In another blow to the benign theory of Covid-19’s origins, Judith Miller in City Journal reports that a senior U.S. defence official and bioweapons expert, Robert Kadlec, has concluded the virus was deliberately engineered as part of a Chinese government bioweapons program. Kadlec believes release of the newly created bug from the shoddily-run Wuhan institute was probably accidental. (Article is paywalled at City Journal; above link is to Miller’s blog.)
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.
