THE DOCUMENT LIBRARY
Primary government records, congressional submissions, and clearly labeled project analysis—provided in full wherever possible.
HOW TO USE THIS LIBRARY
We distinguish official records and original proposals from statements, reporting, and advocacy. Inclusion does not establish that every claim in a document is correct. It allows readers, journalists, officials, and researchers to examine what was actually written.
STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD
August 2026
James Haslam and George A. Howard’s cited statement following the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. It asks Congress to examine UNC and Duke records relevant to coronavirus research and the origins investigation.
PUBLISHED COMMENTARY
August 12, 2026
George A. Howard and Jim Haslam’s Chapelboro Viewpoints essay argues that UNC and Duke should release the scientific and institutional records needed to test disputed claims about coronavirus research and the origin of COVID-19.
FEDERAL PRIMARY DOCUMENT
May 6, 2026
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Notice of Suspension and Proposed Debarment of Ralph Baric, PhD, together with the enclosed Action Referral Memorandum.
U.S. SENATE READING ROOM · PRIMARY RECORD
July 23, 2026
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s released transcript of its interview with UNC coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric. The 155-page record includes three contemporaneous email exhibits: Baric’s November 2015 correspondence with Zhengli Shi, Fang Li’s October 2018 correspondence with Baric, and Vineet Menachery’s March 2019 correspondence concerning a DARPA project.
U.S. SENATE READING ROOM · RELEASED CORRESPONDENCE
Records from 2015 and 2020 · Released October 30, 2025
Committee-released materials concerning contacts between U.S. intelligence-community personnel and Ralph Baric. The records address a possible coronavirus project discussed in 2015 and requests for Baric’s scientific assessment during the opening weeks of the 2020 outbreak.
PROJECT BRIEFING
August 16, 2026 · Version 4
George A. Howard’s public-source briefing for friends of UNC–Chapel Hill, presenting the case for an independent review and linking the underlying reporting and records.
BACKGROUND PACKET
August 2026
A public-source packet assembled for a meeting with the North Carolina State Auditor. It gathers federal actions and contextual material concerning research, grants, oversight, and biosafety.
PRIMARY PROPOSAL
2018
The EcoHealth Alliance proposal submitted to DARPA describing proposed work involving SARS-related coronaviruses, including cleavage-site experiments.
RESEARCH CORRESPONDENCE · REPRODUCED EXCERPT
October 22, 2018
In a PREEMPT email chain, UNC researcher Ralph Baric asks EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak for a grant title and abstract, discusses paperwork, and refers to a proposed $50,000 budget for an R01 application. The excerpt does not establish which experiments, if any, were included in the final application or performed.
Source note: This reproduced excerpt came from EcoHealth Alliance files located by outside investigators, according to the investigators who supplied it. UNC did not provide this copy. The complete email chain should be consulted for context.
PUBLIC-RECORDS CORRESPONDENCE
June 2019
Correspondence in a public-records release discusses language for a proposed CREID application, including draft material identified as coming from the earlier DARPA proposal. In that limited sense, the draft looks like an attempt to reboot parts of DEFUSE through a second application. The record does not establish that the two proposals were identical or that DEFUSE experiments were funded or performed.
Source note: Published by U.S. Right to Know among grant records obtained through a public-records lawsuit. This is a different source route from the October 2018 EcoHealth email.
Next additions will include public-records materials, laboratory-safety reporting, grant records, correspondence, peer-reviewed papers, and a sourced chronological timeline.
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