On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...
The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...
The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural ...
"The agency is going to get off the sidelines," Ratcliffe -- who believes Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- told right-wing outlet Breitbart. "CIA assesses with low confidence ...
China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.  “It is ...
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even ...
On his way out, former CIA Director William Burns had called on the agency to take a stance on COVID-19’s origins instead of staying neutral, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Under ...
The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more ...
The CIA said Saturday that it now favors a Chinese laboratory leak as the mostly likely origin of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest development in the still-simmering debate over the virus and ...
“CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” an agency spokesman sai ...
The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. Under its new director, John Ratcliffe, the agency released an assessment on the ...
The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or it originated in nature. The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a ...