Costa, Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party unveil report about illegal Reedley lab
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) and the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party unveiled a report on its investigation into the illegal People’s Republic of China-tied biolab discovered in Reedley, CA.
Reedley city officials Jesalyn Harper and Nicole Zieba joined the event remotely, sharing their experiences and first-hand knowledge on the discovery of the biolab in 2022, and the lack of a CDC response which prompted the Select Committee to issue a subpoena and launch a bipartisan investigation.
Ret. Colonel Robert P. Kaldec M.D., a biosecurity expert, discussed the national security and public health risks of this biolab operating illegally on U.S. soil.
Here's what Costa and the Committee found:
The illegal biolab was run by a PRC citizen who is a wanted fugitive from Canada with a $330 million Canadian dollar judgment against him for stealing American intellectual property.
This PRC citizen was a top official at a PRC-state-controlled company and had links to military-civil fusion entities.
The illegal biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from PRC banks while running the illegal biolab.
The illegal biolab contained thousands of samples of labeled, unlabeled, and encoded potential pathogens, including HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid.
The illegal biolab also contained a freezer labeled “Ebola,” which contained unlabeled, sealed silver bags consistent with how the lab stored high risk biological materials. Ebola is a Select Agent with a lethality rate between 25-90%.
The biolab contained nearly a thousand transgenic mice, genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system. Lab workers said that the mice were designed “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.”
After local officials who discovered the lab sought help from the CDC and others, the CDC refused to test any of the samples.
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