C.I.A Officers Name Leaked In Pakistan Media |
May 11, 2011
PAKISTAN NEWS - A top C.I.A spy has been identified by the Pakistani news media, which triggered anger in Central Intelligence Agency, accusing Pakistan to complicated the work of the agency aftermath Osama bin Laden's hunt.
The leak of the agent's identification has opened a row of rifts between C.I.A and the Pakistani spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI. Pakistan has already stained its relationship with US over the fact that Bin laden hid in the country for years. However, in an address before Parliament, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani strongly denied any knowledge and responsibility for Bin Laden hideout in Abbottabad,
Prime Minister Gilani to boot condemned the United States for its intrusion without consent and called it violation of the country's sovereignty. Further, he added Laden's presence in the country of years actually an intelligence failure of the "whole world". He also denied any involvement of ISI or army with al-Qaeda's chief and dismissed all suspects of American.
The prime minister's statement and consequently leak of C.I.A official's identification signaled a fragile relation between two countries, witnessing lesser transparency and cooperation from Pakistan.
The Pakistan spy agency gave the identity of C.I.A station chief to The Nation, a conservative daily newspaper, popularly known for staunch supporter of ISI. It is believed that the ISI occasionally plants stories in news media and also alleged to pay some top level journalists.
It is unknown that whether the name was deliberately misspelled in the newspaper or not, but it opens the identification. This is the second time when ISI have done this type of deliberate revelation.
Last December, the covered of the station chief was unveiled by the ISI and eventually C.I.A had to leave the country. It is reported that the station chief started receiving death threats and forced to leave the country.
The new station chief has shown reluctance to leave the country. He is considered one of the sharpest and toughest undercover C.I.A officers and the man behind the supervision of the raid against Osama bin Laden.
A few incidents have testified the acrimonious relationship between new station chief and the ISI chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
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