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Exhibit 1072

Statement by President Joe Biden on the Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19

Exhibit 1072 · Presidential statement

Statement by President Joe Biden on the Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19

As of today, the U.S. Intelligence Community has “coalesced around two likely scenarios” but has not reached a definitive conclusion on this question.

States that the Intelligence Community 'coalesced around two likely scenarios' (animal contact or laboratory accident) without a definitive conclusion, with two elements leaning one way and one the other, each with low or moderate confidence, and directs a 90-day follow-up report. Issued the same day as the Facebook policy update.

Source
The White House
Date
26 May 2021
Quoted from
Statement, third paragraph
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/05/26/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-investigation-into-the-origins-of-covid-19/
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Finding INF-5.8
Primary record On 26 May 2021 the President stated that the Intelligence Community had "coalesced around two likely scenarios" and had not reached a definitive conclusion. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence's assessment of 29 October 2021 says all agencies assess natural exposure and a laboratory-associated incident as plausible, that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon, and that most agencies assess with low confidence that it probably was not genetically engineered.