The review focused on the 2016 assessment's claim "that Russian President Vladimir Putin 'aspired' to help then-candidate Donald Trump win the election." ...

The White House’s new website comes after a modest endorsement of the lab leak theory from the Central Intelligence Agency. In January, an agency spokesperson said that the CIA has assessed that ...

But it hasn’t.” The federal website Covid.gov, which previously linked to information about vaccines, testing and treatment, now redirects to the White House’s lab leak website.

Several viral Instagram posts claim that the agency now supports the lab leak hypothesis. “The CIA says COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak,” reads two versions of the post.

Five years after the first COVID-19 deaths were reported in Wuhan, China, a new assessment by the CIA concludes the virus was “more likely” to have leaked from a Chinese laboratory than spread ...

Jan. 29—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released a statement in response to the newly declassified CIA analysis on the origins of COVID-19 favoring the lab leak theory.

MONDAY, Jan. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- After years of speculation, the CIA has weighed in yet again: A lab leak is now ...

John Ratcliffe, the newly confirmed director of the CIA, has long been a proponent of the lab-leak theory of COVID’s origins despite the lack of evidence for it.

In 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reached a conclusion similar to the CIA’s new one: that a lab leak was responsible for the pandemic, though it could also say so only with “low ...

The CIA, now under new management, has declared that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid “most likely” originated and then leaked from a lab at Wuhan in Communist China. The Central Intelligence ...

China denies lab leak theory of COVID-19 origins amid CIA's low-confidence assessment. Scientists and the public debate continues over the virus's origins and China's transparency.