https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/ODNI-3-November...
> CIA now joins DOE and FBI in assessing the more likely cause of the first human COVID-19 infection was a research-related incident.
> CIA has low confidence in this judgment
> Given CIA's low confidence, credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information could prompt CIA to change its assessment.
> Four agencies and the National Intelligence Council (NIC) continue to assess that natural contact with an animal infected with SARS-CoV-2—or a closely related progenitor virus—was the most likely cause of the first human COVID-19 infection.
It's interesting that the BND has higher confidence in its assessment but not sufficient to support your statement that the lab leak hypothesis has "been confirmed by agencies around the world"