Introduction -- The soothsayers -- Part one: The road to Wuhan. Bioweapons and American values -- A brief history of bioweapons -- Picking up the pieces : the birth of a US bioweapons program -- Downloading Ishii and his henchmen : Japan's paperclip -- Operation Paperclip -- A three-way partnership -- Heyday : the bioweapons-industrial complex at full production -- Has the US illegally used bioweapons in war? -- Vietnam -- Reservations about bioweapons development from within the military -- The Biological Weapons Convention -- Evading Geneva and the bioweapons charter -- The critical role of vaccines in bioweapons development -- The Reagan neocons and US universities revive bioweapons development under academic cover -- Part two: Gain-of-function research and the rise of the biosecurity era. The anthrax attack : birth of the biosecurity agenda -- Enter Dr. Anthony Fauci -- The medical/military-industrial complex -- NAS briefly cracks down on Dr. Fauci -- The Obama moratorium -- A moratorium ignored -- How Drs. Fauci and Collins lifted the moratorium -- The P₃CO -- Peter Daszak makes EcoHealth the laundromat through which the Pentagon, spooks, and public health technocrats funnel money and bioweapons technology to China -- Daszak in the moratorium -- "Nothing useful" -- Historic accidents, infections, and escapes at biolabs -- Do pandemics frequently jump from animals to humans? -- China's ascendancy -- Compromising US universities to steal technology for China -- Emory University : a template for Chinese spycraft -- Ralph Baric -- China's refreshing candor about gain-of-function for weapons development -- Beijing on the bayou : the Galveston lab -- USAID : a CIA front -- USAID and the Global Virome Project -- Spooks in the kitchen -- The CIA recruits EcoHealth Alliance -- NIAID funded GOF studies at the Wuhan lab 2005-2020 -- Part three: COVID-19 and the cover-up. Dr. Fauci perjures himself -- A detailed description of Dr. Fauci's gain-of-function studies in China -- Another crazy proposal : how a dysfunctional NIH funded a treasonous Chinese bioweapons experiment -- The lab rats run for cover -- The sorcerer's apprentice -- Daszak unhinged : the DEFUSE proposal -- Inoculating wild bats -- Baric's "no-see-um" method : hiding the human fingerprints on lab-generated pandemics -- Wrapped around my finger : the Chinese master Dr. Fauci's alchemies -- Fauci surely knew the Wuahn lab was a disaster from which his tiny monsters were bound to escape -- The Chinese launch the global cover-up -- Tony Fauci and Peter Daszak work with China to fool the world -- Sir Jeremy Farrer : mastermind of the COVID cover-up -- Red dawn : the pandemic begins -- Farrar, money magician -- World Economic Forum -- Covering up the lab generation : a joint enterprise -- The February 1 tele-conspiracy -- The NASEM letter to the White House (February 6, 2020) -- The Lancet letter (February 19, 2020) -- Gates at outset -- Pivot to permanent preparedness for a pipeline of pandemics -- Afterword.