Cables tie Pakistan to 2009 hit on CIA; official says not so
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - In this July 25, 2009 file photo, an Afghan police officer looks at a guard post which was damaged in an attack in Khost, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Recently declassified U.S. government cables suggest Pakistan’s intelligence service paid a U.S.-designated terrorist organization $200,000 to carry out one of the deadliest attacks against the CIA in the spy agency’s history. But a U.S. intelligence official said the information was uncorroborated and inconsistent with what is known about the 2009 suicide bombing at Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan, File) (The Associated Press)
Recently declassified U.S. government cables suggest Pakistan's intelligence service paid a U.S.-designated terrorist organization $200,000 to carry out one of the deadliest attacks against the CIA in its history.
A U.S. intelligence official says the information was uncorroborated and inconsistent with what is known about the 2009 suicide bombing at Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan.
Seven CIA employees were killed after a Jordanian double agent tricked the Americans into believing he would lead them to Ayman al-Zawahri, then al-Qaida's No. 2. The correspondence released by the National Security Archive is dated to the weeks after the attack.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The cables say Pakistani intelligence met twice with the Haqqani network in December 2009 and provided $200,000 "to enable the attack on Chapman."
The documents acknowledge the information is "not finally evaluated intelligence."