CIA director’s secretive visit to Moscow stirs mystery

A Kremlin spokesman said John Ratcliffe did not meet with Vladimir Putin and that it was "premature" to say whether the trip would affect fraught U.S.-Russia relations.

CIA director John Ratcliffe made a short visit to Moscow on Tuesday to meet with Russian officials for talks not announced by the White House or the Kremlin, according to multiple US reports.The large US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III took off from Riga in Latvia on Tuesday morning before flying across the border into