What was Charles Lieber really up to in 2020? What was in the vials? And what is his role in making us "hackable animals?"

I had kind of forgotten about Charles Lieber. Remember him? The Harvard chemistry department chair, charged with lying about ties to Chinese government back in January 2020?

Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged Harvard University’s chemistry department chairman with lying to the U.S. Department of Defense about his ties to a controversial Chinese talent recruitment program.

Prosecutors say Charles Lieber concealed almost $2 million from authorities in an alleged scheme to hide his ties to a Chinese university linked to a program accused of stealing U.S. intellectual property from businesses and universities.

By hiding his ties, Mr. Lieber was able to secure $18 million in research grant funding from the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health, prosecutors said…

…Wuhan University of Technology paid Mr. Lieber $1.74 million to establish a lab and conduct research along with a $50,000 per month salary and $158,000 in living expenses over several years, according to court documents.

Mr. Leiber is accused of failing to disclose the money received to the defense department and withholding information from government investigators.

Fact-checkers were quick to straighten us out in case we got any funny ideas…

(and of course they’re defending wind farms, too)

While each individual statement of the post is largely accurate, the main takeaway — that Lieber, possibly working with two students, had something to do with the new coronavirus — is false.

In fact, neither Lieber nor the two other individuals, each of whom were charged in separate cases in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China, have any known link to the new virus. And as we have written before, there is no evidence that the novel coronavirus was engineered in a lab.

Remember when there was no evidence that the novel coronavirus was engineered in a lab? Feels like forever ago.

So I’ve been revisiting.

Federal investigators had learned that Lieber—who worked on virus research as part of his military sponsored grant work—had been spending a lot of time in Wuhan, trips that he hid from Harvard and lied about to the Department of Defense for years and they wanted to grill him about that travel.

…But Lieber had not only been double dipping; prosecutors would also later prove that he had agreed to work for the Chinese government as a “strategic scientist” at the Wuhan University of Technology, where he was the director at $1.5 million research center called “the WUT-Harvard Joint Nano Key Laboratory,” as a member of the CCP’s controversial Thousand Talents Plan, which U.S. counterterrorism official have repeatedly described as an elaborate espionage operation and one of the greatest threats to American national security.

Lieber’s partnership with a lab in Wuhan, and the increasingly viable possibility that a lab error led to release of the deadly COVID-19 outbreak, has sparked what his attorneys call “shocking and unspeakable harassment,” connected with speculative allegations that whatever research he was conducting here could be related to “causing the Coronavirus outbreak.” (Lieber has steadfastly denied the allegation, which prosecutors have never alleged in his case.)

…What was he so desperate to hide that prompted him to embark on what prosecutors call “a years-long scheme to further his career through lies and deceit, while also lining his pockets courtesy of the Chinese government?”

…On the same day Lieber was arrested, the Department of Justice announced it had issued an arrest warrant for a Boston researcher, Yanqing Ye, then 29, a Chinese national and lieutenant in the CCP’s Peoples Liberation Army…She fled back to China and remains at large.

A second Chinese national, Zaosong Zheng, whose student visa to work at a Harvard-affiliated nanotechnology lab had been sponsored by the university, was indicted days after Lieber’s arrest on charges that he was caught smuggling “21 vials of biological research,” bundled in socks hidden in his checked back for a flight to China…

It remains unclear if Lieber sponsored those lab assistants, but the government pointed out in its sentencing memo that Lieber, “without consulting anyone at Harvard, committed Harvard to a formal academic exchange program with WUT, enabling WUT students to travel to Harvard to work in Lieber’s lab, including on U.S. government-funded projects. Lieber supervised WUT students both in China and at his Harvard lab.”

And much of Lieber’s DoD sponsored research was directly related to biowarfare, the weaponization of viruses, and artificial intelligence, which has led to increased speculation about Lieber and the lab leak, which his lawyers say has led to unrelenting online attacks. (emphasis mine)

(Personally, I think the speculative allegations around “causing the Coronavirus outbreak” are kind of a decoy. Based on what I’ve learned below, I’d be more curious about his contribution to the injections.)

Interestingly, none of these people are in prison. (Is anyone else getting Operation Paperclip vibes?)

And what was in those vials?

This Futurism article claims Zheng was never charged because “it turns out the vials weren’t really important” and “didn’t contain anything particularly sensitive.”

"It was an overreaction against Chinese [researchers]," Norman Zalkind, Zheng's attorney, told the Boston Globe.

Huh. Case closed, I guess. But if you’re curious, you can read more about this case and broader concerns about intellectual property smuggling and academic espionage here, here, here and here.

Among the 6,000 Chinese scientists who have received grants from the National Institutes of Health, around 180 are under investigation for possible violation of intellectual property law, (Dr. Ross McKinney Jr., chief scientific officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges) said.

This might be a good time to learn about plausible deniability.

Charles Lieber and Neural Implants

It turns out there’s more to this Harvard scientist than the MSM initially informed us. I didn’t know until I was listening to a pretty wild Danny Jones podcast that Charles Leiber is quite the talented nanotechnologist. He’s likely best known in the scientific community for creating injectable neural implants.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/injectable-brain-implants-talk-to-single-neurons/

From March 2016:

Brain implants have been around for decades—stimulating motor areas to alleviate Parkinson's disease symptoms, for example—but until now they have all suffered from the same limitation: because brains move slightly during physical activity and as we breathe and our heart beats, rigid implants rub and damage tissue. This means that eventually, because of both movement and scar-tissue formation, they lose contact with the cells they were monitoring.

Now a group of researchers, led by chemist Charles Lieber of Harvard University, has overcome these problems using a fine, flexible mesh. In 2012 the team showed that cells could be grown around such a mesh, but that left the problem of how to get one inside a living brain. The solution the scientists devised was to draw the mesh—measuring a few millimeters wide—into a syringe, so it would roll up like a scroll inside the 100-micron-wide needle, and inject it through a hole in the skull.

…“You're starting to make this nonliving system look like the biological system you're trying to probe,” Lieber explains. “That's been the goal of my group's work, to blur the distinction between electronics as we know it and the computer inside our heads.”

…The researchers showed that the implants integrated with tissue to form stable connections, with no inflammation five weeks later. “It's the dawn of biointegration”…

This really struck me because I had just written about secret experiments that allegedly tested neuro implants on unsuspecting prisoners back in 1995.

The Problem with Early Neuro Implants…

Secret Neuro Implant experiments on U.S. prisoners is neither the beginning nor the end

I recommend reading the whole article, but I was reminded of one of the problems they encountered in these secret experiments.

Each subjected experienced only minor bleeding from the nose and ears 48 hours after the implant due to initial adjustment.

Each subject had no knowledge of the implant for the test period and each implant was retrieved under the guise of medical treatment.

From one of the documents I cited:

One of the major concerns of Security and the R & D team was that the test subject would discover the chemical imbalance during the initial adjustment period and the test would have to be scrubbed. However, due to advanced technological developments in the sedatives administered, the 48 hour adjustment period can be attributed to prescription medication given to the test subjects after the implant procedure. One of the concerns raised by R & D was the cause of the bleeding and how to eliminate that problem. Unexplained bleeding might cause the subject to inquire further about his "routine" visit to the infirmary or health care facility…

…Essentially, the implants make the unsuspecting prisoner a walking-talking recorder of every event he comes into contact with.

… While we have a strong lobby in the Congress and various state legislatures favoring our product, we must proceed with the utmost caution on uncontrolled use of the 2020 neural chip. If the chip were discovered in use not authorized by law and the procedure traced to us we could not endure for long the resulting publicity and liability payments. Massachusetts officials have developed an intelligence branch from their Fugitive Task Force Squad that would do limited test runs under tight controls with the pre-release subjects. Corrections officials have dubbed these potential test subjects "the insurance group."

(These documents were supposedly “debunked” here. Decide for yourself.)

Was Lieber’s work a solution to this alleged problem?

While the forward facing reasons for his technology are altruistic (treatment of brain disorders, Parkinson’s, AI prosthetics…), pay attention to the other problems that his invention addresses. (This is 2019, just months before Lieber’s arrest.)

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-neuronlike-brain-implants-may-help-treat-disease-mental-illness/

Like a well-guarded fortress, the human brain attacks intruders on sight. Foreign objects, including neural probes used to study and treat the brain, do not last long. But now, researchers have designed a probe that looks, acts, and feels so much like a real neuron that the brain cannot identify it as an imposter. According to Charles M. Lieber, this breakthrough “literally blurs the ever-present and clear dissimilarities in properties between man-made and living systems” — in other words, between human and machine.

Implanted directly into brain tissue, the probes are designed to survive as long as possible in the organ’s warm, humid, inhospitable environment. Sensors hidden within protective casings send data back to researchers about how and when individual neurons fire and neural circuits communicate. This information could help scientists treat neurological disorders like Parkinson’s, reverse neural decay from Alzheimer’s and aging, and even enhance cognitive capabilities.

But current implants cannot trick the brain — they cause a foreign-body response. Large and stiff compared with real neurons and neural tissue, traditional implants have two major impediments to sustained monitoring. During the initial placement in brain tissue — which usually requires surgery — neurons flee the impacted area. Previous studies have shown that the brain’s immune system senses the foreign object and gets to work, causing inflammation and scar tissue to isolate the device. Even if they can capture signals beyond the scar tissue, rigid probes can shift position and end up replacing one neural signal for another, closer one.

“This will ultimately make the recorded signal unstable,” said first author Xiao Yang, a fourth-year graduate student in the Lieber lab. (emphasis mine)

and back to that 1995 document…

…Essentially, the implants make the unsuspecting prisoner a walking-talking recorder of every event he comes into contact with.

Eliminating that pesky immune response (is that what caused the post-implant bleeding from nose/ears?) and protecting the the recorded signals seems to be the crux of Lieber’s work.

So where was he really headed with his research?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/a-new-paper-examines-how-neuron-like-implants-could-treat-brain-disorders/

According to Asia Times,

Lieber is one of the top scientists involved with Elon Musk in a rather secretive startup company called Neuralink. Musk has invested US$100 million of his own money and raised another $58 million for Neuralink, which now has a staff of 90.

The company is exploring brain-machine interfaces, using what Musk calls “flexible threads” that have the potential of transferring a higher volume of data, according to a White Paper credited to Musk & Neuralink.

https://www.inverse.com/article/59052-brain-implants-musk-disease-future

You can read more about Lieber’s research here, here, here and here, and find a list of all his patents here. Graphene and "cyborg" tissue are well within his wheelhouse.

All of this makes me wonder about some of the conspiracy theories around COVID vaccines.

https://x.com/RedpillDrifter/status/1780048129024540850

https://x.com/gregreese/status/1833888217222840590

You can read that study here.

My screenwriting brain weaves all of these dots together and forces me to revisit this.

A Biological Weapon to Accelerate Ideological Subversion?

I mean, given what history has demonstrated about “The Science” and its disregard for informed consent, a global mass vaccination campaign might serve as an ideal opportunity to test some of the injectable technology that we’re not otherwise likely to consent to.

But, again, that’s just how I might write the dystopian movie based on these dots…

Meanwhile, WEF’s Yuval Harari tells us we’re “hackable animals.”

Are we?

For additional reading, Patrick Kim has done his own deep dive.

A Whole Lot Was Going on with Dr. Charles Lieber

Now to root into something more spiritual/mindful… I recommend a visit to Tessa Lena or Barry Brownstein’s Substacks.