This myth is documented in the EcoHealth Alliance publicly available NIH and DARPA grants documents among others. Wrt your link - Wikipedia unfortunately isn’t subject to the law like those grants.
Covid is irrelevant to the discussion I opened. You're trying to steer the discussion into a place that will lead us nowhere because there's too many artificial polemics around it.
The only thing to be said about it that resonates with what I'm concerned with is that anyone that is good in the head wants better international oversight on potential bioweapons development.