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CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced visit to Moscow this week for discussions between US and Russian intelligence services, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Ratcliffe’s presence in the Russian capital was first reported after flight-tracking data showed a US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III travelling from Joint Base Andrews to Riga before continuing to Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on Tuesday. A convoy carrying US diplomatic plates was later seen in central Moscow.



Legacy media outlet CBS News subsequently reported that Ratcliffe was in the city for meetings, citing people familiar with the visit. His stay reportedly lasted around eight hours, although it remains unclear whether other senior American officials accompanied him.

Asked about the purpose of the trip, Peskov described it simply as “contacts between security services” and declined to elaborate. He separately told TASS that no meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin had been scheduled.

Peskov later said Putin had been informed about the discussions and characterised direct engagement between the two countries’ intelligence agencies as “a positive phenomenon.” However, he cautioned that it was “too early to say” whether the talks could contribute to improving the wider relationship between Moscow and Washington, which he described as being in a “deep crisis.”

Neither side has publicly disclosed the substance of the meetings. Media speculation has suggested possible topics could have included prisoner negotiations, efforts surrounding the Ukraine conflict, the war involving Iran and broader strategic-security issues.

Ratcliffe’s previous publicly acknowledged contact with senior Russian intelligence officials came in March 2025, when he spoke by telephone with Foreign Intelligence Service chief Sergey Naryshkin. Russia’s SVR said at the time that both sides had agreed to maintain dialogue aimed at reducing tensions and supporting international security and stability.

Tuesday’s visit is believed to be the first known trip to Moscow by a serving CIA director since William Burns travelled there in November 2021. Burns later met Naryshkin in Ankara in November 2022, where discussions reportedly focused on the risks of nuclear escalation and Americans detained in Russia.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Trying to get Russia to back down on supporting Iran, no doubt, given the timing. It wont happen, of course, but wishful thinking is all the US has, at this point.

  2. …Plans to carve-up Europe, and decimate the faux J3wi$h State of Ukraine with an illegal DICKtaror who is also J3wi$h???
    Or-
    Russia gets Europe, the U.S. gets North Amerika ie Mexico (also with a J3wi$h President…), the U.S. and Canada plus Greenland!
    China gets the Asia-Pacific basin…
    Israel oversees all of this bizarre shit via the Mossad, the IDF Unit 8200, the compromised Alphabet Agencies of the U.S Government, and the merging of the IDF with the U.S. Armed Forces as per the NDAA 2026!
    https://rumble.com/shorts/v7d7j12?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a_s
    The end result of the IDF / NDAA merger?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNv9ipjU5Pw
    Massive Psy-Ops…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ6NPEDuZA
    How?
    https://jewtruth.com/video/wewillimposenoahidelawsonallcountriesrabbiyisraelariel/#6
    https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/it-begins-israel-to-host-worlds-first
    https://noahideworldcenter.org/pages/congress
    https://jewtruth.com/video/wewillimposenoahidelawsonallcountriesrabbiyisraelariel/#6
    This is what will be blended in to every Nations’s laws & Constitutions!
    Until Iran wipes Israel and it’s Middle Eastern and Global Interference off the map at the urging of the world, everyone can now sees that Israel has been the root of all global problems!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5T5CF1jhTg
    https://www.facebook.com/euromaidanpress.en/posts/a-us-c-17-landed-in-moscow-on-25-august-and-flew-out-8%C2%BD-hours-later-on-board-was/1544419377700747/
    “Oh, Russia, please wait…don’t bomb Europe & the U.K….let’s wait until after Israel hosts the Noahide Law conference in Jerusalem so that Noahide Law can bring all nations together in peace after we carve-up geographic areas under our own Noahide Rules & Laws…!”
    IT’S ALL PART OF A BULLSHIT DEFLECTION SHOW VIA THE MIND-CONTROLLING GOVERNMENTS AND MEDIA!
    Govern = to control. Ment = mind, or…MIND CONTROL!

  3. Here’s the best reasoning I’ve seen so far as to why such an unscheduled trip was ever necessary https://southfront.press/2030-russia-deadline-and-america-diminishing-leverage/

    here’s the useful quote: “Ratcliffe flew to Moscow carrying intelligence assessments suggesting Russia is preparing for a possible new mobilization and has been probing NATO’s readiness to respond to further escalation”

    Such a trip by former CIA chief William Burns in November 2021 did not stop Russia launching their special military operation against Ukraine in early 2022.

    The USA is now militarily weaker than in 2022, so Russia certainly won’t meekly submit to American demands now.

    The doomsday theorists instead expect imminent offensives from Russia as Britain is warned it faces military retaliation https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/britain-warned-it-faces-military-retaliation-from-russia-king-leaves-buckingham-palace-prime-minister-leaves-10-downing-street

  4. Trump has lost WW3 far too quickly. Trump lost in Iran. Trump knows that NATO has lost the war in Ukraine. The Russians won’t waste their time talking with liars like Rubio, Kushner or Witkoff. So Trump sends the CIA director to BEG the Russians for a way out of this war.

    Scott Ritter’s view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z079cQiMzqU

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