CIA director John Ratcliffe has long favored the lab leak theory. AP Critics have accused the Chinese Communist Party of not being transparent about the origins of COVID-19.

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

The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, though it has no conclusive evidence. U.S. World ...

The CIA said Saturday it has shifted its previous assessments and has concluded that it’s likely the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic but added ...

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. But some worry this could be an indication of politicization.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19 came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed , though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

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 ...

The CIA said Saturday that it now favors a Chinese laboratory leak as the mostly likely origin of the coronavirus pandemic, ...

CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak. The intelligence agency has said for years it couldn’t say with certainty where the pandemic originated from.

CIA lab leak A new CIA assessment about the origination of COVID was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump ’s pick to lead the spy agency .

The Central Intelligence Agency on Saturday said it has shifted its previous assessments and has concluded that it’s likely ...

CIA now favors lab-leak theory, as critics of covid response take power. New CIA Director John Ratcliffe ordered the analysis declassified, which a spokesperson described as a “low-confidence ...