John Ratcliffe on COVID-19 originated from a lab-related …

John Ratcliffe

CIA director, former DNI

The CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the world was because of a lab-related incident in Wuhan. And so we will continue to investigate that moving forward.

AI Verified (Jan 25, 2025)

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John Ratcliffe, quoted by AP News, “The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding,” January 25, 2025.

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

I've been on record as you know in saying I think our intelligence, our science, and our common sense all really dictate that the origins of COVID was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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