Dr. Andrew Huff

Call up Amy the next day, you know, thank you, you know, for, for contacting me.

I mean, at one point this was in my career, this was actually my dream job to be running a, have a blank check from the department of defense to go develop all the coolest biotechnology world.

I mean, seriously, I had dreamed of that job at one point in my life.

I didn't want it.

Yeah.

And so I told her no.

And she's like, well, you know, if you change your mind in the next few weeks, we'd really like to have you call me anytime.

And that was it.

Well, okay, that phone call took place late September, early October 2019.

Fast forward today with what we know is that DARPA had held a meeting

A contest or I want to say not so much a contest, but put out a RFP request for proposals related to something called preempt, which was preventing emerging infectious disease threats.

And one of the proposals was something called diffuse from my former employer called EcoHealth Alliance.

which was basically the recipe for SARS-CoV-2, which was done in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

So, you know, I'm sort of hopping around here, but the reason why this is important is now I believe that DARPA was actually trying to recruit me back into the program.

So I wouldn't have done any of the things that I've done over the last four years, essentially.

tell the truth in public about what the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is.

But going back on your timeline here, so I had limited information back then and I knew a pandemic was coming.

So I told my wife, we need to get the heck out of the Bay Area as fast as possible.

This could go off the rails.

I actually believed the information I was seeing, which I think was potentially targeted at me, that this disease would be much more severe than it was.