Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely source of the pandemic.

Since COVID-19 first took off, political leaders, infectious disease specialists, and the lay public have debated its origins. Eventually, two hypotheses emerged: Either the virus crossed over from ...

Various U.S. intelligence agencies have launched investigations into the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, often reaching “low ...

New director Ratcliffe releases a judgment Biden had kept secret.

CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible.” ...

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

The announcement follows the arrival of CIA Director John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the agency.

The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, ...

The CIA says both a natural origin and a lab leak "remain plausible" as potential sources of covid-19, following a review of ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated ... on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan," foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.

THE CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a Wuhan lab after years of denial under Biden's administration. In a bombshell declassified ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated ... or butchering those animals at a market in Wuhan, where the first human cases appeared in late November ...