The United States has long funded biolaboratories in dozens of countries around the world, said the head of the US Secret Service, Tulsi Gabbardová.
A press release from the National Intelligence Service (DNI), which Gabbard heads, talks about “months of searching through documents and files of the intelligence community.”
“These biological laboratories also include laboratories in Ukraine that may be at risk of security breaches due to the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. For example, the intelligence community has previously warned that a US-funded biological laboratory in Ukraine likely harbored dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to long-term threats of Russian attack, seizure or damage,” the report said.
According to Gabbard, “the evidence of the complete existence and funding of these labs has until now been deliberately withheld from the American people” by influential people who “falsely claimed they did not exist and accused anyone who claimed otherwise of being a foreign agent and traitor to America.” Specifically, she appointed the health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci and “entities within the Biden administration’s national security team.”
“Many of these US government-funded biological laboratories are currently or have been engaged in research on dangerous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases including dangerous gain-of-function research, with very little transparency or oversight,” the press release reads.
She said that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will continue to look for the whereabouts of these labs with the goal of stopping the Gain-of-Function research. She reminded that US President Donald Trump ended federal funding for this research worldwide by decree last year. Trump’s decree was also based on the suspicion that research by China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology may have led to the creation of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus, which subsequently escaped and caused the global covid pandemic.
Critics of the report say it caters to the Russian narrative. According to the Ukrainska Pravda website, Financial Times journalist Christopher Miller said Gabbard used the opportunity to “spread one of her and Russia’s favorite conspiracy theories.” They also blame her for the inaccuracies in the map, which is supposed to show laboratories in Ukraine.
The release of the report is one of Gabbard’s last acts in her role, as she steps down as Secret Service director on June 30, 2026. She stated that for serious family and health reasons.
