Naryskin, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), had met CIA Director William Burns in Ankara in November.
The Kremlin said today that any possible meeting between the head of the Russian spy agency Sergey Naryskin and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns would “make sense”.
“It cannot be ruled out, and of course this kind of dialogue makes sense,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He said, however, that he has no information if there is any specific date for such a meeting.
Naryskin, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), met Burns in Ankara in November.
U.S. officials said at the time that Burns drew Naryskin’s attention to the consequences of the possible use of nuclear weapons and raised the issue of American prisoners in Russia.
Asked if there would be another such meeting, Naryskin told the TASS news agency: “It is possible.”
He added that the meeting with Burns was essential and that it allowed Russia to clarify its position, according to TASS.
Burns served as the US ambassador to Russia and was sent to Moscow in late 2021 by President Joe Biden to draw attention to Putin’s troop deployment around Ukraine.
Naryskin said Russia has an “unprecedented” cooperation with China, including the exchange of large amounts of operational and signals intelligence.
He noted that Russia is developing broad intelligence relations with Iran, saying “some special services are our partners.”
Naryskin added that he occasionally had talks with heads of European intelligence services, whom he did not name, about the situation in Ukraine, according to TASS.
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