Towing the line between diplomat and intelligence agent, Burns's trips to the region are shrouded under a cloak of mystery.

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WASHINGTON — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a laboratory, ...

(Ukrainian presidential press service/AFP/Getty Images) No one would ever refer to CIA Director William J. Burns as “Wild Bill,” the nickname of William J. Donovan, who led the OSS, the agency ...

As C.I.A. director, William J. Burns was deeply focused on China and Russia when the Middle East conflict plunged him back into his old life. By Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger Julian Barnes ...

William J. Burns: The blob meets the heartland Burns has brought an unusual synthesis of diplomacy and spycraft to the role of CIA chief. You can tell the story of sequential crises that beset ...

In a wide-ranging exit interview, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns about Russia, a potential ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, and the resurgence of ...

The finding, released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency, is not the result of new ...

In a wide-ranging exit interview, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns about the resurgence of ISIS,... In a wide-ranging exit interview, NPR's Mary ...