Burns and the head of Israel's Mossad intelligence service, David Barnea, will meet with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Europe this weekend.
"That disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us at CIA - at our core a human intelligence service," William Burns said.
President Joe Biden said that the United States and its allies were not involved in the brief uprising by Russian mercenaries against the Kremlin.