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William Burns, shown here during a 2019 event, is President-elect Joe Biden s pick to lead the CIA. Noam Galai/Getty Images for National Committee on American Foreign Policy
Updated at 9:20 a.m. ET
President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate veteran diplomat William Burns to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Burns, 64, is a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and Jordan. As a career foreign service office, he worked under Democratic and Republican presidents. He was deputy secretary of state during the Obama years, but he left the State Department in 2014 to run the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank.