The German government for years concealed an assessment by its Foreign Intelligence Service that a lab origin of COVID-19 was overwhelmingly likely, according to a Tuesday investigative report by two German newspapers.

Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported on Wednesday.

CLASSIFIED intelligence on the outbreak of Covid immediately “set off alarm bells”, a former US State Department investigator said. Arms control expert Thomas DiNanno was warned not to

German foreign intelligence reportedly concluded years ago that COVID-19 likely emerged from the Wuhan lab. Now, the cover-up may have finally ended.

Germany's spy agency thinks an accident in a Chinese lab likely led to the COVID-19 pandemic, media say. Evidence it collected allegedly indicates negligence at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The U.S. government is increasingly supporting the “lab leak” theory. But with no new evidence released, it’s impossible to evaluate the accuracy of that conclusion.

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligen

Germany's BND intelligence agency reportedly gathered plausible evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated with a laboratory leak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, according to reports by three newspapers on Wednesday.