The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

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 ...

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

The origin of Covid-19 has always been a point of contention in the U.S., but the CIA recently claimed they now believe it came from a lab leak. In a statement on January 25, a spokesperson for the ...

The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to ...

"The agency is going to get off the sidelines," Ratcliffe -- who believes Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- told right-wing outlet Breitbart. "CIA assesses with low confidence ...

On his way out, former CIA Director William Burns had called on the agency to take a stance on COVID-19’s origins instead of staying neutral, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Under ...

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 ...

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 agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or it originated in nature. The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a ...

“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,” an agency spokesman sai ...

The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or it originated in ...