Washington DC, Oct. 8 -- Ukrainian officials were left "bewildered and disappointed" by then Vice President Joe Biden's December 2015 trip to Kyiv, during which he gave a speech decrying corruption as a "cancer" -- with the Ukrainians accusing the US of a "double standard" given Biden's family ties to corrupt energy firm Burisma, a trove of newly declassified Obama-era intelligence reveals, New York Post reported.

In an extreme departure from normal practice, the report on Ukrainian displeasure was suppressed at the request of Biden's then-national security adviser, Colin Kahl, and did not appear in the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), according to a senior CIA official, as reported by New York Post.

Kahl "would strongly prefer the repor...