CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab | AP News
Jan 25, 2025 · 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 ...
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 new coronavirus, according to a press release today from the office of the Republican leading a congressional investigation into the pandemic.
What to Know About the CIA’s Conclusion that COVID-19 Came From a Lab
Jan 27, 2025 · 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 ...
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 pandemic but added...
Covid-19: CIA says lab leak most likely source of outbreak - BBC
Jan 26, 2025 · The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to have leaked from a Chinese lab than to have come from animals.
CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak
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, changing the agency’s...
CIA says Covid-19 probably leaked from Chinese laboratory
Jan 25, 2025 · 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.
C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
Jan 25, 2025 · John Ratcliffe, the new director of the C.I.A., has long favored the lab leak hypothesis. He has said it is a critical piece of intelligence that needs to be understood and that it has...
China dismisses CIA's lab leak assessment for COVID-19 origin
Jan 27, 2025 · 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.
CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but …
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 finger at China...