The cia officer had worked in American intelligence for more than 20 years. In 2016, as the country’s top intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia, she oversaw the production of a report, which described how Russia had meddled in that year’s presidential election in favour of Donald Trump. A few years later she returned to the agency as a senior manager, overseeing the cia’s operations and analysis relating to Russia and the former Soviet Union.
