US EditionCIA Releases Ukraine Docs on Biden's 2015 Visit
CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassified a 2016 report showing Biden's team blocked intelligence on Ukrainian officials’ concerns about Hunter Biden’s business ties and U.S. policy perceptions.
- On October 7, 2025, the CIA declassified a 2015 intelligence report detailing Ukrainian officials' reactions to then-Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Kyiv.
- The declassification comes after a prolonged period during which Biden’s office, in early 2016, acted to block the distribution of intelligence detailing Ukrainian officials’ concerns about his family's business connections.
- The report indicates that Ukrainian officials were frustrated Biden’s visit mainly involved a public speech rather than substantive talks with President Petro Poroshenko.
- A senior CIA official called the decision to block the report 'extremely rare and unusual,' and stated that Biden 'expressed a preference to not share the report.'
- The release highlights ongoing debate over political influence in intelligence practices and perceptions of double standards in U.S. anti-corruption policy toward Ukraine.
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CIA Files Unearth Ex-US President Biden's Cover-up of Ukraine's Complaints on Corruption
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. In an extreme departure from normal practice, the report on Ukrainian displeasure was suppressed at the request of Biden's then-national security adviser, Colin Kahl, and did not appear in the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), according to a senior CIA official. World News | CIA Files Unearth Ex-US President Biden's Cover-up of Ukraine's Complaints on Corruption.
Rep. Comer to Newsmax: Biden Team ‘Buried’ Damaging Ukraine Intel
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told Newsmax on Tuesday that newly declassified documents confirm what Republicans have long alleged — that Joe Biden and his aides suppressed damaging intelligence in 2016 about his conduct in Ukraine and his family's business ties there. The documents released earlier Tuesday by CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly showed that the then-vice president's office intervened to block the distribution of an intelligence me…
Joe Biden's Team Blocked CIA from Distributing Report on Son Hunter’s Ukraine Business Dealings - The Virginia Star
by Steven Richards and John Solomon Then-Vice President Joe Biden’s team intervened in February 2016 to prevent the CIA from disseminating an intelligence report to policymakers about the perceptions senior Ukrainian officials held about his son’s business dealings, newly declassified memos show. The request that the intelligence community withhold the report from others in the U.S. government by Biden’s national security advisor was “extremel…
Biden buried CIA memo about son Hunter's corruption
A newly released CIA document revealed that Vice President Joseph R. Biden sought to suppress a 2016 intelligence report in which Ukrainian government officials "mused" about his family's ties to "corrupt business practices in Ukraine."
Biden Blocked CIA Report on Hunter’s Ukraine Ties in 2016.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Newly declassified memos reveal that Joe Biden’s team intervened in 2016 to prevent the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from disseminating an intelligence report regarding Ukrainian officials’ perceptions of Hunter Biden’s business dealings.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Then-Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, the CIA, and senior Ukrainian officials.WHEN & WHERE: February 2016, concerning Biden’s December 2015 visit to Kiev,…
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