A top-secret report from a "respected national laboratory" dated May 25, 2020 during the Trump administration declared a potential COVID-19 lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology plausible and in need of more investigation.
The contents of the classified document prepared by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California were the basis for the State Department investigation begun under former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to The Wall Street Journal.
President Joe Biden ended that investigation and called on U.S. intelligence agencies to deliver a report in 90 days on the origins of the global coronavirus pandemic.
The Biden administration report will focus on whether SARS-CoV-2 began with animal to human transmission or a laboratory accident.
Sources told the Journal the LLNL study was prepared by the lab's intelligence arm, called the "Z Division."-- excerpt, rest at link above --
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