The heads of U.S. and Russian spy companies have have spoken by telephone and agreed to maintain up common contacts to decrease the temperature in U.S.-Russia relations, information reviews mentioned Wednesday.
Within the first such contact in additional than two years, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and the top of SVR, Russia’s international intelligence company, spoke by telephone Tuesday, Russian state information company TASS mentioned.
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Ratcliffe and Sergei Naryshkin “agreed on common contact” between their companies “with a purpose to contribute to the worldwide stability and safety, in addition to a lower in confrontation in relations between Moscow and Washington,” TASS reported.
The decision was additionally the primary such contact since President Trump started his second time period vowing to finish the three-year Ukraine warfare.
It came about on the identical day that Ukraine backed a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire and agreed to instant negotiations with Russia to happen in Saudi Arabia.
The final reported contacts between the heads of the CIA and SVR got here in November 2022, when Naryshkin spoke with then CIA chief William Burns in Ankara, Turkey.
