# Why the CIA chief might have made a secret Moscow visit

https://mins.news/en/video/32457

- DW News, 2026-08-26 00:30 UTC
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- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxlz5DxGgVs

> U.S. media reports suggest CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a rare, unannounced trip to Moscow on Tuesday. Neither the CIA nor the Kremlin has commented. If confirmed, it would be his first known visit to Russia as CIA director and the highest-level intelligence trip between the two countries since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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