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.
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.
