CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but has “low confidence” in its assessment
The Central Intelligence Bureau now believes COVID-19’s popular virus According to an evaluation released on Saturday, even if the assessment has “low confidence” in China in his own conclusion, it is most likely to originate in the laboratory.
This discovery is not the result of any new intelligence. The report was completed in accordance with the requirements of William Burns, director of the Biden government and former Central Intelligence Bureau. It was decrypted and led the agency John Ratcliffe on Saturday’s order on Saturday, and he was sworn in on Thursday.
“The Central Intelligence Bureau’s research origin in COVID-19’s popularity is more confident to evaluate the natural origin based on available reports. CIA continues to evaluate COVID-COVID-19 major popularity is still reasonable.
Jake Sullivan, a national security adviser to Biden Government, ordered a category category of American intelligence in December. The review has collected the origin of the COVID-19. A current and a former US official confirmed to CBS News. Essence Shatin convened an external expert group to evaluate intelligence and asked the intelligence community to review its data and conclude. Both officials told CBS news that there was no new “smoking gun”, but a low confidence assessment based on the same data. Burns ordered a review before leaving the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on the grounds of high decision makers.
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Subtoral discovery shows that the agency believes that a large amount of evidence makes the origin of the laboratory more likely than the natural source. However, the agency’s assessment has low confidence in this conclusion, which indicates that the evidence is insufficient and has no conclusion or contradiction.
Early report on the origin of covid-19 Whether the coronary virus comes out of the Chinese laboratory may be wrong or appears naturally. New assessment is unlikely to resolve debate. In fact, intelligence officials said, because because Chinese authorities lack cooperationEssence
The conclusion is not new evidence, but a new intelligent analysis of the scientific characteristics of virus transmission, its scientific characteristics, and the work and conditions of the Chinese virus laboratory.
Legislators exerted more information about the origin of the virus to the American spy agency. The origin of the virus caused a blockade, economic turmoil and millions of deaths. This problem has significant domestic and geopolitical significance, because the world continues to work hard to cope with the heritage of great popularity.
Tom Cotton, the Republican senator of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Saturday that he “ended the Central Intelligence Agency in the last few days of the Biden government. Ratcliffe evaluation.
In a statement, cotton said: “Now, the most important thing is to let China pay the price for the release of world plague.”
The Chinese authorities refute the guessing of Kokide’s origin, which is not beneficial and motivated by politics. Saturday, a spokesman for the American Embassy in China said that the report of the Central Intelligence Agency was not reputation.
Embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu said in a statement sent to the Associated Press in an email: “We firmly oppose the political and stigma of the source of the virus, and once again call on everyone And stay away from conspiracy theory. “
Although the origin of the virus is still unknown, scientists believe that the most likely assumption is that it circulates in bats like many coronary viruses, and then infected with another species, maybe raccoon dogs, CIVET cats or bamboo mice. Conversely, people who are infected to human treatment or slaughter these animals in the Wuhan market Human cases appeared in late November 2019Essence
However, some official investigations raised a question, whether the virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. Two years ago, a report from the Ministry of Energy concluded that the most likely origin was the laboratory leak, although the report was also very low in confidence in the discovery.
In the same year, the FBI director Christopher Wray said his agent believed that the virus was “likely” to spread after escaping from the laboratory.
Ratcliffe served as the director of the National Intelligence Department in the first semester of Trump, and he said he also agreed to laboratory leakage scenes.
Ratcliffe said in 2023: “Laboratory leakage is the only theory of science, intelligence and common sense support.”
The Central Intelligence Bureau stated that it will continue to evaluate any new information that may change its evaluation.
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