For years prior to the pandemic, NIAID, Anthony Fauci’s agency, had a representative, Chen Ping, stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Internal emails, obtained through FOIA requests, reveal that Chen repeatedly raised serious concerns about the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

She reported biosafety failures, questioned the nature of U.S.-funded research, and specifically warned that the lab was assembling a dangerous Ebola virus and conducting commercial vaccine development.

Despite these explicit internal warnings, her alerts appear to have been ignored, buried, or suppressed by her superiors at NIAID. Chen was not a whistleblower but a bureaucrat doing her job by documenting risks. Her story is devastating not only for the grave content of her messages but for the agency’s deliberate silence and inaction in response.