooses cash over country, and hands over national defense information in an ultimate act of betrayal, the United States will aggressively investigate and prosecute.”
Sailors embarked aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Tortuga, piloting a landing craft toward the well-deck after the ship transferred heavy equipment to USS Essex at sea in the Pacific Ocean, on April 2, 2011. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Josh Huebner/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
In exchange for bribes, Mr. Zhao, who worked at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, California, sent a Chinese intelligence officer nonpublic operational plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific Region, according to the court filings. The information disclosed included the location and timing of Naval force movements, amphibious landings, and logistical support.
Mr. Zhao also made photocopies of electrical diagrams and blueprints for a radar system in a U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan, according to the court documents.
He similarly received instructions to conceal his relationship with the officer and erase any traces of the scheme.
“By sending this sensitive military information to an intelligence officer employed by a hostile foreign state, the defendant betrayed his sacred oath to protect our country and uphold the Constitution,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said. “Unlike the vast majority of U.S. Navy personnel who serve the nation with honor, distinction, and courage, Mr. Zhao chose to corruptly sell out his colleagues and his country.”
At the Pentagon, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder refused to discuss the specifics of the cases.
“I think we have clear policies and procedures in place when it comes to safeguarding and protecting sensitive information. And so if those rules are violated, appropriate action will be taken,” he told reporters.
By Eva Fu8/3/2023Updated:8/3/20230:005:42
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