Assessing Claims That the CIA Supports the Lab-Leak Hypothesis for COVID
On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...
What to Know About the CIA’s Conclusion that COVID-19 Came From a Lab
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 Backs COVID Lab Leak Theory: What We Know
The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, ...
CIA says lab leak most likely source of Covid outbreak
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 ...
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Newly Declassified Biden-Era CIA Report Says COVID Lab Leak "Likely" – What Does That Mean?
A newly declassified report, released by the CIA on Saturday, is once again stoking the debate around the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. The report is not based on any new ...
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CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but has "low confidence" in its assessment
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 ...
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China says it's "extremely unlikely" COVID pandemic came from lab leak, as CIA now indicates
The CIA said Saturday the virus was "more likely" leaked from a Chinese lab ... made any determination on whether COVID had been unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals.
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CIA says lab leak favored as likely COVID origin
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab. Here’s what to know about the declassified document released Saturday ...
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CIA now favors lab-leak theory, as critics of covid response take power
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 ...
CIA has 'low confidence' COVID-19 leaked from lab in China
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 ...
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CIA becomes latest intel agency to conclude COVID-19 likely originated from Chinese lab leak
“I’m pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is the most plausible explanation of Covid’s origins,” Cotton wrote on X. Over 1.2 ...
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CIA says lab leak favored as likely COVID origin
A new CIA assessment about the origination of COVID was declassified and released ... Two years ago a report by the Energy Department concluded a lab leak was the most likely origin, though ...