The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the ... the infection spread to humans handling or butchering those animals at a market in Wuhan, where the first human cases appeared in late ...

"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 CIA now appears to slightly favor the lab-leak theory that suggests gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China may have directly contributed to the virus.

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 ...

The “CIA continues to assess that both research ... pointing to how the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in Wuhan, where a virology lab was researching coronaviruses at the time.

Such hedging notwithstanding, the announcement came as a thunderclap to China, which has long insisted that the Wuhan lab was not responsible. In response to the CIA’s new determination ...

Ratcliffe has long argued that the virus most likely emerged from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Ratcliffe told Breitbart News in an interview posted Friday that he wanted the CIA to ...

The analysis includes a closer look at high-security labs in Wuhan, China. Ratcliffe, a proponent of the lab leak theory, emphasized the importance of the CIA's involvement in the discussion ...

The CIA’s shift in assessment does not appear ... studies that concluded the virus could have come from a wet market in Wuhan where live animals were sold for food. However, the exact animal ...

He said the CIA “has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan. And so we will ...

He said the CIA “has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan. And so we will ...