The dossier - which has been circulated by governments in the West - even alleges the secretive nation refused to provide live samples to international scientists working day and night to find a vaccine.
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It claims Beijing deliberately obstructed efforts by other countries trying to tackle the deadly virus - which has so far claimed nearly 250,000 lives around the world.
The 15-page document - from the Five Eyes security alliance of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - lays the foundation for the case of negligence being mounted against China.
It states Beijing moved to cover up the seriousness of the outbreak from early December, claiming: "Despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December, PRC authorities deny it until January 20."
It brands the secrecy over the pandemic an "assault on international transparency" and points out China imposed travel bans on its own people but told other nations similar restrictions were not needed.
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"Millions of people leave Wuhan after the outbreak and before Beijing locks down the city on January 23," the document states.
"Throughout February, Beijing presses the US, Italy, India, Australia, Southeast Asian neighbours and others not to protect themselves via travel restrictions, even as the PRC imposes severe restrictions at home."
The spy dossier also covers China's apparent silencing or "disappearing" of doctors who tried to speak out about the spread of the virus.
The classified document, obtained by Australia's The Saturday Telegraph, comes as US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said there is "enormous evidence" coronavirus came from a lab in Wuhan and China covered it up.
It has been claimed that:
- China denied the virus could be spread between humans during the outbreak's early stages
- The Communist nation then took weeks to admit it could be passed on in this way
- Doctors and journalists who spoke out were silenced or "disappeared"
- A lab in Wuhan had been studying deadly bat-derived coronaviruses
- China destroyed evidence of the virus in its laboratories
- It refused to send samples to scientists across the globe working on a vaccine
- Beijing imposed travel bans on its own people but told other nations they were not needed
US and British intelligence officials suspect bungling scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology accidentally spread the killer disease during risky coronavirus tests on bats.
At the weekend we told how photographs of scientists handling bat samples have been deleted from its website.
The images - which showed a shocking lack of safety - were taken down by the under-fire science institute after diplomats and scientists raised the alarm about its work.
The Sun also exclusively revealed that the laboratory lied about taking safety precautions when collecting bat samples.
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Last month it was claimed five Wuhan whistleblowers were still missing and one was dead after exposing the true horrors of coronavirus.
More than 5,100 people have been arrested for sharing information over the virus in the first weeks of the outbreak, it was reported.
And it was claimed any dissidents are being taken into medical quarantine and labelled as sick to stop them from speaking out further.
Other citizens are reportedly being detained for posting questions online hinting at mask shortages or further deaths.
One hero Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about coronavirus died after contracting the bug himself.
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Doctor Li Wenlaing, 34, had been sent a chilling letter by the police before his death - warned "if he refused to repent he would be punished".
Chinese citizen journalist Chen Qiushi then went missing in February after exposing the severity of coronavirus in Wuhan.
He had reported on horrific scenes in graphic detail, including a woman frantically calling her family as she sat next to a dead relative in a wheelchair.
The leaked file also specifically details that China began censoring news of the virus from December 31.
According to the document, the country deleted terms including 'SARS variation,' 'Wuhan Seafood market' and 'Wuhan Unknown Pneumonia' from search engines.
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Earlier today it was claimed the UK government was told by its intelligence community from the start that China had covered up the true scale of the pandemic.
A senior former MI6 official reportedly said Ministers were told "not to believe Beijing's claims" and to pour cold water on all information coming out of China.
Britain's intelligence agencies knew what was 'really happening' from the beginning and had made London "fully aware", reported The Daily Telegraph.
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