CIA Director Called Russia to Make Clear That U.S. Had No Tie to Wagner Rebellion

William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, known as the chief of Russia’s international intelligence service after final week’s riot to guarantee the Kremlin that the United States had no involvement in it, in accordance to a U.S. official.

Mr. Burns known as Sergei Naryshkin, the chief of Russia’s international intelligence service, which is called the S.V.R., mentioned the official, who was briefed on the decision and spoke on situation of anonymity to focus on intelligence issues. The two males have met at the very least as soon as earlier than, in Turkey, to focus on issues over the specter of nuclear escalation in Russia’s conflict in Ukraine.

The C.I.A. declined on Friday to touch upon the matter, which was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The Biden administration has taken pains to emphasize to Russian officers that the United States was not concerned within the aborted efforts by Yevgeny V. Prigozhin and his Wagner personal army firm to drive Russian protection officers from their places of work in southern Russia or of their march to Moscow, and that the U.S. seen the matter as an inside Russian affair.

In public feedback, Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian international minister, has appeared to settle for these explanations, noting that the United States additionally urged Ukraine to chorus from attempting to reap the benefits of the riot. U.S. officers asked Ukraine not to perform any covert assaults.