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

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

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 ...

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 ...

after the CIA said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission. "The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO ...

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

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) backs the COVID-19 lab leak theory, Knewz.com can reveal. According to an assessment by new CIA director John Ratcliffe, the agency has “low confidence” in this ...

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 ...

The CIA believes Covid-19 likely originated from a lab leak in China rather than animal transmission in Wuhan, according to newly released findings. The assessment was published this weekend on orders ...

Several studies have said the virus originated naturally — but U.S. intelligence changed its assessment over the weekend.

Newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News the decision to release a Biden-era analysis favoring the COVID-19 lab leak theory is a step toward transparency.

The announcement follows the arrival of CIA Director John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the agency.