T he Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recently assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China, though it maintains l

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

The Central Intelligence Agency previously said that two explanations were plausible, a lab leak or a natural source for the virus. But under new agency director John Ratcliffe, the CIA has changed its view, which is now in line with that of the Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.