The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...
The Central Intelligence Agency has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory as the most plausible origin ... CIA Director William Burns had called on the agency to take a stance on COVID ...
The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, though it has no conclusive evidence.
The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday, ...
New director Ratcliffe releases a judgment Biden had kept secret.
“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,” a CIA spokesperson ...
The origin of the virus is a crucial question ... Background information on COVID and the CIA was also taken from The Associated Press. This story was reported from Detroit.