The Obama administration secretly withheld an intelligence briefing that raised red flags about Joe Biden's visit to Ukraine in 2015, according to newly declassified CIA documents.

While Vice President Biden was supposedly in Ukraine to promote democracy and root out corruption after the 2014 revolution, his presence there raised eyebrows, according to an eight-page memo that was made public by CIA director John Ratcliffe.

As reported by the New York Post, Biden's trip left President Petro Poroshenko and his government confused and "bewildered," with officials dismissing Biden's anti-corruption speech as "generic" and hypocritical as his own family fell under scrutiny for business dealings in Ukraine.

Biden-Ukraine report buried

The intelligence about the Ukrainians' concerns was suppressed from the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) at the request of then-vice president Biden's national security adviser Colin Kahl, a CIA official told reporters.

According to the February 2016 e-mail, Kahl "would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated."

“This is extremely rare and unusual,” the senior CIA official said. “Quite frankly, it is inappropriate to go outside of the intelligence community and inquire with the White House on a dissemination of a particular report for what appears to be political reasons."

The CIA uncovered the buried report and the e-mail as part of an "internal review of historical agency records and databases."

According to the buried report, Poroshenko's government expressed "bewilderment and disappointment" over December 2015 trip to Ukraine, where he gave a speech denouncing corruption as a "cancer."

"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 intelligence report says.

Corruption still being exposed

At the time, Biden was facing criticism in the U.S. media over his son Hunter's lucrative position as a board member of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, which was owned by Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky.

Devon Archer, Hunter's former friend and business associate, testified to Congress in 2023 that Burisma executives had asked Hunter to assist with "pressure" the company was facing within Ukraine.

In 2018, Joe Biden infamously boasted about leveraging the heft of the U.S. government to pressure President Poroshenko to fire a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, Viktor Shokin.

“I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden said during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”

The Biden family's corruption is still being exposed, with the New York Times reporting that Hunter proposed selling off land surrounding the U.S. embassy in Romania, which neighbors Ukraine.

Shortly before his presidency ended, Joe Biden pardoned his son for any crimes dating to 2014, the year Hunter began working for Burisma.