Broad Institute scientist Alina Chan sparked controversy by suggesting COVID originated in a Chinese lab. Five years later, ...
“CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” a CIA spokesperson ...
Some time in early or mid-1949 a CIA officer named Bill (his surname is blacked out in the file, which surfaced in the early 1990s) asked an outside contractor for input on how to kill people.
The U.S. government is increasingly supporting the “lab leak” theory. But with no new evidence released, it’s impossible to ...
The “CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic remain plausible," the statement said. A U.S. official granted anonymity to share ...
The CIA clarified in its statement that both natural and lab-related origins remain plausible. The new assessment is based on analyses of existing intelligence, including the virus’s scientific ...