On his way out, former CIA Director William Burns had called on the agency to take a stance on COVID-19’s origins instead of staying neutral, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

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 CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. Under its new director, John Ratcliffe , the agency released an assessment on the ...

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 Wakes Up About Covid’s Origin. ... That was the news this weekend after new CIA director John Ratcliffe released an agency assessment that the Biden Administration had declined to make ...

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 new, “lessons-learned” review ordered by Ratcliffe in May was meant to examine the tradecraft that went into the ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was "more likely" leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals.

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

NEW YORK – The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday ...

William J. Burns, who served as CIA director under Biden, requested that the agency’s analysts take a position on covid’s ...

A newly declassified CIA memo released Wednesday has raised questions about the intelligence community’s conclusion that ...