The agency now believes “with low confidence” that Covid-19 likely came from a lab leak.
The CIA now believes it is “more likely” that Covid-19 originated from a lab-leak incident rather than a natural source, while cautioning that the conclusion is not final.
In a statement on Saturday shared by multiple media outlets, a CIA spokesperson said the US agency “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.” However, the agency said both origin scenarios are possible, and that the evaluation could change as new data become available.
The updated assessment comes after the confirmation earlier this week of John Ratcliffe as CIA director, following his nomination by US President Donald Trump. Ratcliffe has been a vocal supporter of the lab-leak version, calling it “the only theory supported by science, intelligence, and common sense.” Following the confirmation, Ratcliffe also said the CIA’s assessment of Covid’s origins would be a “day-one thing for me.”
The Washington Post, citing sources, reported that the CIA’s assessment was completed prior to Ratcliffe’s swearing-in, but was declassified and made public at his direction.
The heated debate over the origins of Covid-19, which caused a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, has long been at the centre of US politics. One main theory is that Covid-19 emerged from a natural source, specifically through zoonotic transmission from animals to humans. Another version claims that the virus accidentally escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China – the city where the pandemic first began. The Chinese government has rejected the lab-leak theory.
The US authorities remain divided on the matter. The FBI and the Department of Energy have leaned toward the lab-leak theory, while other agencies, including some within the intelligence community, favor the natural origin theory.
In November, Robert Redfield, a former director of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), claimed that Covid-19 was “intentionally engineered as a part of a biodefense program,” suggesting that the US role in this process was “substantial” given that it funded the relevant research.
An honest man finally in charge of the CIA does NOT mean it can suddenly be trusted.
Trump should dissolve the entire wretched, cancerous organisation. Secrets and lies are NOT required to run a government and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
They are only needed to run a CORRUPT government.
Trump is the problem. You have been fooled. He is going to fast track AI data centres to bring in total control using emergency powers. He has all the big tech billionaires supporting him. He is welcomed at Davos. He talks of Egypt and Jordan taking in the Palestinians from Gaza whose lives and homes were destroyed by the bombs the US supplies and the AI the big tech supplied. What about what the people of Gaza want?
When are you and everyone else who believed his bs going to admit you were fooled?
Inspite of possible pitfalls, the US/world is still better off with Trump.
Three years ago, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and the current White House’s Donald Trump openly declared that BTC was a scam. Fast-forward to today, and the Trump administration is promising a BTC “strategic reserve” stockpile while Fink (who has since launched a $50B+ BTC spot ETF) is at Davos front-running a 700,000-price target due to BTC’s critical role in a world of currency devaluation.
What CBDC’s really boil down to is the slow evolution to a cashless society where ciitizens money can be digitally monitored, withheld, frozen, taxed, penalized or otherwise controlled should such a citizen (or collection of citizens) challenge or threaten the state—rightfully or wrongly.
BTC is not a threat to the great digital re-set to come, it is a partner to the crime.
So I’m not fooled by Trump either.
“Covid-19, which caused a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people”
GTFOH
In March 2020, a superficial search led me to papers co authored by Baric and Co trumpeting their success with manipulating bat coronaviruses, incorporating gain of function and chimeric techniques. Clever people. That search led to an advisory that such GOF research was placed under a moratorium by Obama because of the dangers of possible/ probable lab leaks. Not too much of a deeper dive led to the obvious solution that the continuation of this work was contracted out to Baric’s long time buddies in Wuhan. At this stage I knew nothing about Dazak and the funding channel of Ecohealth. Speculation in our household about when someone would drop a word in the President’s ear about this US/Wuhan collaboration and he’d stop with the hand-wavey “China virus” thing. I understand that in April 2020 the Breggins made direct contact with the White House.
The evidence that there was an orchestrated cover up of US involvement was the narrative that the WIV lab leak theory was racist and the wet- market narrative was not racist. You’d have to be a complete and utter fwit not to see the idiocy of this.
Those who accepted the official narrative without question will never admit they were duped. This has very conveniently set the stage for the general population to accept that we humans are at constant risk of animal viruses which suddenly develop the ability for human to human transmission. And a desperate need for magical potions to protect us.
The Alphabet Agencies, as well as the WHO with the approval of the WEF knew full well what was happening.
Pfizer sent out warnings and the NZ Labour (Communist) Government was fully aware of this, but chose to ignore the same and make the WEF-approved Deagel 2025 Forecast come into fruition for ‘population reductions’ over3-5 years, helped along by more bio-weapons disguised as animal-to-human pathogenic diseases.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-09-02-former-pfizer-vp-warns-booster-shot-extermination-weapon.html#
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-zealand-modern-day-dystopia-firearms-banned-new-dawn-magazine-censored-new-prime-minister-once-suggested-hunting-down-unvaccinated-so-what-could-go-possibly-wrong/5806511
https://expose-news.com/2024/03/23/distracted-princess-kate-deagel-forecast-confirmed-by-pfizer/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-archbishop-carlo-vigano-statement-meeting-medical-doctors-covid-ethics-international-world/5845737
The CIA and most all Alphabet Agencies are not ‘fit for purpose’. Trump (a J3wi$h U.S. President) will not touch this subject, as he designated himself as the ‘Father of the Vaccine’ via ‘Operation Warp Speed’!
Operation paperclip.
It was planned long ago by the US vulture.
Katheryn Watts ( published on substack) did a research of all the laws that were implemented to make it possible. And she went back to many years
The rol out of the ” vax” was done by the MoD . In europe by NATO.
Sorry, i did not keep the links
Well fancy that! What a surprise! The CIA can not be trusted in any way but this is hardly a revelation, to many of us, either……..
Operation paperclip.