MOSCOW. Sept 6 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and the United States' CIA hold regular consultations, although they are not frequent, Service Director Sergei Naryshkin said.
"Consultations between the Foreign Intelligence Service and the CIA are infrequent but regular," Naryshkin said in an interview with the National Defense magazine.
"Professional dialogue is useful in principle, for instance, for lowering international tensions and lessening misunderstandings between countries," he said.
"However, I have to admit that our U.S. and other vis-a-vis are unable to disregard ideological cliches even in such businesslike tete-a-tete conversations. Still, I do not rule out that things may change as Russia attains the goals of the special military operation," Naryshkin said.