One of the scientists who was fired from Canada’s top infectious disease laboratory “intentionally” shared scientific information with China, says an assessment by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
The intelligence assessment was released late Wednesday afternoon by the federal government, along with hundreds of other documents about the mysterious dismissal of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng.
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One of the scientists who was fired from Canada’s top infectious disease laboratory “intentionally” shared scientific information with China — potentially putting people’s health in jeopardy — says an assessment by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
The scientists and their students worked in the Level 4 virology facility at the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab (NML), which is equipped to deal with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases.
A few months later, CSIS wrote Qiu was using the level 4 lab in Canada “as a base to assist China to improve its capability to fight highly-pathogenic pathogens” and “achieved brilliant results.”
The CSIS document said Qiu was “reckless” when it came to the proper scientific protocols on the transfer of pathogens “and in working with institutions whose goals have potentially lethal military applications that are manifestly not in the interests of Canada or its citizens.”
In an October 2020 letter, released as part of Wednesday’s document dump, Qiu wrote to a security screening employee that it was only during her interviews that she learned words like “NATO”, “spy” and “espionage.”
"Thinking back, what happened in the past were purely due to the lacking of proper training, the misunderstanding and ignorance of the policies of [the Public Health Agency of Canada] that I should have spent more time to learn and ask.
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