President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Oct. 22, 2024. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Then-Vice President Joe Biden said that he “strongly” preferred that the CIA not distribute a report about his visit to Ukraine in 2015, according to documents declassified by CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Oct. 7.
The report, labeled as “nondisseminated,” relayed how officials in Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s administration “expressed bewilderment and disappointment” following Biden’s trip to Ukraine in December 2015, assessing that he had gone to Kiev “almost exclusively to give a generic public speech, and had no intention of discussing substantive matters with Poroshenko or other officials within the Ukrainian government,” a U.S. intelligence report dated shortly after the visit states.
