Biden asked the CIA to suppress 2015 Ukraine intelligence report, documents show

Then-Chairman Joe Biden in 2015 told the CIA that he “strongly preferred” an intelligence report documenting Ukrainian officials’ concerns with his family’s ties to “corrupt business deals in the country” not be made public”—and so that was not the case, according to an email and newly unsealed records.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe classified the heavily redacted records, which he said he believed was an example of the “politicization of intelligence.”

Fox News Digital obtained the classified video documents, which were discovered during a CIA review of the agency’s historical records.

A senior CIA official briefed Fox News Digital on the declassified documents and intelligence, saying the intelligence was discovered along with an email showing that Biden “expressed a preference not to share the report.”

Representatives for Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

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CIA officials discovered an email dated February 10, 2016, with the subject line: “Re: OVP inquiry regarding draft [REDACTED]“The email was sent to the CIA.

The email was labeled, and crossed, as “secret.”

“Good morning, I just spoke with the VP/NSA, and he would strongly prefer the report not to be published. Thanks for understanding,” says the email, signed with his name, but with the title “PDB Briefer.” “PDB” is the Presidential Daily Brief.

The report in question included intelligence revealing that Ukrainian officials view the Biden family’s alleged ties to corrupt business practices in Ukraine “as evidence of a double standard within the United States government on matters of corruption and political power.”

“Intelligence officials agreed that at the time of collection, it would have met the count [for dissemination]But based on the Office of the Vice President’s preference, the information was not shared outside the CIA.”

The CIA, during its review, confirmed that Biden’s request was granted and that the intelligence report “was not made public.”

The senior CIA official told Fox News Digital that it was “extremely rare and unusual” and “inappropriate to come out of the intelligence community and inquire with the White House about releasing a particular report for what appear to be political reasons.”

The newly classified intelligence report, which Biden has sought to keep private, was a subject line for: [REDACTED] Ukrainian government officials to early December visit of senior US government officials.”

The document states the information was dated December 2015. The document was created in 2016.

At the time, Biden was Vice President and was managing US relations and policy for the Obama administration.

The intelligence document stated, “Officials in the administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed concern and disappointment on December 7-8, 2015 for the Vice President of the United States to Kiev, Ukraine.”

“These officials have highlighted that prior to the visit, the Poroshenko administration and others [REDACTED] “Ukrainian officials expected that the Vice President of the United States would discuss personnel matters with Poroshenko during the visit, and assumed that the Vice President of the United States would advocate for or against specific officials within the Ukrainian government.”

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“Following the visit, these officials assessed that the Vice President of the United States had arrived in Kiev almost exclusively to deliver a general public address, and they had no intention of discussing substantive matters with Poroshenko or other officials within the Ukrainian government,” the intelligence states.

“After the visit of the US Vice President, [REDACTED] Officials within the Poroshenko administration privately reflected on US media scrutiny of the vice president’s American family’s alleged ties to corrupt business practices in Ukraine, “states intelligence agency.

Biden, on December 9, 2015, gave a speech in Ukraine, where he discussed corruption in the country.

“It is not enough to create a new anti-corruption office and create a special prosecutor to fight corruption,” Biden said in the speech. “The District Attorney’s Office desperately needs reform.”

In this speech, Biden also said that Ukraine’s energy sector needs to be competitive, governed by market principles — not sweetheart deals.”

“It is not enough to push laws to increase transparency regarding official sources of income,” he said. “Senior elected officials have a duty to eliminate all conflicts between their business interest and their governmental responsibilities. Every other democracy in the world – this system relates to it.”

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At the time, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was investigating the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings. Several months later, in March 2016, Biden successfully pressured Ukraine to remove Shokin. At the time Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings, Hunter Biden had a highly lucrative board role, taking home tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Biden, at the time, threatened to withhold $1 billion in critical US aid if Shokin was not released.

“I said, ‘You’re not getting a billion.’ … I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours.’

Biden brought back the conversation during a Council on Foreign Relations event In 2018.

But during his first term, President Donald Trump was impeached after a July 2019 phone call in which he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch investigations into the Biden family’s actions and his business dealings in Ukraine, specifically of Hunter Biden’s companies in the successful Joey Biden effort to extort the former Proctor.

At the same time as this call, Hunter Biden was under federal investigation, motivated by his suspicious foreign dealings.

Trump was acquitted in February 2020 on both articles of impeachment against him — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — after his impeachment by the House of Representatives in December 2019.

Meanwhile, the classified intelligence report was a “warning,” stating that “due to extreme sensitivity, this report should only be distributed to equivalent recipients.

He added: “Any discussion or reference to the information in this report [REDACTED] Strictly prohibited. Any references to this report in derived intelligence or completion must include this warning. “

A senior CIA official told Fox News Digital that Ratcliffe believes the suppression of such intelligence is an example of “politicization of intelligence.”

“Director Ratcliffe believes this is an example of the politicization of intelligence that we need to work on to eliminate what is unheard of,” a senior CIA official told Fox News Digital. “We believe transparency is important. We will release information and avoid any future weaponization of the intelligence community.”

As for the heavily redacted nature of the intelligence report, a senior CIA official told Fox News that the agency is “careful to protect CIA sources with updates.”

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The official stressed that Ratcliffe believes in “utmost transparency” and said he will continue to raise the bar of CIA information and intelligence “when it serves the public’s interest.”

Meanwhile, the House launched an impeachment inquiry against Biden during his presidency, finding, after years of investigation, that he engaged in “irresponsible conduct,” “abused his office,” and “defrauded the United States to enrich his family.”