Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on Friday declassified evidence showing that the United States government has funded more than 120 dangerous biolabs in over 30 countries, including 40 “especially dangerous” labs in war-torn Ukraine.

In a press release, the outgoing DNI stated that biolabs researching dangerous pathogens in Ukraine have been “at risk of compromise” due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

Gabbard stressed that risky Gain-of-Function research is continuing in some overseas biolabs despite President Trump banning the practice.

Gain-of-function research is a scientific process that genetically alters an organism to give it a new property or enhance an existing one, typically to increase a virus’s transmissibility, virulence, or host range.

Leading up to the COVID pandemic, former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and the NIH funded research involving bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, which many believe led to the release of SARS-CoV-2.

On May 25, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14292 to end federal funding of Gain-of-Function research around the world.

The EO states: “Dangerous gain-of-function research on biological agents and pathogens has the potential to significantly endanger the lives of American citizens. If left unrestricted, its effects can include widespread mortality, an impaired public health system, disrupted American livelihoods, and diminished economic and national security.”

Despite this, many of the taxpayer funded biolabs have continued to conduct research “using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight,” according to the DNI.

A newly declassified document alleges that over 40 biolabs in Ukraine have conducted research on “Especially Dangerous Pathogens (EDP),” including Anthrax, tuberculosis, Swine Fever, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, and the Plague.

Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely, claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America,” Gabbard stated.

The DNI added that she has issued new guidance to the Intelligence Community directing increased oversight and collection on overseas labs, and has already learned that new clinical trials are currently being conducted at some of these facilities, “raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding these supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security.”

“Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of US-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth,” she stated, stressing that ODNI will continue working with the US Intelligence Community “to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain to end dangerous Gain-of-Function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world.”

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