From Jihad Watch:
CIA top spy in Pakistan identified, flees country -- officials suspect Pakistan spy agency blew his cover
Obviously we should be giving Pakistan a few billion dollars more than we are giving them already. That will solve this problem right away. Pakistan's Double Game Update: "Pakistani Role Is Suspected in Revealing U.S. Spy's Name," by Mark Mazzetti and Salman Masood in the New York Times, December 17 (thanks to David):
WASHINGTON -- The Central Intelligence Agency's top clandestine officer in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, was removed from the country on Thursday amid an escalating war of recriminations between American and Pakistani spies, with some American officials convinced that the officer's cover was deliberately blown by Pakistan's military intelligence agency....
American officials said the C.I.A. station chief had received a number of death threats since being publicly identified in a legal complaint sent to the Pakistani police this week by the family of victims of earlier drone campaigns.
The American officials said they strongly suspected that operatives of Pakistan's powerful spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, had a hand in revealing the C.I.A. officer's identity -- possibly in retaliation for a civil lawsuit filed in Brooklyn last month implicating the ISI chief in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008....
Posted by Robert on December 18, 2010 4:45 AM
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