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CIA concluded that the new Coronavirus infection was probably a leak from a Chinese laboratory in a new evaluation of the dying pandemic.
The U.S. Information Organization has changed his position, saying that the information was insufficient to conclude, and concluded that the new Coronavirus was leaked from a research facility.
“The CIA is evaluated with low confidence that the origin of the pandemic of the new colon virus infection is more likely to be researched based on a series of reports that are available.” I mentioned in the Saturday statement.
“The CIA has continued to evaluate that both the new Coronavirus infection pandemic research and the scenario of nature are still appropriate.”
The US Information Organization, which consists of 18 institutions, has the origin of the new Coloronavirus for the past four years to determine whether the virus has naturally occurred from the fresh market of Wuhan or leaked from the Wuhan Virus Institute. I have evaluated it. In a Chinese city.
In cooperation with the FBI and the Ministry of Energy, the CIA concluded that the source of the virus was the Institute of Wuhan. However, the company said that “the reliability for this judgment is low,” and the company said, “We will continue to evaluate new and open source information and open source information, which may change the evaluation.
The new evaluation was published just a few days after John Latcriff was appointed Secretary of CIA.
In an interview with Britbert News after confirming that President Donald Trump was selected by President Donald Trump to the top intelligence agency, “the origin of the new Coloronavirus is a leak from the Wuhan Virus Research Institute. I believed that it was judged, and said that he would definitely act. “People are government agencies [CIA] I'm going to get out of the bystander. “
Mr. Mike Waltz in charge of National Security, Mike Waltz, claimed that the new Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was labeled as a “conspiracy theorist” claiming that it was the result of the leak in the lab. Ta.
“If you don't understand how the last pandemic happened, you can't stop the next pandemic,” Walz wrote about X.
According to some US officials, Bill Bahns, the CIA Secretary of the Biden administration, instructed the CIA team to take a position to the origin of the new Coronavirus infection, but the results were. He did not instruct it.
Mr. Burns's instructions ordered Jake Saliban, Assistant Secretary -General of the National Security issue, to reconsider the origin of the pandemic while the Biden Team prepared for his retirement. Was issued.
US officials stressed that the CIA had revised its evaluation before Latcriff was appointed Secretary.
“From the beginning, it has been said that the new Coronavirus was likely to occur at the Institute of Wuhan. Communist China concealed it and liberal media reported on behalf of them,” he said. The Committee's Republican Chairman Tom Cotton said.
“In the last few days of the Biden administration, the CIA was glad to conclude that the Laboratory's leakage was the most plausible explanation of the origin of the new colon virus, and promised to announce this conclusion. The most important thing to praise is to pay the world.
The Chinese embassy in Washington said it was strongly opposed to “politics and accusations of the source of viruses.”
“The so -called reporting of the United States has no substantial evidence, focusing on misleading conclusions, exposed to China, and forged. No, “said the embassy.
The CIA's new evaluation change has been made in more than a week since President Trump had a telephone talks for the first time since 2021, with China's President Xi Jinping. Many diplomatic experts expected President Trump to be the first presidential president, especially in trade issues. One week has passed since the inauguration, the president has so far strict measures against China.
In an interview with FOX News this week, Trump said, although tariffs gave China a “great power,” “it is not necessary to exercise it.”
He also signed a presidential decree to postpone the deadline for selling a popular video app in order to avoid the ban in the United States.
