What Is Known About the CIA Chief's Surprise Visit to Moscow?
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CIA chief John Ratcliffe made a surprise visit to the Russian capital on Tuesday for talks that have been shrouded in mystery — until now. Kremlin's summary of discussions Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Vladimir Putin was briefed on the outcome of the meetings but did not reveal any further information. Putin and Ratcliffe did not meet, he said. Instead, he met with his counterpart at Russia's FSB, Alexander Bortnikov. Peskov said it was t…
The US did not brief its European allies on the substance of CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s talks in Moscow, Bloomberg reports, citing European officials
None of the officials Bloomberg spoke with received details from Washington about Ratcliffe’s discussions with Russian Foreign Intelligence Service chief Sergei Naryshkin. Their assessments of the trip’s purpose are instead based...
Mustafa Kemal Erdemol wrote: Not frequent, but not unusual either: The CIA Chief's routine visit to Moscow.
The media in Russia and the West continue to discuss a visit to Moscow by US CIA head John Ratcliffe, recalling that on August 25, he made an undeclared visit to Moscow: a military transport aircraft, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, flew from Andrews' American Airbase in Maryland, stopped in Riga and then landed at the Moscow airport of Vnukovo. Later in Moscow, a motorcade of cars with United States diplomatic plates was observed, but who Ratcliff…
U.S. President Donald Trump personally sent the head of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, to Russia, in secret from high-ranking White House officials, writes The Wall Street Journal with reference to sources. According to the interviewees of the publication, the trusted associates of Trump and military commanders who would normally have been informed of such a visit were not informed of the visit. The Wall Street Journal sources in Western European inte…
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