Ex-FDA Commissioner Privately Told CIA That Up to 25% of Americans Had Already Achieved Natural Immunity Through Exposure to COVID by May 2020, Unclassified Document Reveals

by Jim Hᴏft Sep. 2, 2026 12:20 pm

Newly released documents are raising explosive questions about what pharmaceutical insiders and America’s intelligence community knew about COVID-19 immunity during the earliest months of the pandemic and why Americans were hearing a dramatically different story in public.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released records detailing a May 7, 2020, CIA briefing involving Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner who had joined Pfizer’s board of directors the previous year.

Paul announced on X:

“I released documents showing Pfizer and the CIA privately acknowledged high population immunity as early as May 2020, while the public heard a different story. Americans deserve the truth.”

He pointed to reporting at Brownstone Institute on a newly unclassified CIA meeting summary buried in the latest tranche of records Paul entered into the congressional record.

The date on the briefing is May 7, 2020.

That is two months after the country was shut down. Churches closed. Small businesses crushed. Kids locked out of school. Fauci and Deborah Birx still talking as if this was a rare, novel threat that required indefinite emergency rule until a pharmaceutical product arrived.

Inside the CIA, they were already talking seroprevalence. Seroprevalence is the percentage or proportion of people in a specific population who have antibodies against a specific disease or infectious agent in their blood serum.

According to the agency’s own write-up of the meeting, CIA Chief Operating Officer Andy Makridis sat down with Dr. Scott Gottlieb. Gottlieb was not some outside critic. He was a former FDA commissioner, a sitting Pfizer board member, and a member of the CIA’s External Advisory Board. One man. Three hats. Vaccine company. Spy agency. Former regulator.

The CIA summary records Gottlieb’s assessment on herd immunity:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/ex-fda-commissioner-privately-told-cia-that-up/

Oklahoma City Manager Arrested on 11 Felony Voter Fraud Charges After Falsifying Registration Applications With Other People’s Names

by Jim Hᴏft Sep. 2, 2026 2:20 pm

The city manager of a tiny Oklahoma town has been arrested and charged with 11 felony counts of voter registration fraud after investigators say she submitted applications using other people’s names and forged their signatures.

Shonda Lou Barnes, city manager for the Town of Mannsville in Johnston County, was taken into custody at her home Monday afternoon on a warrant charging her with 11 counts of false affidavit in voter registration. She was booked into the Johnston County Jail, KXII reported.

The Johnston County Election Board flagged the applications in late May.

The forms had been submitted from the Mannsville area just before the voter registration deadline so the names could vote in the June primary.

Investigators found multiple applications bearing matching signatures that did not belong to the people whose names were on the forms. Authorities then traced those applications to Barnes.

Johnston County Sheriff Gary W. Dodd did not mince words:

“As one of Oklahoma’s 77 constitutionally elected sheriffs, it is our duty and the duty of every Sheriff’s Office in this State to protect the integrity of our elections — one of the most sacred rights of citizens of this country.”

more:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/oklahoma-city-manager-arrested-11-felony-voter-fraud/