It got less than a mile when Special Forces cut it off, blockading it between their own SUVs. Special Forces shadowed the limousine as it peeled out of the parking lot and began speeding toward an unknown location. Thirty minutes later Bancel paid his tab and left the restaurant, hustling across the parking lot to the limo. Bancel mumbled under his breath, “Where are you? Why aren’t you here?” and tried to reach someone, ostensibly Walensky, on his cellphone. Meanwhile, Special Forces across the street watched Bancel with binoculars and listened to him with parabolic microphones as he ate a plate of Hors D’oeuvres and imbibed a few cocktails. Adleman stayed with the limo in the parking lot as Bancel entered the restaurant and was seated at a corner table-but his guest of honor, Rochelle Walensky, was not present. They then drove a stretch limousine from the hotel to the restaurant, a 15-minute drive. Neither Bancel nor Adleman left their rooms until 6:30 pm the next day. His chauffer, later identified as Ralph Adleman, an employee of Virginia Limousine Service of Richmond, stayed at the same hotel in a different suite, paid for by Bancel. Special Forces dressed in civvies and driving civilian vehicles tailed Bancel and his chauffer from the airport to the Watermark Hotel in Tysons, Virginia, where he used fake credentials to check in under an assumed name–Émile Blaise. “It’s better to kill two birds with one stone,” Gen. They ultimately rejected that idea, believing that Walensky might get tipped off to Bancel’s sudden disappearance. Brent Linemen considered grabbing Bancel at the hotel and picking up Walensky at the restaurant the next evening. Berger and 5 th Special Forces Group Commander Col. According to sources, Marine Corps General David H. Special Forces had eyes on him the moment he deplaned. It would be in both our interests to reach a deal of exclusivity.” His last message to Walensky before boarding the flight: “I know, Rochelle, you are also talking to Bourla. aboard Air France flight AFR26 at approximately 7:00 pm, on October 29, he said to Walensky, adding that he would spend the night at a hotel before meeting her at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Mclean, Virginia, the following evening. Trump, she said, had spies everywhere.Īfter much back and forth, Bancel on October 25 agreed to fly from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to Dulles International Airport in Virginia. She agreed, though, that further discussion on the hybrid vaccine ought to be in person to mitigate risk of someone eavesdropping on phone calls or digital transmissions. She admitted to him that she hadn’t even visited the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters in months, for fear of being “illegally apprehended” or killed. and that “Covid deniers” were plotting her downfall. She told Bancel on an Oct 17 call that she “felt safe” in D.C. But a fearful Walensky, who spoke in tremulous whispers, expressed trepidations about leaving the Beltway.
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