CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday announced the release of newly declassified documents detailing how then-Vice President Joe Biden and his team sought to bury a 2016 intelligence assessment that painted a deeply unflattering picture of his diplomacy in Ukraine — and raised concerns about his family’s business ties there.
“Today, I declassified CIA intelligence regarding Ukraine after determining it is in the public interest,” Ratcliffe wrote Tuesday morning on X, linking to the now-public report.
The documents include emails and internal communications indicating that Biden’s office intervened to stop the distribution of the assessment, which Ukrainian officials described as highlighting “bewilderment and disappointment” over his lack of substantive engagement during a 2015 trip to Kyiv.
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