CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly arrived in Moscow on an unannounced trip on Tuesday, according to US media outlets.
CBS News reported that Ratcliffe was in the Russian capital, citing sources familiar with the situation.
Neither Washington nor Moscow have confirmed Ratcliffe’s presence, and it was not immediately clear who the US spy chief was expected to meet or what would be discussed.
News of the visit came after a US Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport earlier in the day.
Flight-tracking data showed that the aircraft had arrived in Moscow from Riga. It landed in the Latvian capital on Sunday after departing from Camp Springs, Maryland, home to Joint Base Andrews near Washington.
