MOSCOW, March 12, 2025 (BFF/AFP) - The head of the CIA and the director of Russia's foreign intelligence agency have spoken by phone and agreed for their agencies to keep up regular contacts, Russian news reports said on Wednesday.

In the first such contact in several years, CIA chief John Ratcliffe and SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin spoke by phone on Tuesday and "agreed on regular contact" between their organisations "in order to contribute to the international stability and security as well as a decrease in confrontation in relations between Moscow and Washington".