{"id":571915,"date":"2026-08-28T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=571915"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:11:49","slug":"new-details-emerge-about-cia-director-s-visit-to-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/new-details-emerge-about-cia-director-s-visit-to-moscow","title":{"rendered":"New Details Emerge About CIA Director\u2019s Visit To Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Media outlets have published new details about CIA Director <strong>John Ratcliffe<\/strong>\u2019s visit to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia\/john-ratcliffe-moscow-russia-visit-cia-068e8ef4?mod=hp_lead_pos9\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> writes that only a limited number of people knew about Ratcliffe\u2019s trip. Several aides to the U.S. president who would normally have been expected to know about such a trip were unaware of the visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/27\/us\/politics\/cia-director-russia-ukraine.html\">The New York Times<\/a> presented its own account of the purpose of the visit. Earlier, WSJ and Politico reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wsj-cia-chief-warned-russia-against-attacks-on-nato\">Ratcliffe<\/a> warned Russia against a possible attack on one of the NATO countries to test the alliance\u2019s unity.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NYT, the CIA director conveyed to FSB Director <strong>Alexander Bortnikov<\/strong> the U.S. assessment of the consequences of Russian aggression against Ukraine and called for the resumption of peace talks. The newspaper notes that U.S. intelligence has long questioned whether Putin is receiving a full and accurate picture of the situation on the front and the consequences of the war for Russia. Ratcliffe\u2019s task was to present such an assessment. At the same time, the CIA director did not threaten Russia with consequences if it failed to heed U.S. calls to resume negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media outlets have published new details about CIA Director John Ratcliffe\u2019s visit to Moscow. The Wall Street Journal writes that only a limited number of people knew about Ratcliffe\u2019s trip. Several aides to the U.S. president who would normally have been expected to know about such a trip were unaware of the visit. The New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":571914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a9134b97dc8c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"New Details Emerge About CIA Director\u2019s Visit To Moscow"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[143122],"class_list":["post-571915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}