Documents authored by Canada’s top intelligence service reveal the long-awaited explanation behind the abrupt departure of two virologists from Canada’s top biolaboratory.

On 28 February 2024, the Canadian government released hundreds of pages related to the firing of Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng from the national microbiology lab in Winnipeg, Canada’s most secure microbiology lab.

The pair were escorted out of the lab in 2019 and were stripped of their security clearances. Their dismissals were announced in January 2021, triggering concerns about Chinese espionage and leading to heated demands in parliament for more information.

The hundreds of pages of documents released at the end of February include Canadian Security Intelligence Service (“CSIS”) assessments created after the pair were marched out of the labs.

CSIS determined that Qui worked closely and covertly with Chinese government labs and collaborated with “institutions whose goals have potentially lethal military applications.”

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