L. Reshetnikov, a veteran of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, has sent a letter to William J. Burns, the director of the CIA, in response to an article titled "Spycraft and Statecraft: Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition."
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Dear Mr. Burns,
I have read with interest your article named “Spycraft and Statecraft: Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition” published by Foreign Affairs Magazine on January 30, 2024. I have worked myself for a long time in the system of Soviet, later Russian foreign intelligence, and I still keep in close touch with my SVR colleagues. I would like to give my assessment to the ideas you have presented.
I must admit that American and Russian understanding of the status of intelligence in the modern – transitional – period of international relations is much the same. Thus, I take as quite reasonable the assertion that the weight of intelligence services in the system of foreign policy has generally increas...
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