> 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"
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"