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Newly declassified 2020 intelligence assessment found Wuhan lab’s conditions were ripe for potential coronavirus release

The previously undisclosed assessment from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was among nearly 400 pages of COVID-19 origins records released by ODNI, including emails showing analysts grappling with differing pandemic origin theories. 

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A newly declassified Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory assessment from May 2020 concluded that all of the conditions necessary for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified coronavirus were present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. 

Newly released U.S. intelligence memo reveals plans for independent COVID origins study

New documents, obtained via a FOIA lawsuit, include an NIC memo updating where U.S. spy agencies stand in the debate over whether the pandemic evolved naturally or from a lab incident

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Newly released intelligence records show that as recently as January 2025, the U.S. intelligence community planned to create an independent panel of outside experts to study how the COVID-19 pandemic began.

How Fauci, scientists with ties to Wuhan lab persuaded the intelligence community COVID had a natural origin

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Scientists with connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology — including Anthony Fauci — steered the U.S. national security state away from hypotheses about the origins of COVID-19 that could implicate their research, emails obtained through FOIA show.