The History of Terrorism
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2021 A week later, one of them attended the meeting where Christopher Park, who worked under Ford, allegedly advised those present not to draw attention to U.S. funding of gain-of-function research.
2021 After listening to the investigators' findings, a technical expert in one of the State Department's bioweapons offices "thought they were bonkers," Ford recalled.
2021 Going with "stuff that makes us look like the crackpot brigade" would backfire, he believed.
2021 He'd already heard about the investigation from interagency colleagues, rather than from the team itself, and the secrecy left him with a "spidey sense" that the process was a form of "creepy freelancing."
2021 Vanity Fair - The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins
But Ford, who had years of experience in nuclear nonproliferation, had long been a China hawk.
Christopher Park
Ford told Vanity Fair that he saw his job as protecting the integrity of any inquiry into COVID-19's origins that fell under his purview.
He seemed so hostile to their probe that they viewed him as a blinkered functionary bent on whitewashing China's malfeasance.
He wondered: Had someone launched an unaccountable investigation with the goal of achieving a desired result?
Their frustration crested in December, when they finally briefed Chris Ford, acting undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security.
There was another reason for his hostility.