Operation Gideon, if nothing else, lends credence to the suspicion that Cheeto in fact may have released Covid in China as a biological attack - using mercenaries because he knew the CIA and Pentagon would never go along with it.

We also know he knew in early November, thanks to the Times of Israel.

This is not to say that's how it happened - but that given all the above facts, it may have.

Either way, we'll probably never know.