CIA activities in Pakistan

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See also: Drone attacks in Pakistan

Main article: Central Intelligence Agency

This is a list of activities ostensibly carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) within Pakistan. It has been alleged by such authors as Ahmed Rashid that the CIA and ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence; Pakistan's premier intelligence agency) have been waging a clandestine war.[1] The Afghan Taliban—with whom the United States was officially in conflict—was headquartered in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas during the war and according to some reports is largely funded by the ISI. The Pakistani government denies this.[2]

## 2005

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On May 15, 2005, it was reported that Predator drones had been used to kill Al-Qaeda figure Haitham al-Yemeni in a targeted killing inside Pakistan.[3]

## 2006

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On January 13, 2006, the CIA launched an airstrike on Damadola, a Pakistani village near the Afghan border, where they believed Ayman al-Zawahiri was located. The airstrike killed a number of civilians but al-Zawahiri apparently was not among them.[4] The Pakistani government issued a strong protest against the US attack, considered a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty. However, several legal experts argue that this cannot be considered an assassination attempt as al-Zawahiri is named as terrorist and an enemy combatant by the United States, and therefore this targeted killing is not covered under Executive Order 12333, which banned assassinations.[5][6][7][8] However this still remains a violation of sovereignty of Pakistan according to international law.

## 2007

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A new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) focused on three years, The Terrorist Threat to the US Homeland, says "Al Qaeda has reorganized to pre-9/11 strength and is preparing for a major US strike has sparked debate among government officials and observers about the Bush administration's foreign policy and counterterrorism efforts." It "indicates that the Islamic terrorist organization's rise has been bolstered by the Iraq war and the failure to counter extremism in Pakistan's tribal areas.

## 2008

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Operation Cannonball, a CIA operation, was disclosed in 2008.[9] Began in 2006, it was intended as part of an effort to capture Osama bin Laden and eliminate Al-Qaeda forces in Pakistan.[9] The operation was reportedly hampered by conflicts between CIA offices, leading to large delays in the deployment of the program.[9]

In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Jalaluddin Haqqani.[10] ISI denies this report.[11]

## 2010 CIA station chief removal in Pakistan

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On December 16, 2010, the CIA evacuated its station chief, later named as Jonathan Bank, from Pakistan after his cover was blown in legal action brought by relatives of a person killed in a 31 December 2009 drone attack, for which the station chief was accused of being responsible.[12] The CIA, in a rare move, recalled the station chief, citing "security concerns" and concerns about his safety.[13] Neither the CIA nor the US government officially recognise station chiefs, but they are acknowledged to exist by intelligence organizations.[14][15] In April 2015, the Islamabad High Court ordered police to open a criminal case against Bank for murder, conspiracy, terrorism and waging war against Pakistan.[16]

## Fake hepatitis vaccination campaign

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Main article: CIA fake vaccination campaign in Pakistan

Towards the end of the manhunt for Osama bin Laden and leading up to his eventual death in 2011, the CIA ran a covert operation utilizing a fake hepatitis vaccine program in Pakistan to illicitly collect blood samples to confirm the presence of bin Laden or his family.[17] The program was ultimately unsuccessful, and lead to a rise in vaccine hesitancy and eventual re-emergence of polio in Pakistan.[18]

## 2011

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Main article: Raymond Allen Davis incident

In January 2011 CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis fatally shot dead two young men on the streets of Lahore, Punjab after on claims that he was defending himself. His status as a CIA contractor was discovered after he was arrested by Punjab police and charged with 2 counts of murder and the possession of illegal firearms. In the same situation another USA team of four people riding an SUV crushed a motor cyclist and killed him before running away back to the USA consulate. It is alleged that all four people left Pakistan in the evening on special flight. These four people are still at large.

General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, emerged as fiercely hostile to Washington in his final year engaging in “shouting matches” with then CIA director Leon Panetta, cutting cooperation down to a minimum, ordering the harassment of U.S. diplomats in Pakistan and locking up CIA blackwater and agent Shakil Afridi in Pakistan.[19]

## 2012

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Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who spied for the CIA to locate Osama bin Laden, was jailed for 33 years by a Pakistani court on charges of treason.[20]

## 2019

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Lt. General Javed Iqbal (Retd) and Brigadier Wasim Akram (Retd) were imprisoned for 14 years and sentenced to death respectively, on charges of spying for CIA on Pakistan's nuclear program.[21]

## See also

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* Death of Osama bin Laden
* Milton Bearden \- CIA station chief in Pakistan, 1986-1989
* Inter-Services Intelligence activities in the United States

## References

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1. ^ Rashid, Ahmed (2012). "A Sliver of Hope: Counterinsurgency in Swat". Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. New York, New York: Viking. pp. 148. ISBN 978-0-670-02346-2.
2. ^ "Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Taliban'". BBC News. 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2013-12-09.
3. ^ Priest, Dana (May 15, 2005). "Surveillance Operation in Pakistan Located and Killed Al Qaeda Official". The Washington Post. p. A25. Archived from the original on 2011-02-24. Retrieved April 15, 2007. "The sources said the Predator drone, operated from a secret base hundreds of miles from the target, located and fired on al-Yemeni late Saturday night in Toorikhel, Pakistan, a suburb of Mirali in the province of North Waziristan."
4. ^ Linzer, Dafna; Griff Witte (January 14, 2006). "U.S. Airstrike Targets Al Qaeda's Zawahiri". The Washington Post. pp. A09. Retrieved April 22, 2006.
5. ^ Elizabeth B. Bazan (January 4, 2002). "Assassination Ban and E.O. 12333:A Brief Summary" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Retrieved April 26, 2006.
6. ^ Tom O'Connor, Mark Stevens (November 2005). "The Handling of Illegal Enemy Combatants". Archived from the original on May 5, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2006.
7. ^ "Memorandum on Executive Order 12333 and Assassination" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2006.
8. ^ Jeffrey Addicott (November 7, 2002). "The Yemen Attack: Illegal Assassination or Lawful Killing". Archived from the original on April 18, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2006.
9. ^ a b c Mark Mazzetti, Dave Rodhe (June 30, 2008). "Amid Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan". The New York Times. Retrieved June 30, 2008.
10. ^ "C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants", by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, July 30, 2008, The New York Times
11. ^ "Pakistan denies 'malicious' report on CIA confrontation", July 30, 2008, Agence France Press Archived 2008-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
12. ^ Walsh, Declan (2010-12-17). "CIA chief in Pakistan leaves after drone trial blows his cover". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
13. ^ Brulliard, Karin; Miller, Greg (2010-12-18). "Top CIA spy in Pakistan pulled amid threats after public accusation over attack". The Washington Post. Washington DC, US. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
14. ^ Rajghatta, Chidanand (2010-12-16). "ISI blows cover of CIA man in Islamabad". The Times of India. Mumbai, India. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
15. ^ "CIA man pulled out of Pakistan amid drone attack storm". Channel 4 News. London, UK. 2010-12-17. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
16. ^ Toppa, Sabrina (April 16, 2015). "Pakistan Could End Up Charging CIA Officials With Murder Over Drone Strikes". Time.
17. ^ Shah, Saeed (11 July 2011). "CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
18. ^ "Polio eradication: the CIA and their unintended victims". The Lancet. 383 (9932): 1862. May 2014. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60900-4.
19. ^ Waraich, Omar (7 August 2012). "The CIA and ISI: Are Pakistan and the U.S.'s Spy Agencies Starting to Get Along?". Time.
20. ^ Hersh, Seymour (May 10, 2015). "The Killing of Osama bin Laden". London Review of Books. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
21. ^ "Pakistan Army sends top General to jail, Brigadier to gallows for spying for 'CIA'". ThePrint. Retrieved 31 May 2019.

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Pakistan–United States relations

Diplomatic
posts|

* Embassy of Pakistan, Washington, D.C.
* Ambassadors of Pakistan to the United States
* Embassy of the United States, Islamabad
* Ambassadors of the United States to Pakistan
* Consulate General of the United States, Karachi
* Consulate General of the United States, Lahore
* Consulate General of the United States, Peshawar
* Embassy of Iran, Washington, D.C.
* Interests Section of Iran in the United States
* Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs

Diplomacy|

* State visit by Liaquat Ali Khan to the United States
* Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009

Incidents|

* 1960 U-2 incident
* Sino-Pakistan Agreement
* 1979 U.S. embassy burning in Islamabad
* Project Sabre II
* Pan Am Flight 73
* Death of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
* CIA headquarters shooting
* Mir Aimal Kansi
* Bojinka plot
* Aafia Siddiqui
* D.C. Five
* April 2010 U.S consulate and ANP attack
* Gary Brooks Faulkner
* United States diplomatic cables leak
* Raymond Allen Davis incident
* Killing of Osama bin Laden
* Abbottabad Commission
* Commission Report
* Memogate
* Shakil Afridi
* Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai
* 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan
* Lettergate
* Pakistani Guantanamo Bay detainees

Military
relations|

* AfPak
* CIA activities in Pakistan
* Drone strikes in Pakistan
* Damadola airstrike
* Chenagai airstrike
* Gora Prai airstrike
* Miramshah airstrike
* 2009 Makin airstrike
* Datta Khel airstrike
* Haqqani network
* Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
* Inter-Services Intelligence activities in the United States
* Major non-NATO ally
* Operation Cyclone
* Pakistan in the war on terror
* Skirmishes
* Datta Khel incident
* Kurram incident
* Lowara Madi incident
* Tanai incident
* Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
* Task Force 74
* War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
* Kunduz airlift
* NATO logistics
* Operation Cannonball

Related|

* 1953 American Karakoram expedition
* United States aid to Pakistan
* Anti-American sentiment in Pakistan
* Bashir Ahmad
* Pakistan lobby in the United States
* Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism
* American International School System
* International School of Islamabad
* Karachi American School
* Lahore American School
* Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History'
* The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power

Category:Pakistan–United States relations

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Central Intelligence Agency

United States Intelligence Community (CIA Headquarters: George Bush Center for Intelligence, Langley, Virginia)

Organization|

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Geographic activities|

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Transnational activities|

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Directors of Central Intelligence and
Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency|

* William J. Donovan (OSS)
* Sidney Souers
* Hoyt Vandenberg
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* Walter Bedell Smith
* Allen Dulles
* John A. McCone
* William Raborn
* Richard Helms
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* George Tenet
* Porter Goss
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* David Petraeus
* John Brennan
* Mike Pompeo
* Gina Haspel
* William J. Burns
* John Ratcliffe

Major international operations|

* Operation Ajax
* Operation PBSuccess
* Secret War
* 1960 U-2 incident
* Congo Crisis
* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Operation Mongoose
* Phoenix Program
* Operation Rubicon
* United States intervention in Chile
* Operation Cyclone
* Iran–Contra affair
* Drone strikes in Pakistan
* Operation Neptune Spear
* Timber Sycamore

Notable works|

* The Invisible Government (1964)
* All the Shah's Men (2003)
* Ghost Wars (2004)
* Overthrow (2006)
* Legacy of Ashes (2007)
* The Unexpected Spy (2019)

CIA activities by country|

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