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New Declassified CIA Files Show Biden’s Effort to Quash Ukraine Report on Family Business Links
by Crime Beat
October 7, 2025
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Declassified CIA documents now public lay out how Joe Biden, as vice president in 2015, pushed to keep intelligence under wraps that detailed Ukrainian officials’ frustration over his family’s connections to questionable business activities in their country. The records, released by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, include an email from February 10, 2016, where a CIA briefer relayed Biden’s wishes: “Good morning, I just spoke with VP/ NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding.”
This message, originally marked secret, shows Biden stepping in to limit the spread of information that could have cast a shadow on his anti-corruption stance during trips to Ukraine.
The intelligence in question stemmed from reactions among Ukrainian government figures to Biden’s visit to Kiev in early December 2015. Officials in President Petro Poroshenko’s administration saw the Biden family’s alleged involvement in corrupt dealings as proof of a U.S. double standard on corruption and political influence. One assessment in the report put it plainly, noting that the situation “undermined the credibility” of Washington’s push against graft. Ukrainian leaders expected Biden to tackle real issues like personnel changes, but instead, he delivered what they viewed as a routine public address without diving into substance.
Biden’s speech on December 9, 2015, called out Ukraine’s need for genuine reforms. He declared, “And it’s not enough to set up a new anti-corruption bureau and establish a special prosecutor fighting corruption. The Office of the General Prosecutor desperately needs reform.”
He went further, insisting, “The energy sector needs to be competitive, ruled by market principles — not sweetheart deals,” and added, “Senior elected officials have to remove all conflicts between their business interest and their government responsibilities. Every other democracy in the world — that system pertains.”
These words carried weight at the time, yet they clashed with the reality of his son Hunter’s position on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy firm under scrutiny for corruption. Hunter pulled in substantial monthly payments—tens of thousands of dollars—while his father handled U.S. policy toward Ukraine.
That tension escalated when Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin investigated Burisma. By March 2016, Biden had leveraged U.S. aid to force Shokin’s removal, later boasting about it in a 2018 recount: “I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ … I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” referring to his talk with Poroshenko.
This move cleared a path for Burisma, raising questions about whether Biden’s actions protected family interests over broader U.S. goals. Records from the House Oversight Committee timeline show the Bidens and associates received $6.5 million from Ukrainian sources, including Burisma payments to Hunter starting in 2014, just as Joe Biden ramped up involvement in Ukraine’s affairs.
Ratcliffe’s decision to declassify these materials aimed at exposing what he saw as misuse of intelligence. A senior CIA official explained to Fox News, “Director Ratcliffe believes this is an example of politicization of intelligence that we need to work to eliminate and for what we have zero tolerance. We believe transparency is important. We will release information and avoid any future weaponization of the intelligence community.”
The report itself came with strict warnings against further sharing, emphasizing penalties for breaches to safeguard sources.
This revelation ties into broader scrutiny of the Bidens. The House launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, concluding he committed impeachable acts by abusing his office in dealings with Ukraine and other foreign entities. It echoes events from 2019, when President Trump urged Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy to probe the Bidens’ actions, leading to Trump’s impeachment by Democrats—though the Senate acquitted him in 2020. Federal probes into Hunter Biden’s foreign transactions, including those flagged as suspicious, have continued, with some intelligence veterans later warning of potential Russian disinformation efforts around the story.
These documents pull back the curtain on decisions that shielded potentially damaging details from wider view, fueling ongoing debates about accountability in Washington. With transparency now in play, they offer a clearer look at how personal ties may have intersected with official duties during Biden’s time in office.
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From America First Report
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