Report: CIA station chief in Islamabad outted

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Report: CIA station chief in Islamabad outted​

The scandal involving CIA contractor Raymond Davis, shown here in January, 2011, in Pakistan, was just the beginning of the widening rift between the CIA and officials there. Media have reportedly, for the second time, outted the CIA station chief in Islamabad.
(Credit: AP Photo/Hamza Ahmed)


By Joshua Norman
May 8, 2011 9:39 PM

The relationship between the CIA and Pakistani officials was bad before the CIA-coordinated raid that got Osama bin Laden revealed he had been hiding in plain sight there for nearly 6 years.


On Sunday, it managed to get worse as local media reported what they claimed to be the name of the current CIA station chief in Islamabad, The Wall Street Journal reports.


The anonymity of CIA operatives, especially station chiefs, is crucial to their duties abroad. Additionally, the job of CIA station chief in Islamabad is vital to U.S. intelligence, as it currently conducts a massive anti-terrorist operation focused on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. Yet this is not the first time the CIA station chief in Pakistan has been outted by locals, as a lawsuit this past December outted the last Islamabad station chief and he was forced to leave the country, the Journal reports.


In January, a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, was held after being accused of killing two men there, and allegedly only released upon the payment of "blood money" to the victims' families. Then in early April, Pakistan threatened new restrictions on the CIA amid its accelerated use of targeted drone strikes within its borders.


GlobalPost has reported that the Pakistani army had "full knowledge" of the U.S. Navy SEAL operation to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, but both U.S. and Pakistani officials have thus far denied it. According to a GlobalPost report, Pakistan's government has been hiding its involvement in the raid to avoid a public backlash.

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Regardless of the truth, the fallout threatens to spread over the widening rift between Pakistan and the U.S. that seems to revolve around the CIA's work there.


Congress has already threatened to cut off the nearly $1.3 billion it gives in annual aid to the Pakistani government. Intelligence officials want access to the bin Laden wives currently in Pakistani custody, but so far the government there has refused the request.


Additionally, within Pakistan, there have already been calls for President Asif Ali Zardari and intelligence chief Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha to resign because of the embarrassment of the bin Laden affair.


There has been no confirmation that it was the Pakistani government who was responsible for outting the CIA station chief this time, but regardless the act will probably do little to heal strained relations between the two sides.

Report: CIA station chief in Islamabad outted - World Watch - CBS News

 

[MastanKhan]

So,

What is the name------

 

[khurasaan1]

So,

What is the name------

According to the press reports His name is : Mark Carlton if Im not wrong..
check it in the link below:
Pakistan breaches trust, names local CIA boss - Times Of India

 

[53fd]

Good news, the trust was breached a long time ago... time to get rid off all CIA & covert networks inside Pakistan.

 

[The HBS Guy]

This should never have happened. This is a breach of understanding that intelligence agencies around the world have with each other. Making public the name of a CIA operative is the lowest thing ISI could stoop to. Imagine if CIA unleashed all the dirty secrets of ISI.

 

[Devil Soul]

This should never have happened. This is a breach of understanding that intelligence agencies around the world have with each other. Making public the name of a CIA operative is the lowest thing ISI could stoop to. Imagine if CIA unleashed all the dirty secrets of ISI.

Please let them unleash

 

[53fd]

This should never have happened. This is a breach of understanding that intelligence agencies around the world have with each other. Making public the name of a CIA operative is the lowest thing ISI could stoop to. Imagine if CIA unleashed all the dirty secrets of ISI.

It has already labeled the ISI a terrorist organization in its Gitmo files. It has also breached the understanding held by both intelligence agencies numerous times.

 

[Leader]

had it been the other way round, the same ^^ indian guy would have been saying ISI exposed and stuff like that....

 

[somebozo]

americans and their falsehoood..now the real game of war on terror begins..its funny how we can keep making the cia cheiftains fail by just leaking their names...eventually they will run out of people

 

[khurasaan1]

This should never have happened. This is a breach of understanding that intelligence agencies around the world have with each other. Making public the name of a CIA operative is the lowest thing ISI could stoop to. Imagine if CIA unleashed all the dirty secrets of ISI.

We very happi if they leak secrets of ISI...we dont care...

 

[GUNS-N- ROSES]

well its quite a damging instance. u dont reveal the names of intelligence station officers to public. the things r getting dirty between CIA and ISI

 

[Spring Onion]

So will Indian media name which TV channel and Newspaper the Indian media is calling as mouth piece of army and ISI lolzzzzzzzz we have one govt TV called PTV which is more publicity channel for govt ministers' activities when it comes to current affairs and is NOT mouth piece of ISI.

 

[Asian.Century]

Good work, kick all yanks out.

Also 9/11 was a fraud, Osama Bin Laden was not involved and not proven until today.

CIA is just here to destroy Pak Nuclear Capability, the nations people and its armed forces to make it un-exist as a country.

 

[Vassnti]

So will Indian media name which TV channel and Newspaper the Indian media is calling as mouth piece of army and ISI lolzzzzzzzz we have one govt TV called PTV which is more publicity channel for govt ministers' activities when it comes to current affairs and is NOT mouth piece of ISI.

Perhaps better to say which one "this time" dont know about India but the Aussies have.

The purported name of the CIA's station chief was first reported on Friday by ARY. The station was reporting on a meeting between the director of Pakistan's spy service, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence and the station chief.

"If we did not mention the man's name, the credibility of the story would have been reduced," said ARY's Islamabad bureau chief, Sabir Shakir.

Shakir wouldn't discuss who had provided the name, but said he had "one-plus" sources.

The story was picked up by the Nation, a right-wing newspaper that has often accused American diplomats and private citizens in Pakistan of working for the CIA. The Nation's editor, Salim Bokhari, said he didn't know how the name became public.

"It has to have been released by some government agency," Bokhari said. "Who else would know such information?"

A former senior US intelligence official said any outing of agents would be Pakistan's "own little way of retaliating

'Peeved' Pakistan exposes CIA chief Mark Carlton | The Australian

At a time when you would think the ISI would be tryingto rebuild an image of a professional intelligence service such petty behavior is a bad sign.

 

[jha]

Ahem..Ahem...

CIA won’t withdraw spy chief in Pakistan: officials

The Central Intelligence Agency has no intention of bringing home its chief operative in Pakistan despite an apparent attempt by the Pakistani media to unmask his identity, US officials said on Monday.

While the Pakistani media reports apparently were inaccurate, US officials said they believe the leak was a calculated attempt to divert attention from American demands for explanations of how Osama bin Laden could have hidden for years near Pakistan’s principal military academy.

CIA won’t withdraw spy chief in Pakistan: officials | World | DAWN.COM