US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that COVID-19 may have come from Wuhan lab

April 8, 2025

The never-before-published analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) points out that the lab in question – the Wuhan Institute of Virology – was highly capable of genetic manipulation, and includes an assessment that the genome of the coronavirus strain that caused COVID-19 is “consistent with the hypothesis” that it was “a lab-engineered virus” that “escaped from containment.”