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

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 ...

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

New CIA Director John Ratcliffe ordered the covid origins analysis declassified, which a spokesperson described as a “low-confidence” assessment.

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

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even ...

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 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 ...

Various U.S. intelligence agencies have launched investigations into the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, often reaching “low confidence” results.