Thursday, February 27, 2020

U.S. Intelligence Agencies Are Monitoring The Spread Of The Coronavirus



Reuters: U.S. spy agencies monitor coronavirus spread, concerns about India: sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies are monitoring the global spread of coronavirus and the ability of governments to respond, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, warning that there were concerns about how India would cope with a widespread outbreak.

While there are only a few known cases in India, one source said the country’s available countermeasures and the potential for the virus to spread given India’s dense population was a focus of serious concern.

U.S. intelligence agencies are also focusing on Iran, where the country’s deputy health minister has fallen ill during a worsening outbreak. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday the United States was “deeply concerned” Tehran may have covered up details about the spread of coronavirus.

A U.S. government source said Iran’s response was considered ineffective because the government only has minimal capabilities to respond to the outbreak.

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Update #1: Coronavirus: US spy agencies concerned about India and Iran (The National)
Update #2: US intelligence agencies monitoring coronavirus concerns about India (Washington Examiner)

WNU Editor: I am not surprise that the intel community are doing assessments on the geopolitical/economic/security impact of the Covid-19 outbreak. Their concerns on what this outbreak may do to populous countries like India, or on the warzones in the Middle East, are completely justified.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"or on the warzones in the Middle East, "

It could stop some wars.

It was an assessment that, if Versailles had not been signed, the war would have stopped anyway due to influenza.


Or it could be a big nothing,

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019839/

www.pri.org/stories/2019-01-02/how-spanish-flu-could-have-changed-1919s-paris-peace-talks


The politics of it will be more vicious than anything the virus can dish out IMO.

Anonymous said...

but we are told here by CHUDS that we are not to believe Intel but simply listen to Trump pronouncements

Anonymous said...


Good people are in the intel community.

But we have proof that there are bad apples there was well and they are or were at the top.

Fish rots from the head, phred.

"Lawrence Van Gelder from The New York Times stated in his review for the film, "C.H.U.D. makes no pretension toward serious thesis about government or the environment. It is meant to be light commercial entertainment"

"Although C.H.U.D. was negatively received during its initial release, it attracted a cult following over the years, inspired the name of a film website"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D.


Well at least we know who paid part of the 4.7 million box office take. We also know who is in the cult.