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Cia concluded that Covid-19 probably began as a leak from the Laboratory in China in a new estimate of the origin of the pandemic that killed millions of people.
The US intelligence agency announced that she had concluded with a “low confidence” that the Covid-19 virus had leaked from the research institution, changing its previous view that there was not enough information to make a conclusion.
“CIA estimates with low reliability that the origin of Pandemia Covid-19 is related to the research more likely than natural origin based on available reports,” the Agency said in a statement published on Saturday.
“CIA continues to evaluate that the scenarios of pandemia covid-19 are related to research and natural scenarios are still likely.”
The US intelligence community-consisting of 18 agencies-estimates the origin of the COVIDA-19 for the last four years to determine whether the virus naturally appeared from the wet market in Wuhan or leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. in the Chinese city.
The CIA joins the FBI and the Energy Department in the conclusion that the virus has originated from the laboratory in Wuhan. However, they said they had “low confidence in this judgment” and that “they would continue to evaluate all available credible new intelligence reports or an open source information” that could change their assessment.
The new estimate was published only a few days after John Ratcliffe laid the oath as a CIA director.
In an interview with Breitbart News after being confirmed as the election of President Donald Trump to run the Intelligence Agency, Ratcliffe said he believed that intelligence and common sense were dictated by the origin of COVIDA information at the Wuhan Institute of Virusology “and that he would ensure that” the public familiar with the agency [CIA] will get off the side. “
One US official said Bill Burns, CIA chief during Bide’s administration, said to the CIA team, who assesses evidence to take the attitude about the origin of the covid-19 but did not dictate the outcome.
Burns’s Directive arrived at the moment when Jake Sullivan, who was a national security advisor, ordered the intelligence community to once again look at the origin of the pandemic, while the Biden team was preparing to go from duty.
The US official emphasized that the CIA revised her estimate before Ratcliffe had laid the oath as a new director.
“From the beginning, I said that Covid was probably created in the laboratories in Wuhan. The communist cinema hid it, and the liberal media covered it, said Tom Cotton, a Republican head of the Senate intelligence committee.
“I am glad that in the last days of the Bide’s administration, CIA has concluded that the theory of leaks from the laboratory is most likely an explanation of the origin of Covid and praise the director of Ratcliffe, which fulfilled his promise to publish this conclusion. Now the most important thing is to make China pay for the liberation of the monster in the world. ”
The Chinese Embassy in the United States did not respond to the comment request.
The new CIA estimate change comes just over a week after Trump held his first telephone conversation with Chinese President XI Jinping of at least 2021. Although many foreign policy experts expected Trump to take a firm attitude towards China – especially in Term – in his first week on duty, the President has so far refrain from taking any sharp measures against Beijing.
In an interview with Fox News this week, Trump said that even though Customs give him a “huge power” over China, “he would rather not use it.”
He also signed an executive command that delays the Chinese owner of the Tictoka a deadline for the sale of popular video applications to avoid a ban in the United States.
