CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab | AP News
Jan 25, 2025 · The CIA “continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible,” the agency wrote in a statement …
What to Know About the CIA's Conclusion that COVID-19 Came …
The political backdrop . Only one day before the CIA’s statement, the agency’s just-sworn-in director, John Ratcliffe, signalled that a new position on the origins of COVID-19 was coming ...
CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak
Jan 26, 2025 · 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 …
CIA assesses lab leak most plausible source of Covid-19, though …
Jan 25, 2025 · 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 …
C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
Jan 25, 2025 · A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
China says it's "extremely unlikely" COVID pandemic came ... - CBS …
Jan 27, 2025 · "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 …
CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely …
Jan 25, 2025 · The CIA said Saturday it has shifted its previous assessments and has concluded that it’s likely the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global …
CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from
Jan 25, 2025 · The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, …
CIA bribed its own COVID-19 origin team to reject lab-leak
Sep 12, 2023 · An unnamed CIA whistleblower has made the dramatic allegation that six analysts there were bribed to reject the theory that COVID-19 resulted from a research-related leak of a …
CIA says COVID-19 more likely to have come from lab than nature
Jan 25, 2025 · The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or originated in nature. But in the final weeks of the Biden …