When official channels freeze, another kind of conversation sometimes continues in the dark. That is the unwritten rule of great-power politics: ambassadors may be recalled, summits
Intelligence
Let us move on to the final topic of the day: Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow. Everyone was surprised by John Ratcliffe’s visit because it had not been announced; reports indicate it was a last-minute trip.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s reported visit to Moscow on 26 August was never going to be a purely diplomatic courtesy call. Intelligence chiefs do not fly to the capital of a nuclear-armed adversary at war in order to exchange weather reports.
David Galbraith, the incoming Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy, brings a career forged in conflict zones and crisis capitals to a frontline NATO state
FBI Director Kash Patel’s planned trip to Russia this October marks a rare and potentially pivotal moment in the often frosty relationship between American and Russian intelligence services.
In a dramatic escalation of geopolitical rhetoric, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service — the SVR, successor to the legendary KGB — has lobbed one of the most incendiary accusations of the post-Cold War era directly at the heart of Europe.
In a recent interview with Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti, Sergei Naryshkin, the Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR),