The outgoing U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has released a trove of declassified communications and documents alleging that former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci funded risky coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and later worked with intelligence officials to suppress information linking COVID-19 to a laboratory leak.
The documents, made public on Thursday, June 18, 2026, are part of what Gabbard described as a year-long declassification review conducted under President Donald Trump’s transparency directive.
Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements… pic.twitter.com/ZMdliW4zyS
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) June 19, 2026
According to an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) statement, the newly released records allegedly reveal that millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars were channelled through NIAID to support gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
