Classified docs 'credibly' suggest COVID originated from Wuhan lab leak, covered up by CCP: House Rep

EXCLUSIVE: The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic reviewed classified State Department records that members say "credibly suggest" COVID-19 originated from a "lab-related accident in Wuhan, China" and that the Chinese Communist Party "attempted to cover up the lab leak."

Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup sent a letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, to Secretary of State Antony Blinken Tuesday, requesting he declassify the records to "share the truth" about COVID origins with the American people.

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Wenstrup said the State Department recently produced classified documents to the select committee after the same documents had been previously released in an "unclassified and highly redacted" Freedom of Information Act production to a nonprofit group called U.S. Right to Know.

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The classified materials sent to the committee contain "highly pertinent information that credibly suggests COVID-19 originated from a lab-related accident in Wuhan, China," Wenstrup wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Fox News Digital.

Wenstrup said the documents also suggest that the Chinese Communist Party "acted to prevent, and in fact obstructed, a fulsome investigation into these matters."

The documents also suggest a "seamless relationship" between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Chinese People’s Liberation Army, according to Wenstrup.

"The American people deserve to see the information that is hidden under these redactions," Wenstrup wrote. "We write to you today to request that you immediately take steps to declassify this information such that the