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Then, U.S. government officials began seeing what Mr. Pompeo called “real tactical clues” that the virus came from a lab leak. The clues included doctors at the institute who reportedly contracted COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019 and secret military work being done inside the laboratory by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). “We started to see other significant circumstantial evidence suggesting this was the place,” Mr. Pompeo said. At the same time, the likelihood the virus behind COVID-19 emanated from a Wuhan wild animal market, as the Chinese government initially asserted, became more implausible. “The combination of those two things, taking place as we were just racking and stacking evidence, caused me by the spring of last year to conclude that it was pretty likely that it came from [the lab],” said Mr. Pompeo.

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