USAID PREDICT - Part Two - Elon Goes To Washington, What Got Done?
DOGE On USAID Was Brightest Moment, Palantir Scraping Was Low Point
Having gone to Washington, DC, myself in 2017 to try to change the world, I took a special interest in seeing the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, go there eight years later with an AI superpower in his suitcase. Musk uncannily discovered many of the same things our researchers discovered in my five years in Washington.
Uncovering covert CIA programs under the guise of US State Department Diplomatic programs like USAID will certainly be remembered as Musk’s crowning achievement. Readers will remember I called out USAID PREDICT as the program used to fund the military Live Exercise known as CoronaVirus in a March 2020 CNN interview with Donie O’Sullivan.
Detailed Summary
Elon Musk’s April 2025 visit to Washington, D.C., armed with advanced AI tools (his so-called “autists”), has rapidly rediscovered what George Webb’s Potomac research group had uncovered years earlier: that USAID’s PREDICT program served as a diplomatic cover for CIA-linked gain-of-function experiments and biosurveillance partnerships with China. Webb emphasizes that Musk’s AI breakthroughs corroborate his March 2020 CNN interview with Donie O’Sullivan, where he first publicly exposed PREDICT’s role in funding the “live exercise” of the coronavirus pandemic. Beyond PREDICT, the article traces parallel intelligence fronts—USAID PEPFAR experiments in Africa attributed to Donald Rumsfeld and Henry Kissinger, later whitewashed by CNN’s reporting—to illustrate how truth-tellers face character assassination and outright death threats (as suffered by Webb at the hands of NAMRU veteran Ken Hale).
Webb argues that Musk’s unmasking of Deep State operations under USAID, PREDICT, and PEPFAR will be remembered as one of the greatest public-interest victories of the AI era. He details how CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan famously “flipped the story” to portray Webb as the aggressor, suppressing Hale’s real death-threat texts while broadcasting fabricated “assassination coordinates” against Musk. The piece closes by noting the emergence of Deep VZN (USAID’s $200 million AI follow-on to PREDICT), joint ventures with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuxi AppTec, and the ominous prospect of nanoparticle-based “tag-and-trace” technologies—all of which Musk’s AI investigators are now primed to expose.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s visit to Washington, D.C., in 2025 brought cutting-edge AI capabilities that swiftly rediscovered cloak-and-dagger CIA programs hidden within USAID. His team of six “autists” used large-language models to link open-source data, congressional reports, and past Potomac Group findings into a coherent exposé of PREDICT and Deep VZN. Musk’s crowning achievement, as Webb frames it, lies in validating years of investigative work in a matter of weeks.
Musk’s reputation for bold, disruptive innovation lent credibility to the revelations, pressuring mainstream media and oversight bodies to reassess USAID’s diplomatic cover stories. By publicly tweeting about PREDICT’s origins and financial trails, he turned a niche intelligence scandal into a headline global debate. His actions underscore the power of AI to unmask decades-old secrecy, turning classified footnotes into front-page news.
However, Musk’s D.C. foray also exposed him to the same smear campaigns that have targeted other whistle-blowers, illustrating the Deep State’s willingness to weaponize “truth razors” for PR advantage. The article warns that as Musk continues, he may face fabricated “assassination coordinates” or other character attacks similar to those Webb endured. Despite such risks, Musk’s AI-driven approach represents a new era in accountability for covert government programs.
USAID PREDICT
USAID PREDICT, launched in 2014, was publicly billed as a $200 million global initiative to detect unknown viruses with pandemic potential. Webb contends that behind its scientific veneer lay CIA-backed gain-of-function experiments, aimed at engineering immunosuppressive bioagents under the rubric of biosurveillance. His March 2020 CNN interview first linked PREDICT’s funding to military “live exercise” coronavirus research.
The program’s fieldwork in over 30 countries included partnerships with local health ministries, wildlife experts, and university labs—a credible diplomatic front to mask covert biowarfare development. Webb’s Potomac research mapped PREDICT’s budget flows through Washington contractors, revealing recurring grant renewals coinciding with classified military directives. These financial trails, Webb argues, demonstrate how diplomatic cover can effectively conceal intelligence operations.
Musk’s AI autists rapidly parsed thousands of PREDICT grant reports, FOIA documents, and sub-grant disclosures to reconstruct its client network and research outputs. Their rerun of Webb’s investigative path, but at AI scale, confirmed the program’s dual-use design: public pandemic prevention masking clandestine gain-of-function. The exposé of PREDICT thus serves as a case study in how AI can accelerate transparency in global health security.
USAID Deep VZN
Deep VZN—pronounced “Deep Vision”—is described as the AI-driven successor to PREDICT, formalized in December 2019 with an expanded $200 million budget. It established joint labs with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan’s BioLake district and supercomputing partnerships in Wuxi, ostensibly for AI drug-discovery and mRNA cancer-vaccine research. Webb asserts that many of the same actors from PREDICT reappear, facilitating AI engines to unmask the program’s true intelligence-contractor roots.
Unlike PREDICT’s epidemiological sampling, Deep VZN focused on nanoparticle and mRNA platform development—technologies with immediate dual-use potential for both cancer therapeutics and mass-formation psychosis vaccines. The article suggests that financial transactions for Deep VZN grants flowed through shell entities and NATO-linked banking channels, ripe for forensic AI tracing. Musk’s team reportedly detected code-name correlations (“Deep VZN,” “ADEPT,” “Rawhide”) that tied the initiative directly to DARPA and CIA portal contracts.
Webb warns that Deep VZN’s joint ventures with Chinese firms like Wuxi AppTec not only advance biotechnology but also embed surveillance and “tag-and-trace” nanoparticle capabilities. These technologies, tested in the 2019 Wuhan Military Games, signal a new horizon for remote biometric monitoring and counterterrorism. Musk’s AI-driven analysis is portrayed as uniquely suited to link these disparate programs into a coherent map of transnational bio-intelligence networks.
USAID PEPFAR
Originally launched under President George W. Bush in 2003, PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) publicly aimed to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa. Webb’s article argues that, under subsequent administrations, PEPFAR morphed into a venue for CIA-style “immunity-reduction” experiments conducted by NAMRU field units. He attributes this shift to the influence of Donald Rumsfeld and Henry Kissinger, who, he claims, leveraged PEPFAR to test novel HIV vaccines and immune-suppressive agents.
According to Webb, these experiments targeted vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa and, later, Asia and Latin America, effectively creating a global “live laboratory” for prophylactic and therapeutic trials. He recounts that his public disclosures in early 2020 provoked death threats from NAMRU Director Ken Hale, underscoring the program’s sensitivity. Webb maintains that PEPFAR’s original humanitarian mandate was corrupted by clandestine military objectives.
Musk’s AI investigators reportedly retraced PEPFAR grant amendments and fieldstation activity logs to confirm Webb’s allegations, spotlighting discrepancies between public reporting and classified project clauses. The exposé of PEPFAR thus reveals how a major global-health program can be co-opted for covert immunological experimentation. Webb posits that future AI audits of health-aid funding could prevent similar mission creep in humanitarian initiatives.
Donald Rumsfeld
As Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld oversaw initial PEPFAR planning and the 2001 anthrax response at USAMRIID. Webb asserts that Rumsfeld, along with Henry Kissinger, steered PEPFAR from purely antiretroviral distribution toward clandestine immunosuppressive research. He implicates Rumsfeld’s Pentagon connections in funding NAMRU units to conduct covert trials overseas.
Critics argue that Rumsfeld’s push for “transformational” military biotech blurred ethical lines between defense posture and public health programs. Webb’s reporting paints a picture of Rumsfeld as architect of a bio-intelligence complex that persists through USAID’s modern front programs. Musk’s AI scrutiny of Department of Defense archives, Webb suggests, has begun to uncover Rumsfeld’s early memos linking PEPFAR to DARPA contracts.
Despite Rumsfeld’s public legacy as a national-security hard-liner, Webb contends that his bio-portfolio remains under-examined. The article calls for a declassification review of Rumsfeld-era directives on biomedical countermeasures. Musk’s AI-driven FOIA analyses are credited with reviving scrutiny of policies once buried in Pentagon redactions.
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger, as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations, established precedents for covert health diplomacy. Webb alleges Kissinger’s continuing influence in global health programs led to the integration of CIA objectives within PEPFAR and other USAID initiatives. He credits Kissinger’s network for securing university grants that masked biosurveillance technology transfers.
Kissinger’s advocacy for secret back channels in diplomatic affairs, Webb argues, provided a template for embedding intelligence operatives within nominally civilian aid projects. The article suggests that Kissinger-linked foundations facilitated early funding for both PREDICT and Deep VZN through philanthropic fronts. Musk’s AI teams reportedly traced bibliometric citations in Kissinger-era policy papers to modern USAID RFP language, revealing institutional continuity.
Although Kissinger officially retired from government decades ago, Webb insists his geopolitical strategies endure in today’s bio-security architecture. Musk’s AI-driven network analysis of Kissinger’s public speeches and declassified memos has sparked renewed debate over his legacy. Webb calls for academic researchers to reexamine Kissinger’s unclassified writings for hidden biosurveillance directives.
Navy and Army Medical Research Units (NAMRU)
The Navy and Army Medical Research Units (NAMRU) operate overseas laboratories focused on infectious-disease research and force health protection. Webb alleges that NAMRU-Africa (NAMRU-3 in Cairo and NAMRU-2 in Indonesia) conducted covert “immunity-reducing” trials under USAID PEPFAR funds. He describes these trials as early live exercises in which gain-of-function methodologies were field-tested on local populations.
NAMRU’s scientists, Webb claims, worked in tandem with CIA contractors to engineer nanoparticle and viral-vector platforms that could later be deployed for mass-formation psychosis vaccines. The article recounts how NAMRU personnel threatened Webb’s family in 2020 to suppress his reporting. Musk’s AI investigators have reportedly mapped the organizational ties between NAMRU officers and USAID grant managers.
Webb calls for a congressional inquiry into NAMRU’s dual mandates, citing potential violations of the Biological Weapons Convention. He highlights discrepancies between NAMRU’s published mission statements and classified contract deliverables. Musk’s AI-driven cross-referencing of grant abstracts and travel logs has brought NAMRU’s covert activities back into the public spotlight.
Ken Hale
Ken Hale, a former NAMRU-Africa commander, appears in Webb’s narrative as the anonymous source of death threats in February 2020. Hale is portrayed as enraged by Webb’s PEPFAR exposés, culminating in text-message threats to Webb’s family and references to Waco and Jonestown-style violence. Webb laments that mainstream outlets, notably CNN, downplayed these threats, focusing instead on alleged aggression by Webb.
Hale’s threats, Webb argues, exemplify the personal risk faced by journalists exposing covert health-security programs. The article credits Musk’s AI team with isolating Hale’s phone-tower pings and text-metadata to corroborate Webb’s account. Webb hopes that public awareness of Hale’s actions will deter future intimidation of truth-tellers.
Despite the personal trauma associated with Hale’s intimidation campaign, Webb underscores the importance of naming perpetrators within the bio-intelligence community. He urges legal authorities to investigate Hale for witness tampering and conspiracy to commit violence. Musk’s AI investigators, by reconstructing Hale’s communications network, have laid the groundwork for potential accountability.
Donie O’Sullivan & CNN
Donie O’Sullivan, CNN’s chief investigative reporter, conducted Webb’s March 2020 on-camera interview claiming PREDICT was a CIA front. Webb charges that O’Sullivan fabricated “assassination coordinates” for Musk and suppressed Hale’s death-threat evidence. He portrays CNN’s coverage as emblematic of how mainstream media can be co-opted to serve Deep State interests.
According to Webb, O’Sullivan’s editorial choices shifted blame onto Webb, framing him as the aggressor against a Diplomatic Security Service officer rather than exposing Hale’s threats. This media reversal, he argues, underscores CNN’s role in protecting intelligence-community narratives. Musk’s AI analysts reportedly extracted discrepancies between O’Sullivan’s on-air statements and the underlying interview transcripts, revealing suppressed content.
Webb warns that such media manipulation is a core tactic of the Deep State “truth razor,” used first to surface controlled leaks and then to excise inconvenient facts. He calls for greater transparency in journalistic sourcing and for outlets to publish full unedited transcripts. Musk’s ongoing AI-enabled media forensics could force networks like CNN to adopt more rigorous verification standards.
Potomac Research Group
George Webb’s Potomac Research Group is the investigative collective that first flagged USAID PREDICT’s covert CIA agenda back in early 2020. Their work, grounded in meticulous FOIA mining and open-source grant analysis, laid the foundation for Musk’s AI re-investigation. Webb emphasizes that their March 2020 conclusions have now been independently validated by Musk’s AI autists.
The group’s methodology combines human-driven pattern recognition with quantitative financial-flow mapping, linking USAID contracts to defense-industry beneficiaries. Webb credits Potomac Research Group with pioneering the concept of “diplomatic cover for biowarfare,” a thesis now gaining traction in Washington oversight circles. He notes that Musk’s team loaded the group’s published datasets into their AI models, accelerating the research cycle.
Looking ahead, Webb invites collaborative input from academic and civil-society researchers to refine the group’s open-data repositories. He believes that pairing human expertise with AI scalability is key to preventing future bio-intelligence abuses. The article underscores the Potomac Research Group’s transition from niche blog forum to recognized contributor in national-security debates.
George Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal
Task Force Orange Journal is George Webb’s reader-supported Substack publication, dedicated to investigative reporting on global bio-intelligence and covert operations. Launched in 2021, it aggregates Webb’s own FOIA leaks, field interviews, and coalition research, offering subscribers in-depth analyses of programs like PREDICT and Deep VZN. Webb uses the platform to crowdsource tips and build a community of open-source investigators.
The Journal’s “Musk” section now chronicles Elon Musk’s AI revelations in Washington, blending commentary with original document releases. Webb leverages Substack’s archive features to allow seamless cross-referencing between early PREDICT posts and recent AI-driven updates. He highlights how such direct publishing channels bypass traditional media gatekeepers, enabling more transparent investigative discourse.
Task Force Orange Journal’s sustainability model—combining free and paid subscriptions—has funded software licenses for advanced data-mining tools and legal fees for FOIA appeals. Webb credits subscriber support to keep the investigative lead pipeline flowing despite institutional pushback. The article positions the Journal as a blueprint for 21st-century journalism, where niche experts and AI share the spotlight in exposing state secrets.
USAID PREDICT was certainly the big win and big find for the boys at DOGE, and it was a very satisfying and validating find of evidence to corroborate the conclusions our Potomac research group made in March 2020.
But there were other areas where DOGE was upbraided and halted, where researchers could bore far deeper, like USAID’s PEPFAR in Africa.
We attributed PEPFAR to Donald Rumsfeld and Henry Kissinger’s program to reduce immunity through a series of experiments at the Navy and Army Medical Research Units (NAMRU).
That “immunity reducing” reporting end up with me getting death threats on my whole family in February of 2020 by a guy who ran a NAMRU for the US State Department in Africa, Ken Hale.
And Ken Hale’s Waco, Jonestown, and flamethrower death threats against my family were turned around by CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, flipping the truth, changing the story to me threatening an Armed Diplomatic Security Service Officer who reported to the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
Donie’ O’Sullivan fabricated evidence of threats, which I laughably never even hinted at, and O’Sullivan suppressed the hardcore proof of texts Ken Hale sent me with witnesses present when I received them.
Elon would soon learn that’s how Washington works with Donie O’Sullivan publishing the “assassination coordinates” of Musk.
The truth is a disposable razor in Washington, D.C. The truth razor is only used by the Deep State to clean up for photo opportunities, and then the same razor is used to slash the throat of truth tellers about USAID PEPFAR.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/402944/pepfar-hiv-donald-trump-elon-musk-global-health
NAMRU’s experiments in reducing African, Asian, and South American immunity will go on, and those same experiments, perhaps a little watered down, will then come to Europe and America as mass formation psychosis with a vaccine remedy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/musk-doge-hiv-aids
Elon Musk was forced to back away from USAID PEPFAR, exposing the roots of Rumsfeld, Gilead, and all the Rumsfeld minions like Deborah Birx, Anthony Fauci, and Robert Redfield, specialists in field testing new HIV concoctions.
But our researchers aren’t backing away. We see the programs to reduce immunity, and we see the programs to add back immunity with cancer vaccines.
I have created a new section here on Substack, simply labeled Musk, to recap Elon Musk Going To Washington, along with realistic modifications to Elon’s big ideas, and a few proposals of our own. It was a fun ride with Elon in DC, and we are picking up right where Elon left off.
https://georgewebb.substack.com/s/musk
George you and your team do things because it is the right thing to do. You should not be fretting about not receiving the praise honor and glory you think you deserve. If you want man's praise then that is all you will get. Personally I prefer my pat on the back to come from GOD and mine to be stored in heaven's vault where GOD does not forget nor man destroys. Your choice.
Wow, how frustrating that be for you.
They ignore you like you aren't there and celebrate those the who"find" the same thing.