On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...

The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, ...

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 ...

CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible.” ...

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. But the ...

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 ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely ... "The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team ...

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 the ...

The Central Intelligence Agency with a "low confidence" has changed its stance and concluded that it's likely the COVI-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic five ...

Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic.

The “CIA continues to assess that both ... Congressional Republicans have embraced the unproven lab leak theory, pointing to how the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in Wuhan, where a ...

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 ...