NBC News: CIA Shifts to Lab Leak Assessment (2025)

News Report · NBC News; statement by CIA spokesperson · January 25, 2025

NBC News, January 2025: reprints a CIA statement that it now judges, with low confidence, that a research-related origin of COVID-19 is more likely than a natural one. Both remain plausible. A news copy, not an official CIA page.

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.

NBC News, January 2025: reprints a CIA statement that it now judges, with low confidence, that a research-related origin of COVID-19 is more likely than a natural one. Both remain plausible. A news copy, not an official CIA page.

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