Newly Revealed Records Show Biden Quashed CIA Report on His Links to 'Corrupt' Ukrainian Businesses

A newly declassified CIA document shows that former Vice President Joe Biden personally intervened to prevent the release of an intelligence report connecting his family to “corrupt” Ukrainian business dealings — an extraordinary move that officials now say was politically motivated.

The document, released by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in a post on X, sheds light on how Biden used his influence inside the intelligence community during the Obama administration to suppress damaging information ahead of the 2016 election.

According to the report, officials “within the administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed bewilderment and disappointment” over Biden’s December 2015 visit to Kiev.

“After the visit, these officials assessed that the U.S. Vice President had come to Kiev almost exclusively to give a generic public speech, and had not had any intention of discussing substantive matters with Poroshenko or other officials within the Ukrainian government,” the report read.

Even more revealing, the classified document noted that “officials within the Poroshenko administration privately mused at the U.S. media scrutiny of the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corrupt business practices in Ukraine.”

“These officials viewed the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corruption in Ukraine as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.”

At the bottom of the heavily redacted report is a telling message from early 2016: “I just spoke with VP/NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding.”

According to Fox News, a senior CIA official confirmed that Biden “expressed a preference to not share the report,” a directive that came through the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) Briefer — the official conduit for intelligence reporting to top executive leaders.

The same CIA official told Fox that such interference was “extremely rare and unusual” and “inappropriate to go outside of the intelligence community and inquire with the White House on the dissemination of a particular report for what appears to be political reasons.”

Despite analysts concluding that the information “met the threshold for dissemination,” the official said, “based on the Office of the Vice President’s preference, the information was never shared outside of the CIA.”

Director Ratcliffe said he released the document as part of an effort to expose how intelligence had been weaponized for political purposes.

“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,” the CIA official explained. “We believe transparency is important. We will release information and avoid any future weaponization of the intelligence community.”

The revelations also revive scrutiny over Biden’s actions in Ukraine at the time. In December 2015, Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings, the energy company that placed Hunter Biden on its board and paid him tens of thousands of dollars per month. Just months later, in March 2016, Biden leveraged $1 billion in U.S. aid to pressure Ukraine into firing Shokin — effectively ending the investigation into Burisma.

The newly released CIA document appears to confirm what many conservatives have long alleged: that Biden and his family’s dealings in Ukraine were protected from scrutiny by both foreign and domestic officials — at the highest levels of American intelligence.