World’s Spy Chiefs—Including China’s—Meet in Secret Conclave in Singapore

World’s Spy Chiefs—Including China’s—Meet in Secret Conclave in Singapore
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and CIA Director William Burns depart an event where President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House on May 25, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Senior officials from about two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.

Such meetings are organised by the Singapore government and have been discreetly held at a separate venue alongside the security summit for several years, they said. The meetings have not been previously reported.