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In a new evaluation of the origins of pandemic, which killed millions of people, the CIA came to the conclusion that Covid-19 probably started as a leak from a laboratory in China.
The US intelligence agency said that he had “low trust” to come to the conclusion that the Covid 19 virus had left the research facility, and thus changed its earlier point of view that there was not enough information to conclude a conclusion get.
“Due to the available reporting with little certainty, the CIA assumes that a research-related origin of the Covid 19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin,” said the agency in a statement on Saturday.
“The CIA continues to assume that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of Covid-19 pandemic remain plausible.”
The US secret service, which is made up of 18 authorities, has been examining the origin of Covid-19 for four years to determine whether the virus is naturally from a wet market in Wuhan or whether it is leaked by the Wuhan Institute of Virology Chinese city.
The CIA joins the FBI and the energy department and comes to the conclusion that the virus comes from the Wuhan laboratory. However, she said that she “had little confidence in this judgment” and would “continue to evaluate all available credible new intelligence reports or open source information” that could change her assessment.
The new assessment was published as a CIA director just a few days after John Ratcliffe’s swearing-in.
In an interview with Breitbart News, after he was confirmed as a candidate by President Donald Trump for the management of the secret service, Ratcliffe said that he believes that intelligence and common sense “dictate that the origin of Covid is a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was “and this would make sure that” the public is aware that the agency (CIA) will disappear from the sidelines “.
A US official said that Bill Burns, CIA boss during the bidges, said the CIA team, who evaluated the evidence, said that the result was not to be given to the origin of Covid-19.
Burns’ instruction came when Jake Sullivan, who acted as a national security advisor, ordered the secret services to deal with the origins of pandemic again, while the bid team was preparing for his resignation.
The US official emphasized that the CIA had revised its assessment before Ratcliffe was sworn in as the new director.
“From the beginning I said that Covid probably comes from the Wuhan laboratories. The communist China had covered it up and the liberal media had reported about it, said Tom Cotton, the Republican Chairman of the Senate’s intended service.
“I am pleased that the CIA has come to the conclusion in the last days of the bid government that the laboratory leak theory is the most plausible explanation for the creation of covid, and I praise director Ratcliffe for fulfilling his promise, this conclusion To publish. “The most important thing is to have China paid for the fact that it has brought a plague across the world.”
The Chinese message in the USA did not respond to a request for comment.
The new change in the CIA assessment takes place a little more than a week after Trump has made his first phone call with the Chinese President Xi Jinping since at least 2021. While many foreign policy experts had expected that Trump had represented a hard line compared to China – especially in the trade area – during the week of his term, the president has so far held back with hard measures against Beijing.
In an interview with Fox News this week, Trump said that the tariffs gave him “enormous power” about China, but he “would rather not use it”.
He also signed a implementing regulation with which the deadline for the Chinese owner of Tikok was postponed to sell the popular video app to avoid a ban in the United States.
