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 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 offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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 ...

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