US President Joe Biden thanked US Central Intelligence Agency headquarters staff for alerting the world to Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to invade Ukraine and hailed what he called the "

Marking the CIA's 75th anniversary, Biden said he had worked with the CIA for 52 years, first as a junior senator on a committee set up in 1975 to investigate mind control experiments and other abuses by the agency..

Intelligence collected by the CIA exposed Putin's plans and allowed Washington to warn other countries about the war.

“It is thanks to the incredible work of our intelligence professionals that we were able to warn the world about what Vladimir Putin is planning in Ukraine,” he said..

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Before the Russian invasion on February 24, when Russia amassed more than 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border, Putin repeatedly accused the US and other Western states of deliberately creating a scenario to lure Moscow into war..

As Voice of America notes, Biden's speech was in stark contrast to that of former President Donald Trump, who gave his first speech as president at CIA headquarters, where he criticized the media and his political opponents in front of a "

Biden noted that two stars were added to the wall this year..

“Your physical health and well-being is critical to me and to your leadership here at the CIA,” Biden said, apparently referring to the Havana Syndrome, a series of anomalous health incidents that affected about 200 US diplomats and intelligence officers.. worldwide.