CIA director John Ratcliffe Moscow trip was about Iran, Ilves says

The CIA director met Russia's SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin, not Putin, and pressed Moscow over targeting data shared with Iran.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Russia's SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin in Moscow this week, not Putin.
Ilves notes Baltic threat assessments stayed unchanged, undercutting the NATO-warning story reported elsewhere.
Ilves says Moscow is feeding Iran targeting intelligence, the real subject of Ratcliffe's message.

Why it matters: If Moscow truly threatened the Baltics, would NATO's own threat assessment have stayed exactly the same?

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