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The CIA chief and his Russian counterpart are going to chat regularly now
Russia's intelligence agency said its chief spoke to the head of the CIA on Tuesday, the first reported contact between the pair in over two years.
CIA head, Russian spy chief speak by phone, first such contact in 27 months
The heads of U.S. and Russian spy agencies have spoken by phone and agreed to keep up regular contacts to lower the temperature in U.S.-Russia relations, news reports said Wednesday. In the first such contact in more than two years,
US and Russian spy chiefs speak amid Ukraine war talks
CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Sergei Naryshkin, chief of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, spoke over the phone Tuesday amid recent peace talks with Ukraine, endorsing a 30-day
Russian Spy Chief Speaks with CIA Director, Here's What They Discussed
CIA Director CIA John Ratcliffe and the head of the Russian external intelligence agency SVR, Sergey Naryshkin, spoke on the phone on Tuesday, according to the state news agency TASS as quoted by Al Arabiya.
Chiefs of CIA and Russian foreign intelligence hold phone call
John Ratcliffe, Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, and Sergei Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, held a telephone conversation on 11 March. Source: European Pravda,
Putin's spy chief holds phone call with CIA director
Russia's foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, held a phone call on Tuesday with the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Heads of CIA, Russian intelligence agency SVR get on a phone call after several years
The leaders of United States and Russian intelligence communities had a unprecedented telephone discussion on Tuesday, in which they decided to keep in touch regularly in a bid to relieve tensions between Russia and the United States,
CIA Chief John Ratcliffe Meets With Russian Spy Master: Here's What They Discussed
The rare exchange between SVR and CIA signals a potential shift in Washington-Moscow relations.
Russian and U.S. Spy Chiefs Hold First Talks in Years, Agree to Regular Contact
The heads of the U.S. and Russian intelligence agencies spoke by phone and agreed to maintain regular contact in an effort to ease tensions between the two countries, Russian state media reported Wednesday.
CIA director, Putin's spy chief hold first phone call in more than 2 years: report
The directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service spoke by phone for the first time ...
Not just improvement, but normalization of relations between Russia and the United States: results of the dialogue between the SVR and the CIA
The conversation that took place the day before, on March 11, between the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) ...
Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US ...
CIA Director says US halted intel sharing with Ukraine following aid pause
The CIA boss said he thinks pause “will go away” and that the US “will work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine as we have to ...
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Russia receives truce proposal with caution: ‘Any agreement must be on our terms, not American’
The Kremlin will wait for Washington to inform it of the details of the meeting with Ukrainian representatives, while Russian ...
Russia likely to ‘communicate’ with US soon, confirms RFA after Jeddah talks on Ukraine ceasefire
The announcement also comes after US President Donald Trump said he would likely speak to President Vladimir Putin this week ...
CIA fires some recently hired employees
The CIA has fired some probationary employees as part of the Trump administration’s broad efforts to shrink the federal ...
As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S.
Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign ...