A retired CIA operations officer says the agency is stonewalling the release of documents on COVID's origins, JFK, MLK, 9/11, and MKUltra — bad news for anyone hoping Trump would force real intelligence reform.

• He says COVID came from a lab accident in Wuhan, and the CIA knew early but buried it — analysts who said "lab leak" had their careers destroyed.
• The cover-up continues, he says, to protect senior officials tied to funding dangerous virus research, not because Fauci is still around.
• Trump ordered documents on the 1960s assassinations released, but the CIA simply refuses to hand them over — and no one forces the issue.
• He calls CIA leaders John Ratcliffe and Michael Ellis the worst possible team, keeping the same people who ran past cover-ups in place.
• He raises hard questions about Building 7 on 9/11, the January 6 pipe bombs, and a dead investigator, and says the media stays silent because it's effectively controlled.

Outlook: He expects the stonewalling and non-disclosure to continue, with little real reform of the intelligence agencies anytime soon.