Reports: ‘Chinese State Security Official Escapes To U.S.’
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
(Worthy News) – The world appeared a step closer Tuesday to learn about the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak amid reports that a senior Chinese state security official defected to the United States.
China’s Vice Minister of State Security Dong Jingwei, 57, is believed to have fled China with classified information about the coronavirus, according to several sources.
Dong may have secretly traveled from Hong Kong to the U.S. on February 10, escaping with his daughter, Dong Yang, added SpyTalk, a well-informed newsletter covering U.S. intelligence.
China’s Communist government tried to play down the reports with the country’s law enforcement agency, claiming Dong was in China, attending an intelligence seminar.
The Chinese ‘Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission’ said Dong ordered the country’s spies to hunt down “anti-China” forces.
The commission did not disclose the location of the seminar. No photo of Dong accompanied the article, according to observers familiar with the situation.
Reports of Dong’s defection come as world leaders seek to confirm the origins of a pandemic that claimed nearly 4 million lives, authorities say.
Most of them were older adults with underlying health issues, statistics show.
Last month U.S. President Joe Biden ordered an intelligence investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
The World Health Organization’s Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus admitted at this month’s Group of Seven (G7) summit that the most recent studies have been inconclusive.
“Close to 3.75 million people have died,” the WHO chief said. “This is very tragic, and I think the respect these people deserve is knowing what the origin of this virus is so that we can prevent it from happening again.”
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