There was a missing entry in the 'Education' section of Daszak's 47-page CV and publications list, submitted as part of his lawsuit against the EHA Board. 

So I fixed it:
@SenRandPaul @SenJoniErnst @SenTomCotton 

Peter Daszak was done for theft and burglary.

His mother explained that he had a problem with alcohol. The judge noted that he had committed these offenses while getting GBP 1,500 a year from the government as a bursary.
Quite prophetic IMHO.

In mid-1986, a 21-year old sentenced to 4-month detention for property crime, as Daszak was, would have been sent to a Detention Centre or a Youth Custody Centre (YCC), as a senior detainee.

The article strongly suggests that he went to a Detention Centre (DC), often (but variably) implementing the Short Sharp Shock Program, a creation of the Thatcher government that introduced military-style boot camps.

YCC were comparatively milder.
https://youtu.be/OaulyuLQ1j0?si=mhIahuRH46qWalaJ

Still, had he been sentenced at 22, instead of 21, Daszak would have been sent straight to an adult prison.

No messing around past 21.

More info there via Gemini on the custodial options for property offense involving a 21-year old in 1986:

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/gdemaneuf/FEfNSFG

The missing entry in Peter Daszak's CV

My quick comment on Alex Washburne's piece:

His article is not bad at all, in the sense that the fixation on Baric can indeed be counter-productive.
Baric is not the worse of the lot, by far, as I wrote in my PO piece.

Baric was asked to play a Track II game and did it.
He also happily shared his doubts about the origin at some key junctures.

Within the constraints of his position (and security clearance), he has been more straightforward than most.

Yes, we would all hope that he could tell us more. But he would have to get the green light from up the chain to do so.

What upsets me most is that clearly Baric was cleaver enough to know what a slippery ratbag Daszak was, and he still worked with him.

At some stage, he should have started taking some distance from that Track II nonsense, and especially from Daszak.

He can’t just blame the Track II game promoters, he was a key part in it.
And I believe that he is also clever enough to know this all already.

The way he deals with it will be the measure of the man.

Alex' piece is here (you may need to register to access it):
https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/ralph-baric-is-innocent

My piece on Baric's BSEG meeting (which I was the first one to point out) is here:
https://bit.ly/BaricBSEGIntel

And my PO Piece is here:
https://bit.ly/Summary_PO

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/gdemaneuf/FFiaMhf

On 'Ralph Baric is Innocent' by Alex Washburne

Daszak has suffered terribly from being debarred and booted out of EHA.

He earned $4.1 mln from 2013 to 2023, and is now 'poor' according to his $4ml lawsuit against EHA directors.

It's a real-life drama.

Here are the receipts:
$4,116,660 paid to Peter Daszak from 2013 to 2022.

He got paid more than the US president in 2022-23.
@RandPaul  @SenJoniErnst
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vzbDOQ-ELqPAFP0Lc6t37BNNz7NzJBIHui_OZ8XRm3Y/edit?usp=sharing

By the way, his CV-biography is part of the court's documents.
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=lTK//VbXsBTUdoFDDj/FUg==

An interesting short novel of 47 pages. 
For comparison, Jane Goodall's CV had 29 pages, obviously not as good: https://janegoodall.org/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Jane-Goodall-Curriculum-Vitae-11.05.2020.pdf. 

We learn there that he was briefing the Biden-Harris Transition OSTP Agency Review Team in 2020.

Anyway, going back to his descent into poverty:
He still lives in a colonial-revival house, ~1908, designed by a famous architect.

5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms on almost 2 acres of bucolic property in upstate New York, not too far from his favorite ski resorts.

II feel for him. He is THE VICTIM of the pandemic, no doubt,
Anyway, there is a good chance of making some money. So that will do.

Analysis of his court filling by Claude Sonnet:
https://monica.im/share/chat?shareId=ndSusRbQG2D6nqat

'[Daszak's] story  can show the ways in which the economic crisis can bring out not only the hierarchical differences that divide us, but the hopes and flaws that unite us.' (Bitch Media)

'Even if you're on a budget [and you likely are now], it will be money well spent to see this Must See Festival Film.' (Behind the Lens)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_queen_of_versailles/reviews

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/gdemaneuf/lYdZTwq

Peter Daszak's Financial Drama

Exploring a key Intelligence Community advisory session on coronaviruses, and its relevance to COVID-19 Origins, based on declassified emails and documents

Link in following tweet,

This should be very close to the final version, after a few improvements over the last few days.
@SenTomCotton @RandPaul  @USRightToKnow 
https://medium.com/@gillesdemaneuf/the-odnis-b-group-meeting-ralph-baric-s-january-2020-briefing-and-its-relevance-to-covid-19-93c7cc007d63

BSEG and the January 2020 Intelligence Briefing on COVID

1/24 🚨 New insights into #COVID19Origins! 🔍 In this thread, I reveal previously unreported key aspects:

1️⃣ Direct connections between the CIA and virologist Ralph Baric in U.S.-China virology cooperation and monitoring. 🕵️‍♂️🇨🇳 @SenRandPaul

2️⃣ The complete ODNI BSEG composition as of Sep 2020—never published before.

2/24 Context:

The BSEG, est. 2006, is an advisory panel designed to assist U.S. intelligence on biological threats, incl. viruses and biosafety. 🦠 

🔒 Meetings are classified and managed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. @thackerpd

3/24 BSEG stands for Biological Sciences Experts Group.

3️⃣ Additional context on early briefings, biosafety concerns, and international collaborations.

Let's explore! 👇 
https://gillesdemaneuf.medium.com/the-odnis-b-group-meeting-ralph-baric-s-january-2020-briefing-and-its-relevance-to-covid-19-93c7cc007d63

4/24 I was the first to highlight Baric's late Jan 2020 BSEG briefing, where he discussed possible non-natural origins like accidental release or engineering. 🔬 

Noted in my Jan 2025 Proximal Origin update.
(See my X post: https://x.com/gdemaneuf/status/1883465391156109423) 📌 @DrJBhattacharya

5/24 Exclusive: 
My finding of the full BSEG membership list from Sep 2020 🎯

27 experts, Baric and 26 other members such as Relman, Inglesby, Brent and Franz. 📜 

The membership list was never disclosed until now.
 @USRightToKnow @FreeBeacon @RecomendsFaults

6/24 Found it by proving that BSEG = B Group, then searching for 'B Group' in FOIs.

Key email emerged! 💎

7/24 Think about it: 🤔

I found out about the BSEG meeting of end January 2020 because of a likely transcript error that meant it escaped being redacted out (BSEC for BSEG).

Then I found the membership list because of an unexpected alias ('B Group') that also escaped... 

8/24 Also important: 
I document the CIA's outreach to Baric, shortly after a 2015 BSEG meeting and just prior to his Track-II workshop in Beijing. 

This highlights interplay between collaboration and oversight in U.S.-China virology. 🤝🔍 @joshrogin @KatherineEban

9/24 In doc published Oct 30, 2025, by Sen. Rand Paul's in his request to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, we find this email;

CIA: "The topic concerns Coronavirus evolution..." 📞 
Raises questions on balance between scientific collaboration, true risk reduction and pure intelligence work. 🤝🛡️
@JustinRGoodman

10/24 Said otherwise;
Following a 2015 BSEG meeting, the CIA contacted Baric to work on a 'coronavirus project'. 🕵️‍♀️

.. Rght before Baric flew to Beijing to discuss synthetic biology and GoF risks, as part of the US-designed cooperation/surveillance game (Track II).
 @JamieMetzl

11/24 In same docs, we get confirmation of my educated guess that spurred Sen. Rand Paul:

On Jan 29, 2020, Baric presented slides outlining three potential origins:
natural evolution, accidental lab release, and genetic engineering. 📊 

Slide 22 addressed WIV's role in a possible accidental scenario. 🦠 @francoisballoux

12/24 As per BSEG slide from Baric: 

WIV sequenced thousands of SARS-like bat coronaviruses and cultured under BSL-2, despite hACE2 receptor use and human cell growth. 🔬 

"Do this work under BSL2 conditions; despite virus use of hACE2..." @deborahblum

13/24 This raises huge concerns, as BSL-2 totally inadequate protection for such pathogens 

⚠️ BSEG Briefing shows early U.S. intel being told of real possibility of lab accident. 

My educated guess: this links to MI5 and the Farrar-Fauci call on 1 Feb 2020. 
@SenTomCotton @mgordonws

14/24  More Context:

Four main U.S.-China workshops on emerging infections and gain-of-function research in for 2015-2019, organized by CISAC.

These events were meant to build 'informal' non-gov ties amid dual-use concerns. 🤝🛡️
@SenJoniErnst @TheHonestBroker

15/24 The Beijing 2015 event officially addressed synthetic biology, GoF risks, transparency, regulation, etc. 

16/24 Baric, Franz and Shi presented,🎤

David Franz deplored U.S. gain-of-function moratorium and more generally the regulation efforts! He preferred to leave it to lab heads.

Looks like the Chinese side listened carefully.
@RepBradWenstrup

17/24 But don't forget:

The Baric example shows how US intel can also piggyback on the US-China 'Scientific' cooperation process.

The 'unofficial' Track-II channels are not exactly that neutral.
Fair game IMHO. ⚖️

18/24 Side-note: 

CISAC (BSEG Franz key player) used access to top scientists (such as BSEG Baric) to overcome its limited capabilities and budget.

It was competing with bigger Arlington-based CRDF (Civilian Research and Development Foundation) and Inglesby (BSEG member too).

19/24 'Competing' is the word, and in this case it had stupid consequences: hawking US science for a seat around a table. 

20/24 Bonus:

I also identified some July-Aug 2020 emails between BSEG members.

There, BSEG Roger Brent calls the natural origin consensus a "myth". 👥
He also highlighted the Mojiang mine infections (linked to WIV via Li Xu's thesis). 

21/24 Shifting focus: 

Kavita Berger, BSEG member who unwittingly disclosed the BSEG members list, worked at Gryphon Scientific. 

She led controversial 2015-2016 NIH-commissioned Risk and Benefit Analysis (RBA) of gain-of-function research, influencing NSABB policy. 📊

22/24 That GoF RBA was controversial for its assumptions, approach, and rather limiting Terms of Reference.⚠️ 

Anyway, it ended up being used to justify the end of the GoF moratorium in 2017.

23/24 If that looks bad, check Gryphon Scientific's previous risk evaluation for the NBAF (a controversial animal P4 in Kansas).:
https://x.com/gdemaneuf/status/1533002783338938369

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/gdemaneuf/KP8lKEO

Baric, the CIA, the BSEG and China

It takes 2 minutes to find the composition of the ODNI BSEG Group (as of Sep. 2020).

Some fully expected names there:
David Franz (also advisor to EHA), Inglesby, and obviously Baric.

Relman too, and quite a few typical defense / biosecurity related people.
@SenRandPaul 

As per emails released by @SenRandPaul, the 'B Group' is the BESG Group.

Here is an interesting email from some of the BSEG members (same FOIA):
@DrJBhattacharya 

And we keep going:
@KatherineEban @USRightToKnow @mattwridley @JustinRGoodman 

And going:
#DRASTIC @TheSeeker268 @BillyBostickson @thedeadhandbook 

I am not sure why I had to figure out that Baric had a BSEG meeting at the end of January 2020, at which he discussed the real possibility of a research accident.

Not sure too why I am the one who had to fish out the BSEG composition.

Any investigative journalist around?

https://x.com/gdemaneuf/status/1883465391156109423

References: BSEG Concept Paper (from 2010, so rather dated):
https://irp.fas.org/eprint/bseg-concept.pdf

References: The FOIA:
https://originsearch.io/pdf_viewer.html?s3path=https%3A%2F%2Fcovid-origin-docs.s3.amazonaws.com%2FUSRTK%2FRalph-Baric%2FRequest-21-47.pdf&searchTerm=%22B%20Group%22#page=107

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/gdemaneuf/GAW1cce

ODNI BSEG Group Composition and some emails

By the way, Osho was in fact called BS Rajneesh (not making it up).
Check the 1984 Rajneeshee attack too.

Memes can be quite deep 😆

For reference:
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw%3D%3D_c8020479-6b4f-4203-94ac-19c72fe6b2db

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/gdemaneuf/ryWy1iV

Surprising similarities with Osho

Here is a quick video explainer on my most popular thread, about the editorial fraud behind Liu et al (2020) in EMI (link in next tweet).

This was just another step in the fake natural origin certitudes narrative.
@DrJBhattacharya @sanjay_patnaik @KatherineEban @joshrogin @deborahblum @emilyakopp @mgordonws @KatherineEban 

Courtesy of Google NotebookML:
https://vimeo.com/1131012409?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

For the original thread:
https://x.com/gdemaneuf/status/1567618733962850304

For the retraction demand, which was met by absolute silence from the press and 99.9% of the scientific community:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381429750_COVID_Origins_Liu_et_al_2020_Retraction_Request

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/gdemaneuf/JkvPRZK