A BioAgent Odyssey - Part One - George Webb’s BioAgent UTMB

With All New Updates And Graphics Sept 2023

If you have followed RFK Jr. on the campaign trail recently (June 2023), you might recognize many of the USAID exposés he quotes now. RFK Jr. in June of 2023 was calling out USAID PREDICT as the CIA front organization that the CIA was using for Gain of Function bioagents research.

We want to remind our readers and RFK JR. of the BioAgent Odyssey we have made to all the US Universities doing Gain of Function for the CIA behind the USAID PREDICT diplomatic cover. We would like to see this level of detail exposed in the investigations at HHS.

Detailed Summary

Author George Webb recounts how their citizen-journalist team first warned in March 2020 that USAID PREDICT masked a clandestine CIA gain-of-function (GoF) program scattered across U.S. universities and Wuhan.

Webb’s researchers’ early briefings—most visibly to CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan—named the University of North Carolina’s Ralph Baric lab as a key U.S. node. Webb’s researchers also later flagged the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) as the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s stateside training partner, and mapped a wider “Bio-Agent Odyssey” that included UPMC (Pittsburgh), the University of Wisconsin flu lab, and the Erasmus Lab in Rotterdam.

Four years on, Webb’s researchers note with satisfaction that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has incorporated nearly identical talking points—calling USAID PREDICT a CIA front and accusing Langley of running the “live-exercise” that became COVID-19—into his 2023 presidential-campaign stump speeches.

Webb’s team is now exchanging research with RFK Jr.’s Santa Monica office while urging the incoming Secretary of Health & Human Services to expose the program’s granular details.

Webb argues their own work still “goes deeper,” citing two self-published books—BioAgent UTMB (2021) and Slaughter Pen, Texas (2022)—that trace money, bids, and personnel from DARPA’s ADEPT mRNA program through Wellcome Trust and WHO contracting channels handled by the enigmatic Virginia Benassi. In that narrative Benassi—possibly a composite identity crafted by two unnamed NATO intelligence chiefs—quietly funneled GoF grants, trained Wuhan staff at UTMB, and received every ADEPT bid packet before the pandemic.

The piece revisits key claims from those books. UTMB allegedly destroyed collaboration documents after public-records requests; Texas legislators were unaware GoF work was happening in Galveston; and a privately owned BSL-4 facility nicknamed “Tex-Med” (Texas Biomedical) evades FOIA oversight.

Webb also highlights a Fort Detrick-to-UTMB personnel pipeline symbolized by anthrax investigator Peter Jahrling and his nephew Jordan Jahrling, plus the presence of former Soviet and Chinese bioweapons scientists aerosolizing pathogens like Ebola on U.S. soil. A side-plot profiles political donor Tahir Javed, whose hospital, vaping, and spirits businesses allegedly dabble in nanoparticle technology.

Webb positions their work as the missing chapter between mainstream revelations (e.g., RFK Jr.’s speeches, US Right To Know FOIAs) and a full accounting of U.S. universities’ role in covert bio-agent research. They promise forthcoming updates: screenshots of BioAgent UTMB, fresh graphics, and a comparative timeline showing how RFK Jr.’s 2023 rhetoric mirrors their 2020 reporting. Ultimately, they argue that only relentless “naming of names” will force accountability for the use of experimental pathogens against the American public.

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Explanatory Notes

CIA – The Central Intelligence Agency is portrayed as the hidden sponsor of gain-of-function bio-agent research funneled through diplomatic and health programs such as USAID PREDICT. According to the article, Langley orchestrated a “live-exercise” that morphed into the COVID-19 pandemic while outsourcing bench work to universities. RFK Jr. now echoes that accusation on the campaign trail.

CNN / Donie O’Sullivan – CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan interviewed the author’s team in March 2020, hearing their allegation that USAID PREDICT fronted CIA GoF projects. The segment did not air in full, but the exchange became a citation for later claims that mainstream outlets ignored early whistle-blowers. O’Sullivan thus serves as a media touch-point validating the timeline.

DARPA ADEPT – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s ADEPT initiative funds rapid mRNA countermeasures for emerging pathogens. Bid packets allegedly flowed through Virginia Benassi to Wellcome Trust and WHO committees before 2020. The article treats those transmissions as smoking-gun proof of advance planning.

Erasmus Lab (Rotterdam) – A Dutch virology powerhouse known for H5N1 airborne-transmission studies. The Odyssey narrative lists Erasmus as a foreign partner receiving U.S. GoF constructs and returning engineered strains. Its inclusion underscores the program’s NATO-wide footprint.

Fort Detrick – Home of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and source of the “Ames” anthrax strain. Senior scientist Peter Jahrling allegedly bridged Fort Detrick and UTMB, bringing high-containment know-how and controversial personnel. The lab symbolizes historical precedent for domestic bio-agent projects.

Health and Human Services (HHS) – The cabinet department urged to declassify university-linked GoF work. The author hopes a sympathetic Secretary will subpoena contracts and training records. HHS control is viewed as pivotal to national transparency.

Johnson Space Center / NASA – Mentioned to illustrate a geographic and engineering continuum between space-suit technology in Houston and positive-pressure BSL-4 suits at UTMB. The author hints that Cold-War missile payload research bled into pathogen weaponization. NASA’s proximity reinforces the military-industrial backdrop.

Potomac Group – The citizen-journalist collective behind the March 2020 USAID PREDICT exposé. They continue to trace funds, contracts, and personnel among universities and global agencies. The group seeks formal recognition for scooping later mainstream revelations.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) – Environmental lawyer and 2024 presidential candidate who now calls USAID PREDICT a CIA GoF front. His speeches validate the group’s earlier claims and open collaborative channels through his Santa Monica research office. The author welcomes his influence but insists deeper detail is still required.

Tahir Javed / Raceland Hospitals – Texas businessman and top Hillary Clinton donor linked to hospitals, vaping, and spirit brands. The article claims Javed’s companies experiment with nanoparticles, raising bio-safety questions. He represents the intersection of politics, industry, and covert tech.

Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Tex-Med / “Slaughter Pen, Texas”) – A privately run BSL-4 facility in San Antonio exempt from FOIA. The author alleges undisclosed GoF work on Ebola-class pathogens. Its secrecy epitomizes the oversight gap in U.S. bio-security.

University of North Carolina (UNC) – Ralph Baric’s Chapel Hill lab pioneered coronavirus engineering and collaborated with Wuhan on spike-protein chimera work. The group labels UNC Ground Zero for U.S. GoF science under USAID PREDICT. Legislators and media allegedly ignored early warnings.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) – Hosts a “Coronathrax” lab blending coronavirus and anthrax research. The author’s Odyssey lists UPMC as a vital CIA subcontractor. RFK Jr. now cites UPMC in speeches about federal pandemic planning.

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) – Galveston – Portrayed as the main U.S. training site for Wuhan Institute of Virology staff. Destroyed documents, state-house inquiries, and the presence of Soviet and Chinese scientists make UTMB central to the cover-up claim. The book BioAgent UTMB devotes an entire narrative to its operations.

University of Wisconsin (UW) Influenza Lab – Known for controversial H5N1 transmissibility experiments. The author walked its halls to confirm U.S. involvement in coronavirus GoF contracts. Its work serves as a northern anchor for the domestic network.

USAID PREDICT – A global zoonotic-virus surveillance program funded by USAID but, according to the article, controlled by the CIA for off-budget GoF research. It supplied diplomatic cover and grant money to multiple U.S. and foreign labs. RFK Jr. has adopted that framing in 2023 speeches.

US Right To Know (USRTK) – Advocacy group using FOIA to uncover GoF collaborations, including UTMB-Wuhan contracts. In 2022 USRTK confirmed parts of the Virginia Benassi narrative. Their documents bolster the author’s claims.

Virginia Benassi – Alleged WHO or NATO contracting officer who handled every ADEPT bid and trained Wuhan scientists. The author suspects Benassi is a fictitious composite created by NATO intel chiefs, owing to the absence of verifiable photos. She functions as the saga’s central “bio-agent.”

Windber Research Institute (Pennsylvania) – A small cancer-genomics lab linked to DoD contracts. The Odyssey narrative positions Windber as a lesser-known GoF waypoint. Its inclusion highlights the program’s geographic spread.

RFK Jr. recent campaign stump speeches echo our research group’s interaction with Donie O’Sullivan and CNN in March 2020, where we explained that USAID PREDICT was the cover program Gain of Function bioagents.

Four years later now after our Potomac Group’s original reporting in March of 2020, RFK Jr. is hitting on the idea of the CIA's involvement with the military Live Exercise that became known as the Coronavirus pandemic.

We are now collaborating closely with RFK Jr.’s research group in Santa Monica, California, and we greatly appreciate all the verification and validation that comes from this group.

Our researchers strongly feel that our research goes deeper and stays true to the original cause of telling the whole and complete truth about the use of bioagents against the American people, but having the Secretary of Health and Human Services on our side cannot be a bad thing.

https://ground.news/article/rfk-jr-cia-involved-in-pouring-millions-of-dollars-into-wuhan-covid-lab

RFK Jr is now saying that the CIA most certainly ran the live exercise we call Coronavirus, and most certainly did the gain-of-function engineering in cooperation with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This sort of validation and verification from well-known figures is invaluable to our citizen journalist reporting, but we do want to emphasize that we get to the details of who the individuals are that are involved.

While this kind of validation and verification from such a famous person is appreciated from my 2020 work, our researchers moved on in 2021 to much deeper research. Two examples of this research are my books, BioAgent UTMB and Slaughter Pen, Texas.

We think you will enjoy reading these two books here because we pick up right where Bobby Kennedy Jr. leaves off for a fascinating odyssey into the subject of US bioagents.

When I wrote “Bioagent UTMB” in March 2021, I was in a friendly debate with another citizen scientist named Dr. Paul Cottrell, Ph D, over which American universities were the key universities used in engineering the coronavirus.

In BioAgent UTMB, we don’t just go to the University of Texas Medical Branch to look at their collaboration with Wuhan, we also look at the University of North Carolina, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the University of Wisconsin, and the foreign university labs like the Erasmus Lab in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

In March 2020, I told Donie O’Sullivan of CNN that the key university involved with a USAID PREDICT program with the Wuhan lab was the University of North Carolina, with Ralph Baric’s work there.

Even though ChatGPT doesn’t seem to know UW, UPMC, UNC, and UTMB are, we sure do know where the Gain of Function was farmed out to American Universities because we burned our shoe leather there. We also helped out Texas State legislators who didn’t know Gain of Function was being done at UTMB and lab leak training for UTMB.

However, as I began to follow the money trail along with the bids for coronavirus, two Texas locations became critical in the development of the WHO getting a foothold on American soil with American universities develop, and gain of function viruses - a lab called Tex-Med and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.

The University of Texas Medical Branch did the training for the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab for leak prevention in both Galveston, Texas and in Wuhan Lab. documents about the extensive collaboration between UTMB and Wuhan were destroyed, sure sign of a cover-up.

I also went to the Texas State house in Austin to pursue the UTMB-Wihan documents before they were destroyed.

The other BSL-4 lab in Texas, Texas Biomedical or just Tex-Med, was unbelievably in private hands, and therefore the documents are not subject to public review. I nicknamed the Tex-Med private, BSL-4, gain of function lab, “Slaughter Pen, Texas”.

And I named the key person, BVirginia Benassi, who trained the Wuhan personnel at the Wuhan lab and at the Galveston lab “BioAgent UTMB”. Later in 2022, this research was confirmed by the public rights, advocacy group known as US Right To Know.

https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-lab-says-its-contract-with-wuhan-institute-of-virology-may-have-violated-the-law/

My “BioAgent, UTMB” person, Virginia Benassi, had also received all of the DARPA ADEPT bids (mRNA) for both Wellcome Trust and the WHO before the breakout of coronavirus.

I believed that Virginia Benassi was a fictitious person created by the two NATO Intel Chiefs since no photographs of this WHO person on the most important committees in Geneva has been found.

Of course, they were two other Benassis that were the highest level ranking intelligence officers at NATO at the time of the DARPA ADEPT coronavirus bit before the break out occurred.

In the last 2 1/2 years, I have tried to emphasize the role of the University of Texas Medical Branch in the gain-of-function of the coronavirus at every possible chance I could get, with mixed results. Still, I think it’s an important story that needs to be told. To my knowledge, no other journalistic outlet has covered the story, so I’ve come back to Houston to update everyone on the story.

I will update this Substack post with the original book written in 2021 along with ChatGPT summaries and additional new graphics.

I have also been working on this incredible story of Hillary Clinton’s top donor, a man named Tahir Javed. Javed is not only the CEO of Raceland hospitals but also owns distributorships for vaping, exotic cigarettes, distilled spirits, and other very unhealthy products, as well as an extensive cattle ranch. Our research group has looked into Javeed, using nanoparticles in all these food products for the past seven years.

I also compare what I reported in 2020 and the uncanny similarity of RFK Jr.’s talking points on his campaign in the summer of 2023.

More on this comparison between George Webb in 2020 in RFK Jr. in 2023 will be presented later in a posting here.

Check back here for the complete book. In the meantime, here is the ChatGPT summary of BioAgent UTMB.

I am not able to port over the text from the original bioagent UTMB, because it is in a proprietary Kindle format from Amazon, so I will need to present the book as a series of screenshots. I will make comments along the way though for the September 2023 updates.

When I started the book “BioAgent UTMB”, I decided to coin the term “BioAgent” as someone who conducts live exercises with biological agents on the behalf of intelligence agencies.

I had identified a NATO and WHO operative named Virginia benassi who had done all the training for the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab technicians at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.

The many lives of Virginia Benassi.

This story was completely unknown then, and it still remains one of the great untold stories of the coronavirus live exercise. Therefore, it needs to be told again and again until the people who would want to be our president start naming names.

We also found unbelievable connections to the anthrax scare of 2001 with the key Fort Detrick scientist, Peter Jahrling, that was involved in the cover-up of the Ames strain of anthrax deaths, having a nephew, Jordan Jahrling, that worked at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

In fact, Peter Jarling had worked at the UTMB lab up into a month before the break out of the coronavirus, where he apparently died.

in a moment of unbridled enthusiasm, I actually called up to Peter Jarling under his office window in Galveston to see if he would come down for an interview.

I wanted to ask Jordan Jarling about his uncle and his time at the UTMB lab, and I was interested in his uncle’s time at Fort Detrick with the Anthrax cover-up and scare. I was also interested in how his uncle seem to be bringing in Russian and Chinese scientists with bioweapons backgrounds into the UTMB lab.

we also found shocking connections to former Soviet scientist, have been brought to Galveston, and were involved in all sorts of gain of function experiments like aerosolizing pathogens like Ebola.

It appears the legacy of experimentation with bioagents goes all the way back to after World War II bringing in Nazi scientists into the Houston area, but more on that later in this book.

But one just has to look at a map between Johnson space Center in Galveston to see all of the different University of Texas medical branch campuses.

With the formation of NASA in 1957 after the Sputnik incident, there was a mass formation psychosis to compete with the Soviets, both in the area of missiles, and in the area of what went in the payload of the missiles, namely, bioagents. Hence the real birth of BioAgent UTMB.

The space suits used at the UTMB BSL-4 lab in Galveston actually bear a strong resemblance to the NASA space suits just up the road in South Houston. I never seem to tire of making the connections between NASA and the covert bioagents program in the US, whether it’s day or night.