US_ CIA Analysts Believed COVID-19 Came From Lab, Leaders Buried Assessments: Whistleblower (Zachary Stieber - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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CIA Analysts Believed COVID-19 Came From Lab, Leaders Buried Assessments: Whistleblower

James Erdman III, a senior CIA operations officer, disclosed details during testimony on Capitol Hill.

CIA whistleblower James Erdman III, a senior operations officer, arrives to a hearing with the Senate Homeland Security Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, on May 13, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
5/13/2026|Updated: 5/13/2026


CIA experts believed that COVID-19 likely came from a laboratory in China, but leaders in the agency changed those conclusions, a senior CIA officer told the Senate on May 13.

As early as 2020, many people within the CIA assessed that the most likely origin of COVID-19 was the high-level laboratory in Wuhan, China, where the first cases appeared in 2019, James Erdman III, a senior CIA operations officer, said in Washington in testimony to a Senate committee.

Erdman, who led an investigation into how intelligence officials handled assessments of the origin of COVID-19, said that documents obtained during the probe show that as of Aug. 12, 2021, the CIA was considering describing the origin as a lab leak. That changed five days later.

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