CIA Director William Burns and Russia’s head of the SVR, Sergei Naryshkin, have met for talks in Turkey. According to comments from the White House, they discussed nuclear weapons and a prisoner swap for Brittney Griner. The World’s host Carol Hills interviews former CIA Moscow station chief, Paul Kolbe, about how these high-level meetings between intelligence heads work, and how the discussions are likely to have gone.
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