“In connection with media inquiries as to whether the director of the CIA visited Bulgaria, we inform you that there was no such visit”, the government information service states.
Information has appeared in several Bulgarian media outlets that CIA Director William Burns may have been in Bulgaria this week, as part of an unannounced tour of Southeast Europe.
The CIA director visited Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo between August 21 and 22. Burns met with the leaders of these countries, and his visit to Serbia and Kosovo remained without official confirmation.