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 ...

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

New director Ratcliffe releases a judgment Biden had kept secret.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday.

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

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

The CIA announced on Saturday that it now considers a lab leak a more likely origin for the COVID-19 pandemic than a natural transmission, although the agency maintains "low confidence" in this ...

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

THE CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a Wuhan lab after years of denial under Biden's administration. In a bombshell declassified ...

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 ...