EXCLUSIVE: Fauci’s Institute Worked Hand In Glove With CIA, New Documents Confirm

August 28, 2026 3:00 PM ET Anthony Fauci’s division at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided cover for sensitive CIA research on bioterrorism threats, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. An undated interagency agreement between the CIA and Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) appears to shed light on the origins of the institute’s involvement in biodefense. The CIA’s Biological Technology Center (BTC) initiated the collaboration on “forensic microbiology” on bioterrorism bugs for the intelligence community (IC).CIA funds would be used to leverage pre-existing civilian research efforts in a way that would benefit both CIA and NIH, the documents state. Unclassified basic research on viruses “will be used to augment