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

The CIA admits it has "low confidence" in its conclusion and says both a natural origin and a research-related incident are still possible. HealthDay News — After years of speculation, the CIA has ...

The CIA “continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible,” the agency wrote in a statement about its new assessment.

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

The Central Intelligence Agency said COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak in China in a Saturday statement, pivoting from a previously neutral stance just a few days after Director John ...

Five years on from the start of the pandemic, Donald Trump’s new CIA director has weighed into ... says five years on we are no closer to knowing the origin of COVID-19. Louie Douvis The ...

New director Ratcliffe releases a judgment Biden had kept secret.

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

The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely" and notes in its statement that both scenarios – lab origin and ...