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German spy agency concluded COVID virus likely leaked from lab, papers say

  • The German Foreign Intelligence Service assessed that a lab origin of COVID-19 was overwhelmingly likely, estimating a probability between 80 to 95% according to an investigative report by Die Zeit and Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
  • Chancellery Chief of Staff Wolfgang Schmidt was briefed about the lab origin assessment, according to the investigative report.
  • The CIA updated its assessment of COVID origins to likely a lab leak with low confidence, influenced by the findings of the German intelligence.
  • The German government's reluctance to disclose its findings may have been affected by prominent virologists asserting a natural origin of the virus.
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After the CIA, the German spy agency BND now also says it is '80 to 95 percent' certain that corona did not come from an animal market, but from a...

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Portfolio.hu broke the news in on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
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