CIA assesses lab leak most plausible source of Covid-19, though …
5 days ago · The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday ...
CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab | AP News
5 days ago · A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. ... John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in Thursday as director. ... Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, has said he favors the ...
CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely …
5 days ago · Ratcliffe has long argued that the virus most likely emerged from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. John Ratcliffe at a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill ...
What to Know About the CIA’s Conclusion that COVID-19 Came
3 days ago · Only one day before the CIA’s statement, the agency’s just-sworn-in director, John Ratcliffe, signalled that a new position on the origins of COVID-19 was coming.
Did Covid-19 originate in a Wuhan lab? Here's what CIA thinks
4 days ago · The US intelligence agency has released the 'low confidence' assessment under Trump-appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe, who took office last week. ... Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan ...
CIA says lab leak favored as likely COVID origin
5 days ago · A new CIA assessment about the origination of COVID was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of John Ratcliffe, ... handling or butchering those animals at a market in Wuhan, China ...
CIA Backs COVID Lab Leak Theory: What We Know - Newsweek
5 days ago · Ratcliffe, who has long said he believes the virus escaped from a Chinese lab, had told Breitbart News on Friday that he no longer wanted the CIA to "be off the sidelines" of the debate around the ...
C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
6 days ago · John Ratcliffe, the new director of the C.I.A., has long favored the lab leak hypothesis. ... is based in part on a closer look at the conditions in the high security labs in Wuhan province before ...
The CIA Wakes Up About Covid’s Origin - WSJ
New director Ratcliffe releases a judgment Biden had kept secret. ... the likeliest source of the Covid-19 virus was a lab in Wuhan, China. ... after new CIA director John Ratcliffe released an ...
Apr 18, 2023 · Our intelligence has led to a demonstrable shift whereby a few of the intelligence community’s 18 agencies are now publicly assessing that the COVID-19 virus originated from a lab leak in Wuhan. And as this shift continues, the day will come when every single agency in the IC will make this same assessment.