FBI director James Comey has arrived in Queenstown ahead of a top-secret meeting said to involve numerous international spy agencies.

A large number of men and women were spotted stepping off a private jet which landed at Queenstown airport on Sunday morning.

The jet was followed by a Gulfstream Aerospace, with a registration number associated with the CIA, the NZ Herald reported.

Earlier, CIA director Mike Pompeo arrived in a CIA-registered Gulfstream GIV, which had previously been spotted at Wellington Airport.

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