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| Pakistani secret service given millions by CIA |
| 2009-11-15 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 US officials often tout US-Pakistani intelligence co-operation. But the extent of the financial underpinnings of that relationship have never been publicly disclosed. The CIA payments are a hidden stream in a much broader financial flow; the US has given Pakistan more than $US15 billion ($16 billion) over the past eight years in military and civilian aid. The ISI has used the covert CIA money for a range of purposes, including the construction of a new headquarters in the capital, Islamabad. ''What we didn't want to happen was for this group of generals in power at the time to just start putting it in their pockets or building mansions in Dubai,'' said a former CIA operative who served in Islamabad. The scale of the payments shows the extent to which money has fuelled an espionage alliance credited with damaging al-Qaeda but also plagued by distrust. The complexity of the relationship is reflected in other ways. Officials said the CIA has routinely brought ISI operatives to a secret training facility in North Carolina, even as US intelligence analysts try to assess whether segments of the ISI have worked against the US. Guess Bambi has preserved jobs in the intelligence sector, with the right hand trying to figure out what the left is doing. Not knowing what we don't know will probably have the US financing our own death by nuke, tho. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-11-15 11:27 |
| #1 is there anyway that maybe we could make their own nukes go off under them |
| Posted by: chris 2009-11-15 11:26 |