CIA Now Says, With ‘Low Confidence,’ That Lab Leak Was Most Likely Source of Covid Pandemic

The agency’s new director says the new assessment was declassified so the CIA could ‘get off the sidelines.’

AP/Ng Han Guan, file
Security personnel at the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology at Wuhan, China in 2021. AP/Ng Han Guan, file

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.

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