Reuters: CIA Director Pompeo defends meetings with Russian spy chiefs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday defended the practice of meeting with Russian spy chiefs, following reports that top U.S. intelligence officials last week met a Kremlin spymaster who is under U.S. sanctions.
“We periodically meet with our Russian intelligence counterparts for the same reason our predecessors did - to keep Americans safe,” Pompeo said in a letter to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer. There is nothing “untoward” about such meetings, he said.
“We cover very difficult subjects in which American and Russian interests do not align,” Pompeo said. “We vigorously defend America in these encounters and pull no punches - we never will.”
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WNU Editor: Last august CIA Director Pompeo was in Moscow to have talks with these very same Russian intelligence officials .... Mike Pompeo's Moscow Visit: What the CIA Director May Have Discussed In Russia (Newsweek). It is only natural that in the next visit .... which appears to happen every six months .... these Russian Intelligence Directors will go to the U.S..
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