It’s a secret that’s why it was broadcast as “we don’t know except he went”. What head games these jerks play with each other.
This video indicates possibly YES to your assertion re: Kaliningrad, but I’m not so sure about your 2nd assertion. I hope we don’t find out, but probably will.
Would explain CIA Boss visits.
I don’t think anybody assert it was secred. Similar trip was made on the eve of Ukrainian war in December of 2021.
Maybe the attack was aimed at taking out a US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III, identified by flight trackers as RCH4555. The flight originated from Joint Base Andrews to Riga on Sunday evening before continuing on Tuesday to Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. Later that day a motorcade with US diplomatic plates was spotted in central Moscow.
If true then the CIA could, or may want get rid of folks sympathetic to Moscow’s diplomatic positions, but blame it all on Russia’s inability to protect American agents. Who could prove anything else?
JPF has written on the distinct probability the CIA had connections with former Nazis after World War II, primarily through the recruitment of individuals like General Reinhard Gallen, who led a wide network of ex-Nazi intelligence operatives.
es ist nicht ‘Gallen’, aber ‘Gehlen’… danke sehr
For those wondering about the use of the C-17 cargo plane to transport Ratcliffe into Russia, the answer to that should be in the video cited by beaver in this post.
According the source in that video, the US Military has entire interchangeable “pods”/units that can be simply slid into the cargo bay of a C-17.
In the case of Rattcliffe, they inserted some type of “intelligence working/living quarters” par excellence, right into the belly of the plane. This “pod” even contained a so-called SCIF (“Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility”).
Maybe its a UK thing, Times radio interview with military ‘experts’ framed it as secret talks which is obviously ridiculous but hey, thats fruitcake Blighty for you.
There was mention of a US motorcade after landing, were vehicles in the cargo hold too? As the head of a faction of the deep state CIA, he would need to be “plugged” in even away from home.
That’s very cool. Had to look it up.
“Roll-on Conference Capsule”
the military’s newest airborne classified command center — a purpose-built module that functions as a mobile Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), enabling the nation’s top spy chief to conduct classified communications from inside Russian airspace. The Roll-On Conference Capsule, or ROCC, was officially fielded in March 2026, meaning Tuesday’s mission to Vnukovo Airport appears to mark one of the system’s earliest operational deployments — and potentially its first on Russian soil…
The ROCC is a purpose-built two-capsule mobile command center that loads onto a C-17 via a standard Steel Eagle pallet — no aircraft modifications required — and latches together into a mobile command center once inside the aircraft. One capsule contains the executive suite: a private workstation, two chairs, a divan that converts into a bed, and a private lavatory. The second contains the conference and staff area: a large monitor, four workstations, and six swivel chairs. When connected to the aircraft, the ROCC provides its occupants with highly secure voice, data, and video teleconferencing capabilities anywhere in the world — including, as Tuesday demonstrated, over Russian territory.
That communications package qualifies the ROCC as a mobile SCIF under U.S. Intelligence Community Directive 705, the standard governing classified facility construction. In practical terms, a senior official inside the ROCC can conduct the same classified conversations they would have at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia — while flying at altitude toward Moscow…
… As Q pointed out above … so we conducted a “secret mission” using the second largest aircraft In the US Air Force? Its top speed is 570 mph. I can not imagine it has much in the way of defensive capabilities. Seems like a relatively easy target. Strange indeed.
They just like to use the word secret to seem cooler and in charge. It’s just a meeting between Nazi Intl, US Deep State and the Russkis.
I am predicting some last ditch attempts at deals, largely finance, then the Nazis and their US slaves will finally crush the (irrationally hated) Russian Slavs once and for all.
1984 Eurasia here we come.
… anything to make Maxwell Smart most comfortable on that long flight. 
Thats a lot of airplane to make one man comfortable, perhaps he was sneaking in a prisoner exchange?
Mind blown!
… Well, the CIA is in, shall we say, the commodity transport business. Maximum transport capacity is 170, 900 lbs. At current street value almost 90 tons translates into a lot of arms for the “contras” wherever, whoever and of whatever kind they may be at this point in time. There will be no wasted transport opportunities.
I sometimes wonder if they just dangle this nonsense out in front of us to stir the pot, lots of heat, not so much light.
… HA HA! … yep, he probably just needed some kind of cover to attend the head of Russian Intelligence’s birthday party. The unreasonably large aircraft was necessary in order to deliver his gift of a new car or two at our expense 
Well I live about 10 miles away from NATO command base in Northwood so if the badabooms start flying I will be listening to Charlie Parker solos in my last moments!
God never listened to Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker lived in vain
Blasphemer, womanizer
Let a needle numb his brain
Wash away his monkey music
Damn his demons, damn his pain
And what’s the point of Albert Einstein
What do we need physics for?
Heresy’s his inspiration
Corrupt and rotten to the core
Curse his devious mathematics
Curse his deadly atom war
Shakespeare, Isaac Newton
Small ideas for little boys
Adding to the senseless chatter
Adding to the background noise
Hard to hear my oratory
Hard to hear my inner voice
Van Gogh, Botticelli
Scraping paint onto a board
Colour is the fuel of madness
That’s no way to praise the Lord
Grey’s the colour of the pious
Knelt upon the misericord
There’s a message on the wind
Calling me to glory somewhere
There are signs too deep for the dumb
Like perfume in the air
And when I get to heaven
I won’t realize I’m there
