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

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 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 Central Intelligence Agency previously said that two explanations were plausible, a lab leak or a natural source for the virus. Yet under new agency director John Ratcliffe, the CIA has changed ...

In a fresh analysis, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believes that the Covid-19 virus ‘more likely’ leaked from ...

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.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) now believes that the COVID-19 virus originated from a lab in China, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Five years after Chinese authorities first confirmed ...

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

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.

"CIA assesses with low confidence that a research ... joint expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan," foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.

The COVID-19 virus "more likely" originated from a research lab in China, the CIA now says, though it has "low confidence" in its determination.