4 days ago · 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 pandemic but added ...

4 days ago · AP correspondent Julie Walker reports the CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab, but has low confidence in its own finding. ... Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, has said he favors the lab leak scenario, too. “The lab leak is the only theory supported by science ...

2 days ago · In 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reached a conclusion similar to the CIA’s new one: that a lab leak was responsible for the pandemic, though it could also say so only with “low ...

3 days ago · China said Monday it was "extremely unlikely" COVID-19 came from a laboratory, after the CIA said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission. "The ...

4 days ago · 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 ...

5 days ago · 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.

4 days ago · Health Care. CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak The intelligence agency has said for years it couldn’t say with certainty where the pandemic originated from.

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 new coronavirus, according to a press release today from the office of the Republican leading a congressional investigation into the pandemic.

4 days ago · The CIA has concluded that Covid-19 probably began as a leak from a laboratory in China in a new assessment of the origins of the pandemic that killed millions of people.

3 days ago · 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 ...