The CIA considers “more likely” that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory leak in China that naturally

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has stated this Saturday that it is “more likely” that the Covid-19 pandemic has had its origin in a laboratory leak in China, instead of coming from a natural source, a change in Position that contrasts with his previous statement, in which he argued that both scenarios were equally possible.

“The CIA evaluates with low confidence that an origin related to the research of the Pandemia of the COVID-19 Bloomberg Agency.

This position change takes place after the arrival at the address of John Ratcliffe, chosen by President Donald Trump. In an interview with Breitbart a day after his arrival, Ratcliffe said that the evaluation of the CIA on the origins of the COVID-19 would be “a matter of the first day.”

According to the spokesman, the CIA continues to evaluate both scenarios of origin as plausible and will evaluate any available intelligence report or open source information that can change its evaluation.

The Informa was prepared weeks before the arrival of Ratcliffe, during the Biden administration, after former director Bill Burns urged the agency to adopt a position in one sense or another. Ratcliffe decided to declassify the evaluation.

President Trump has previously used the term “Chinese virus” and has supported a similar rhetoric on several occasions.