# Wed Episode #2302:  — The CIA Was Rehearsing Pandemics Years Before COVID

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Podcast: [The David Knight Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966)
Published: 2026-07-08T18:17:25+00:00
Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/wed-episode-2302-the-cia-was-rehearsing-pandemics-years-before-covid--72873139
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## Resource

──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:09] CIA Investigated Unvaccinated Employees for Espionage — Filed Suit After Agency Refused to Remove Records Contractors who questioned the vaccine were treated as national security threats; nobody fired, but permanent black marks placed in employee files. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:04:55] COVID Did Not Come From a Lab Leak — It Came From "Dark Winter," a CIA Germ War Game CIA ran 20+ pandemic rehearsals per year; first was two months before 9/11; a former CIA director played the president in the simulation. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:11:52] 19th-Century Doctor Chase Found That Patients Who Dewormed Annually Never Got Cancer — 80% Success Rate After 40 years, deworming patients had no serious illness; those who never dewormed developed cancer; anti-parasitics and cancer share the glutaminolysis pathway. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:31:51] Trump Escalates FCC Lawfare Against ABC While Claiming to Deregulate FCC targeting The View for not being "bona fide news"; the FCC itself ruled it was in 2002; America First Legal filing against station licenses. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:41:42] Ken Paxton Running for Governor While Still Married — Living in His Mistress's $2M Dallas Mansion Voted in six elections from an old address while warning voters it's illegal to misrepresent your residence; his wife voted to convict him at impeachment. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:01:50] NY Post Hit Piece on "TradWives" Is a GOP Attack on Marriage With No Counter-Testimony Not one person in the article has a working traditional marriage; Knight and Karen have been married 47 years; the GOP has fully internalized liberal feminist Hollywood values. ────────────…

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