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MEDIA: Director of the CIA secretly calls the head of Russian intelligence

01 July 2023 15:23 (UTC +04:00)

Director of the US Intelligence Service (CIA) William Burns called the director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FSI) Sergei Naryshkin on the eve of the weekend, APA reports citing Wall Street Journal.

The message is meant to tell Moscow that the US is not connected and has nothing to do with the attempted coup by a private military force paid for by Wagner, the reports said.

According to them, the phone conversation between Burns and Naryshkin was the highest level of interaction between the US and Russia since the mutiny. The conversation, initiated by the American side, aims to make it known that the USA is not involved in the actions of Wagner’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin.

And the US has no intention of escalating tensions in Russia, the newspaper writes, noting that the talks took place this week. According to the newspaper, Burns told Naryshkin that the US had no role in the uprising and that the incident was an internal Russian affair.