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Washington Sends Its CIA Director to Moscow

Aug 27

The day's Debrief

Washington Sends Its CIA Director to Moscow

Donald Trump dispatched his CIA director to the Kremlin this week, an unusual channel that Moscow declined to receive at the top. Among the analysts we track, the reading was near-unanimous. They saw a sign of American weakness across Iran and Ukraine, not Russian.

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