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It's Monday the PDAQ after-pointed afternoon. It's Monday, the 27th of October. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker,

your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed. First up, we're hearing rumblings

of a major split inside America's intelligence community. The CIA reportedly saw an opening

for peace with Vladimir Putin, while the State Department's analysts called that a fantasy.

Later in the show, news from Gaza, where Israeli patients is growing thin as Hamas continues

efforts to recover more than a dozen bodies of hostages still inside the enclave. At the same time, Hamas continues efforts to recover more than a dozen bodies of hostages still inside the

enclave. At the same time, Hamas is refusing to commit to disarm and is looking to establish

or re-establish their control over Gaza. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. The question of

whether or not Vladimir Putin wants or has any interest in peace

remains the key question in finding a pathway to peace in Ukraine. And apparently, there's some

disagreement now in Washington over Putin's mindset. According to new reporting from the Wall Street

Journal, there has been a serious split between the CIA and the

State Department's intelligence arm over Putin's interest in negotiating. The journal reports

that the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence of Research, that's known as INR, cast doubt earlier this

year on the notion that the President of Russia was ready to talk peace. Analysts there argued that Putin's goals

in Ukraine hadn't changed. He still wanted domination, not diplomacy. But the CIA,

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