Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci's institute reportedly provided cover for the CIA regarding sensitive research on bioterrorism threats, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller.

An undated interagency agreement between the CIA and the NIAID appeared to show the start of the CIA’s Biological Technology Center, which was the collaboration on “forensic microbiology” on bioterrorism bugs for the intelligence community, according to the outlet.

The CIA reportedly used funds to leverage pre-existing civilian research efforts in a way that would benefit both the CIA and NIH, and the unclassified research would be "used to augment and complement” CIA research and development.

The CIA said it would help the NIAID obtain the germs, which would be used to help defend against biochemical weapons, and that it already had “robust” capabilities to detect and identify viruses but wanted to go even further. 

All research under the agreement would be considered sensitive, not classified, but the CIA had final say on who had access to the information.

The Biological Technology Center also partnered with the Intelligence Technology Innovation Center, according to the contract, and the private nonprofit Institute for Genomic Research, which is located just outside NIH headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.

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