US spy chief explores cutting intelligence sharing with countries that criminalize homosexuality

By Jerry Dunleavy

Published April 22, 2020 10:46pm ET

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US spy chief explores cutting intelligence sharing with countries that criminalize homosexuality — U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell meets with Isa Mustafa leader of LDK in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy for talks between Balkan rivals Serbia and Kosovo on Thursday called on Pristina newly-expected government leaders to lift the 100% tariff on Serb goods and services in order to let the dialogue between the two countries to reach a final reconciliation agreement proceed. | AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu

President Trump’s top spy chief has engaged in an effort to review how U.S. intelligence agencies can help advance the administration’s goal of decriminalizing homosexuality worldwide.

Richard Grenell, serving as the acting director of National Intelligence and overseeing the nation’s coalition of 17 spy agencies and organizations, made his intentions clear in an intelligence community-wide letter obtained by the New York Times.

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