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United States civilian foreign-intelligence agency.
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.
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Central Intelligence Agency statement, quoted in “The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding,” Associated Press, January 25, 2025.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified CIA assessment explicitly finds a research-related origin more likely than natural origin. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 5h ago
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AI Verified CIA assessment makes lab-related origin more likely than natural origin; recorded answer for matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 5h ago

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AI Verified AP report and corroborating reporting reproduce the CIA statement verbatim, including its low-confidence assessment. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 5h ago
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