In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

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 ...

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

While the CIA is now backing the often-called lab leak theory of covid-19’s origins ... based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said ...

“I’ve said from the beginning that Covid likely originated in the Wuhan labs ... m pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is ...

A CIA report found that the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely came from a lab in Wuhan, China ... said he believes in the lab leak theory. “The lab leak is the only theory ...

The statement came after the CIA, in a new development, backed the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated from an accidental lab leak in Wuhan, rather than from natural transmission ...

The Central Intelligence Agency previously said that two explanations were plausible, a lab leak or a natural source ... that the origins of Covid was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he ...

DRASTIC, a group of internet users with no expertise in virology, has been pushing their hypothesis of a research accident in ...