CIA Chief Ratcliffe Leads US Delegation to Cuba to Urge Talks

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe led a US delegation to Cuba and conveyed to officials there that the administration wished to negotiate with the communist government, but only if it made changes, an agency official said Thursday.

The unusual visit to the island nation by the head of a US spy agency unfolded as the Trump administration has grown increasingly frustrated by what it sees as a lack of progress on forcing Cuban leadership to open the island’s economy and political system despite intensifying pressure from Washington.