Secret Backdoor: How the CDC is controlled by Bill Gates, Big Pharma, Insurance Co's, foreign nations and special interests

The blatant, out-in-the open influence peddling operation established in 1992 that will shock even the most cynical and jaded

Did the CDC delete Vaccine Safety Data?

Quite recently, on 10, April, 2025, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, opened an investigation into a top Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official alleging that he mishandled official CDC records pertaining to the development, safety, and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. It is alleged that Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the head of the office that monitors COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, may have deleted or destroyed agency records in response to a January 28, 2025, subpoena asking the HHS preserve and submit agency records on COVID-19 vaccine safety and adverse events.

“HHS officials recently informed me that Dr. Shimabukuro’s records remain lost and, potentially, removed from HHS’s email system altogether,” Johnson wrote in a Wednesday letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and acting HHS watchdog Juliet Hodgkins. It is not clear what specific records are missing, but Johnson’s team was told HHS was struggling to locate information for which Shimabukuro had responsibility and that should exist.

Under the Federal Records Act, government officials are required to preserve materials “made or received by a Federal agency under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business.” So, how could this happen? In order to unpack this loaded and uncomfortable question, one must be willing to slide down a rabbit hole from whence it is impossible to reemerge unscathed and unchanged.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), carries a “disclosure” statement that reads:

“CDC, our planners, content experts, and their spouses/partners wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters. Planners have reviewed content to ensure there is no bias. CDC does not accept commercial support.”

At this point in our history, the only people who whole-heartedly believe this either spend their waking hours inside hashish dens or within the ivory towers of academia. But I repeat myself.

What you’re about to read will permanently disabuse you of any illusions as to exactly who controls the CDC and influences its policies and procedures. If you prefer the warm cocoon of clueless naivete, I suggest you stop reading this immediately and go back to fluffing your Fauci pillows while basking in the gentle glow of your Fauci candles instead of risking the permanent ruin of imaginary utopian ideals built on the firm foundation of unshakable delusion.

You see, the US Congress figured out a long time ago that it could give and receive funding from all sorts of special interest entities as long as it the funding was obscured to the casual eye using “pass through” organizations. These pass-through organizations take the form of Political Action Committees (PACs), NGOs, Universities, public-private partnerships or pretty much any entity or organization that serves as a temporary pitstop for money before it heads to its final destination, thereby creating the illusion of propriety.

If you’ve read my previous “anatomy of the pandemic state” articles, you know that pass-through funding is the very lifeblood of the quid-pro-quo beast that powered pandemic policy and created the perfect storm of anti-human and anti-science diktats while purporting to do the exact opposite. The best part of this devious legerdemain is that it comes out of the pockets of the US taxpayer who unwittingly fund their own subjugation. If you haven’t read it, now is a perfectly good time to start here:

Anatomy of the Pandemic State

One powerful and brutally effective vehicle of pass-through subversion is the creation of foundations for many government organizations. Did you know that the US government has created foundations for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to “supplement the agencies’ funding for specific projects and encourage more public-private partnerships?”

Anatomy of the Pandemic State

The CDC Foundation: An NGO backdoor

The “CDC Foundation” opened its doors in 1992 “to raise private funds for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization that connects the CDC with private sector resources.”

I want you to sear this fact into your brain as you continue reading: The CDC Foundation is not a part of the federal government. It is an independent, nonprofit organization, in other words, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).

The 2024 annual budget for CDC is $11.581 billion. Why does an almost $12 billion-a-year taxpayer funded CDC need an NGO to raise private funds?

Answer: the CDC foundation’s existence is a tried-and-tested tax-exempt workaround to circumvent rules preventing government agencies from directly receiving special interest corporate funding and to keep the zero conflict of interest Potemkin Village pretense alive.

This is from their own website:

They tell you—without shame or remorse—that the foundation influences the “strategic direction” of the work done by the CDC.

For Fiscal Year 2024, the CDC foundation has received a jaw-dropping two hundred fifteen million seven hundred two thousand two hundred seventeen dollars in private funding. That’s $215,702,217 to influence the “strategic direction of the work done by the CDC” (Their words, not mine)

Here is a list of the CDC foundation’s “partners” from their own website. Could we fashion this into a NASCAR style lab coat for the CDC please?

A Shocking Betrayal of Public Trust

The following numbers come from the CDC Foundation’s Fiscal Year 2024 Report to Congress. This data was analyzed using CoPilot AI assistance. Please feel free to replicate these findings yourself.

Note: this list includes only the largest and most prominent contributions culled from a document of over a 100 pages in length.

I am attaching the master file for your own research and in the spirit of full transparency. (If anything, these numbers are an underrepresentation)

Verbatim from report “Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has launched more than 1,400 programs and raised more than $2.43 billion.” They explain further “For the year ending June 30, 2024, total grants and contributions received by the CDC Foundation were $213.4 million and consisted of: $31.3 million from foundations; $12.0 million from other organizations and individuals; $2.8 million from corporations; and $167.3 million in federal, state and jurisdictional grants and contracts.”

The report also states “The Foundation also received federal funding of $1.25 million for the year ending June 30, 2024, to help defray administrative costs to the Foundation.”

Someone please explain to me why a Non-Governmental Organization that raised $214 million from donors needs another $1.25 million from taxpayers for “administrative costs”

Anyone?

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The highest donors listed in the CDC Foundation's fiscal year 2024 report include:

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Multiple contributions totaling over $30 million for various programs, including capacity building, data modernization, and overdose response strategies.

2. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: total of $12,288,909 to the CDC Foundation for fiscal year 2024. This amount includes multiple contributions.

3. Bloomberg Philanthropies: The total contributions from Bloomberg Philanthropies to the CDC Foundation for fiscal year 2024 amount to $8,780,000. Multiple contributions.

4. Cencora Impact Foundation (formerly AmerisourceBergen Foundation): Cencora Impact Foundation (formerly AmerisourceBergen Foundation) contributed a total of $175,000 to the CDC Foundation

5. Global Payments Inc.: Funding for the Oz Nelson Public Health Academy Endowed Fund. Total of $200,000

6. Kaiser Permanente: Total of $100,000

7. Carter Center, Inc.: Total of $684,597

8. Annie E. Casey Foundation: $50,000

9. Association of Public Health Laboratories: $73,945,916.21

10. AstraZeneca PLC: $30,000.00

11. American Type Culture Collection: $690,024.11

12. Arizona Department of Health Services (State of Arizona): $10,361,850.33

13. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services contributed a total of $6,958,749.88 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. (combined from multiple contributions)

14. Optum Serve: $100,000.00

15. Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division: $508,796.85 (combined from multiple contributions)

16. Elaine and John Chambers (Chambers Family Foundation): $250,000.00

17. Pfizer: The total contributions from Pfizer and Pfizer Inc. amount to $150,095.65.

18. Johnson & Johnson: contributed a total of $600,000.00 to the CDC Foundation

19. The Gavi Alliance: contributed a total of $2,878,439.99 to the CDC Foundation for fiscal year 2024.

20. California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc: contributed $539,215.06 to the CDC Foundation for fiscal year 2024.

21. Elaine and John Chambers (Chambers Family Foundation): contributed $250,000.00 to the CDC Foundation for fiscal year 2024

22. Elevance Health CARES: contributed $75,000.00 to the CDC Foundation for fiscal year 2024.

23. Emory University: contributed a total of $175,404.77 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

24. FHI 360: contributed $737,140.00 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

25. Fries Family Trust: Contributed a total of $500,000.00

26. Genentech, Inc. Contributed a total of $749,996.00 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

27. The Georgia Department of Public Health: contributed a total of $841,037.25 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

28. The Georgia Health Initiative contributed $77,249.70 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

29. Good Ventures Foundation contributed $900,000.00 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

30. Health Research, Inc contributed a total of $6,474,355.00 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

31. HilleVax, Inc contributed a total of $538,774.00 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

32. The Illinois Department of Public Health contributed a total of $6,362,304.40 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

33. Kentucky Department for Public Health (Commonwealth of Kentucky) contributed a total of $5,405,180.00 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

34. Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies contributed a total of $1,500,000.00 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

35. Maricopa County Health Department contributed a total of $397,526.67 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

36. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health contributed a total of $3,030,044.86 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

37. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. contributed a total of $499,999.73

38. National Academy of Science contributed a total of $1,248,578.88

39. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services contributed a total of $1,194,138.43 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

40. The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services contributed a total of $4,335,850.27 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

41. Optum Serve contributed a total of $100,000.00

42. The Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division contributed a total of $508,796.85 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

43. Public Health Foundation contributed a total of $120,000.00

44. Puerto Rico Department of Health contributed a total of $997,458.91

45. Resolve to Save Lives, Inc. contributed a total of $499,992.21

46. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contributed a total of $7,347,276.00 to the CDC Foundation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024

47. St. Mary’s County Health Department (State of Maryland) contributed a total of $108,324.00

48. Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. (TECRO) contributed a total of $1,534,799.00

49. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. contributed a total of $125,000.00

50. Together for Girls, Inc. contributed a total of $83,244.00

51. Vaxart, Inc. contributed a total of $20,000.00

52. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill contributed a total of provided the CDC Foundation with a total of $207,598.00

53. West Virginia Department of Health, Bureau for Public Health contributed a total of $157,809.27

54. World Health Organization (WHO) contributed a total of $648,020.00

Breaking it all down: Who really controls the CDC?

• Bill Gates through his multiple foundations is by far the biggest influencer of American public health policy and decision making.

  The Gates foundation gave the CDC $12,288,909 for FY 2024. But that is only one part of the story. What you may not know is that Gates is also the founding partner of GAVI or The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. The Gates foundation has given over $4 Billion to GAVI. Therefore, the $2,878,439.99 contribution in 2024 is, at least in part, coming from the Gates foundation. The World Health Organization gave $648,020.00 in 2024. This too is at least in part coming from the Gates foundation. The Gates foundation is also a major donor to the National Academy of Sciences, which in turn is a major donor to the CDC foundation. More on that below.

• The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization or GAVI needs its own separate entry here. GAVI is a consortium of Gates Foundation, The World Health organization, World Bank, UNICEF, multiple vaccine and pharmaceutical manufacturers, multiple foreign countries, including Qatar, Norway, Denmark, Canada, US etc. The Rockefeller Foundation, though not on their board of directors, gave GAVI $5.05 Million in direct contributions from 2021-2025

• The World Health Organization (WHO): This is the most fascinating of the lot. The largest funders to the WHO are the United States (you, the taxpayer), Gates Foundation, GAVI, EU, UK, and China. In 2024-2025, the United States gave the WHO $958 million.

  

  Let’s look at this in excruciating detail:

  The US gives the WHO nearly a billion taxpayer dollars every year.

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  The WHO, controlled by Bill Gates (through Gates Foundation and GAVI), the World Bank and China, happily pockets the billion.

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  It then gives back a measly $650K to the CDC foundation—which just so happens to be also funded (read: controlled) by the very same people that control the WHO.

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  The WHO and CDC foundation—essentially wizard of Oz puppet shows with their Bill Gates/World Bank/Pharma puppet strings obscured through the magic of pass-through funding then exerts its influence on the $12 billion-a-year taxpayer funded CDC behemoth while the US taxpayer also foots the bill for the lions share of the WHO budget. Do you understand how it works now?

• The CDC (you, the tax payer): The CDC is the largest funder of the CDC foundation.

  If the CDC foundation’s job is to raise funding for the CDC, then why is the CDC funding the CDC foundation?

  This isn’t nearly as counterintuitive or stupid as it looks. Quite the opposite: it’s genius. The modus operandi of “effective philanthropy” is to leverage small private contributions into massively outsized influence by standing on the fulcrum of government spending. The whole operation is tax-exempt, unavailable to public scrutiny via congressional oversight and FOIA requests, and allows erstwhile public servants to enter the private sector through the public-private revolving door that becomes the fuel that powers the infinite feedback loop of perverse incentives and bad policy that begets more perverse incentives. Rinse, repeat. You can read about the revolving door that powers US public health by clicking here.

  One stellar example of how this works is the now-defunct USAID, which along with NIH funded bat virus gain of function in China through the use of NGO foundations like EcoHealth alliance (also tax-exempt) and US universities to influence US public health policy. Click on the graphic below to read my article on how this worked.

  

• State Public Health Departments: Very conspicuous in the list of funders to the CDC foundation are multiple State public health departments (Arizona, Massachusetts and many more). This isn’t as bizarre as it looks if you’ve been paying attention thus far. In FY 2023, CDC obligated almost $15 billion to state and local jurisdictions. Which means that the CDC, using pass-through funding of state departments kicked even more funding to the CDC foundation to obscure this pathway to the casual observer.

• National Academy of Sciences: gave almost $1.3 million to the CDC foundation. NAS has received funding from some of the largest corporate-controlled foundations, including over $143.6 million from the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation ($32.4 million), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ($18.9 million), the MacArthur Foundation ($15.9 million), and the Hewlett Foundation ($11.7 million). The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is a major contributor, but the exact amount remains very difficult to ascertain.

• Cencora Impact Foundation (formerly AmerisourceBergen) is one of the nation's largest drug distributors that was sued by the U.S. Justice Department for fueling the nation's deadly opioid crisis and was fined billions of dollars. Why is the CDC accepting donations from a corporation accused by the federal government (so, themselves) of opiate trafficking?

• Big Pharma and Big Corporate health: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Genentech, HilleVAX, Merck, Vaxart, Teva are pharmaceutical companies. Association of Public Health Laboratories is an organization of labs deeply invested in making sure the CDC recommends more lab testing.

  Optum Serve is basically UnitedHealthGroup rebranded comprising three main businesses: OptumHealth, OptumInsight and OptumRx. It is one of the largest employers of physicians and the second largest pharmacy benefit managers in the country.

  Elevance Health CARES is Anthem Inc rebranded in 2022.

  Kaiser Permanente Division of Research received $62 million in federal funds from the NIH's Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program to study children’s health. This included $42 million for a new 7-year initiative and $20 million to continue an ongoing project

• American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) is a CDC vendor contracted by the CDC to manage the Influenza Reagent Resource (IRR) and has provided support during outbreaks like H1N1, assisting in the rapid distribution of diagnostic kits. They further expanded their CDC IRR contract during COVID providing even more products. They were accused of selling biological samples, including anthrax, West Nile virus, and botulism, to Iraq up until 1989. These samples were supposedly for medical research, but some were later used for Iraq's biological weapons program.

• Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office in the U.S: is the main representative office of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the US. This unlikely funder of the CDC was a bit of a headscratcher when I first began researching for this article.

  Turns out that Taiwan is a major funder of DC “think tanks” and has been in the business of influencing US policy for a long time. At least five think tanks—the Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress, the Center for a New American Security, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Hudson Institute—all disclose their funding from TECRO but bury it deep on their websites or annual reports. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the Clinton and Obama administrations, collected between $50,000 and $99,999 from TECRO in 2019. That information was only disclosed in an “annual honor roll recognizing supporters who make gifts of $5,000 or more.”

  It should come as no surprise then that TECRO’s $1.5 million donation got them a prominent seat at the table influencing CDC’s COVID-19 response.

• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: receives major portion of its research funding from the federal government, totaling $907 million in fiscal year 2023. This places UNC among the top universities in the nation for federal research funding. The university's research enterprise generates a substantial portion of its revenue, with research grants accounting for about 25% of total revenue and is ranked 11th in the US for federal R&D expenditures. Unsurprisingly, it is also home to the Baric Lab which collaborated with EcoHealth to outsource highly dangerous gain of function research to the Wuhan institute of virology in China.

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is an American philanthropic organization and the largest one focused solely on health. RWJF was a key funder of groups advocating for Obamacare and continues to influence left-leaning public health policy including Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and was the key driver of the message of racial justice in COVID policy making. They were part of the “Paradise Papers” revelation that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation had over $3 billion of its $10.8 billion in assets held in offshore accounts, primarily in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes in the US.

Epilogue

If you’ve made it this far, you’ll surely agree with the conclusion that the only people who have no say in American public health policy are the American people. Once you understand this sad and sordid fact, the ignoble decisions made in the name of the US pandemic response go from being inexplicable to logical. The plummeting public trust in public health is well deserved and those who bleat about it should do something to extricate the system from the clutches of perverse incentives and undue influence.

The only conceivable reason for the existence of the CDC foundation is to be a surrogate proxy for the hand of shady interests while simultaneously being the hand that protects them. I don’t know if the deletion of vaccine safety records referenced at the beginning of this article had something to do with the invisible strings that control the wizard, but not paying attention to the man behind the curtain is what got us into this mess in the first place.

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